SpecFlow
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SpecFlow skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SpecFlow over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 797 656 580
Rank change year-on-year -141 -76 -83
Permanent jobs citing SpecFlow 93 334 905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.093% 0.34% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.98% 2.35% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 62 249 724
10th Percentile £41,375 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,625 £52,738 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +7.32%

All Development Application Skills
UK

SpecFlow is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,528 14,205 36,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.54% 14.32% 22.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,654 8,679 15,823
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

SpecFlow
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SpecFlow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SpecFlow.

Salary trend for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SpecFlow over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SpecFlow within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -106 86 £55,000 -15.38% 30
Work from Home -46 59 £55,000 -12.00% 17
London -20 45 £75,000 +11.11% 17
UK excluding London -111 41 £52,500 -8.70% 15
South East -17 14 £51,250 -10.87% 7
North of England +36 11 £45,000 -21.74% 5
Yorkshire +82 7 £52,500 -10.64% 3
Midlands -23 7 £57,500 -11.54% 2
South West -29 6 £50,000 +25.00% 1
East Midlands - 6 £60,000 -
North West -6 4 £43,750 -27.98% 2
Wales - 2 £63,750 -
West Midlands -8 1 £55,000 -15.38% 2
East of England -19 1 £57,500 -

SpecFlow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (16.13%) CMS
2 3 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.15%) Confluence
4 1 (1.08%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.08%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 15 (16.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (16.13%) SDL Web 8
2 3 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (32.26%) Azure
2 15 (16.13%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 15 (16.13%) NuGet
3 12 (12.90%) AWS
4 11 (11.83%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (9.68%) Serverless
6 7 (7.53%) BrowserStack
6 7 (7.53%) Power Platform
6 7 (7.53%) Sauce Labs
7 6 (6.45%) Azure Functions
8 5 (5.38%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.23%) Azure API Management
9 3 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.23%) Azure Storage
9 3 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.23%) SaaS
10 2 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (30.11%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (3.23%) Power BI
3 1 (1.08%) Big Data
3 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.08%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.08%) Event Store
3 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.08%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 43 (46.24%) Selenium
2 34 (36.56%) TeamCity
3 32 (34.41%) Cucumber
4 29 (31.18%) Postman
5 28 (30.11%) JIRA
6 26 (27.96%) Git
7 24 (25.81%) Visual Studio
8 23 (24.73%) Moq
9 19 (20.43%) Jenkins
10 18 (19.35%) JMeter
10 18 (19.35%) NUnit
11 16 (17.20%) Octopus Deploy
12 15 (16.13%) Appium
12 15 (16.13%) git-flow
12 15 (16.13%) Sourcetree
13 11 (11.83%) Cypress.io
14 10 (10.75%) JBehave
15 7 (7.53%) Gatling
16 6 (6.45%) SoapUI
16 6 (6.45%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (23.66%) Marketing
2 16 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (13.98%) Social Skills
4 10 (10.75%) Retail
5 8 (8.60%) Finance
6 3 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Social Housing
7 2 (2.15%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.08%) Electronics
8 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.08%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (30.11%) Developer
2 27 (29.03%) Senior
3 18 (19.35%) Tester
4 17 (18.28%) Full Stack Developer
5 16 (17.20%) Lead
5 16 (17.20%) Senior Developer
6 15 (16.13%) C# Developer
6 15 (16.13%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 15 (16.13%) QA Engineer
6 15 (16.13%) Senior C# Developer
6 15 (16.13%) Senior Full Stack Developer
7 13 (13.98%) Test Engineer
8 8 (8.60%) Senior Tester
9 6 (6.45%) Automation Tester
9 6 (6.45%) QA Leader
9 6 (6.45%) Software Developer
9 6 (6.45%) Test Leader
10 5 (5.38%) Software Tester
10 5 (5.38%) Test Automation Engineer
11 4 (4.30%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (54.84%) .NET
2 33 (35.48%) .NET Framework
3 25 (26.88%) ASP.NET
4 23 (24.73%) RESTful
5 22 (23.66%) React
6 20 (21.51%) ASP.NET MVC
6 20 (21.51%) Entity Framework
7 18 (19.35%) CSS
8 17 (18.28%) SOAP
8 17 (18.28%) XML
9 16 (17.20%) HTML
9 16 (17.20%) jQuery
9 16 (17.20%) Web Services
10 15 (16.13%) ASP.NET MVC 5
10 15 (16.13%) Autofac
10 15 (16.13%) Code First Entity Framework
10 15 (16.13%) Gherkin
10 15 (16.13%) Ninject
10 15 (16.13%) Semantic HTML
11 11 (11.83%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.35%) Greenfield Project
2 15 (16.13%) Legacy Code
3 7 (7.53%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (6.45%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.45%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (5.38%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.23%) Driving Licence
6 3 (3.23%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.23%) W3C
7 2 (2.15%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.08%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.08%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.08%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (65.59%) Agile
2 60 (64.52%) Test Automation
3 46 (49.46%) DevOps
4 36 (38.71%) Scrum
5 32 (34.41%) API Testing
5 32 (34.41%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (32.26%) BDD
7 26 (27.96%) CI/CD
8 24 (25.81%) Software Testing
9 23 (24.73%) MVC
10 20 (21.51%) Mentoring
11 19 (20.43%) OO
12 18 (19.35%) Architectural Design
12 18 (19.35%) SOLID
12 18 (19.35%) Unit Testing
13 17 (18.28%) Computer Science
13 17 (18.28%) Full Stack Development
14 16 (17.20%) E-Commerce
14 16 (17.20%) Test Scripting
15 15 (16.13%) Inversion of Control
Programming Languages
1 71 (76.34%) C#
2 45 (48.39%) SQL
3 34 (36.56%) JavaScript
4 17 (18.28%) T-SQL
5 15 (16.13%) XPath
6 14 (15.05%) Java
7 10 (10.75%) Python
8 4 (4.30%) Ruby
9 3 (3.23%) VB.NET
10 2 (2.15%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.08%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 22 (23.66%) Degree
2 5 (5.38%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.23%) ISEB
4 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.08%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (41.94%) QA
2 14 (15.05%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (5.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.30%) Docker
3 1 (1.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.08%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (16.13%) Adobe
1 15 (16.13%) Cognizant
2 13 (13.98%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.30%) Oracle
4 3 (3.23%) Xamarin
5 2 (2.15%) Databricks
5 2 (2.15%) Nintex
6 1 (1.08%) SAP
6 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow