Claude Code Contract Job Trends

Anthropic Claude Code
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Claude Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Claude Code 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.020% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £484 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 - -
75th Percentile £656 - -
90th Percentile £728 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,504 4,247 5,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.06% 13.64% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,773 2,666 3,743
10th Percentile £343 £335 £363
25th Percentile £406 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £631
90th Percentile £695 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 67 210
10th Percentile £35.43 £26.40 £41.13
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.50 £50.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £75.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.75 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

Claude Code
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Claude Code job vacancy trend in the UK

Claude Code
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Claude Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Claude Code

Claude Code
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Claude Code over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Claude Code in the UK

Claude Code
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 February 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
London - 8 £556 - 15
England - 8 £556 - 21
Work from Home - 5 £525 - 26

Claude Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 8 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 7 (87.50%) GitHub
3 5 (62.50%) GitHub Copilot
4 3 (37.50%) Azure
5 2 (25.00%) ChatGPT
6 1 (12.50%) AWS
6 1 (12.50%) Datadog
6 1 (12.50%) Figma
6 1 (12.50%) Intacct
6 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Neo4j
1 1 (12.50%) Pinecone
1 1 (12.50%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Evangelist
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) Faiss
2 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
2 1 (12.50%) Hugging Face
2 1 (12.50%) LangChain
2 1 (12.50%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) Playwright
2 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) Streamlit
2 1 (12.50%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
2 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) AI Agents
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (12.50%) Blog
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) AI
2 7 (87.50%) LLM
3 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (62.50%) Prompt Engineering
5 4 (50.00%) Code Quality
5 4 (50.00%) Microservices
5 4 (50.00%) Migration
5 4 (50.00%) Refactoring
6 2 (25.00%) Analytics
6 2 (25.00%) Data Science
6 2 (25.00%) Generative AI
6 2 (25.00%) Validation
7 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 1 (12.50%) Data Privacy
7 1 (12.50%) Deep Learning
7 1 (12.50%) DevOps
7 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
7 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
7 1 (12.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) C++
4 1 (12.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
1 1 (12.50%) OpenAI
1 1 (12.50%) Sage
26 Claude Code jobs Nationwide