Claude Code Job Trends in the West Midlands

Anthropic Claude Code
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Claude Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 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 West Midlands 0.011% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.41% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £60,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £100,000 - -

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 245 254 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.78% 7.70% 5.83%
Number of salaries quoted 142 168 184
10th Percentile £33,425 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.68% -7.39%
75th Percentile £71,813 £73,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,250 £77,500 £76,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%

Claude Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Claude Code relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Claude Code job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Claude Code
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Claude Code within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Birmingham - 1 £55,000 - 6
Claude Code
England

Claude Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) React Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#