Visual Studio Code Contracts in Central London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Visual Studio Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Visual Studio Code over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 127 167
Rank change year-on-year +1 +40 +28
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 3 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.15% 0.25% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.10% 2.08% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - - £477
25th Percentile - £413 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -15.81% +6.79%
75th Percentile - £775 £605
90th Percentile - - £696
London median daily rate £425 £506 £688
% change year-on-year -16.05% -26.42% +25.09%

All Development Application Skills
Central London

Visual Studio Code falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 272 288 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.62% 11.77% 15.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 194 387
10th Percentile £407 £400 £413
25th Percentile £431 £451 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £738
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £34.38 £35.00
25th Percentile - £36.44 £39.06
Median hourly rate - £40.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.91% -10.57%
75th Percentile - £45.94 £58.75
90th Percentile - £48.53 -
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -17.81% -36.52% +29.21%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Code in Central London

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio Code in Central London

Visual Studio Code
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio Code within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +4 2 - -
Visual Studio Code
London

Visual Studio Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (33.33%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SPSS
1 1 (33.33%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) QGIS
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) B2C
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Model Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Single Customer View
2 1 (33.33%) Time Series Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) User Research
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) R
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks