Visual Studio Code Contracts in London

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 334 369 468
Rank change year-on-year +35 +99 +95
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 19 22 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.12% 0.092%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.05% 0.95% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 12
10th Percentile £408 £344 £519
25th Percentile £410 £413 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £506 £688
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% -26.42% +25.09%
75th Percentile £466 £775 £813
90th Percentile £696 - £824
England median daily rate £443 £488 £600
% change year-on-year -9.13% -18.75% +11.11%

All Development Application Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,814 2,325 4,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.46% 13.04% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,230 1,656 3,172
10th Percentile £350 £363 £413
25th Percentile £419 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £725
90th Percentile £800 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 24 39
10th Percentile £22.93 £22.90 £48.20
25th Percentile £26.04 £25.99 £56.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% -36.52% +29.21%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.31 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £71.25 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Code in London

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio Code in London

Visual Studio Code
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio Code in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio Code in London

Visual Studio Code
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
Central London +1 3 - -
East London - 3 - - 1
South London - 2 £750 -
Visual Studio Code
England

Visual Studio Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (26.32%) SharePoint
2 3 (15.79%) CMS
2 3 (15.79%) Jupyter
2 3 (15.79%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Trello
2 1 (5.26%) SPSS
2 1 (5.26%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
1 8 (42.11%) GitHub
2 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 7 (36.84%) Serverless
3 6 (31.58%) Power Platform
4 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (21.05%) Azure Functions
5 4 (21.05%) Azure WebJobs
5 4 (21.05%) PaaS
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (15.79%) DigitalOcean
6 3 (15.79%) Figma
6 3 (15.79%) Google Workspace
6 3 (15.79%) Heroku
6 3 (15.79%) Slack
7 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) DNS
1 3 (15.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Power BI
2 3 (15.79%) DynamoDB
2 3 (15.79%) MongoDB
3 2 (10.53%) Impala
3 2 (10.53%) Redis
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.26%) QGIS
4 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Bitbucket
2 4 (21.05%) Cypress.io
2 4 (21.05%) Postman
3 3 (15.79%) Git
3 3 (15.79%) JIRA
3 3 (15.79%) Mocha
4 2 (10.53%) Artifactory
4 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 2 (10.53%) SonarQube
5 1 (5.26%) GitLab
5 1 (5.26%) Poetry
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
5 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Python Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) SharePoint Architect
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Data Scientist
4 2 (10.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Python Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (5.26%) SharePoint Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) SharePoint Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) CSS
1 7 (36.84%) React
2 4 (21.05%) HTML
2 4 (21.05%) SPFx
2 4 (21.05%) Vue
3 3 (15.79%) Alpine.js
3 3 (15.79%) AWS CDK
3 3 (15.79%) GatsbyJS
3 3 (15.79%) GraphQL
3 3 (15.79%) HTML5
3 3 (15.79%) Jest
3 3 (15.79%) Laravel
3 3 (15.79%) Node.js
3 3 (15.79%) OpenAPI
3 3 (15.79%) pytest
3 3 (15.79%) REST
3 3 (15.79%) SVG
3 3 (15.79%) Swagger
3 3 (15.79%) Tailwind CSS
3 3 (15.79%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Algorithms
1 3 (15.79%) Data Structures
1 3 (15.79%) Mobile App
1 3 (15.79%) Vector Graphics
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Low-Code
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) DevOps
2 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Agile
3 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
4 4 (21.05%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (21.05%) Document Management
4 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
4 4 (21.05%) Unit Testing
4 4 (21.05%) User Experience
5 3 (15.79%) Analytics
5 3 (15.79%) CRM
5 3 (15.79%) Jamstack
5 3 (15.79%) Microservices
5 3 (15.79%) Project Management
5 3 (15.79%) SEO
5 3 (15.79%) UX Design
5 3 (15.79%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
1 5 (26.32%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.79%) C#
3 3 (15.79%) PHP
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) R
4 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Google
2 3 (15.79%) Sage
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Solace