Code Coverage Contracts

Code Coverage
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 578 670
Rank change year-on-year +65 +92 +148
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 17 22 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.051% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.059% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 34
10th Percentile £402 £448 £355
25th Percentile £407 £456 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £467
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% +3.91% -10.67%
75th Percentile £513 £506 £503
90th Percentile £520 £532 £508
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £473 £470
% change year-on-year +4.38% +0.80% +2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 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 - £89.06 £85.00
90th Percentile - £89.63 £88.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £87.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year - +9.38% +22.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,424 37,268 53,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.88% 86.35% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,035 24,016 36,805
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £748 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,079 2,439 1,749
10th Percentile £14.38 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
Median % change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%
75th Percentile £61.87 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%

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 5 May 2025.

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 8 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 5 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
England +67 12 £413 -27.47% 30
UK excluding London +43 10 £494 +4.38% 24
London +54 7 £407 -28.44% 5
Work from Home +40 6 £470 -3.14% 9
Scotland +3 5 £480 +1.32%
North of England - 4 £520 - 2
Yorkshire - 4 £520 -
South East - 1 £400 - 8

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) Confluence
2 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.88%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Amazon S3
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
1 8 (47.06%) AWS CloudFormation
1 8 (47.06%) AWS Lambda
1 8 (47.06%) Serverless
2 7 (41.18%) GitHub
3 5 (29.41%) OpenShift
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (17.65%) Azure
4 3 (17.65%) Azure AKS
4 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (11.76%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (5.88%) Azure App Service
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Storage
6 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (23.53%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
3 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
4 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.88%) GIS
5 1 (5.88%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Jenkins
2 7 (41.18%) Cucumber
2 7 (41.18%) Gradle
3 5 (29.41%) Git
3 5 (29.41%) JIRA
4 4 (23.53%) HP UFT
4 4 (23.53%) IntelliJ
4 4 (23.53%) JUnit
4 4 (23.53%) Maven
4 4 (23.53%) Selenium
5 3 (17.65%) Artifactory
5 3 (17.65%) git-flow
6 2 (11.76%) GitLab
7 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
General
1 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Senior Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Java Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Java Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Test Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) React Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Salesforce Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) AWS CDK
1 5 (29.41%) Spring Boot
2 4 (23.53%) Spring
3 3 (17.65%) .NET
3 3 (17.65%) Kafka
3 3 (17.65%) PostGIS
3 3 (17.65%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (17.65%) React
3 3 (17.65%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
4 1 (5.88%) JSON
4 1 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (5.88%) Next.js
4 1 (5.88%) Node.js
4 1 (5.88%) OAuth
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) DevOps
2 11 (64.71%) Code Quality
2 11 (64.71%) TDD
3 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
4 8 (47.06%) Test Automation
5 7 (41.18%) BDD
6 6 (35.29%) Analytics
6 6 (35.29%) Kanban
6 6 (35.29%) Scrum
7 5 (29.41%) Agile
7 5 (29.41%) Unit Testing
7 5 (29.41%) User Experience
8 4 (23.53%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (23.53%) Document Management
8 4 (23.53%) QA Automation
8 4 (23.53%) Requirements Analysis
8 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
8 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
8 4 (23.53%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) Bicep
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
4 2 (11.76%) Apex Code
5 1 (5.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Accessibility
2 4 (23.53%) QA
3 3 (17.65%) PCI DSS
4 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 4 (23.53%) Terraform
3 3 (17.65%) Ansible
3 3 (17.65%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Salesforce