Visual Studio Code Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Visual Studio Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Studio Code over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 173 188
Rank change year-on-year +52 +15 -
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 6 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.27% 0.14% 0.095%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.20% 0.90% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile - £477 -
25th Percentile £413 £502 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £535 £501
Median % change year-on-year -15.81% +6.79% -
75th Percentile £775 £605 £501
90th Percentile - £696 -
Central London median daily rate £450 £535 £501
% change year-on-year -15.81% +6.79% -

All Development Application Skills
City of London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 273 555 895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.43% 15.23% 21.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 360 715
10th Percentile £406 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £585
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +3.38% +11.43%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £783
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - £35.00 £51.85
25th Percentile £46.75 £39.06 £54.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £55.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% -10.57% +112.07%
75th Percentile £50.25 £58.75 £71.75
90th Percentile - - £75.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.75 £55.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -25.91% -10.57% +112.07%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Visual Studio Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Code in the City of London

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio Code in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio Code in the City of London

Visual Studio Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio Code in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio Code in the City of London

Visual Studio Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
1 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Android Studio
2 2 (33.33%) JUnit
2 2 (33.33%) Mockito
2 2 (33.33%) ScalaTest
2 2 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Salesforce Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Scala Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SailPoint Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) SailPoint
3 1 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) API Development
4 2 (33.33%) CRM
4 2 (33.33%) Functional Programming
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 2 (33.33%) User Experience
5 1 (16.67%) API Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Apex Code
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Scala
2 2 (33.33%) SOQL
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle