Claude Code Contract Job Trends in the South East

Anthropic Claude Code
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Claude Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Claude Code 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.015% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £306 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - -
75th Percentile £319 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 - -

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 520 389 551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.85% 11.15% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 268 349
10th Percentile £275 £274 £325
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £603
90th Percentile £675 £613 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 22 33
10th Percentile £47.50 - £45.74
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £54.63
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -15.38% +11.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £76.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £88.97 £73.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

Claude Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Claude Code job vacancy trend in the South East

Claude Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Angular Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA