Code Coverage Contract Job Trends

Code Coverage
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Code Coverage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 562 519 567
Rank change year-on-year -43 +48 +175
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 29 31 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.078% 0.092% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% 0.10% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 25 18
10th Percentile £400 £407 £414
25th Percentile £425 £445 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £480 £506
Median % change year-on-year +13.24% -5.24% +7.66%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £800
90th Percentile £614 £573 £861
UK excluding London median daily rate £522 £471 £463
% change year-on-year +10.74% +1.84% -3.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £73.09
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £78.73
75th Percentile - - £88.75
90th Percentile - - £89.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £78.73

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Code Coverage falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,729 29,699 38,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.02% 88.28% 88.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,612 18,123 25,677
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,069 965 1,551
10th Percentile £14.73 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%
75th Percentile £51.65 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.63 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £30.88 £44.50
% change year-on-year -23.64% -30.62% +48.33%

Code Coverage
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Code Coverage relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Code Coverage job vacancy trend in the UK

Code Coverage
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Code Coverage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Code Coverage

Code Coverage
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Coverage over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Code Coverage in the UK

Code Coverage
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Code Coverage.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Code Coverage

Code Coverage
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Code Coverage within the UK over the 6 months to 27 December 2025. 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 -33 24 £547 +0.28% 71
UK excluding London -50 16 £522 +10.74% 76
London -15 12 £559 +2.57% 4
Work from Home -4 11 £522 +9.28% 10
East of England - 7 - - 13
Scotland -4 4 £522 +10.74% 7
North of England - 4 £450 - 15
North West - 3 £450 - 8
South East - 1 £550 - 18
Yorkshire - 1 £596 - 6

Code Coverage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (6.90%) Apache
2 2 (6.90%) CMS
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) Serverless
3 5 (17.24%) Amazon S3
4 4 (13.79%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (13.79%) GitHub
5 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (10.34%) Azure
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.90%) Firebase
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.45%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (3.45%) Azure App Service
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) DynamoDB
1 4 (13.79%) Metadata
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.90%) Big Data
2 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.90%) SQLite
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.45%) HPCC
3 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.45%) MySQL
3 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Git
2 9 (31.03%) JIRA
3 7 (24.14%) PVCS
3 7 (24.14%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (13.79%) Jasmine
4 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
5 3 (10.34%) Gradle
5 3 (10.34%) SonarQube
6 2 (6.90%) CocoaPods
6 2 (6.90%) Crashlytics
6 2 (6.90%) fastlane
6 2 (6.90%) GitLab
6 2 (6.90%) Maven
6 2 (6.90%) Xcode
7 1 (3.45%) Bundler
7 1 (3.45%) ESLint
7 1 (3.45%) Gatling
7 1 (3.45%) Postman
7 1 (3.45%) Pylint
7 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (24.14%) Electronics
2 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Publishing
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Games
5 1 (3.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Software Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Developer
3 6 (20.69%) C Software Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) C/C++ Software Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) C++ Software Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Embedded C Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Embedded C Software Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Embedded C++ Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Embedded Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) DataOps Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Lead
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) Spring
2 5 (17.24%) HTML
2 5 (17.24%) Spring Boot
3 4 (13.79%) CSS
3 4 (13.79%) CSS3
3 4 (13.79%) HTML5
3 4 (13.79%) Jest
3 4 (13.79%) Pandas
3 4 (13.79%) REST
4 3 (10.34%) AngularJS
4 3 (10.34%) boto
4 3 (10.34%) Hugging Face
4 3 (10.34%) NestJS
4 3 (10.34%) Node.js
4 3 (10.34%) NumPy
4 3 (10.34%) Playwright
4 3 (10.34%) PyTorch
4 3 (10.34%) RESTful
4 3 (10.34%) Spring MVC
4 3 (10.34%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Data Structures
2 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.79%) Genomics
2 4 (13.79%) Omics
2 4 (13.79%) Product Ownership
3 3 (10.34%) Algorithms
3 3 (10.34%) Biopharmaceutical
3 3 (10.34%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.90%) Animation
4 2 (6.90%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.45%) Derivative
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Android
1 2 (6.90%) Apple iOS
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Agile
1 14 (48.28%) Software Engineering
2 12 (41.38%) Unit Testing
3 11 (37.93%) Requirements Analysis
4 10 (34.48%) DevOps
5 9 (31.03%) Code Quality
5 9 (31.03%) Thought Leadership
5 9 (31.03%) Workflow
6 8 (27.59%) AI
6 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
6 8 (27.59%) Data Engineering
6 8 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (24.14%) Machine Learning
7 7 (24.14%) OO
7 7 (24.14%) TDD
8 6 (20.69%) Data Governance
8 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
8 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
9 5 (17.24%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) C++
2 8 (27.59%) C
2 8 (27.59%) Python
3 7 (24.14%) Java
4 6 (20.69%) Embedded C
4 6 (20.69%) Embedded C++
5 5 (17.24%) SQL
5 5 (17.24%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.90%) C#
6 2 (6.90%) Objective-C
6 2 (6.90%) PHP
6 2 (6.90%) Swift
7 1 (3.45%) Bash
7 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Virtual Machines
1 7 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.34%) ISA Server
3 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Grafana
1 2 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (6.90%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) ANSYS
1 7 (24.14%) IBM
1 7 (24.14%) VMware
2 3 (10.34%) Adobe
2 3 (10.34%) Splunk
3 2 (6.90%) Apple
3 2 (6.90%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Databricks
4 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.45%) New Relic