Claude Code Job Trends in the North of England

Anthropic Claude Code
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Claude Code skills. It covers permanent 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 260 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Claude Code 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.035% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.71% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £105,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £55,000 - -

All Development Application Skills
North of England

Claude Code falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 563 698 1,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.91% 7.91% 10.40%
Number of salaries quoted 408 376 969
10th Percentile - £37,500 £35,920
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,750 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% -6.33% +0.57%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,375 £81,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.46% -6.15%

Claude Code
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Claude Code in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Claude Code in the North of England

Claude Code
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Claude Code within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire - 2 £40,000 -
North West - 2 £100,000 -
Claude Code
England

Claude Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Java Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
2 2 (50.00%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared