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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 536 539
Rank change year-on-year -117 +3 +62
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 29 24 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.054% 0.073% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.081% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 20 14
10th Percentile - £406 £462
25th Percentile £360 £489 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £520 £494
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +5.21% +1.44%
75th Percentile £500 £579 £568
90th Percentile £523 £610 £593
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £487
% change year-on-year -1.94% +4.70% +2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £66.63 - -
25th Percentile £67.19 - -
Median hourly rate £68.75 - -
75th Percentile £69.69 - -
90th Percentile £69.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 - -

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 45,677 29,801 32,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.61% 90.45% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,947 18,563 20,756
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,765 1,620
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.21 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.30 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.15 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.65 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +88.47% -47.37% +14.67%

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 30 August 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 11 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 30 August 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 -99 28 £456 -12.22% 9
UK excluding London -88 16 £500 -1.94% 7
London -77 12 £370 -33.39% 3
Work from Home -56 5 £456 -7.64% 4
South East - 5 £500 - 1
South West - 5 - - 3
East Midlands -12 2 £456 +16.24%
Yorkshire -47 2 £550 +5.82%
Midlands -49 2 £456 +16.24% 1
North of England -75 2 £550 +5.82% 2
East of England - 2 - - 1

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 5 (17.24%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) Azure
1 11 (37.93%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (27.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 7 (24.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 6 (20.69%) Azure AKS
4 6 (20.69%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (20.69%) Entra ID
5 5 (17.24%) Azure App Service
5 5 (17.24%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (10.34%) Azure API Management
6 3 (10.34%) Azure Storage
6 3 (10.34%) IaaS
6 3 (10.34%) PaaS
7 2 (6.90%) GitHub
7 2 (6.90%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 2 (6.90%) Vertex AI
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (3.45%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (3.45%) GCP
8 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) NoSQL
1 7 (24.14%) Relational Database
2 5 (17.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.45%) CockroachDB
3 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.45%) Metadata
3 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.45%) Parquet
3 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) Redis
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Git
2 6 (20.69%) Ant
2 6 (20.69%) Eclipse
2 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.69%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (6.90%) CppUnit
3 2 (6.90%) PVCS
3 2 (6.90%) Pylint
3 2 (6.90%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (3.45%) Gatling
4 1 (3.45%) git-flow
4 1 (3.45%) GitLab
4 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 4 (13.79%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (13.79%) Finance
1 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.34%) Automotive
2 3 (10.34%) Retail
3 1 (3.45%) Military
3 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Developer
2 11 (37.93%) Lead
3 9 (31.03%) Salesforce Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Senior
4 5 (17.24%) Senior Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Automation Tester
5 4 (13.79%) Lead Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Senior Salesforce Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Tester
6 3 (10.34%) Salesforce Technical Leader
6 3 (10.34%) Technical Leader
7 2 (6.90%) .NET Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Developer
7 2 (6.90%) C Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Embedded C Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Lead Tester
7 2 (6.90%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (44.83%) REST
2 12 (41.38%) Lightning Web Components
3 8 (27.59%) SOAP
4 6 (20.69%) .NET
4 6 (20.69%) HTML
4 6 (20.69%) OAuth
4 6 (20.69%) OpenID
4 6 (20.69%) Visualforce
4 6 (20.69%) Web Services
5 5 (17.24%) .NET Core
5 5 (17.24%) .NET Framework
5 5 (17.24%) Entity Framework
5 5 (17.24%) SAML
6 4 (13.79%) Playwright
6 4 (13.79%) RESTful
6 4 (13.79%) Terraform
7 3 (10.34%) ARM Templates
8 2 (6.90%) JSON
8 2 (6.90%) Kafka
8 2 (6.90%) TFX
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.34%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (89.66%) CI/CD
2 20 (68.97%) DevOps
3 13 (44.83%) Test Automation
3 13 (44.83%) Validation
4 10 (34.48%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (34.48%) Data Modelling
5 8 (27.59%) Agile
6 7 (24.14%) Workflow
7 6 (20.69%) Code Quality
7 6 (20.69%) Data Validation
7 6 (20.69%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (20.69%) Migration
7 6 (20.69%) Scrum
7 6 (20.69%) Sprint Planning
7 6 (20.69%) Sprint Review
7 6 (20.69%) Unit Testing
8 5 (17.24%) Log Analytics
8 5 (17.24%) RBAC
8 5 (17.24%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) Apex Code
2 8 (27.59%) Python
2 8 (27.59%) SOQL
2 8 (27.59%) SOSL
3 6 (20.69%) SQL
4 5 (17.24%) C#
5 4 (13.79%) Bicep
5 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
6 3 (10.34%) C
7 2 (6.90%) C++
7 2 (6.90%) Embedded C
8 1 (3.45%) Java
8 1 (3.45%) Rust
8 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Kubeflow
3 1 (3.45%) Grafana
3 1 (3.45%) Podman
3 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) Salesforce
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Google
3 2 (6.90%) VMware
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat