Visual Studio Code Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Visual Studio Code skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 - 94
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 3 0 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.29% - 0.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.84% - 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 14
10th Percentile £358 - £499
25th Percentile £359 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 - £588
75th Percentile £468 - £619
90th Percentile £532 - £623
North West median daily rate £360 - £588

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 163 115 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.03% 9.76% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 77 148
10th Percentile £336 £324 £361
25th Percentile £400 £375 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £433 £514
Median % change year-on-year +9.83% -15.82% -2.14%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £620
90th Percentile £650 £575 £684
North West median daily rate £430 £465 £525
% change year-on-year -7.63% -11.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £70.75 - £50.43
25th Percentile £71.88 £46.25 £62.19
Median hourly rate £75.00 £47.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -30.91% -5.17%
75th Percentile £77.81 £48.75 £76.56
90th Percentile £78.38 - £80.00
North West median hourly rate £72.58 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +57.17% - -36.30%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Code in Manchester

Visual Studio Code
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Visual Studio Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio Code in Manchester over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio Code in Manchester

Visual Studio Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Appium
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aviation
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
1 2 (66.67%) pytest
2 1 (33.33%) Chai
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (33.33%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Pair Programming
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) RBAC
1 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Trunk-Based Development
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Control-M
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft