Code Coverage Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Code Coverage
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Code Coverage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 105 133
Rank change year-on-year -5 +28 +10
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 4 14 10
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.25% 0.81% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.92% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 10
10th Percentile £479 £447 £411
25th Percentile £493 £456 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £471 £463
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% +1.84% -1.49%
75th Percentile £555 £482 £500
90th Percentile - £493 £506
UK median daily rate £543 £480 £506
% change year-on-year +13.20% -5.19% +7.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,386 1,521 2,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.22% 88.43% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 901 1,374
10th Percentile £238 £213 £250
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 46 57
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.11 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.90 £18.77 £16.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £52.25 £31.44 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Code Coverage
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Code Coverage relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Code Coverage job vacancy trend in Scotland

Code Coverage
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Code Coverage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Code Coverage

Code Coverage
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Edinburgh 0 4 £522 +8.77% 1
Code Coverage
UK

Code Coverage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Dagster
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) boto
1 3 (75.00%) Hugging Face
1 3 (75.00%) NumPy
1 3 (75.00%) OpenCV
1 3 (75.00%) Pandas
1 3 (75.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (75.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (50.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (25.00%) JWT
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth
3 1 (25.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (75.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 4 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 4 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) Async-Await
2 3 (75.00%) Coaching
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Vision
2 3 (75.00%) Data Cleansing
2 3 (75.00%) Deep Learning
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) LLM
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) OCR
2 3 (75.00%) OO
2 3 (75.00%) OOP
3 2 (50.00%) Kanban
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes