Claude Code Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Anthropic Claude Code
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Claude Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Claude Code 17 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.067% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £373 - -
25th Percentile £448 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £581 - -
90th Percentile £603 - -
UK median daily rate £675 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,877 1,831 2,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.28% 13.75% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,818 1,236 1,480
10th Percentile £325 £321 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £585
90th Percentile £632 £625 £657
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 70 203
10th Percentile £39.53 £19.59 £40.00
25th Percentile £60.91 £50.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £78.88 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +4.00%

Claude Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Claude Code job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Claude Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Claude Code in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Claude Code in the UK excluding London

Claude Code
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
North of England - 13 £563 - 9
Yorkshire - 8 - - 2
Midlands - 8 - - 4
West Midlands - 8 - - 2
North West - 5 £563 - 6
Scotland - 4 £430 - 2
Claude Code
UK

Claude Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (17.65%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) GitHub
2 2 (11.76%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Google Gemini
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Data Vault
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (5.88%) Star Schema
1 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
1 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (5.88%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Lead
2 4 (23.53%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Lead Tester
2 4 (23.53%) Penetration Tester
2 4 (23.53%) Security Penetration Tester
2 4 (23.53%) Security Tester
2 4 (23.53%) Tester
3 3 (17.65%) Python Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Streamlit
2 2 (11.76%) Spring
2 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (5.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) AI
1 8 (47.06%) Offensive Security
1 8 (47.06%) Security Testing
2 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
2 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
3 4 (23.53%) Migration
3 4 (23.53%) Purple Team
3 4 (23.53%) Red Team
4 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) Validation
5 2 (11.76%) Analytics
5 2 (11.76%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (11.76%) Prototyping
5 2 (11.76%) Rapid Prototyping
5 2 (11.76%) Service Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow