Claude Code Contract Job Trends in the North West

Anthropic Claude Code
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Claude Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Claude Code 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.094% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.73% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £564 - -
25th Percentile £566 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £616 - -
90th Percentile £621 - -
England median daily rate £575 - -

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 411 285 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.82% 14.57% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 202 227
10th Percentile £344 £335 £375
25th Percentile £378 £393 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% -1.28%
75th Percentile £538 £529 £600
90th Percentile £638 £600 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 7 10
10th Percentile £37.25 £54.02 £36.59
25th Percentile £41.35 £63.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £52.94
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +41.67% +3.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £78.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.90 £81.35 £81.15
England median hourly rate £67.50 £61.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.76% -5.38% +5.69%

Claude Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Claude Code job vacancy trend in the North West

Claude Code
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Claude Code within the North West region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Cheshire - 2 £588 - 4
Manchester - 1 - - 5
Claude Code
England

Claude Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Vault
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (33.33%) Star Schema
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft