Coverity Contract Job Trends

Coverity
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 576 557 599
Rank change year-on-year -19 +42 +217
Contract jobs citing Coverity 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.003% 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category 0.006% 0.006% 0.005%
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% -9.52%
75th Percentile £438 £650 £563
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -29.17% +26.32% -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,146 16,529 20,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.47% 45.05% 45.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,814 9,727 13,173
10th Percentile £288 £291 £256
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £718 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 871 530 671
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.50 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.36 £19.59 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +72.95%
75th Percentile £43.23 £63.45 £64.08
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.41 £27.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.52% -38.20% +97.78%

Coverity
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Coverity job vacancy trend in the UK

Coverity
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Coverity
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Coverity
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

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 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
England -14 1 £425 -29.17% 5
UK excluding London -41 1 £425 -29.17% 5

Coverity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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