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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 507 563
Rank change year-on-year -84 +56 +91
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 34 22 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.071% 0.075% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.084% 0.083% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 16
10th Percentile £360 £404 -
25th Percentile £400 £407 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £487 £490
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% -0.66% +5.60%
75th Percentile £494 £520 £506
90th Percentile £661 £568 £532
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £494 £485
% change year-on-year -1.82% +1.86% +3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £86.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £87.50
75th Percentile - - £89.38
90th Percentile - - £89.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £87.50
% change year-on-year - - +9.38%

All Process & 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 40,582 26,548 36,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.29% 91.02% 86.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,477 17,040 23,631
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,387 1,106 2,443
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.80 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.17 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +50.90% -21.86% +0.13%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.70 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -32.93% +7.14%

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 20 May 2026.

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 12 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 20 May 2026. 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 -99 30 £413 -12.44% 4
UK excluding London -80 22 £485 -1.82% 4
Work from Home -35 11 £450 -7.55% 1
London -54 10 £370 -9.54%
East of England - 7 £700 - 3
South West - 6 - -
North West -39 3 £450 -18.18%
North of England -67 3 £450 -15.87%
Scotland -12 2 £520 +8.34% 1
East Midlands -29 2 £456 +16.24%
South East -63 2 £700 +75.00%
Midlands -65 2 £456 +16.24%

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 (8.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
3 1 (2.94%) Apache
3 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon S3
3 5 (14.71%) AWS
3 5 (14.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 5 (14.71%) Serverless
4 4 (11.76%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (11.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
5 3 (8.82%) GitHub
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.88%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Storage
6 2 (5.88%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (5.88%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.94%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (2.94%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) NoSQL
1 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.82%) DynamoDB
3 2 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (5.88%) CockroachDB
3 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.94%) Metadata
4 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.94%) Parquet
4 1 (2.94%) Redis
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (35.29%) Git
2 7 (20.59%) JIRA
3 6 (17.65%) PVCS
3 6 (17.65%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (8.82%) Ant
4 3 (8.82%) Eclipse
4 3 (8.82%) Jasmine
4 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
4 3 (8.82%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (5.88%) Gatling
5 2 (5.88%) git-flow
5 2 (5.88%) GitLab
5 2 (5.88%) Gradle
6 1 (2.94%) MLflow
6 1 (2.94%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 6 (17.65%) Electronics
1 6 (17.65%) Finance
1 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Automotive
3 3 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Retail
4 1 (2.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Developer
2 9 (26.47%) Lead
3 6 (17.65%) C Software Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) C/C++ Software Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) C++ Software Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Embedded C Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Embedded C Software Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Embedded C++ Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Embedded Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Salesforce Developer
3 6 (17.65%) Senior
3 6 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Automation Tester
5 4 (11.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) REST
2 9 (26.47%) Lightning Web Components
3 7 (20.59%) Playwright
4 6 (17.65%) HTML
4 6 (17.65%) SOAP
5 5 (14.71%) Kafka
5 5 (14.71%) RESTful
6 4 (11.76%) OAuth
7 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
7 3 (8.82%) CSS3
7 3 (8.82%) HTML5
7 3 (8.82%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (8.82%) Node.js
7 3 (8.82%) OpenID
7 3 (8.82%) Sass
7 3 (8.82%) Spring
7 3 (8.82%) Spring Boot
7 3 (8.82%) Spring MVC
7 3 (8.82%) Swagger
7 3 (8.82%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.82%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.94%) Derivative
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.94%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 19 (55.88%) DevOps
3 15 (44.12%) Test Automation
4 13 (38.24%) Agile
5 11 (32.35%) Unit Testing
5 11 (32.35%) Workflow
6 10 (29.41%) Validation
7 9 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (23.53%) Requirements Analysis
8 8 (23.53%) Scrum
9 7 (20.59%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (20.59%) Performance Testing
10 6 (17.65%) Data Modelling
10 6 (17.65%) Event-Driven
10 6 (17.65%) Software Engineering
10 6 (17.65%) Sprint Planning
10 6 (17.65%) Sprint Review
10 6 (17.65%) TDD
10 6 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) Apex Code
2 7 (20.59%) C
2 7 (20.59%) Java
3 6 (17.65%) C++
3 6 (17.65%) Embedded C
3 6 (17.65%) Embedded C++
3 6 (17.65%) Python
3 6 (17.65%) SOQL
3 6 (17.65%) SOSL
4 5 (14.71%) SQL
5 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.88%) Bicep
6 2 (5.88%) C#
6 2 (5.88%) Rust
7 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.94%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) Data Quality
1 3 (8.82%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Virtual Machines
1 6 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.82%) ISA Server
3 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Grafana
1 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 4 (11.76%) Terraform
2 2 (5.88%) Podman
2 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Salesforce
2 7 (20.59%) IBM
3 6 (17.65%) ANSYS
3 6 (17.65%) VMware
4 3 (8.82%) Adobe
4 3 (8.82%) Splunk
5 2 (5.88%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.88%) Google
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.88%) New Relic
5 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow