Anthropic Claude Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Anthropic Claude
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Anthropic Claude skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Anthropic Claude 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.31% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.83% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £709 - -
25th Percentile £716 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £744 - -
75th Percentile £766 - -
90th Percentile £769 - -
North West median daily rate £738 £520 -
% change year-on-year +41.95% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Manchester

Anthropic Claude falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 722 349 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 37.20% 35.58% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 249 388
10th Percentile £350 £362 £313
25th Percentile £403 £408 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £566
90th Percentile £700 £664 £650
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 5 14
10th Percentile £28.50 £51.30 £23.23
25th Percentile £37.50 £60.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +43.59% +171.89%
75th Percentile £77.50 £88.75 £71.87
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £72.50
North West median hourly rate £62.00 £40.59 £16.06
% change year-on-year +52.75% +152.74% -27.67%

Anthropic Claude
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Anthropic Claude relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Anthropic Claude job vacancy trend in Manchester

Anthropic Claude
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Anthropic Claude within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 16 July 2026. 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
Bury - 4 £744 - 2
Anthropic Claude
North West

Anthropic Claude
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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%) Google Gemini
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub Copilot
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Claude Code
2 3 (50.00%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Principal Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Next.js
1 4 (66.67%) React
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) Node.js
3 2 (33.33%) CrewAI
3 2 (33.33%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (50.00%) Culture of Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) AI
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) Monorepo
2 4 (66.67%) Observability
2 4 (66.67%) Product Thinking
2 4 (66.67%) Technical Debt
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven Programming
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) OpenAI