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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 526 602
Rank change year-on-year -1 +76 +138
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 31 32 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.090% 0.088% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.10% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 24 18
10th Percentile £402 £448 £409
25th Percentile £475 £467 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £494 £492
Median % change year-on-year +11.34% +0.51% +5.53%
75th Percentile £588 £553 £800
90th Percentile £614 £576 £861
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +13.15% +6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £73.09
Median hourly rate - - £78.73
75th Percentile - - £85.77
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £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 30,906 31,244 41,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.14% 86.04% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,304 18,785 28,083
10th Percentile £297 £310 £311
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,997 1,107 1,583
10th Percentile £14.39 £15.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.45 £20.00 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -19.64% +25.71%
75th Percentile £43.20 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -35.34% -20.36% +51.55%

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 3 November 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 3 November 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 -7 25 £550 -2.65% 8
London 0 20 £572 +1.15% 2
UK excluding London -37 8 £543 +13.15% 12
Work from Home -12 4 £522 +5.58% 8
Scotland -10 3 £543 +13.15% 6
North of England - 3 £550 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £393 -
Midlands - 2 £393 -
North West - 2 £550 -
Yorkshire - 1 £596 -

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 (9.68%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.45%) Apache
2 2 (6.45%) CMS
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) AWS
1 9 (29.03%) GitHub
2 6 (19.35%) Azure
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (12.90%) Serverless
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.45%) Firebase
5 2 (6.45%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.23%) Azure App Service
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.23%) Dagster
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) Big Data
2 5 (16.13%) HPCC
3 4 (12.90%) Data Lake
3 4 (12.90%) Metadata
3 4 (12.90%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.45%) SQLite
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.23%) MySQL
5 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Git
2 5 (16.13%) GitLab
2 5 (16.13%) Gradle
2 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.90%) Maven
3 4 (12.90%) SonarQube
4 2 (6.45%) Artifactory
4 2 (6.45%) CocoaPods
4 2 (6.45%) Crashlytics
4 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.45%) fastlane
4 2 (6.45%) git-flow
4 2 (6.45%) JIRA
4 2 (6.45%) JUnit
4 2 (6.45%) Mockito
4 2 (6.45%) TeamCity
4 2 (6.45%) Xcode
5 1 (3.23%) ESLint
5 1 (3.23%) Pylint
5 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Finance
2 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.90%) Publishing
3 2 (6.45%) Games
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Software Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Java Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Java Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Software Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) DataOps Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Java Software Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Lead
6 2 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Development Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Haskell Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) iOS Developer
6 2 (6.45%) IP Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior iOS Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) Spring
2 6 (19.35%) HTML
3 5 (16.13%) JSON
3 5 (16.13%) XML
4 4 (12.90%) Pandas
5 3 (9.68%) Bazel
5 3 (9.68%) boto
5 3 (9.68%) Hugging Face
5 3 (9.68%) NumPy
5 3 (9.68%) OpenCV
5 3 (9.68%) PyTorch
5 3 (9.68%) Spring Boot
5 3 (9.68%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (6.45%) AVFoundation
6 2 (6.45%) FastAPI
6 2 (6.45%) Hibernate
6 2 (6.45%) JMS
6 2 (6.45%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (6.45%) REST
6 2 (6.45%) RxSwift
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Data Structures
2 6 (19.35%) Cloud Native
3 5 (16.13%) Algorithms
4 4 (12.90%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (12.90%) Genomics
4 4 (12.90%) Omics
5 3 (9.68%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (6.45%) Animation
6 2 (6.45%) Legacy Code
6 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
7 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 1 (3.23%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Unix
2 6 (19.35%) Windows
3 3 (9.68%) Android
4 2 (6.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) Agile
2 13 (41.94%) Software Engineering
3 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
4 9 (29.03%) Code Quality
4 9 (29.03%) OO
5 8 (25.81%) Data Engineering
5 8 (25.81%) TDD
6 7 (22.58%) AI
6 7 (22.58%) Data Modelling
6 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (22.58%) Machine Learning
6 7 (22.58%) Mentoring
6 7 (22.58%) OOP
7 6 (19.35%) DevOps
7 6 (19.35%) Thought Leadership
8 5 (16.13%) Data Governance
8 5 (16.13%) Decision-Making
8 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (16.13%) Product Requirements
8 5 (16.13%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) Python
2 10 (32.26%) Java
3 8 (25.81%) SQL
4 6 (19.35%) C
4 6 (19.35%) C++
5 4 (12.90%) JavaScript
6 3 (9.68%) C#
6 3 (9.68%) PHP
7 2 (6.45%) Elm
7 2 (6.45%) F#
7 2 (6.45%) Haskell
7 2 (6.45%) Objective-C
7 2 (6.45%) OCaml
7 2 (6.45%) PureScript
7 2 (6.45%) Rust
7 2 (6.45%) Scala
7 2 (6.45%) Swift
7 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (3.23%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) Accessibility
2 4 (12.90%) QA
3 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Terraform
2 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.45%) Ansible
3 2 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Apple
2 2 (6.45%) Cadence
2 2 (6.45%) Databricks
2 2 (6.45%) Google
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.23%) Teradata