Claude Code Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Anthropic Claude Code
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Claude Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Claude Code 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.16% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £488 - -

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 217 135 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 11.73% 14.77% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 91 117
10th Percentile £356 £325 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -7.69% -2.55%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £450 £425 £489
% change year-on-year +5.88% -13.09% -6.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 4
10th Percentile £26.35 £70.50 £52.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.25 £62.19
Median hourly rate £63.00 £75.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% - +89.39%
75th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £81.38
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.25 £82.05
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £73.75 £45.88
% change year-on-year -25.42% +60.75% -0.65%

Claude Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Claude Code job vacancy trend in Manchester

Claude Code
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 3 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Service Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java