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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 526 569
Rank change year-on-year -25 +43 +187
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 26 35 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.071% 0.097% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.080% 0.11% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 26 17
10th Percentile £418 £408 £414
25th Percentile £455 £447 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £480 £506
Median % change year-on-year +13.20% -5.19% +7.77%
75th Percentile £585 £550 £800
90th Percentile £614 £575 £865
UK excluding London median daily rate £522 £471 £463
% change year-on-year +10.74% +1.84% -1.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £73.09
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £78.73
75th Percentile - - £88.75
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £78.73

All Process and 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 32,500 31,582 39,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.05% 87.42% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,460 19,152 26,649
10th Percentile £300 £310 £312
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,092 1,104 1,551
10th Percentile £14.54 £15.25 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.23 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% -22.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.53 £63.51 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.93 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.71% -23.53% +30.77%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025. 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 -33 21 £550 - 14
London -5 13 £568 +3.27%
UK excluding London -46 12 £522 +10.74% 14
Work from Home -6 7 £522 +9.28% 8
Scotland -4 4 £522 +10.74%
East of England - 4 - - 4
North of England - 3 £450 - 5
North West - 2 £450 - 3
South East - 1 £550 - 5
Yorkshire - 1 £596 - 2

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 2 (7.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (7.69%) Apache
1 2 (7.69%) CMS
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) GitHub
2 5 (19.23%) Serverless
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (11.54%) Azure
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (7.69%) Firebase
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.85%) Azure App Service
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Metadata
2 3 (11.54%) Big Data
2 3 (11.54%) Data Lake
2 3 (11.54%) DynamoDB
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.69%) HPCC
3 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.69%) SQLite
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.85%) MySQL
4 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Git
2 6 (23.08%) JIRA
3 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 4 (15.38%) PVCS
3 4 (15.38%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (11.54%) GitLab
4 3 (11.54%) Gradle
4 3 (11.54%) Jasmine
4 3 (11.54%) Maven
4 3 (11.54%) SonarQube
5 2 (7.69%) CocoaPods
5 2 (7.69%) Crashlytics
5 2 (7.69%) fastlane
5 2 (7.69%) Xcode
6 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.85%) JUnit
6 1 (3.85%) Pylint
6 1 (3.85%) Selenium
6 1 (3.85%) TestNG
6 1 (3.85%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Electronics
2 4 (15.38%) Publishing
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Games
4 1 (3.85%) Law
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Software Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Developer
3 4 (15.38%) DataOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) C Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) C/C++ Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) C++ Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Embedded C Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Embedded C Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Embedded Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Lead
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) Spring
2 5 (19.23%) HTML
3 4 (15.38%) Pandas
3 4 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 3 (11.54%) boto
4 3 (11.54%) CSS
4 3 (11.54%) CSS3
4 3 (11.54%) HTML5
4 3 (11.54%) Hugging Face
4 3 (11.54%) Jest
4 3 (11.54%) NumPy
4 3 (11.54%) OpenCV
4 3 (11.54%) PyTorch
4 3 (11.54%) REST
4 3 (11.54%) SQLAlchemy
5 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.69%) Core Animation
5 2 (7.69%) RESTful
5 2 (7.69%) Sass
5 2 (7.69%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Data Structures
2 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 4 (15.38%) Genomics
2 4 (15.38%) Omics
3 3 (11.54%) Algorithms
3 3 (11.54%) Biopharmaceutical
3 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.69%) Animation
4 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
4 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.85%) Derivative
5 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Android
2 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
2 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Agile
2 12 (46.15%) Software Engineering
3 10 (38.46%) Code Quality
3 10 (38.46%) DevOps
4 9 (34.62%) Unit Testing
5 8 (30.77%) AI
5 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 8 (30.77%) Data Engineering
5 8 (30.77%) Requirements Analysis
5 8 (30.77%) Thought Leadership
6 7 (26.92%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (26.92%) Machine Learning
6 7 (26.92%) OO
6 7 (26.92%) TDD
7 6 (23.08%) Data Governance
7 6 (23.08%) Workflow
8 5 (19.23%) Decision-Making
8 5 (19.23%) OOP
8 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) C
2 6 (23.08%) C++
2 6 (23.08%) Java
2 6 (23.08%) SQL
3 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 3 (11.54%) Embedded C
4 3 (11.54%) Embedded C++
5 2 (7.69%) C#
5 2 (7.69%) Objective-C
5 2 (7.69%) PHP
5 2 (7.69%) Swift
6 1 (3.85%) Apex Code
6 1 (3.85%) Bash
6 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.69%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Grafana
1 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) ANSYS
1 4 (15.38%) IBM
1 4 (15.38%) VMware
2 2 (7.69%) Adobe
2 2 (7.69%) Apple
2 2 (7.69%) Google
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Splunk
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce