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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 498 558
Rank change year-on-year -104 +60 +83
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 33 22 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.068% 0.077% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.080% 0.084% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 15
10th Percentile £360 £404 £456
25th Percentile £400 £407 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £487 £494
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% -1.47% +4.11%
75th Percentile £494 £520 £506
90th Percentile £661 £568 £536
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £494 £486
% change year-on-year -1.82% +1.65% +1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 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 41,015 26,042 36,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.42% 91.03% 86.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,698 16,721 23,544
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.59% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,419 1,056 2,449
10th Percentile £14.79 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.98% -22.42% -2.58%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.70 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +76.94% -33.82% +8.57%

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 23 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 23 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 29 £413 -12.44% 1
UK excluding London -95 21 £485 -1.82%
Work from Home -36 10 £450 -7.55%
London -66 10 £370 -9.54% 1
East of England - 6 £700 -
South West - 6 - -
North West -37 3 £450 -18.18%
North of England -77 3 £450 -15.87%
Scotland -3 2 £520 +8.34%
East Midlands -30 2 £456 +16.24%
South East -67 2 £700 +75.00%
Midlands -71 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 (9.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (6.06%) Confluence
3 1 (3.03%) Apache
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon S3
3 5 (15.15%) AWS
3 5 (15.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 5 (15.15%) Serverless
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (12.12%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Storage
6 2 (6.06%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (6.06%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.03%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (3.03%) Ethernet
2 1 (3.03%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) NoSQL
1 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
2 3 (9.09%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.06%) CockroachDB
3 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.03%) Metadata
4 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.03%) Parquet
4 1 (3.03%) Redis
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (33.33%) Git
2 6 (18.18%) JIRA
3 5 (15.15%) PVCS
3 5 (15.15%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (9.09%) Ant
4 3 (9.09%) Eclipse
4 3 (9.09%) Jasmine
4 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 3 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (6.06%) Gatling
5 2 (6.06%) git-flow
5 2 (6.06%) GitLab
5 2 (6.06%) Gradle
6 1 (3.03%) MLflow
6 1 (3.03%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 6 (18.18%) Finance
1 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.15%) Electronics
3 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Automotive
4 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Retail
5 1 (3.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Developer
2 9 (27.27%) Lead
3 6 (18.18%) Salesforce Developer
3 6 (18.18%) Senior
4 5 (15.15%) C Software Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) C/C++ Software Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) C++ Software Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Embedded C Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Embedded C Software Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Embedded Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Software Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Automation Tester
5 4 (12.12%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (36.36%) REST
2 9 (27.27%) Lightning Web Components
3 7 (21.21%) Playwright
4 6 (18.18%) HTML
4 6 (18.18%) SOAP
5 5 (15.15%) Kafka
5 5 (15.15%) RESTful
6 4 (12.12%) OAuth
7 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
7 3 (9.09%) CSS3
7 3 (9.09%) HTML5
7 3 (9.09%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (9.09%) Node.js
7 3 (9.09%) OpenID
7 3 (9.09%) Sass
7 3 (9.09%) Spring
7 3 (9.09%) Spring Boot
7 3 (9.09%) Spring MVC
7 3 (9.09%) Swagger
7 3 (9.09%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.03%) Derivative
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.03%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) CI/CD
2 19 (57.58%) DevOps
3 15 (45.45%) Test Automation
4 13 (39.39%) Agile
5 10 (30.30%) Unit Testing
5 10 (30.30%) Validation
5 10 (30.30%) Workflow
6 9 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (24.24%) Scrum
8 7 (21.21%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (21.21%) Performance Testing
8 7 (21.21%) Requirements Analysis
9 6 (18.18%) Code Quality
9 6 (18.18%) Data Modelling
9 6 (18.18%) Event-Driven
9 6 (18.18%) Sprint Planning
9 6 (18.18%) Sprint Review
9 6 (18.18%) TDD
9 6 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) Apex Code
2 7 (21.21%) Java
3 6 (18.18%) C
3 6 (18.18%) Python
3 6 (18.18%) SOQL
3 6 (18.18%) SOSL
4 5 (15.15%) C++
4 5 (15.15%) Embedded C
4 5 (15.15%) Embedded C++
4 5 (15.15%) SQL
5 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.06%) Bicep
6 2 (6.06%) C#
6 2 (6.06%) Rust
7 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.03%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 3 (9.09%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Virtual Machines
1 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (9.09%) ISA Server
3 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Grafana
1 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
1 4 (12.12%) Terraform
2 2 (6.06%) Podman
2 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 6 (18.18%) IBM
3 5 (15.15%) ANSYS
3 5 (15.15%) VMware
4 3 (9.09%) Adobe
4 3 (9.09%) Splunk
5 2 (6.06%) Dynatrace
5 2 (6.06%) Google
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.06%) New Relic
5 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow