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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 - 93
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 2 0 14
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.19% - 0.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.31% - 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 14
10th Percentile £358 - £499
25th Percentile £359 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 - £588
75th Percentile £360 - £619
90th Percentile £360 - £623
North West median daily rate £359 - £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 153 127 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.46% 11.02% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 77 162
10th Percentile £335 £322 £363
25th Percentile £387 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £438 £511
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -14.43% -7.05%
75th Percentile £597 £565 £600
90th Percentile £647 £638 £650
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £510
% change year-on-year -5.56% -11.76% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £49.25
25th Percentile - £46.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -30.91% -1.79%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £77.81
90th Percentile - - £79.88
North West median hourly rate £54.43 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +17.86% - -38.43%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Visual Studio Code job vacancy trend 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
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
2 1 (50.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (100.00%) Trunk-Based Development
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Control-M
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle