Code Coverage Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Code Coverage
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 387 346 389
Rank change year-on-year -41 +43 +79
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 12 14 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.067% 0.088% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.10% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 10
10th Percentile £425 £447 £411
25th Percentile £459 £456 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £471 £463
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% +1.84% -2.12%
75th Percentile £560 £482 £500
90th Percentile £584 £493 £506
UK median daily rate £543 £480 £506
% change year-on-year +13.20% -5.19% +7.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £73.09
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £78.73
75th Percentile - - £89.69
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £78.73

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,488 13,615 17,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.73% 85.92% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,453 7,914 11,623
10th Percentile £215 £241 £250
25th Percentile £373 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,748 854 1,266
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £19.59 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%
75th Percentile £44.95 £64.93 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.33 £73.75 £77.50
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 the UK excluding London

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

Code Coverage job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Code Coverage
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Code Coverage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Code Coverage

Code Coverage
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Code Coverage.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Code Coverage

Code Coverage
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
Scotland -5 4 £522 +10.74% 3
East of England - 4 - - 14
North of England - 3 £450 - 16
North West - 2 £450 - 8
South East - 1 £550 - 17
Yorkshire - 1 £596 - 7
Code Coverage
UK

Code Coverage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (16.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 4 (33.33%) Serverless
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (8.33%) Dagster
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
1 4 (33.33%) PVCS
1 4 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (25.00%) Jasmine
3 2 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 1 (8.33%) Bundler
4 1 (8.33%) ESLint
4 1 (8.33%) Gatling
4 1 (8.33%) GitLab
4 1 (8.33%) Gradle
4 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (8.33%) JUnit
4 1 (8.33%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (8.33%) Postman
4 1 (8.33%) Selenium
4 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (8.33%) TestNG
4 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
4 1 (8.33%) webpack
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (33.33%) Electronics
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) C Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) C/C++ Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Embedded C Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Embedded C Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) boto
1 3 (25.00%) CSS
1 3 (25.00%) CSS3
1 3 (25.00%) HTML
1 3 (25.00%) HTML5
1 3 (25.00%) Hugging Face
1 3 (25.00%) Jest
1 3 (25.00%) NumPy
1 3 (25.00%) OpenCV
1 3 (25.00%) Pandas
1 3 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (25.00%) Spring
1 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (25.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (16.67%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (16.67%) NestJS
2 2 (16.67%) Playwright
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 2 (16.67%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Requirements Analysis
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) Workflow
3 5 (41.67%) Code Quality
3 5 (41.67%) TDD
3 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
3 5 (41.67%) Unit Testing
4 4 (33.33%) AI
4 4 (33.33%) Community of Practice
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) OO
4 4 (33.33%) User Experience
5 3 (25.00%) Async-Await
5 3 (25.00%) Coaching
5 3 (25.00%) Computer Vision
5 3 (25.00%) Deep Learning
5 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (25.00%) OCR
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) C
1 4 (33.33%) C++
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Embedded C
2 3 (25.00%) Embedded C++
2 3 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) ISA Server
3 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) ANSYS
1 4 (33.33%) IBM
1 4 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) Adobe
2 2 (16.67%) Splunk