Visual Studio Code Contracts in England

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 506 628
Rank change year-on-year +60 +122 +106
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 32 35 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.095% 0.066%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.97% 0.82% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 19
10th Percentile £384 £333 £423
25th Percentile £410 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% -18.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £553 £686 £738
90th Percentile £648 £775 £815
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £554
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.75% +1.19%

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 3,307 4,246 7,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.66% 11.51% 14.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,213 2,905 5,254
10th Percentile £350 £352 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £744 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 189 216
10th Percentile £27.68 £32.74 £44.62
25th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £52.69
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +17.39%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £71.20
90th Percentile £83.43 £81.30 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +17.70%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Code in England

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio Code in England

Visual Studio Code
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio Code in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio Code in England

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio Code in England.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio Code in England

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 5 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
London +47 19 £425 -16.05% 24
South East +43 4 - - 15
North of England +26 4 £423 - 23
Midlands +21 3 £475 -13.64% 3
North East - 3 £370 - 1
East Midlands +15 2 £475 -13.64% 1
North West +14 1 £550 - 17
West Midlands - 1 - - 2
Visual Studio Code
UK

Visual Studio Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (15.63%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.38%) CMS
2 3 (9.38%) Jupyter
2 3 (9.38%) WordPress
3 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Trello
2 1 (3.13%) SPSS
2 1 (3.13%) Stata
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (62.50%) Azure
2 11 (34.38%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (31.25%) AWS
4 8 (25.00%) GitHub
4 8 (25.00%) Serverless
5 7 (21.88%) Power Platform
6 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (12.50%) Azure Functions
7 4 (12.50%) Azure WebJobs
7 4 (12.50%) PaaS
7 4 (12.50%) SaaS
8 3 (9.38%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
8 3 (9.38%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (9.38%) DigitalOcean
8 3 (9.38%) Figma
8 3 (9.38%) Google Workspace
8 3 (9.38%) Heroku
8 3 (9.38%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) DNS
1 3 (9.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) MongoDB
1 5 (15.63%) Power BI
2 4 (12.50%) Redis
3 3 (9.38%) DynamoDB
3 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (6.25%) Impala
4 2 (6.25%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.13%) QGIS
5 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (37.50%) Git
2 8 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 7 (21.88%) Visual Studio
4 6 (18.75%) JIRA
5 5 (15.63%) Bitbucket
5 5 (15.63%) Postman
6 3 (9.38%) Mocha
6 3 (9.38%) Selenium
7 2 (6.25%) Artifactory
7 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
7 2 (6.25%) Moq
7 2 (6.25%) SonarQube
7 2 (6.25%) SpecFlow
8 1 (3.13%) Appium
8 1 (3.13%) git-flow
8 1 (3.13%) GitLab
8 1 (3.13%) Poetry
8 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
8 1 (3.13%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (25.00%) Finance
2 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Banking
3 3 (9.38%) French Language
4 2 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Aviation
5 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Senior
4 4 (12.50%) Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) C# Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Python Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) SharePoint Architect
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Data Scientist
6 2 (6.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (6.25%) JavaScript Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Python Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (46.88%) CSS
2 11 (34.38%) HTML
2 11 (34.38%) React
3 8 (25.00%) RESTful
4 7 (21.88%) .NET
5 6 (18.75%) Vue
6 5 (15.63%) AngularJS
6 5 (15.63%) Bootstrap
7 4 (12.50%) SPFx
7 4 (12.50%) YAML
8 3 (9.38%) Alpine.js
8 3 (9.38%) AWS CDK
8 3 (9.38%) GatsbyJS
8 3 (9.38%) GraphQL
8 3 (9.38%) OpenAPI
8 3 (9.38%) pytest
8 3 (9.38%) SVG
8 3 (9.38%) Swagger
8 3 (9.38%) Tailwind CSS
8 3 (9.38%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.38%) Data Structures
2 3 (9.38%) Mobile App
2 3 (9.38%) Vector Graphics
3 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) DevOps
2 14 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 13 (40.63%) Agile
4 10 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (31.25%) Test Automation
5 9 (28.13%) User Experience
6 8 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 8 (25.00%) Unit Testing
7 7 (21.88%) UX Design
8 6 (18.75%) Microservices
8 6 (18.75%) Technical Debt
9 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (15.63%) Design Patterns
9 5 (15.63%) SOLID
9 5 (15.63%) Sprint Planning
10 4 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (12.50%) CRM
10 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (12.50%) Document Management
10 4 (12.50%) OO
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) C#
2 9 (28.13%) JavaScript
3 7 (21.88%) PowerShell
3 7 (21.88%) Python
3 7 (21.88%) TypeScript
4 3 (9.38%) PHP
4 3 (9.38%) SQL
5 2 (6.25%) Bicep
5 2 (6.25%) VB
5 2 (6.25%) VB6
6 1 (3.13%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) Google
2 3 (9.38%) Sage
3 2 (6.25%) InterSystems
3 2 (6.25%) New Relic
4 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.13%) Databricks
4 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.13%) Solace