Code Coverage Contracts

Code Coverage
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Code Coverage skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Code Coverage over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 525 555 635
Rank change year-on-year +30 +80 +139
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 25 19 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.044% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.051% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 14 30
10th Percentile £405 £456 £359
25th Percentile £460 £477 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £494 £477
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% +3.51% +2.86%
75th Percentile £586 £506 £506
90th Percentile £610 £587 £564
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £486 £472
% change year-on-year +4.30% +2.91% -0.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £76.00
25th Percentile - - £85.00
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £90.00
% change year-on-year - - +37.32%

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 28,850 36,964 50,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.71% 85.28% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,170 23,592 34,850
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,420 2,515 1,729
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.18 £16.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Code Coverage.

Daily rate trend for Code Coverage in the UK

Code Coverage
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Coverage over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Code Coverage in the UK

Code Coverage
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Code Coverage.

Hourly rate trend for Code Coverage in the UK

Code Coverage
Top 11 Contract 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 5 July 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 +65 20 £520 -13.38% 55
UK excluding London +43 12 £507 +4.30% 28
London +48 11 £568 -5.33% 25
North of England - 6 £535 - 3
Yorkshire - 4 £520 - 1
Work from Home +23 3 £494 - 21
Scotland -5 3 £494 +1.65% 2
East Midlands - 2 £393 - 2
Midlands - 2 £393 - 3
North West - 2 £550 - 2
South East - 1 £400 - 10

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 5 (20.00%) Confluence
2 4 (16.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.00%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) GitHub
2 9 (36.00%) AWS
3 7 (28.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (28.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (28.00%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (28.00%) Serverless
4 5 (20.00%) Azure
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (16.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.00%) Azure API Management
6 1 (4.00%) Azure App Service
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Storage
6 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.00%) IaaS
6 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (16.00%) Big Data
2 4 (16.00%) HPCC
2 4 (16.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.00%) GIS
5 1 (4.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (44.00%) Git
2 10 (40.00%) Gradle
3 9 (36.00%) Jenkins
4 8 (32.00%) Cucumber
5 6 (24.00%) JUnit
5 6 (24.00%) Maven
6 5 (20.00%) JIRA
7 4 (16.00%) Artifactory
7 4 (16.00%) git-flow
7 4 (16.00%) GitLab
7 4 (16.00%) HP UFT
7 4 (16.00%) IntelliJ
7 4 (16.00%) Selenium
8 2 (8.00%) Mockito
8 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
8 2 (8.00%) TeamCity
9 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
9 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Games
4 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Java Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Software Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Test Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Haskell Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) IP Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Verification Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Development Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Games Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) Spring
2 6 (24.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (20.00%) JSON
4 4 (16.00%) HTML
4 4 (16.00%) Kafka
4 4 (16.00%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (16.00%) XML
5 3 (12.00%) AWS CDK
5 3 (12.00%) React
6 2 (8.00%) Hibernate
6 2 (8.00%) JMS
7 1 (4.00%) .NET
7 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
7 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
7 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
7 1 (4.00%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (4.00%) Next.js
7 1 (4.00%) PostGIS
7 1 (4.00%) SAML
7 1 (4.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.00%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (8.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.00%) Legacy Code
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Verilog
4 1 (4.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Unix
2 4 (16.00%) Windows
3 2 (8.00%) Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) TDD
2 13 (52.00%) Agile
3 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (32.00%) BDD
4 8 (32.00%) Code Quality
5 7 (28.00%) Analytics
5 7 (28.00%) DevOps
6 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
6 6 (24.00%) Software Engineering
6 6 (24.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (24.00%) Workflow
7 5 (20.00%) Scrum
8 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (16.00%) High Availability
8 4 (16.00%) Multithreading
8 4 (16.00%) Non-Functional Testing
8 4 (16.00%) Software Testing
8 4 (16.00%) Test Strategy
8 4 (16.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) Java
2 11 (44.00%) Python
3 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (20.00%) C
4 5 (20.00%) SQL
5 4 (16.00%) C++
6 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (8.00%) C#
7 2 (8.00%) Elm
7 2 (8.00%) F#
7 2 (8.00%) Haskell
7 2 (8.00%) OCaml
7 2 (8.00%) PureScript
7 2 (8.00%) Rust
7 2 (8.00%) Scala
8 1 (4.00%) Apex Code
8 1 (4.00%) Bicep
8 1 (4.00%) PHP
8 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
8 1 (4.00%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) QA
2 4 (16.00%) PCI DSS
3 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Terraform
2 4 (16.00%) Ansible
2 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Cadence
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.00%) Teradata