Claude Code Job Trends in the South East

Anthropic Claude Code
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East 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 269 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Claude Code 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.019% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.31% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £55,000 - -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 636 1,156 1,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.94% 13.16% 11.03%
Number of salaries quoted 367 604 861
10th Percentile £30,150 £36,250 £39,250
25th Percentile £38,625 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.46% -6.15%

Claude Code
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Claude Code within the South East 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
Buckinghamshire - 2 £55,000 -
Thames Valley - 2 £55,000 -
Claude Code
England

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 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA