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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 495 572
Rank change year-on-year -102 +77 +122
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 32 16 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.074% 0.054% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.060% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 16
10th Percentile £400 £401 £448
25th Percentile £411 £406 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £471 £485
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -2.89% +4.86%
75th Percentile £584 £494 £506
90th Percentile £640 £571 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £473
% change year-on-year +4.28% +1.32% +1.99%
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

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 37,209 26,860 38,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 90.36% 86.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,562 17,174 25,055
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,222 913 2,330
10th Percentile £14.91 £15.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.88 £31.50
% change year-on-year -13.74% +1.21% -10.00%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -84 28 £513 +24.77% 8
UK excluding London -64 21 £500 +4.28% 8
Work from Home -23 12 £431 -9.21% 3
London -46 9 £525 +27.81% 2
East of England - 9 £700 - 2
South East -50 3 £625 +56.25% 3
North of England -61 3 £450 -26.25%
North West - 3 £450 -
Scotland +7 2 £520 +8.34% 1
South West - 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £456 - 1
Midlands - 2 £456 - 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 3 (9.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (6.25%) Apache
2 2 (6.25%) CMS
2 2 (6.25%) Confluence
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) Azure
3 5 (15.63%) Amazon S3
3 5 (15.63%) Serverless
4 4 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (9.38%) GitHub
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.25%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.25%) Azure App Service
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Storage
6 2 (6.25%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.25%) Firebase
6 2 (6.25%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.13%) Dagster
7 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (3.13%) Ethernet
2 1 (3.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) DynamoDB
1 3 (9.38%) Metadata
1 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.25%) CockroachDB
2 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.25%) SQLite
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.13%) Big Data
3 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.13%) Parquet
3 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (43.75%) Git
2 11 (34.38%) JIRA
3 8 (25.00%) PVCS
3 8 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 3 (9.38%) Gatling
5 3 (9.38%) Gradle
5 3 (9.38%) Jasmine
6 2 (6.25%) CocoaPods
6 2 (6.25%) Crashlytics
6 2 (6.25%) fastlane
6 2 (6.25%) SonarQube
6 2 (6.25%) Xcode
7 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.13%) git-flow
7 1 (3.13%) Maven
7 1 (3.13%) Pylint
7 1 (3.13%) Selenium
7 1 (3.13%) TestNG
7 1 (3.13%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (25.00%) Electronics
2 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Finance
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.38%) Publishing
4 3 (9.38%) Retail
5 1 (3.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Developer
2 8 (25.00%) Senior
2 8 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) C Software Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) C/C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Embedded C Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Embedded C Software Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Embedded C++ Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Embedded Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (15.63%) Senior Developer
5 3 (9.38%) DataOps Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Salesforce Developer
6 2 (6.25%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) REST
2 5 (15.63%) Spring
2 5 (15.63%) Spring Boot
3 4 (12.50%) Kafka
3 4 (12.50%) RESTful
4 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
4 3 (9.38%) CSS
4 3 (9.38%) CSS3
4 3 (9.38%) HTML
4 3 (9.38%) HTML5
4 3 (9.38%) Jest
4 3 (9.38%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (9.38%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (9.38%) NestJS
4 3 (9.38%) OAuth
4 3 (9.38%) Playwright
4 3 (9.38%) Sass
4 3 (9.38%) SOAP
4 3 (9.38%) Spring MVC
4 3 (9.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 5 (15.63%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.38%) Data Structures
3 3 (9.38%) Genomics
3 3 (9.38%) Omics
3 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.25%) Animation
4 2 (6.25%) Biopharmaceutical
4 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.13%) Derivative
5 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.13%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 15 (46.88%) DevOps
3 13 (40.63%) Agile
3 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
4 10 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (31.25%) Requirements Analysis
4 10 (31.25%) Software Engineering
4 10 (31.25%) Test Automation
5 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (28.13%) Workflow
6 8 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
7 6 (18.75%) Code Quality
7 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (18.75%) TDD
7 6 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (15.63%) ERP
8 5 (15.63%) Event-Driven
8 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
8 5 (15.63%) MVC
8 5 (15.63%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) Java
2 8 (25.00%) C
2 8 (25.00%) C++
3 7 (21.88%) Embedded C
3 7 (21.88%) Embedded C++
4 6 (18.75%) Python
5 5 (15.63%) SQL
6 4 (12.50%) Apex Code
7 3 (9.38%) SOQL
7 3 (9.38%) SOSL
7 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
8 2 (6.25%) Bicep
8 2 (6.25%) C#
8 2 (6.25%) Objective-C
8 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 2 (6.25%) Rust
8 2 (6.25%) Swift
9 1 (3.13%) Bash
9 1 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (3.13%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
1 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 3 (9.38%) QA
3 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
1 8 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (9.38%) ISA Server
3 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Terraform
2 4 (12.50%) Grafana
3 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.25%) Podman
4 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) IBM
2 8 (25.00%) ANSYS
2 8 (25.00%) VMware
3 4 (12.50%) Google
3 4 (12.50%) Salesforce
4 3 (9.38%) Adobe
4 3 (9.38%) Splunk
5 2 (6.25%) Apple
5 2 (6.25%) Dynatrace
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.25%) New Relic
5 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.13%) Databricks
6 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow