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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 528 612
Rank change year-on-year -11 +84 +149
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 29 31 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.080% 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.097% 0.094% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 23 20
10th Percentile £419 £454 £411
25th Percentile £499 £472 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £494 £487
Median % change year-on-year +9.94% +1.44% +4.17%
75th Percentile £586 £558 £523
90th Percentile £614 £576 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £478 £475
% change year-on-year +8.85% +0.53% -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £72.78
25th Percentile - - £73.09
Median hourly rate - - £78.73
75th Percentile - - £88.59
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 29,826 33,000 43,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.52% 85.68% 89.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,546 20,284 29,794
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,802 1,460 1,537
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% - +48.28%
75th Percentile £44.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.56 £43.00 £41.90
% change year-on-year -47.53% +2.63% +80.76%

Code Coverage
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Code Coverage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Code Coverage 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +23 23 £547 -3.27% 7
London +21 15 £577 +2.12% 5
UK excluding London -10 12 £520 +8.85% 7
North of England - 6 £535 -
Work from Home +17 4 £522 +5.58% 7
Scotland -12 4 £522 +9.23% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £520 -
East Midlands - 2 £393 -
Midlands - 2 £393 -
North West - 2 £550 -

Code Coverage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.34%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.45%) Apache
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) GitHub
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 5 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (17.24%) Azure
3 5 (17.24%) Serverless
4 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
5 3 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.45%) Dagster
7 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Big Data
1 5 (17.24%) HPCC
2 3 (10.34%) Data Lake
2 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.90%) Metadata
3 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.45%) MySQL
4 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Git
2 8 (27.59%) Gradle
3 6 (20.69%) Maven
4 5 (17.24%) Cucumber
4 5 (17.24%) GitLab
4 5 (17.24%) Jenkins
4 5 (17.24%) JUnit
5 3 (10.34%) HP UFT
5 3 (10.34%) IntelliJ
5 3 (10.34%) JIRA
5 3 (10.34%) Selenium
5 3 (10.34%) SonarQube
6 2 (6.90%) Artifactory
6 2 (6.90%) git-flow
6 2 (6.90%) Mockito
6 2 (6.90%) TeamCity
7 1 (3.45%) Bundler
7 1 (3.45%) ESLint
7 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (3.45%) webpack
General
1 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
1 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Games
3 2 (6.90%) Publishing
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Developer
1 6 (20.69%) Software Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Java Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Azure Software Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Java Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Java Software Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Lead
4 3 (10.34%) Test Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) DataOps Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Development Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Haskell Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) IP Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Verification Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) Spring
2 6 (20.69%) HTML
3 5 (17.24%) JSON
3 5 (17.24%) XML
4 3 (10.34%) Bazel
4 3 (10.34%) boto
4 3 (10.34%) Hugging Face
4 3 (10.34%) NumPy
4 3 (10.34%) OpenCV
4 3 (10.34%) Pandas
4 3 (10.34%) PyTorch
4 3 (10.34%) React
4 3 (10.34%) Spring Boot
4 3 (10.34%) SQLAlchemy
5 2 (6.90%) AWS CDK
5 2 (6.90%) Hibernate
5 2 (6.90%) JMS
5 2 (6.90%) Kafka
5 2 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (6.90%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Algorithms
1 5 (17.24%) Data Structures
2 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.79%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (6.90%) Biopharmaceutical
3 2 (6.90%) Genomics
3 2 (6.90%) Legacy Code
3 2 (6.90%) Omics
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Unix
2 6 (20.69%) Windows
3 3 (10.34%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Agile
2 12 (41.38%) Software Engineering
2 12 (41.38%) TDD
3 9 (31.03%) Code Quality
4 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
4 7 (24.14%) Workflow
5 6 (20.69%) DevOps
5 6 (20.69%) OO
6 5 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (17.24%) BDD
6 5 (17.24%) Data Engineering
6 5 (17.24%) Data Modelling
6 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (17.24%) Machine Learning
6 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
6 5 (17.24%) OOP
6 5 (17.24%) Product Requirements
6 5 (17.24%) Scrum
6 5 (17.24%) Waterfall
7 4 (13.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) Java
1 13 (44.83%) Python
2 7 (24.14%) SQL
3 6 (20.69%) C
3 6 (20.69%) C++
4 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.34%) C#
5 3 (10.34%) PHP
5 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.90%) Elm
6 2 (6.90%) F#
6 2 (6.90%) Haskell
6 2 (6.90%) OCaml
6 2 (6.90%) PureScript
6 2 (6.90%) Rust
6 2 (6.90%) Scala
7 1 (3.45%) Apex Code
7 1 (3.45%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) QA
2 5 (17.24%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
1 3 (10.34%) Terraform
2 2 (6.90%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Cadence
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) Databricks
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.45%) Teradata