Hybrid/Remote Claude Code Contract Job Trends

Anthropic Claude Code
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Claude Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Claude Code 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.029% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £436 - -
25th Percentile £464 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £606 - -
90th Percentile £648 - -
UK median daily rate £588 - -

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,544 1,454 2,060
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.86% 13.57% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,049 965 1,529
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £585 £623 £606
90th Percentile £675 £725 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 21 60
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.25 £41.25
25th Percentile - £51.25 £59.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £78.11
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -19.99% +20.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.02 £90.00
90th Percentile - £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

Claude Code
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Claude Code over the 6 months to 27 January 2026.

Claude Code daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Claude Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) ChatGPT
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
General
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Backend Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) B2B
3 1 (33.33%) B2C
3 1 (33.33%) Content Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Decision Tree
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker