Code Coverage Contracts

Code Coverage
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Code Coverage skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Code Coverage over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 654 823
Rank change year-on-year +86 +169 -183
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 18 44 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.076% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.049% 0.084% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 32 28
10th Percentile - £338 £415
25th Percentile £456 £423 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £467 £465
Median % change year-on-year +4.12% +0.48% +9.29%
75th Percentile £506 £503 £556
90th Percentile £547 £508 £629
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £470 £460
% change year-on-year +3.09% +2.18% +8.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile - £72.00 -
25th Percentile £86.25 £75.00 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £80.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +22.06% -
75th Percentile £89.38 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £89.75 £88.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £87.50 £80.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year +9.38% +22.06% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Code Coverage is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,097 52,247 79,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.81% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,888 36,212 55,718
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,719 1,895
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.23 £15.58
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Code Coverage
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Code Coverage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Code Coverage in the UK

Code Coverage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Code Coverage.

Daily rate trend for Code Coverage in the UK

Code Coverage
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Coverage over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Code Coverage in the UK

Code Coverage
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Code Coverage.

Hourly rate trend for Code Coverage in the UK

Code Coverage
Top 6 Contract 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 12 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +40 14 £484 +3.09% 8
Work from Home +96 11 £485 +1.15% 1
Scotland +26 11 £484 +0.94% 2
England +102 7 £569 +57.99% 7
London +95 4 £569 +8.33% 1
East of England +5 3 - - 3

Code Coverage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) AWS
2 10 (55.56%) Amazon S3
2 10 (55.56%) AWS CloudFormation
2 10 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (55.56%) Serverless
3 8 (44.44%) OpenShift
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (22.22%) Azure
5 4 (22.22%) Rekognition
5 4 (22.22%) Textract
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (55.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (33.33%) MongoDB
4 4 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (16.67%) Oracle Database
6 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) CppUnit
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 3 (16.67%) PVCS
1 3 (16.67%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (11.11%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 7 (38.89%) Public Sector
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Software Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Validation Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Verification Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Angular Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Automation Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Validation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) AWS CDK
2 6 (33.33%) HTML
3 5 (27.78%) React
4 4 (22.22%) CSS
4 4 (22.22%) Node.js
5 3 (16.67%) REST
5 3 (16.67%) Spring
5 3 (16.67%) Spring Boot
6 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
6 2 (11.11%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (11.11%) Kafka
6 2 (11.11%) OAuth
6 2 (11.11%) OAuth2
6 2 (11.11%) OpenAPI
6 2 (11.11%) pytest
6 2 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (11.11%) Spring Security
6 2 (11.11%) Swagger
6 2 (11.11%) WebSockets
7 1 (5.56%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Requirements Analysis
1 12 (66.67%) User Experience
2 11 (61.11%) Agile
2 11 (61.11%) Code Quality
3 9 (50.00%) Community of Practice
3 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (44.44%) ETL
4 8 (44.44%) Unit Testing
5 7 (38.89%) Coaching
5 7 (38.89%) Kanban
5 7 (38.89%) Mentoring
6 6 (33.33%) Analytics
6 6 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
6 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 6 (33.33%) Human-Centred Design
6 6 (33.33%) Inclusive Design
6 6 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
6 6 (33.33%) Roadmaps
6 6 (33.33%) TDD
7 5 (27.78%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Python
1 11 (61.11%) TypeScript
2 9 (50.00%) Java
3 8 (44.44%) JavaScript
4 6 (33.33%) SQL
5 3 (16.67%) Bash
5 3 (16.67%) C
5 3 (16.67%) C++
6 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (61.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Docker
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Grafana
1 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle
1 3 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft