SpecFlow Contracts with Work from Home Options

SpecFlow
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for SpecFlow skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SpecFlow over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 409 466
Rank change year-on-year +95 +57 -42
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 35 50 162
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.21% 0.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.00% 1.42% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 38 133
10th Percentile £410 £285 £363
25th Percentile £456 £378 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £436 £450
Median % change year-on-year +24.64% -3.06% +4.65%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £525
90th Percentile £700 £665 £600
UK median daily rate £550 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +17.10%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,748 3,519 8,154
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.94% 14.52% 18.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 2,543 5,857
10th Percentile £360 £380 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £540 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +1.89% +7.07%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 99 104
10th Percentile £24.37 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £51.63 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.57
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +18.90% +14.27%
75th Percentile £81.75 £70.64 £65.32
90th Percentile £90.00 £82.96 £75.59
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +6.63%

SpecFlow
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SpecFlow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SpecFlow trend for jobs with a WFH option

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SpecFlow.

SpecFlow daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SpecFlow over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

SpecFlow daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SpecFlow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (2.86%) CMS
1 1 (2.86%) EPiServer
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 25 (71.43%) Azure
1 25 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (11.43%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.71%) AWS
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (2.86%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (51.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (37.14%) Selenium
2 10 (28.57%) Visual Studio
3 5 (14.29%) Git
3 5 (14.29%) Postman
3 5 (14.29%) WebDriver
4 4 (11.43%) Moq
5 3 (8.57%) Cucumber
5 3 (8.57%) JMeter
5 3 (8.57%) TestRail
6 2 (5.71%) FitNesse
6 2 (5.71%) JIRA
6 2 (5.71%) LoadRunner
6 2 (5.71%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.86%) Jasmine
7 1 (2.86%) Log4Net
7 1 (2.86%) Mercurial
7 1 (2.86%) NUnit
7 1 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.43%) Back Office
2 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Front Office
4 2 (5.71%) Finance
5 1 (2.86%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Developer
2 13 (37.14%) Senior
3 11 (31.43%) Software Developer
4 8 (22.86%) Senior Developer
4 8 (22.86%) Senior Software Developer
5 7 (20.00%) C# Developer
6 5 (14.29%) Analyst
6 5 (14.29%) Test Analyst
7 4 (11.43%) Azure Developer
7 4 (11.43%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (11.43%) Senior Test Analyst
7 4 (11.43%) Tester
8 3 (8.57%) .NET Developer
8 3 (8.57%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (8.57%) Full Stack Developer
8 3 (8.57%) Test Automation Manager
8 3 (8.57%) Test Manager
9 2 (5.71%) .NET Software Developer
9 2 (5.71%) C# Software Developer
9 2 (5.71%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (65.71%) .NET
2 19 (54.29%) .NET Framework
3 14 (40.00%) XML
4 5 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 5 (14.29%) Entity Framework
5 3 (8.57%) Playwright
5 3 (8.57%) REST
6 1 (2.86%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.86%) HTML
6 1 (2.86%) LINQ
6 1 (2.86%) Node.js
6 1 (2.86%) SOAP
6 1 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Derivative
2 4 (11.43%) Interest Rate Derivative
2 4 (11.43%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Contactless
3 1 (2.86%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.86%) Thin Client
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (71.43%) DevOps
2 23 (65.71%) CI/CD
3 20 (57.14%) Test Automation
4 19 (54.29%) Agile
5 13 (37.14%) Scrum
6 11 (31.43%) Performance Testing
7 10 (28.57%) BDD
8 8 (22.86%) TDD
9 7 (20.00%) API Testing
9 7 (20.00%) Test Strategy
10 5 (14.29%) ETRM
10 5 (14.29%) Manual Testing
11 4 (11.43%) B2C
11 4 (11.43%) Code Quality
11 4 (11.43%) Electronic Trading
11 4 (11.43%) Load Testing
11 4 (11.43%) Software Testing
12 3 (8.57%) Continuous Integration
12 3 (8.57%) Full Stack Development
12 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 28 (80.00%) C#
2 14 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 12 (34.29%) SQL
4 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.71%) Python
5 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.86%) Java
6 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.71%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.71%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle
3 1 (2.86%) NEC
3 1 (2.86%) Optimizely