SpecFlow Contracts

SpecFlow
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 472 551 574
Rank change year-on-year +79 +23 -47
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 104 133 287
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.23% 0.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.02% 1.58% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 104 234
10th Percentile £385 £350 £363
25th Percentile £444 £410 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £643 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £463 £429
% change year-on-year +10.81% +7.81% +7.25%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,137 8,429 15,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.07% 14.80% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,452 5,946 11,103
10th Percentile £353 £381 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 228 212
10th Percentile £32.23 £44.06 £38.43
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.11
90th Percentile £78.45 £82.50 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SpecFlow over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SpecFlow within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +113 97 £550 +7.32% 23
London +132 85 £550 - 11
Work from Home +100 36 £550 +18.92% 13
UK excluding London -2 11 £513 +10.81% 11
South East +5 6 £513 +20.23% 3
North West +15 4 £500 +69.49% 2
North of England +13 4 £500 +26.98% 5
South West +8 1 £525 - 1

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 3 (2.88%) CMS
2 1 (0.96%) Confluence
2 1 (0.96%) EPiServer
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Endur
2 1 (0.96%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 63 (60.58%) Azure
2 54 (51.92%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (10.58%) Entra ID
4 7 (6.73%) Azure Pipelines
5 6 (5.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (4.81%) AWS
6 5 (4.81%) Azure App Service
6 5 (4.81%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (4.81%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (3.85%) GitHub
8 3 (2.88%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.92%) GCP
9 2 (1.92%) PaaS
9 2 (1.92%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.96%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.96%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.96%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.96%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.73%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (39.42%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 49 (47.12%) Selenium
2 22 (21.15%) Visual Studio
3 18 (17.31%) Cucumber
4 17 (16.35%) Git
5 14 (13.46%) WebDriver
6 11 (10.58%) Postman
7 9 (8.65%) JIRA
8 6 (5.77%) FitNesse
8 6 (5.77%) JMeter
9 5 (4.81%) TestRail
10 4 (3.85%) JUnit
10 4 (3.85%) Moq
10 4 (3.85%) TeamCity
10 4 (3.85%) TestNG
11 3 (2.88%) Jasmine
11 3 (2.88%) LoadRunner
11 3 (2.88%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (1.92%) Jenkins
12 2 (1.92%) NUnit
12 2 (1.92%) SoapUI
General
1 13 (12.50%) Finance
1 13 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 12 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.58%) Back Office
3 11 (10.58%) Banking
4 8 (7.69%) Front Office
5 7 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.85%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.85%) Local Government
7 1 (0.96%) Retail
7 1 (0.96%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (32.69%) Senior
2 33 (31.73%) Developer
3 18 (17.31%) Tester
4 17 (16.35%) Software Developer
5 14 (13.46%) Analyst
5 14 (13.46%) C# Developer
5 14 (13.46%) Test Analyst
6 13 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
6 13 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 13 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
6 13 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
7 8 (7.69%) QA Tester
8 7 (6.73%) Angular Developer
8 7 (6.73%) Automation Tester
8 7 (6.73%) QA Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) .NET Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Azure Developer
10 5 (4.81%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (4.81%) C# Software Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (53.85%) .NET
2 36 (34.62%) .NET Framework
3 33 (31.73%) XML
4 19 (18.27%) AngularJS
5 11 (10.58%) REST
6 9 (8.65%) .NET Core
6 9 (8.65%) Playwright
7 7 (6.73%) Entity Framework
7 7 (6.73%) KnockoutJS
8 5 (4.81%) HTML
8 5 (4.81%) JSON
9 3 (2.88%) ASP.NET
9 3 (2.88%) CSS
9 3 (2.88%) LINQ
10 2 (1.92%) React
11 1 (0.96%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.96%) ASP.NET Core
11 1 (0.96%) Node.js
11 1 (0.96%) RESTful
11 1 (0.96%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 11 (10.58%) Derivative
3 5 (4.81%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.85%) Hedge funds
4 4 (3.85%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 3 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.88%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.92%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.96%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.96%) Contactless
7 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.96%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.96%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.96%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.96%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.96%) Android
1 1 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (56.73%) DevOps
2 58 (55.77%) Test Automation
3 53 (50.96%) Agile
3 53 (50.96%) CI/CD
4 40 (38.46%) Scrum
5 37 (35.58%) BDD
6 26 (25.00%) Performance Testing
7 23 (22.12%) TDD
8 19 (18.27%) Test Strategy
9 11 (10.58%) B2C
9 11 (10.58%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (10.58%) Manual Testing
9 11 (10.58%) Microservices
9 11 (10.58%) Software Testing
10 10 (9.62%) API Testing
11 9 (8.65%) ETRM
11 9 (8.65%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (8.65%) Regression Testing
11 9 (8.65%) SDET
12 8 (7.69%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 81 (77.88%) C#
2 30 (28.85%) PowerShell
3 24 (23.08%) SQL
4 12 (11.54%) TypeScript
5 11 (10.58%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.77%) Java
7 5 (4.81%) Python
8 4 (3.85%) Bicep
9 3 (2.88%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.96%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (4.81%) Degree
1 5 (4.81%) ISTQB
1 5 (4.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.96%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (25.00%) QA
2 4 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (10.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.96%) Ansible
1 1 (0.96%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
1 1 (0.96%) Puppet
1 1 (0.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (35.58%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.73%) Okta
3 6 (5.77%) Oracle
4 3 (2.88%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.92%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.96%) Google
6 1 (0.96%) NEC
6 1 (0.96%) OpenLink