Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Visual Studio Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Studio Code over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 817 863 976
Rank change year-on-year +46 +113 -160
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 97 89 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.095% 0.091% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.02% 0.64% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 58 30 161
10th Percentile £25,500 £42,438 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -12.92% +4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £74,750 £81,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% -29.17%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Visual Studio Code is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,512 13,867 38,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.27% 14.24% 23.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6,598 8,468 16,021
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,210 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Visual Studio Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio Code.

Salary trend for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio Code over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio Code within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +21 81 £52,500 +5.00% 16
England +75 77 £52,500 +0.96% 19
Work from Home +77 44 £52,500 -10.64% 8
South East +36 38 £52,500 +2.44% 5
London +115 15 £80,000 +14.29% 2
Scotland -46 14 - -
Midlands -9 8 £26,000 -60.00% 3
North of England +48 6 £34,625 -21.75% 2
East of England - 6 £46,500 - 4
Wales +3 5 £27,500 -
North West +6 4 £34,625 -21.75% 1
West Midlands +2 4 £47,500 -26.92% 3
South West -30 4 - - 2
East Midlands - 4 £26,000 -
Yorkshire +79 2 - -

Visual Studio Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.19%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.15%) Jupyter
3 4 (4.12%) Confluence
4 2 (2.06%) WordPress
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (1.03%) CMS
5 1 (1.03%) IIS
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 22 (22.68%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.09%) Trello
3 2 (2.06%) FileZilla
4 1 (1.03%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.03%) Adobe XD
4 1 (1.03%) InVision
4 1 (1.03%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.03%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 61 (62.89%) Azure
2 30 (30.93%) GitHub
3 29 (29.90%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (17.53%) AWS
5 10 (10.31%) SaaS
6 7 (7.22%) Figma
6 7 (7.22%) Power Platform
6 7 (7.22%) Pulumi
7 6 (6.19%) GCP
7 6 (6.19%) PowerApps
8 5 (5.15%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (4.12%) Serverless
10 3 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.09%) IaaS
10 3 (3.09%) npm
10 3 (3.09%) PaaS
11 2 (2.06%) Firebase
11 2 (2.06%) Google Analytics
11 2 (2.06%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.43%) Network Security
2 7 (7.22%) Firewall
3 4 (4.12%) Internet
4 3 (3.09%) DNS
4 3 (3.09%) VPN
5 2 (2.06%) FTP
6 1 (1.03%) MQTT
6 1 (1.03%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (37.11%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.19%) Big Data
2 6 (6.19%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.15%) Redis
4 4 (4.12%) Metabase
5 3 (3.09%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.06%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 49 (50.52%) Visual Studio
2 47 (48.45%) Git
3 28 (28.87%) Jasmine
4 15 (15.46%) Selenium
5 14 (14.43%) Karma Test Runner
5 14 (14.43%) NUnit
6 10 (10.31%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (7.22%) JIRA
7 7 (7.22%) TeamCity
8 6 (6.19%) IntelliJ
9 5 (5.15%) Eclipse
10 4 (4.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (3.09%) SonarQube
12 2 (2.06%) Cypress.io
12 2 (2.06%) ESLint
12 2 (2.06%) Mocha
13 1 (1.03%) Balsamiq
13 1 (1.03%) Mercurial
13 1 (1.03%) Storybook
13 1 (1.03%) WebDriver
General
1 43 (44.33%) Finance
2 32 (32.99%) Social Skills
3 21 (21.65%) Law
4 17 (17.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (14.43%) Banking
5 14 (14.43%) Private Banking
6 9 (9.28%) Retail
7 7 (7.22%) Multimedia
8 4 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (4.12%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.09%) Legal
10 2 (2.06%) Agriculture
10 2 (2.06%) Marketing
10 2 (2.06%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.03%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 65 (67.01%) Developer
2 32 (32.99%) .NET Developer
3 19 (19.59%) Senior
4 17 (17.53%) Software Developer
5 13 (13.40%) .NET Software Developer
5 13 (13.40%) C# .NET Developer
5 13 (13.40%) C# Developer
5 13 (13.40%) C# Software Developer
6 12 (12.37%) Full Stack Developer
6 12 (12.37%) Senior Developer
7 9 (9.28%) Lead
7 9 (9.28%) Lead Developer
8 8 (8.25%) AWS Developer
8 8 (8.25%) Azure Developer
8 8 (8.25%) UI Developer
9 7 (7.22%) Lead .NET Developer
9 7 (7.22%) Lead C# Developer
9 7 (7.22%) Lead Software Developer
9 7 (7.22%) Senior Software Developer
10 6 (6.19%) ASP.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (71.13%) .NET
2 68 (70.10%) HTML
3 49 (50.52%) CSS
4 37 (38.14%) ASP.NET
5 34 (35.05%) HTML5
6 31 (31.96%) RESTful
7 23 (23.71%) .NET Framework
7 23 (23.71%) AngularJS
8 22 (22.68%) ASP.NET Web API
9 20 (20.62%) .NET Core
10 18 (18.56%) Blazor
10 18 (18.56%) Sass
11 17 (17.53%) Entity Framework
11 17 (17.53%) jQuery
12 16 (16.49%) OpenAPI
12 16 (16.49%) Swagger
13 14 (14.43%) ASP.NET MVC
13 14 (14.43%) ASP.NET MVC 3
13 14 (14.43%) LESS
13 14 (14.43%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.43%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.19%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.15%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.12%) Low-Code
4 4 (4.12%) Raspberry Pi
5 3 (3.09%) Hackathon
6 2 (2.06%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.03%) IoT
7 1 (1.03%) NHS
7 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.03%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.28%) Linux
1 9 (9.28%) Windows
2 4 (4.12%) AIX
2 4 (4.12%) Windows 7
2 4 (4.12%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.03%) Android
3 1 (1.03%) Solaris
3 1 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (46.39%) Agile
2 37 (38.14%) DevOps
3 33 (34.02%) MVC
4 29 (29.90%) Test Automation
5 25 (25.77%) Full Stack Development
6 22 (22.68%) Front End Development
7 21 (21.65%) Web Development
8 18 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (15.46%) SOA
9 15 (15.46%) Software Engineering
9 15 (15.46%) Wealth Management
10 14 (14.43%) Asset Management
10 14 (14.43%) Investment Management
10 14 (14.43%) Multithreading
10 14 (14.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 13 (13.40%) Analytics
11 13 (13.40%) Scrum
12 12 (12.37%) Design Patterns
13 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (67.01%) JavaScript
2 45 (46.39%) C#
3 42 (43.30%) SQL
4 32 (32.99%) TypeScript
5 24 (24.74%) T-SQL
6 11 (11.34%) Java
7 9 (9.28%) Python
8 7 (7.22%) Bicep
9 6 (6.19%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.06%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.06%) PHP
10 2 (2.06%) XPath
11 1 (1.03%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (10.31%) Degree
2 8 (8.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.03%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.46%) Accessibility
2 14 (14.43%) WAI
3 4 (4.12%) QA
4 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (13.40%) Docker
2 4 (4.12%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (12.37%) Terraform
2 11 (11.34%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.22%) MIIS
4 1 (1.03%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 17 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.12%) Meraki
2 4 (4.12%) Veeam
2 4 (4.12%) VMware
3 3 (3.09%) Google
4 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.06%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.03%) Adobe
5 1 (1.03%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.03%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle
5 1 (1.03%) Sybase