Coverity Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Coverity
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Coverity products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Coverity over the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Coverity.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 367 408
Rank change year-on-year -41 +41 +108
Contract jobs citing Coverity 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% 0.006% 0.005%
As % of the Vendors category 0.012% 0.013% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £550 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +26.32% -
75th Percentile £438 £650 £563
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £425 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -29.17% +26.32% -9.52%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Coverity falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,438 7,409 9,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 47.55% 44.98% 47.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,427 4,274 6,130
10th Percentile £220 £220 £210
25th Percentile £369 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 664 436 527
10th Percentile £14.78 £15.22 £14.54
25th Percentile £17.59 £16.75 £18.33
Median hourly rate £22.41 £27.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -38.20% +97.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.50 £61.69
90th Percentile £74.26 £73.88 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +72.95%

Coverity
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Coverity job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Coverity
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Coverity
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Coverity
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 Coverity within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 November 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
South East -6 1 £425 -29.17% 4
Coverity
UK

Coverity
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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Android Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Situational Awareness
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Verification and Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Thales