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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 383 462
Rank change year-on-year +36 +79 +107
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 13 22 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.098% 0.12% 0.090%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.64% 0.89% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 13
10th Percentile £409 £336 £500
25th Percentile £413 £407 £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £568 £757
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% -25.03% +40.84%
75th Percentile £484 £775 £825
90th Percentile £618 £825 -
England median daily rate £500 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -23.08% +30.00% -4.76%

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 2,039 2,472 4,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.35% 14.03% 15.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,371 1,753 2,939
10th Percentile £350 £363 £406
25th Percentile £420 £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £669 £713
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 25 37
10th Percentile £25.52 £23.30 £49.25
25th Percentile £32.13 £25.99 £54.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -50.00% +68.54%
75th Percentile £59.69 £71.25 £82.50
90th Percentile £69.63 £71.63 £90.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +18.60%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +6 2 - - 4
East London - 1 - - 1
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 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) CMS
2 1 (7.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SPSS
1 1 (7.69%) Stata
1 1 (7.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) GitHub
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
2 5 (38.46%) Serverless
3 4 (30.77%) AWS
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
5 2 (15.38%) Azure WebJobs
5 2 (15.38%) PaaS
6 1 (7.69%) DigitalOcean
6 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.69%) Figma
6 1 (7.69%) Google Workspace
6 1 (7.69%) Heroku
6 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) HTTP
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
2 3 (23.08%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) QGIS
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Cypress.io
2 3 (23.08%) Bitbucket
2 3 (23.08%) Mocha
2 3 (23.08%) Postman
3 1 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Poetry
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
3 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Python Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) React Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (7.69%) SharePoint Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) SharePoint Support
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) CSS
2 4 (30.77%) HTML
2 4 (30.77%) React
3 3 (23.08%) AWS CDK
3 3 (23.08%) GatsbyJS
3 3 (23.08%) GraphQL
3 3 (23.08%) HTML5
3 3 (23.08%) Jest
3 3 (23.08%) Node.js
3 3 (23.08%) OpenAPI
3 3 (23.08%) REST
3 3 (23.08%) SVG
3 3 (23.08%) Swagger
3 3 (23.08%) Vue
3 3 (23.08%) WebRTC
3 3 (23.08%) WebSockets
4 2 (15.38%) SPFx
5 1 (7.69%) Alpine.js
5 1 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Algorithms
1 3 (23.08%) Data Structures
1 3 (23.08%) Mobile App
1 3 (23.08%) Vector Graphics
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Low-Code
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (30.77%) User Experience
4 3 (23.08%) Jamstack
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) SEO
4 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 3 (23.08%) UX Design
5 2 (15.38%) Document Management
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
6 1 (7.69%) Data Migration
6 1 (7.69%) Kanban
6 1 (7.69%) Mathematics
6 1 (7.69%) Unit Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Validation
6 1 (7.69%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) C#
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Apex Code
3 1 (7.69%) PHP
3 1 (7.69%) R
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Sage
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.69%) Solace