Claude Code Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Anthropic Claude Code
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 512 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Claude Code 6 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.013% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.27% - -
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £40,000 - -
25th Percentile £43,125 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £93,125 - -
90th Percentile £105,000 - -
UK median annual salary £58,750 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,212 3,486 4,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.97% 10.00% 10.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,384 1,913 3,824
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -2.34% +2.40%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £79,100 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%

Claude Code
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Claude Code in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Claude Code in the UK excluding London

Claude Code
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Claude Code within the UK excluding London 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
North of England - 4 £70,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £40,000 -
North West - 2 £100,000 -
South East - 2 £55,000 -
Claude Code
UK

Claude Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) API Integration
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
1 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA