Visual Studio Code Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Visual Studio Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £600 £550 -
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All Development Application Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 151 79 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 21.82% 18.85% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 64 60
10th Percentile £322 £322 £312
25th Percentile £358 £358 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £402 £498
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% -19.20% -0.50%
75th Percentile £500 £493 £584
90th Percentile £620 £618 £614
North West median daily rate £447 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £34.94 £73.43 -
25th Percentile £35.61 £74.81 -
Median hourly rate £38.41 £79.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -51.53% - -
75th Percentile £41.54 £83.31 -
90th Percentile £42.42 £84.48 -
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £52.94
% change year-on-year -26.67% +41.67% +10.31%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Visual Studio Code relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Visual Studio Code job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Visual Studio Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Claude Code
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft