Claude Code Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Anthropic Claude Code
UK > Northern Ireland

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

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	36	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Claude Code	1	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland	0.46%	-	-
As % of the Development Applications category	5.56%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	1	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£525	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	-	-
75^th Percentile	£575	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
UK median daily rate	£550	£525	-
% change year-on-year	+4.76%	-	-

All Development Application Skills
Northern Ireland

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 citing development application skills in Northern Ireland.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing development application skills	18	17	19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland	8.29%	6.80%	9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted	13	11	14
10^th Percentile	£255	-	£313
25^th Percentile	£450	£400	£347
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£463	£425	£538
Median % change year-on-year	+8.82%	-20.93%	-10.42%
75^th Percentile	£650	£556	£631
90^th Percentile	£661	£606	£675
UK median daily rate	£500	£500	£520
% change year-on-year	-	-3.85%	-5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	1
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£25.75	-	£41.25
Median hourly rate	£26.50	-	£42.50
75^th Percentile	£27.25	-	£43.75
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
UK median hourly rate	£65.00	£65.00	£65.00

Claude Code Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 24 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
County Antrim	-	1	£550	-	18
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Claude Code Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland

For the 6 months to 24 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Claude Code also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Northern Ireland region citing Claude Code.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AI	100.0%	1
1	Amazon S3	100.0%	1
1	AWS	100.0%	1
1	AWS Lambda	100.0%	1
1	CI/CD	100.0%	1
1	CloudFront	100.0%	1
1	Code Quality	100.0%	1
1	Data Modelling	100.0%	1
1	Deployment Automation	100.0%	1
1	Django	100.0%	1
1	FastAPI	100.0%	1
1	Fintech	100.0%	1
1	Flask	100.0%	1
1	Front End Development	100.0%	1
1	Full-Stack Development	100.0%	1
1	Git	100.0%	1
1	GitHub	100.0%	1
1	GitHub Copilot	100.0%	1
1	Infrastructure as Code	100.0%	1
1	JavaScript	100.0%	1
1	Microservices	100.0%	1
1	PostgreSQL	100.0%	1
1	Problem-Solving	100.0%	1
1	Product Thinking	100.0%	1
1	Prototyping	100.0%	1
1	Python	100.0%	1
1	React	100.0%	1
1	Relational Database	100.0%	1
1	RESTful	100.0%	1
1	SDLC	100.0%	1

Claude Code Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Development Applications

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Git	100.0%	1