Claude Code Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Anthropic Claude Code
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Claude Code 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.054% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £600 - -

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 237 323 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 12.84% 19.94% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 205 254
10th Percentile £313 £313 £376
25th Percentile £398 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £586
90th Percentile £686 £575 £636
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 10
10th Percentile £57.27 £23.77 £34.10
25th Percentile - £29.81 -
Median hourly rate £60.91 £39.92 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +52.60% -2.50% -32.39%
75th Percentile £61.14 £49.98 -
90th Percentile £61.84 £55.99 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%

Claude Code
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 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
Glasgow - 1 £350 - 1
Claude Code
UK

Claude Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Google Gemini
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gemini Tracker
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow