Code Coverage Contracts in the UK excluding London

Code Coverage
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 368 400
Rank change year-on-year +47 +32 +87
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 14 17 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.084% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.099% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 28
10th Percentile £402 - £388
25th Percentile £463 £456 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £485 £467
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% +3.91% +0.59%
75th Percentile £520 £503 £503
90th Percentile £550 £506 £508
UK median daily rate £480 £490 £464
% change year-on-year -2.14% +5.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £72.00
25th Percentile - £86.25 £75.00
Median hourly rate - £87.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - +9.38% +22.06%
75th Percentile - £89.38 £85.00
90th Percentile - £89.75 £88.00
UK median hourly rate - £87.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year - +9.38% +22.06%

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 11,711 17,111 20,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.54% 84.30% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,219 14,183
10th Percentile £235 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 2,064 1,254
10th Percentile £14.02 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.74
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Code Coverage
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Code Coverage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Code Coverage in the UK excluding London

Code Coverage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Code Coverage in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Code Coverage in the UK excluding London

Code Coverage
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Coverage in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Code Coverage in the UK excluding London

Code Coverage
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Code Coverage in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Code Coverage in the UK excluding London

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 19 May 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
North of England - 6 £535 -
Scotland -3 5 £480 -1.13%
Yorkshire - 4 £520 -
East Midlands - 2 £393 - 1
Midlands - 2 £393 - 1
North West - 2 £550 -
South East - 1 £400 - 5
Code Coverage
UK

Code Coverage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (35.71%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Amazon S3
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
1 5 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (35.71%) Serverless
2 4 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure App Service
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) IaaS
4 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (7.14%) GIS
4 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.14%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) JUnit
2 5 (35.71%) Git
2 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 5 (35.71%) JIRA
3 4 (28.57%) Cucumber
3 4 (28.57%) Gradle
3 4 (28.57%) HP UFT
3 4 (28.57%) IntelliJ
3 4 (28.57%) Maven
3 4 (28.57%) Selenium
4 2 (14.29%) GitLab
4 2 (14.29%) Mockito
4 2 (14.29%) SonarQube
4 2 (14.29%) TeamCity
5 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
General
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Test Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) IP Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Verification Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Developer
4 1 (7.14%) React Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) AWS CDK
2 3 (21.43%) PostGIS
2 3 (21.43%) React
2 3 (21.43%) REST
2 3 (21.43%) Spring
3 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 2 (14.29%) JMS
3 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
4 1 (7.14%) Entity Framework
4 1 (7.14%) JSON
4 1 (7.14%) Next.js
4 1 (7.14%) Node.js
4 1 (7.14%) OAuth
4 1 (7.14%) OpenID
4 1 (7.14%) RESTful
4 1 (7.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Code Quality
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) TDD
2 8 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 7 (50.00%) Agile
4 6 (42.86%) Analytics
4 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 6 (42.86%) Scrum
5 5 (35.71%) User Experience
6 4 (28.57%) BDD
6 4 (28.57%) Case Management
6 4 (28.57%) Community of Practice
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (28.57%) Data Privacy
6 4 (28.57%) Due Diligence
6 4 (28.57%) Exploratory Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.14%) Bicep
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) QA
2 5 (35.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Cadence
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Teradata