Claude Code Contract Job Trends in London

Anthropic Claude Code
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Claude Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Claude Code 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.041% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £464 - -
25th Percentile £522 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £669 - -
90th Percentile £763 - -
England median daily rate £588 - -

All Development Application Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,267 1,902 2,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.48% 13.87% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,550 1,241 1,743
10th Percentile £357 £345 £382
25th Percentile £420 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £573
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -6.55% -4.58%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 19
10th Percentile £42.63 £22.25 £25.68
25th Percentile £45.19 £25.63 £33.75
Median hourly rate £73.25 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.26% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £95.00 £77.19 £64.38
90th Percentile £102.50 £87.88 £73.67
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +1.96%

Claude Code
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Claude Code in London over the 6 months to 27 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Claude Code in London

Claude Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 6 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 5 (83.33%) GitHub
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (33.33%) ChatGPT
5 1 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) Datadog
5 1 (16.67%) Figma
5 1 (16.67%) Intacct
5 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Neo4j
1 1 (16.67%) Pinecone
1 1 (16.67%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Backend Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Evangelist
3 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) Faiss
1 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
1 1 (16.67%) Hugging Face
1 1 (16.67%) LangChain
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) Playwright
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) Streamlit
1 1 (16.67%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
1 1 (16.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (16.67%) Blog
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) AI
2 5 (83.33%) LLM
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Analytics
5 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 2 (33.33%) Data Science
5 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
5 2 (33.33%) Microservices
5 2 (33.33%) Migration
5 2 (33.33%) Refactoring
5 2 (33.33%) Validation
6 1 (16.67%) Customer Insight
6 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
6 1 (16.67%) Deep Learning
6 1 (16.67%) DevOps
6 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 1 (16.67%) Release Management
6 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) MCP
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
1 1 (16.67%) OpenAI
1 1 (16.67%) Sage