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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 639 543 550
Rank change year-on-year -96 +7 +83
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 33 27 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.062% 0.082% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.073% 0.090% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 12
10th Percentile - £405 £456
25th Percentile £360 £464 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £494
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +5.21% +3.02%
75th Percentile - £574 £510
90th Percentile £545 £586 £596
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £497 £480
% change year-on-year +0.60% +3.54% +1.05%
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 45,351 29,931 33,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.42% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,028 18,763 21,568
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,760 1,659 1,891
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.30 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.10 £74.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.50 £41.25
% change year-on-year +87.06% -43.03% +3.13%

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 2 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 2 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 -102 31 £500 -3.80% 5
UK excluding London -91 19 £500 +0.60% 5
London -60 12 £370 -33.39% 2
South East -63 7 £500 +25.00% 1
Work from Home -60 6 £450 -8.91% 4
South West - 6 - - 1
East Midlands -13 2 £456 +16.24%
Yorkshire -44 2 £550 +5.82%
Midlands -51 2 £456 +16.24%
North of England -72 2 £550 +5.82%
East of England - 2 - - 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 7 (21.21%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (39.39%) Azure
1 13 (39.39%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (24.24%) Entra ID
2 8 (24.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 7 (21.21%) Azure AKS
3 7 (21.21%) Azure Key Vault
3 7 (21.21%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 6 (18.18%) Azure App Service
4 6 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (15.15%) Azure Storage
6 4 (12.12%) IaaS
6 4 (12.12%) PaaS
7 3 (9.09%) Azure API Management
8 2 (6.06%) BlazeMeter
8 2 (6.06%) GitHub
8 2 (6.06%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 2 (6.06%) Vertex AI
9 1 (3.03%) GCP
9 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 7 (21.21%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (21.21%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.06%) CockroachDB
3 2 (6.06%) Parquet
4 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.03%) Metadata
4 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Redis
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Git
2 6 (18.18%) Ant
2 6 (18.18%) Eclipse
2 6 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.18%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (6.06%) CppUnit
3 2 (6.06%) Gatling
3 2 (6.06%) git-flow
3 2 (6.06%) JIRA
3 2 (6.06%) PVCS
3 2 (6.06%) Pylint
3 2 (6.06%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (3.03%) GitLab
4 1 (3.03%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 4 (12.12%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (12.12%) Finance
1 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
1 4 (12.12%) Retail
2 3 (9.09%) Automotive
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (54.55%) Developer
2 12 (36.36%) Lead
3 10 (30.30%) Salesforce Developer
4 7 (21.21%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (18.18%) Senior
5 6 (18.18%) Senior Developer
6 5 (15.15%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 4 (12.12%) Automation Tester
7 4 (12.12%) Azure Developer
7 4 (12.12%) Lead Developer
7 4 (12.12%) Tester
8 3 (9.09%) .NET Developer
8 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 3 (9.09%) React Developer
8 3 (9.09%) Salesforce Technical Leader
8 3 (9.09%) Technical Leader
9 2 (6.06%) C Software Engineer
9 2 (6.06%) Embedded C Engineer
9 2 (6.06%) Embedded Engineer
9 2 (6.06%) Lead Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (48.48%) REST
2 13 (39.39%) Lightning Web Components
3 9 (27.27%) SOAP
4 8 (24.24%) OAuth
4 8 (24.24%) OpenID
5 7 (21.21%) .NET
5 7 (21.21%) .NET Core
5 7 (21.21%) .NET Framework
5 7 (21.21%) Entity Framework
5 7 (21.21%) SAML
6 6 (18.18%) HTML
6 6 (18.18%) Visualforce
6 6 (18.18%) Web Services
7 5 (15.15%) RESTful
8 4 (12.12%) ARM Templates
8 4 (12.12%) Playwright
9 3 (9.09%) JSON
9 3 (9.09%) Kafka
10 2 (6.06%) React
10 2 (6.06%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.09%) AI Agents
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (87.88%) CI/CD
2 23 (69.70%) DevOps
3 16 (48.48%) Test Automation
4 13 (39.39%) Validation
5 11 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (30.30%) Data Modelling
7 9 (27.27%) Agile
7 9 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (21.21%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (21.21%) Performance Testing
8 7 (21.21%) RBAC
8 7 (21.21%) Scrum
8 7 (21.21%) Sprint Planning
8 7 (21.21%) Sprint Review
8 7 (21.21%) Unit Testing
8 7 (21.21%) Workflow
9 6 (18.18%) B2C
9 6 (18.18%) Code Quality
9 6 (18.18%) Data Validation
9 6 (18.18%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (45.45%) Apex Code
2 10 (30.30%) Python
3 9 (27.27%) SOQL
3 9 (27.27%) SOSL
3 9 (27.27%) SQL
4 7 (21.21%) C#
5 5 (15.15%) Bicep
6 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
7 3 (9.09%) C
8 2 (6.06%) C++
8 2 (6.06%) Embedded C
8 2 (6.06%) Java
8 2 (6.06%) Rust
9 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
9 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) Azure Certification
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Terraform
2 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.06%) Grafana
3 2 (6.06%) Kubeflow
3 2 (6.06%) Podman
3 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (45.45%) Salesforce
2 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.09%) Google
4 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.06%) VMware
5 1 (3.03%) IBM
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow