Visual Studio Code Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 108 132 -
Rank change year-on-year +24 - -
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.16% 0.036% -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.16% 0.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £488 £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £443 £488 £600
% change year-on-year -9.13% -18.75% +11.11%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 258 258 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.48% 9.36% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 187 361
10th Percentile £313 £260 £290
25th Percentile £410 £357 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -8.33% +1.05%
75th Percentile £537 £536 £550
90th Percentile £627 £560 £638
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 4
10th Percentile £22.01 £10.50 £33.21
25th Percentile £27.71 £43.88 £35.49
Median hourly rate £37.85 £56.25 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.71% +14.21% +26.28%
75th Percentile £48.61 £58.75 £62.19
90th Percentile £54.70 - £66.13
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Code in the Midlands

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio Code in the Midlands

Visual Studio Code
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
East Midlands +11 2 £475 -13.64% 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Visual Studio Code
England

Visual Studio Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) CRM Architect
2 1 (33.33%) CRM Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365 Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bicep
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft