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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 499 571
Rank change year-on-year -76 +72 +133
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 33 29 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.080% 0.095% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.092% 0.11% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 17
10th Percentile £400 £405 £438
25th Percentile £425 £439 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £477 £484
Median % change year-on-year +13.80% -1.39% +4.31%
75th Percentile £608 £558 £506
90th Percentile £623 £577 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £547 £471 £463
% change year-on-year +16.04% +1.84% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £73.09
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £83.11
75th Percentile - - £88.75
90th Percentile - - £89.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £83.11

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 35,955 27,589 38,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.76% 89.91% 86.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,818 17,125 24,933
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.18% -1.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,143 864 2,185
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.99 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.61 £32.66 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% -1.24% -5.53%
75th Percentile £61.50 £63.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.18 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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 26 February 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 11 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 26 February 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 -83 27 £563 +4.17% 3
UK excluding London -68 21 £547 +16.04% 4
Work from Home -15 12 £497 +4.54% 2
London -31 10 £550 +1.85%
East of England - 9 £700 - 1
Scotland +5 4 £543 +15.31% 1
North of England -60 4 £450 -26.25%
South East -32 3 £625 +56.25% 1
North West - 3 £450 -
Yorkshire -63 1 £596 -2.40%
South West - 1 - - 1

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%) Apache
2 2 (6.06%) CMS
2 2 (6.06%) Confluence
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) AWS
2 6 (18.18%) Serverless
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon S3
3 5 (15.15%) Azure
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (12.12%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.06%) Azure App Service
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Storage
6 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.06%) Firebase
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.03%) Dagster
7 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Ethernet
1 1 (3.03%) HTTP
1 1 (3.03%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) DynamoDB
1 4 (12.12%) Metadata
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.06%) SQLite
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.03%) Big Data
3 1 (3.03%) CockroachDB
3 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.03%) MySQL
3 1 (3.03%) Parquet
3 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (36.36%) Git
2 11 (33.33%) JIRA
3 8 (24.24%) PVCS
3 8 (24.24%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (12.12%) Jasmine
4 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
5 3 (9.09%) Gradle
5 3 (9.09%) SonarQube
6 2 (6.06%) CocoaPods
6 2 (6.06%) Crashlytics
6 2 (6.06%) fastlane
6 2 (6.06%) Gatling
6 2 (6.06%) Xcode
7 1 (3.03%) Bundler
7 1 (3.03%) ESLint
7 1 (3.03%) Maven
7 1 (3.03%) MLflow
7 1 (3.03%) Postman
7 1 (3.03%) Pylint
7 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (24.24%) Electronics
2 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.12%) Finance
4 4 (12.12%) Publishing
5 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Law
6 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Developer
2 8 (24.24%) Software Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) C Software Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) C/C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Embedded C Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Embedded C Software Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Embedded C++ Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Embedded Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Senior
4 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (12.12%) DataOps Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Lead
7 2 (6.06%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (24.24%) REST
2 5 (15.15%) Spring
2 5 (15.15%) Spring Boot
3 4 (12.12%) CSS
3 4 (12.12%) CSS3
3 4 (12.12%) HTML
3 4 (12.12%) HTML5
3 4 (12.12%) Jest
3 4 (12.12%) Pandas
3 4 (12.12%) RESTful
4 3 (9.09%) Kafka
4 3 (9.09%) Node.js
4 3 (9.09%) NumPy
4 3 (9.09%) OAuth
4 3 (9.09%) OpenCV
4 3 (9.09%) Playwright
4 3 (9.09%) PyTorch
4 3 (9.09%) Sass
4 3 (9.09%) Spring MVC
4 3 (9.09%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Cloud Native
1 5 (15.15%) Data Structures
1 5 (15.15%) Product Ownership
2 4 (12.12%) Genomics
2 4 (12.12%) Omics
3 3 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 3 (9.09%) Biopharmaceutical
3 3 (9.09%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.06%) Animation
4 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.03%) Derivative
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.03%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Agile
1 14 (42.42%) Unit Testing
2 13 (39.39%) DevOps
2 13 (39.39%) Software Engineering
3 12 (36.36%) Requirements Analysis
4 11 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (30.30%) CI/CD
5 10 (30.30%) Workflow
6 9 (27.27%) Code Quality
6 9 (27.27%) Test Automation
6 9 (27.27%) Thought Leadership
7 8 (24.24%) AI
8 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (21.21%) Machine Learning
8 7 (21.21%) Mentoring
8 7 (21.21%) OO
8 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (21.21%) TDD
9 6 (18.18%) Data Engineering
9 6 (18.18%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) C
1 8 (24.24%) C++
1 8 (24.24%) Java
2 7 (21.21%) Embedded C
2 7 (21.21%) Embedded C++
2 7 (21.21%) Python
3 4 (12.12%) SQL
3 4 (12.12%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.06%) C#
4 2 (6.06%) Objective-C
4 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.06%) Swift
5 1 (3.03%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.03%) Bash
5 1 (3.03%) Bicep
5 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.03%) Rust
5 1 (3.03%) SOQL
5 1 (3.03%) SOSL
5 1 (3.03%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
1 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) Virtual Machines
1 8 (24.24%) 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%) Terraform
2 3 (9.09%) Grafana
3 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.03%) Podman
4 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) ANSYS
1 8 (24.24%) IBM
1 8 (24.24%) VMware
2 3 (9.09%) Adobe
2 3 (9.09%) Google
2 3 (9.09%) Splunk
3 2 (6.06%) Apple
3 2 (6.06%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.06%) New Relic
4 1 (3.03%) Databricks
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow