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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 509 557
Rank change year-on-year -86 +48 +98
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 29 17 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.062% 0.058% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.073% 0.064% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 16
10th Percentile £401 £402 £448
25th Percentile £420 £407 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% -2.01% +3.91%
75th Percentile £571 £513 £506
90th Percentile £688 £520 £532
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £494 £473
% change year-on-year +1.21% +4.38% +0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £86.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £87.50
75th Percentile - - £89.06
90th Percentile - - £89.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £87.50
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

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 39,620 26,668 37,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.62% 90.81% 86.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,999 17,238 24,242
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £631 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,377 1,068 2,435
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.54 £29.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.07% -16.71% -5.41%
75th Percentile £65.88 £62.24 £59.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £28.00 £36.27
% change year-on-year +50.00% -22.81% +3.64%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -94 26 £450 +9.09% 9
UK excluding London -72 24 £500 +1.21% 6
Work from Home -21 11 £450 -4.20% 3
East of England - 9 £700 - 1
South West - 5 - - 1
London -71 4 £400 -1.72% 5
South East -60 3 £625 +56.25% 1
North of England -64 3 £450 -13.42% 1
North West - 3 £450 - 1
Scotland +3 2 £520 +8.34% 1
East Midlands - 2 £456 -
Midlands - 2 £456 - 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 (10.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (6.90%) Confluence
3 1 (3.45%) Apache
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (17.24%) Amazon S3
3 5 (17.24%) Serverless
4 4 (13.79%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (10.34%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (10.34%) GitHub
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.90%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Storage
6 2 (6.90%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.90%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.45%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (3.45%) Azure App Service
7 1 (3.45%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (3.45%) Ethernet
2 1 (3.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) DynamoDB
1 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.90%) CockroachDB
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.45%) Metadata
3 1 (3.45%) Parquet
3 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (44.83%) Git
2 9 (31.03%) JIRA
3 8 (27.59%) PVCS
3 8 (27.59%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (10.34%) Gatling
4 3 (10.34%) Gradle
4 3 (10.34%) Jasmine
5 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.45%) git-flow
5 1 (3.45%) GitLab
5 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.45%) JUnit
5 1 (3.45%) MLflow
5 1 (3.45%) Postman
5 1 (3.45%) Selenium
5 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.45%) TestNG
5 1 (3.45%) Tricentis qTest
5 1 (3.45%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (27.59%) Electronics
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
2 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.34%) Retail
4 1 (3.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Developer
1 8 (27.59%) Software Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) C Software Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) C/C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Embedded C Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Embedded C Software Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Embedded Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Senior
4 4 (13.79%) Lead
5 3 (10.34%) Automation Tester
5 3 (10.34%) Salesforce Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) REST
2 6 (20.69%) Playwright
3 4 (13.79%) Kafka
3 4 (13.79%) RESTful
3 4 (13.79%) Spring
3 4 (13.79%) Spring Boot
4 3 (10.34%) AngularJS
4 3 (10.34%) CSS
4 3 (10.34%) CSS3
4 3 (10.34%) HTML
4 3 (10.34%) HTML5
4 3 (10.34%) Jest
4 3 (10.34%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (10.34%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (10.34%) NestJS
4 3 (10.34%) Node.js
4 3 (10.34%) OAuth
4 3 (10.34%) Sass
4 3 (10.34%) SOAP
4 3 (10.34%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.34%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.45%) Derivative
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) PCIe
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) DevOps
2 14 (48.28%) Test Automation
3 13 (44.83%) CI/CD
4 12 (41.38%) Unit Testing
5 10 (34.48%) Requirements Analysis
6 9 (31.03%) Agile
6 9 (31.03%) Workflow
7 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (27.59%) Software Engineering
8 7 (24.14%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (20.69%) Performance Testing
9 6 (20.69%) TDD
9 6 (20.69%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (17.24%) ERP
10 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven
10 5 (17.24%) Microservices
10 5 (17.24%) Scrum
11 4 (13.79%) API Integration
11 4 (13.79%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) C
1 8 (27.59%) C++
1 8 (27.59%) Java
2 7 (24.14%) Embedded C
2 7 (24.14%) Embedded C++
3 5 (17.24%) Apex Code
3 5 (17.24%) Python
4 4 (13.79%) SQL
5 3 (10.34%) SOQL
5 3 (10.34%) SOSL
5 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.90%) Bicep
6 2 (6.90%) C#
6 2 (6.90%) Rust
7 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.45%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Virtual Machines
1 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.34%) ISA Server
3 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Grafana
1 4 (13.79%) Terraform
2 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.90%) Podman
3 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) IBM
2 8 (27.59%) ANSYS
2 8 (27.59%) VMware
3 5 (17.24%) Salesforce
4 3 (10.34%) Adobe
4 3 (10.34%) Splunk
5 2 (6.90%) Dynatrace
5 2 (6.90%) Google
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.90%) New Relic
5 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow