Visual Studio Code Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Visual Studio Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 463 523
Rank change year-on-year -60 +60 +160
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 21 44 48
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.068% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.45% 1.09% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 36
10th Percentile £359 £408 £391
25th Percentile £396 £463 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £625 £513
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +21.95% -5.09%
75th Percentile £600 £750 £619
90th Percentile £688 £875 £728
UK median daily rate £523 £625 £538
% change year-on-year -16.40% +16.28% -0.46%

All Development Application Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,684 4,020 4,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.13% 13.26% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,277 2,521 3,424
10th Percentile £330 £345 £375
25th Percentile £408 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £645
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 101 214
10th Percentile £39.00 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.36 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Visual Studio Code job vacancy trend in England

Visual Studio Code
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Visual Studio Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio Code in England over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio Code in England

Visual Studio Code
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Visual Studio Code.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
London -10 11 £550 -31.25% 7
South East -14 4 £500 - 5
West Midlands -24 4 £402 - 1
Midlands -33 4 £402 -15.37% 1
North of England -40 2 £359 -12.97% 9
North West - 2 £359 - 9
Visual Studio Code
UK

Visual Studio Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (19.05%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 2 (9.52%) CMS
2 2 (9.52%) Magnolia
2 2 (9.52%) WordPress
3 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (4.76%) Moqups
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) GitHub
2 8 (38.10%) Serverless
3 6 (28.57%) AWS
4 5 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (23.81%) Azure
4 5 (23.81%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (14.29%) GCP
5 3 (14.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
6 2 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (9.52%) Azure API Management
6 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Functions
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Storage
6 2 (9.52%) Figma
6 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
7 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) SSH
2 2 (9.52%) SSL
2 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.76%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (9.52%) Big Data
2 2 (9.52%) Delta Lake
2 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
2 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.52%) Parquet
2 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (4.76%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (4.76%) GIS
3 1 (4.76%) Power BI
3 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Git
2 5 (23.81%) JIRA
3 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 3 (14.29%) Poetry
3 3 (14.29%) PyCharm
3 3 (14.29%) SonarQube
3 3 (14.29%) webpack
4 2 (9.52%) ESLint
4 2 (9.52%) MLflow
4 2 (9.52%) Postman
4 2 (9.52%) rollup.js
4 2 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (9.52%) Visual Studio
5 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.76%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (4.76%) gulp
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Banking
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Data Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Architect
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (9.52%) Python Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Salesforce Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Snowflake Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Backend Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Designer
5 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Gen AI Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) Pandas
2 4 (19.05%) .NET
2 4 (19.05%) Flask
2 4 (19.05%) HTML
2 4 (19.05%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (19.05%) React
3 3 (14.29%) CSS
3 3 (14.29%) Jest
3 3 (14.29%) Node.js
3 3 (14.29%) NumPy
3 3 (14.29%) pytest
3 3 (14.29%) SOAP
4 2 (9.52%) Anaconda
4 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (9.52%) Enzyme
4 2 (9.52%) jQuery
4 2 (9.52%) Playwright
4 2 (9.52%) PySpark
4 2 (9.52%) REST
4 2 (9.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Android
2 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
2 9 (42.86%) DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) Data Engineering
4 7 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (23.81%) Secrets Management
6 4 (19.05%) AI
6 4 (19.05%) Clean Code
6 4 (19.05%) ETL
6 4 (19.05%) Front End Development
6 4 (19.05%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (14.29%) Code Quality
7 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 3 (14.29%) Dependency Management
7 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 3 (14.29%) Unit Testing
8 2 (9.52%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) SQL
3 4 (19.05%) Apex Code
3 4 (19.05%) Bash
3 4 (19.05%) TypeScript
4 3 (14.29%) C#
4 3 (14.29%) Groovy
5 2 (9.52%) SOQL
6 1 (4.76%) Java
6 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Accessibility
2 3 (14.29%) WCAG
3 1 (4.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Argo
1 2 (9.52%) Control-M
1 2 (9.52%) Istio
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Salesforce
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 2 (9.52%) Cloudera
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Adobe
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) SAP