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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 635 524 564
Rank change year-on-year -111 +40 +79
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 30 28 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.057% 0.085% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.094% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 11
10th Percentile - £405 £456
25th Percentile £360 £464 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £494
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +5.21% +3.02%
75th Percentile - £574 £531
90th Percentile £560 £586 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £497 £490
% change year-on-year +0.60% +1.43% +3.76%

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 45,137 29,773 34,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.05% 90.43% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,973 18,705 22,228
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.14%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,675 1,607 2,050
10th Percentile £14.81 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.33 £17.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.80 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.55% -41.09% -

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 July 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 9 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 July 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 -105 27 £500 -3.80% 2
UK excluding London -101 16 £500 +0.60% 3
London -72 12 £370 -33.39%
South East -69 7 £500 +25.00% 1
South West - 6 - - 1
Work from Home -51 4 £450 -8.91% 1
East Midlands -13 2 £456 +16.24%
Midlands -50 2 £456 +16.24%
Scotland -16 1 £569 +15.18% 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 7 (23.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) Azure
1 13 (43.33%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (26.67%) Entra ID
2 8 (26.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 7 (23.33%) Azure AKS
3 7 (23.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 7 (23.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 6 (20.00%) Azure App Service
4 6 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (16.67%) Azure Storage
6 4 (13.33%) IaaS
6 4 (13.33%) PaaS
7 3 (10.00%) Azure API Management
8 2 (6.67%) BlazeMeter
8 2 (6.67%) GitHub
8 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (3.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (23.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (23.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.67%) CockroachDB
3 2 (6.67%) Parquet
4 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.33%) Metadata
4 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.33%) Redis
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Git
2 6 (20.00%) Ant
2 6 (20.00%) Eclipse
2 6 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (6.67%) Gatling
3 2 (6.67%) git-flow
3 2 (6.67%) JIRA
4 1 (3.33%) GitLab
4 1 (3.33%) MLflow
4 1 (3.33%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Automotive
3 3 (10.00%) Retail
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Military
5 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (60.00%) Developer
2 10 (33.33%) Lead
2 10 (33.33%) Salesforce Developer
3 7 (23.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (20.00%) Senior
4 6 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 5 (16.67%) Senior Salesforce Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Automation Tester
6 4 (13.33%) Azure Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Lead Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Tester
7 3 (10.00%) .NET Developer
7 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 3 (10.00%) React Developer
7 3 (10.00%) Salesforce Technical Leader
7 3 (10.00%) Technical Leader
8 2 (6.67%) Lead Tester
9 1 (3.33%) Automation Test Lead
9 1 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (56.67%) REST
2 13 (43.33%) Lightning Web Components
3 9 (30.00%) OAuth
3 9 (30.00%) SOAP
4 8 (26.67%) OpenID
5 7 (23.33%) .NET
5 7 (23.33%) .NET Core
5 7 (23.33%) .NET Framework
5 7 (23.33%) Entity Framework
5 7 (23.33%) SAML
6 6 (20.00%) HTML
6 6 (20.00%) Visualforce
6 6 (20.00%) Web Services
7 5 (16.67%) RESTful
8 4 (13.33%) ARM Templates
8 4 (13.33%) Playwright
9 3 (10.00%) JSON
9 3 (10.00%) Kafka
10 2 (6.67%) FastAPI
10 2 (6.67%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.00%) AI Agents
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 21 (70.00%) DevOps
3 15 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 12 (40.00%) Validation
5 10 (33.33%) Agile
5 10 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (33.33%) Data Modelling
6 9 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (26.67%) Scrum
7 8 (26.67%) Workflow
8 7 (23.33%) Performance Testing
8 7 (23.33%) RBAC
8 7 (23.33%) Sprint Planning
8 7 (23.33%) Sprint Review
9 6 (20.00%) Code Quality
9 6 (20.00%) Data Validation
9 6 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
9 6 (20.00%) Log Analytics
9 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) Apex Code
2 9 (30.00%) Python
2 9 (30.00%) SOQL
2 9 (30.00%) SOSL
2 9 (30.00%) SQL
3 7 (23.33%) C#
4 5 (16.67%) Bicep
5 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.67%) Java
6 2 (6.67%) Rust
7 1 (3.33%) C
7 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Terraform
2 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.00%) Grafana
4 2 (6.67%) Podman
4 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Google
3 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow