Visual Studio Code Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Visual Studio Code skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 122 154
Rank change year-on-year -3 +32 +41
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 1 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.056% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.37% 1.36% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £415 £491
25th Percentile £625 £419 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £450 £620
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -27.42% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £694
90th Percentile - £755 £732
Central London median daily rate £650 £450 £620
% change year-on-year +44.44% -27.42% -

All Development Application Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 267 295 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 15.08% 14.15% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 194 284
10th Percentile £356 £402 £400
25th Percentile £425 £489 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.24%
75th Percentile £650 £705 £725
90th Percentile £714 £786 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £595
% change year-on-year -2.65% -5.04% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Visual Studio Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Visual Studio Code

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DKIM
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce