Claude Code Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Anthropic Claude Code
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Claude Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Claude Code 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £625 - -

All Development Application Skills
City of London

Claude Code falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 240 262 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.52% 14.89% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 154 182
10th Percentile £363 £413 £413
25th Percentile £443 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £557
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% -1.21% -7.94%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £18.17 - £49.20
25th Percentile £18.75 - £52.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £20.25 - £67.88
90th Percentile £37.20 - £71.40
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £48.50
% change year-on-year - - -11.82%

Claude Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Claude Code relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Claude Code job vacancy trend in the City of London

Claude Code
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Claude Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Claude Code

Claude Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Claude Code in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Claude Code in the City of London

Claude Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Copilot
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) CircleCI
1 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
1 2 (66.67%) Mocha
1 2 (66.67%) webpack
General
1 2 (66.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js Developer
1 2 (66.67%) React Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) Enzyme
2 2 (66.67%) Jest
2 2 (66.67%) React
3 1 (33.33%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) Functional Programming
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Pair Programming
1 2 (66.67%) Software Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Multi-Agent System
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional