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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 503 549
Rank change year-on-year -44 +46 +185
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 31 31 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.084% 0.097% 0.073%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.11% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 25 13
10th Percentile £400 £407 £418
25th Percentile £425 £445 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £480 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.37% -0.10% +2.84%
75th Percentile £584 £550 £508
90th Percentile £614 £573 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £522 £471 £463
% change year-on-year +10.74% +1.84% -1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £73.09
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £78.73
75th Percentile - - £88.75
90th Percentile - - £88.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £78.73

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 32,585 28,260 37,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.84% 88.76% 87.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,582 17,185 24,531
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £742 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,992 898 1,578
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.17
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.56 £18.04
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%
75th Percentile £55.89 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £43.33
% change year-on-year -21.76% -29.73% +46.88%

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 15 January 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 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 15 January 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 -41 26 £543 -0.37% 39
UK excluding London -61 17 £522 +10.74% 40
London -26 13 £543 -0.37% 2
Work from Home -4 12 £522 +9.28% 3
East of England - 8 - - 8
Scotland -5 4 £522 +10.74% 1
North of England - 4 £450 - 7
North West - 3 £450 - 1
South East - 1 £550 - 11
Yorkshire - 1 £596 - 4

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 (9.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (6.45%) Apache
2 2 (6.45%) CMS
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) Serverless
3 5 (16.13%) Amazon S3
4 4 (12.90%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (12.90%) Azure
4 4 (12.90%) GitHub
5 3 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (6.45%) Firebase
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) DynamoDB
1 4 (12.90%) Metadata
2 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.45%) Big Data
2 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.45%) SQLite
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.23%) HPCC
3 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.23%) MySQL
3 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Git
2 10 (32.26%) JIRA
3 8 (25.81%) PVCS
3 8 (25.81%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (12.90%) Gradle
4 4 (12.90%) Jasmine
4 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
5 3 (9.68%) SonarQube
6 2 (6.45%) CocoaPods
6 2 (6.45%) Crashlytics
6 2 (6.45%) fastlane
6 2 (6.45%) GitLab
6 2 (6.45%) Maven
6 2 (6.45%) Xcode
7 1 (3.23%) Bundler
7 1 (3.23%) ESLint
7 1 (3.23%) Gatling
7 1 (3.23%) Postman
7 1 (3.23%) Pylint
7 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (25.81%) Electronics
2 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Finance
3 4 (12.90%) Publishing
4 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Games
5 1 (3.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Software Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) C Software Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) C/C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Embedded C Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Embedded C Software Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Embedded Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Senior
4 4 (12.90%) DataOps Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Java Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Lead
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) Spring
2 5 (16.13%) HTML
2 5 (16.13%) REST
2 5 (16.13%) Spring Boot
3 4 (12.90%) CSS
3 4 (12.90%) CSS3
3 4 (12.90%) HTML5
3 4 (12.90%) Jest
3 4 (12.90%) Pandas
4 3 (9.68%) GraphQL
4 3 (9.68%) Hugging Face
4 3 (9.68%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (9.68%) NestJS
4 3 (9.68%) Node.js
4 3 (9.68%) NumPy
4 3 (9.68%) Playwright
4 3 (9.68%) PyTorch
4 3 (9.68%) RESTful
4 3 (9.68%) Spring MVC
4 3 (9.68%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Data Structures
2 4 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.90%) Genomics
2 4 (12.90%) Omics
2 4 (12.90%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.68%) Algorithms
3 3 (9.68%) Biopharmaceutical
3 3 (9.68%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.45%) Animation
4 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.23%) Derivative
5 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Android
1 2 (6.45%) Apple iOS
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Software Engineering
2 14 (45.16%) Agile
3 13 (41.94%) Unit Testing
4 12 (38.71%) Requirements Analysis
5 10 (32.26%) DevOps
5 10 (32.26%) Workflow
6 9 (29.03%) Code Quality
6 9 (29.03%) Thought Leadership
7 8 (25.81%) AI
7 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
7 8 (25.81%) Data Engineering
7 8 (25.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (22.58%) Machine Learning
8 7 (22.58%) Mentoring
8 7 (22.58%) OO
8 7 (22.58%) TDD
9 6 (19.35%) Data Governance
9 6 (19.35%) Test Automation
10 5 (16.13%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) C++
2 9 (29.03%) C
3 8 (25.81%) Java
3 8 (25.81%) Python
4 7 (22.58%) Embedded C
4 7 (22.58%) Embedded C++
5 5 (16.13%) SQL
5 5 (16.13%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.45%) C#
6 2 (6.45%) Objective-C
6 2 (6.45%) PHP
6 2 (6.45%) Swift
7 1 (3.23%) Bash
7 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Virtual Machines
1 8 (25.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (9.68%) ISA Server
3 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Grafana
1 2 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (6.45%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) ANSYS
1 8 (25.81%) IBM
1 8 (25.81%) VMware
2 3 (9.68%) Adobe
2 3 (9.68%) Splunk
3 2 (6.45%) Apple
3 2 (6.45%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.45%) Google
3 2 (6.45%) New Relic
4 1 (3.23%) Databricks
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft