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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 541 581
Rank change year-on-year -22 +40 +166
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 28 31 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.078% 0.085% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.098% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 21
10th Percentile £425 £438 £413
25th Percentile £500 £455 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £486 £503
Median % change year-on-year +13.29% -3.48% +7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £558 £800
90th Percentile £614 £577 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £469 £463
% change year-on-year +15.80% +1.41% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 32,027 31,522 40,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.46% 86.80% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,051 18,965 27,382
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
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 2,103 1,143 1,561
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.22 £14.27
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.15 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.69% -26.97% +48.33%

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 25 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 25 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 -12 23 £572 +3.91% 16
London +6 17 £575 +4.55% 2
UK excluding London -32 9 £543 +15.80% 16
Work from Home +1 6 £522 +9.80% 5
Scotland -10 3 £543 +15.80%
East of England - 3 - - 7
North of England - 2 £523 - 1
North West - 1 £450 - 1
South East - 1 £550 - 8
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 2 (7.14%) Apache
1 2 (7.14%) CMS
2 1 (3.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) AWS
2 8 (28.57%) GitHub
3 6 (21.43%) Azure
4 3 (10.71%) Serverless
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.14%) Firebase
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (3.57%) Azure App Service
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.57%) Dagster
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) Big Data
2 5 (17.86%) HPCC
3 4 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 4 (14.29%) Metadata
4 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.14%) SQLite
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.57%) MySQL
5 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Git
2 5 (17.86%) GitLab
2 5 (17.86%) JIRA
3 4 (14.29%) Gradle
3 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 4 (14.29%) Maven
4 3 (10.71%) PVCS
4 3 (10.71%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (10.71%) SonarQube
5 2 (7.14%) CocoaPods
5 2 (7.14%) Crashlytics
5 2 (7.14%) fastlane
5 2 (7.14%) Jasmine
5 2 (7.14%) Xcode
6 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.57%) ESLint
6 1 (3.57%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (3.57%) Selenium
6 1 (3.57%) TestNG
6 1 (3.57%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 4 (14.29%) Publishing
2 3 (10.71%) Electronics
2 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Games
4 1 (3.57%) Law
4 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Java Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Azure Software Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) DataOps Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Lead
5 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) C Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) C/C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Embedded C Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Embedded C Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) HTML
2 6 (21.43%) Spring
3 5 (17.86%) JSON
3 5 (17.86%) XML
4 4 (14.29%) Pandas
5 3 (10.71%) boto
5 3 (10.71%) Hugging Face
5 3 (10.71%) NumPy
5 3 (10.71%) OpenCV
5 3 (10.71%) PyTorch
5 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
5 3 (10.71%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (7.14%) AVFoundation
6 2 (7.14%) Core Data
6 2 (7.14%) CSS
6 2 (7.14%) CSS3
6 2 (7.14%) HTML5
6 2 (7.14%) REST
6 2 (7.14%) RxSwift
6 2 (7.14%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Data Structures
2 4 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.29%) Genomics
2 4 (14.29%) Omics
3 3 (10.71%) Biopharmaceutical
4 2 (7.14%) Animation
4 2 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.57%) Legacy Code
5 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.57%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Windows
2 5 (17.86%) Unix
3 2 (7.14%) Android
3 2 (7.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Agile
2 14 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 9 (32.14%) Code Quality
4 8 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 8 (28.57%) DevOps
4 8 (28.57%) OO
4 8 (28.57%) TDD
5 7 (25.00%) AI
5 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 7 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
5 7 (25.00%) Unit Testing
6 6 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
6 6 (21.43%) OOP
6 6 (21.43%) Requirements Analysis
6 6 (21.43%) Workflow
7 5 (17.86%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) Python
2 9 (32.14%) C
3 8 (28.57%) C++
3 8 (28.57%) Java
3 8 (28.57%) SQL
4 3 (10.71%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.14%) C#
5 2 (7.14%) Embedded C
5 2 (7.14%) Embedded C++
5 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.14%) Objective-C
5 2 (7.14%) PHP
5 2 (7.14%) Swift
6 1 (3.57%) Apex Code
6 1 (3.57%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) F#
6 1 (3.57%) Haskell
6 1 (3.57%) OCaml
6 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) Grafana
2 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) ANSYS
2 3 (10.71%) IBM
2 3 (10.71%) VMware
3 2 (7.14%) Apple
3 2 (7.14%) Databricks
3 2 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) Adobe
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk