SpecFlow Contracts in England

SpecFlow
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SpecFlow skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SpecFlow over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 545 571
Rank change year-on-year +93 +26 -37
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 98 91 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.19% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.20% 1.37% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 71 178
10th Percentile £412 £285 £375
25th Percentile £450 £411 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £576 £587
90th Percentile £655 £650 £652
UK median daily rate £545 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +14.74% -5.00% +15.61%

All Development Application Skills
England

SpecFlow falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,456 6,634 12,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.88% 14.10% 17.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,997 4,742 8,916
10th Percentile £350 £369 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £670
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 196 177
10th Percentile £32.87 £46.22 £38.24
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +23.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.78 £75.34
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £51.10
% change year-on-year +4.00% +22.31% +6.74%

SpecFlow
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SpecFlow in England

SpecFlow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SpecFlow in England.

Daily rate trend for SpecFlow in England

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SpecFlow in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SpecFlow in England

SpecFlow
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SpecFlow in England.

Hourly rate trend for SpecFlow in England

SpecFlow
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SpecFlow within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +113 86 £550 - 15
South East +13 7 £475 +13.10% 4
North West +11 3 £463 +59.48%
North of England +6 3 £463 +59.48% 1
South West +1 1 £525 - 1
SpecFlow
UK

SpecFlow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (3.06%) CMS
2 1 (1.02%) Confluence
2 1 (1.02%) EPiServer
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Endur
2 1 (1.02%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 58 (59.18%) Azure
2 50 (51.02%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (11.22%) Entra ID
4 7 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 7 (7.14%) Azure Pipelines
5 6 (6.12%) Azure App Service
5 6 (6.12%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (5.10%) AWS
6 5 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.04%) GCP
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.02%) PaaS
8 1 (1.02%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.14%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (41.84%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.02%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 46 (46.94%) Selenium
2 20 (20.41%) Visual Studio
3 15 (15.31%) Cucumber
3 15 (15.31%) Git
4 13 (13.27%) WebDriver
5 11 (11.22%) Postman
6 9 (9.18%) JIRA
7 7 (7.14%) JMeter
8 6 (6.12%) FitNesse
8 6 (6.12%) TestRail
9 4 (4.08%) TeamCity
10 3 (3.06%) Jasmine
10 3 (3.06%) LoadRunner
10 3 (3.06%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (2.04%) Jenkins
11 2 (2.04%) Moq
11 2 (2.04%) NUnit
11 2 (2.04%) SoapUI
12 1 (1.02%) Mercurial
12 1 (1.02%) MSTest
General
1 15 (15.31%) Finance
2 13 (13.27%) Banking
2 13 (13.27%) Public Sector
3 12 (12.24%) Back Office
4 11 (11.22%) Social Skills
5 10 (10.20%) Front Office
6 7 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.10%) Investment Banking
8 4 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (4.08%) Local Government
9 1 (1.02%) Retail
9 1 (1.02%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (33.67%) Senior
2 29 (29.59%) Developer
3 16 (16.33%) Software Developer
3 16 (16.33%) Tester
4 13 (13.27%) Analyst
4 13 (13.27%) Senior Analyst
4 13 (13.27%) Senior Test Analyst
4 13 (13.27%) Test Analyst
5 12 (12.24%) C# Developer
5 12 (12.24%) Senior Developer
5 12 (12.24%) Senior Software Developer
6 8 (8.16%) QA Tester
7 7 (7.14%) Angular Developer
7 7 (7.14%) QA Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) .NET Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Azure Developer
9 5 (5.10%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (5.10%) C# Software Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (57.14%) .NET
2 33 (33.67%) .NET Framework
3 32 (32.65%) XML
4 21 (21.43%) AngularJS
5 11 (11.22%) REST
6 10 (10.20%) Playwright
7 9 (9.18%) .NET Core
8 7 (7.14%) KnockoutJS
9 5 (5.10%) Entity Framework
9 5 (5.10%) HTML
9 5 (5.10%) JSON
10 3 (3.06%) CSS
10 3 (3.06%) LINQ
11 2 (2.04%) ASP.NET
11 2 (2.04%) React
12 1 (1.02%) ARM Templates
12 1 (1.02%) Node.js
12 1 (1.02%) RESTful
12 1 (1.02%) SOAP
12 1 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.22%) Derivative
1 11 (11.22%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (3.06%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.04%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.04%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 2 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (2.04%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.02%) Contactless
4 1 (1.02%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.02%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.02%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.02%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.02%) Android
1 1 (1.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (58.16%) DevOps
2 55 (56.12%) Test Automation
3 53 (54.08%) CI/CD
4 52 (53.06%) Agile
5 41 (41.84%) Scrum
6 30 (30.61%) BDD
7 27 (27.55%) Performance Testing
8 23 (23.47%) TDD
9 17 (17.35%) Test Strategy
10 12 (12.24%) API Testing
10 12 (12.24%) Microservices
11 11 (11.22%) B2C
11 11 (11.22%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (11.22%) SDET
12 10 (10.20%) Manual Testing
12 10 (10.20%) Software Testing
13 9 (9.18%) ETRM
13 9 (9.18%) Software Engineering
14 8 (8.16%) Load Testing
14 8 (8.16%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 76 (77.55%) C#
2 29 (29.59%) PowerShell
3 22 (22.45%) SQL
4 14 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 11 (11.22%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.12%) Java
6 6 (6.12%) Python
7 4 (4.08%) Bicep
8 3 (3.06%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.02%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (5.10%) ISTQB
1 5 (5.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 4 (4.08%) Degree
3 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.02%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.02%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (23.47%) QA
2 5 (5.10%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (11.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.02%) Ansible
1 1 (1.02%) Progress Chef
1 1 (1.02%) Puppet
1 1 (1.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (34.69%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.14%) Okta
3 6 (6.12%) Oracle
4 3 (3.06%) Optimizely
5 2 (2.04%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.02%) Databricks
6 1 (1.02%) Google
6 1 (1.02%) NEC
6 1 (1.02%) OpenLink
6 1 (1.02%) Salesforce