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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 663 523 536
Rank change year-on-year -140 +13 +63
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 32 30 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.059% 0.091% 0.090%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.10% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 25 26
10th Percentile - £406 £450
25th Percentile £360 £500 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £543 £494
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% +9.94% +2.97%
75th Percentile £500 £586 £559
90th Percentile £545 £614 £582
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £531 £480
% change year-on-year -5.92% +10.72% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £67.00 - -
25th Percentile £68.13 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

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 46,170 29,963 32,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.61% 90.48% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,721 18,625 19,646
10th Percentile £325 £295 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,354 1,887 1,283
10th Percentile £13.53 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -9.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.90 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.65 £65.06 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -7.99%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -111 31 £475 -13.64% 25
UK excluding London -86 19 £500 -5.92% 20
London -90 12 £370 -35.88% 12
South East - 7 £500 - 6
Work from Home -60 5 - - 9
Yorkshire -27 4 £550 +5.82% 1
North of England -75 4 £550 - 1
South West - 4 - - 3
East of England - 4 - - 3

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 (21.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) Azure
1 14 (43.75%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (28.13%) Azure AKS
2 9 (28.13%) Azure Monitor
3 8 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 7 (21.88%) Azure App Service
4 7 (21.88%) Azure Key Vault
4 7 (21.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 6 (18.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 5 (15.63%) Azure API Management
6 5 (15.63%) Azure Storage
6 5 (15.63%) IaaS
6 5 (15.63%) PaaS
7 4 (12.50%) Vertex AI
8 2 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (6.25%) GCP
9 1 (3.13%) GitHub
9 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (21.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (21.88%) Relational Database
3 3 (9.38%) Parquet
4 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.13%) Redis
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Ant
1 6 (18.75%) Eclipse
1 6 (18.75%) Git
1 6 (18.75%) Jenkins
1 6 (18.75%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (12.50%) CppUnit
2 4 (12.50%) PVCS
2 4 (12.50%) Pylint
2 4 (12.50%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (9.38%) JIRA
4 1 (3.13%) git-flow
4 1 (3.13%) GitLab
General
1 4 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (12.50%) Finance
1 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.38%) Automotive
3 2 (6.25%) Retail
3 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Law
4 1 (3.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Developer
2 13 (40.63%) Lead
3 7 (21.88%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (21.88%) Salesforce Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Automation Tester
4 4 (12.50%) Lead Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Senior
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Tester
5 3 (9.38%) .NET Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Embedded C Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Embedded C Software Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Embedded Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 3 (9.38%) React Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Salesforce Technical Leader
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Salesforce Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (40.63%) REST
2 10 (31.25%) Lightning Web Components
3 9 (28.13%) .NET
4 8 (25.00%) OAuth
4 8 (25.00%) OpenID
5 7 (21.88%) .NET Core
5 7 (21.88%) .NET Framework
5 7 (21.88%) Entity Framework
5 7 (21.88%) SAML
6 6 (18.75%) HTML
6 6 (18.75%) RESTful
6 6 (18.75%) SOAP
6 6 (18.75%) Visualforce
6 6 (18.75%) Web Services
7 5 (15.63%) ARM Templates
7 5 (15.63%) Terraform
8 4 (12.50%) JSON
8 4 (12.50%) Playwright
8 4 (12.50%) TFX
9 3 (9.38%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) AI Agents
2 3 (9.38%) Wiki
3 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 22 (68.75%) DevOps
3 14 (43.75%) Test Automation
4 13 (40.63%) Validation
5 10 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (31.25%) Data Modelling
6 8 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
7 7 (21.88%) AI
7 7 (21.88%) Analytics
7 7 (21.88%) B2C
7 7 (21.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (21.88%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (21.88%) Log Analytics
7 7 (21.88%) MLOps
7 7 (21.88%) RBAC
7 7 (21.88%) Unit Testing
7 7 (21.88%) Workflow
8 6 (18.75%) Code Quality
8 6 (18.75%) Data Validation
8 6 (18.75%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) Python
2 10 (31.25%) Apex Code
3 8 (25.00%) SQL
4 7 (21.88%) Bicep
4 7 (21.88%) C#
4 7 (21.88%) PowerShell
5 6 (18.75%) SOQL
5 6 (18.75%) SOSL
6 5 (15.63%) C
7 4 (12.50%) C++
8 3 (9.38%) Embedded C
9 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) Azure Certification
3 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Kubeflow
2 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Salesforce
2 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.50%) VMware
4 2 (6.25%) Google