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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 498 571
Rank change year-on-year -61 +73 +139
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 30 29 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.075% 0.094% 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.10% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 19
10th Percentile £400 £407 £431
25th Percentile £425 £447 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £480 £480
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -0.05% +3.45%
75th Percentile £610 £558 £506
90th Percentile £631 £577 £584
UK excluding London median daily rate £547 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +15.01% +2.76% -1.49%
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 34,652 27,713 38,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.01% 89.46% 87.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,939 16,970 25,283
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £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 £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -4.06% -0.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,087 853 2,111
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.28
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.51 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.18% -9.97% +9.38%

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 12 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 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 12 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 -71 25 £563 +2.27% 6
UK excluding London -50 19 £547 +15.01% 6
Work from Home -14 11 £543 +13.80% 4
London -44 10 £550 +0.92%
East of England - 9 £700 - 1
Scotland +3 4 £543 +15.31% 1
North of England -59 4 £450 -26.25%
North West - 3 £450 -
South East - 2 £625 - 3
Yorkshire -58 1 £596 -2.40%

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 (10.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (6.67%) Apache
2 2 (6.67%) CMS
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (20.00%) Serverless
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 4 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (13.33%) Azure
5 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (10.00%) GitHub
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.67%) Firebase
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.33%) Azure App Service
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (3.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) DynamoDB
1 4 (13.33%) Metadata
2 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.67%) SQLite
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.33%) Big Data
3 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.33%) MySQL
3 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Git
1 10 (33.33%) JIRA
2 8 (26.67%) PVCS
2 8 (26.67%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (13.33%) Jasmine
3 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 3 (10.00%) Gradle
4 3 (10.00%) SonarQube
5 2 (6.67%) CocoaPods
5 2 (6.67%) Crashlytics
5 2 (6.67%) fastlane
5 2 (6.67%) Xcode
6 1 (3.33%) Bundler
6 1 (3.33%) ESLint
6 1 (3.33%) Gatling
6 1 (3.33%) Maven
6 1 (3.33%) MLflow
6 1 (3.33%) Postman
6 1 (3.33%) Pylint
6 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (26.67%) Electronics
2 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Publishing
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Developer
1 8 (26.67%) Software Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) C Software Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) C/C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Embedded C Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Embedded C Software Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Embedded Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Senior
4 4 (13.33%) DataOps Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Lead
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.67%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) REST
2 5 (16.67%) Spring
2 5 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 4 (13.33%) CSS
3 4 (13.33%) CSS3
3 4 (13.33%) HTML
3 4 (13.33%) HTML5
3 4 (13.33%) Jest
3 4 (13.33%) Pandas
3 4 (13.33%) RESTful
4 3 (10.00%) boto
4 3 (10.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (10.00%) Hugging Face
4 3 (10.00%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (10.00%) NestJS
4 3 (10.00%) NumPy
4 3 (10.00%) Playwright
4 3 (10.00%) PyTorch
4 3 (10.00%) Spring MVC
4 3 (10.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.33%) Genomics
2 4 (13.33%) Omics
2 4 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (10.00%) Biopharmaceutical
3 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.67%) Animation
4 2 (6.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.33%) Derivative
5 1 (3.33%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Agile
1 13 (43.33%) Software Engineering
1 13 (43.33%) Unit Testing
2 12 (40.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 11 (36.67%) DevOps
4 10 (33.33%) Workflow
5 9 (30.00%) Code Quality
5 9 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (30.00%) Thought Leadership
6 8 (26.67%) AI
6 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
7 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (23.33%) Machine Learning
7 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
7 7 (23.33%) OO
7 7 (23.33%) TDD
7 7 (23.33%) Test Automation
8 6 (20.00%) Data Engineering
8 6 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) C
1 8 (26.67%) C++
2 7 (23.33%) Embedded C
2 7 (23.33%) Embedded C++
2 7 (23.33%) Java
3 6 (20.00%) Python
4 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.00%) SQL
6 2 (6.67%) Objective-C
6 2 (6.67%) Swift
7 1 (3.33%) Bash
7 1 (3.33%) C#
7 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.33%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.33%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Virtual Machines
1 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.00%) ISA Server
3 2 (6.67%) Docker
4 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Grafana
1 2 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) ANSYS
1 8 (26.67%) IBM
1 8 (26.67%) VMware
2 3 (10.00%) Adobe
2 3 (10.00%) Splunk
3 2 (6.67%) Apple
3 2 (6.67%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.67%) Google
3 2 (6.67%) New Relic
4 1 (3.33%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft