The effect of a coating upon the short-time and steady-state constriction resistance is analyzed for an arbitrary axisymmetric contact spot flux. At very short times the expression obtained for R is identical to the expression for one-dimensional transient heat flow through a two-layer wall. At steady-state, the results of the analysis predict that the effect of the coating are mainly dependent on the relative thermal properties of the coating and substrate. The limiting cases, where the coating thickness approaches either zero or infinity, are discussed.