Claude Code Job Trends in the South West

Anthropic Claude Code
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Claude Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Claude Code 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.013% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.31% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
75th Percentile £87,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £105,000 - -

All Development Application Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 323 290 1,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.18% 11.04% 10.90%
Number of salaries quoted 210 191 810
10th Percentile £29,750 £42,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £81,250
England median annual salary £61,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.15% +8.33% -7.69%

Claude Code
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 May 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
Bristol - 1 £85,000 - 1
Claude Code
England

Claude Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Svelte
1 1 (100.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI