Visual Studio Code Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Visual Studio Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 130 -
Rank change year-on-year -30 - -
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 3 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.099% 0.19% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.66% 1.94% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £321 - -
25th Percentile £335 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.47% - -
75th Percentile £386 £488 -
90th Percentile £396 - -
England median daily rate £500 £663 £513
% change year-on-year -24.53% +29.27% -2.38%

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 454 258 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.96% 10.05% 7.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 176 158
10th Percentile £323 £350 £323
25th Percentile £403 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £461
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.40% -7.84%
75th Percentile £550 £612 £584
90th Percentile £663 £685 £665
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £37.88 - £57.16
25th Percentile £40.69 £56.25 £60.40
Median hourly rate £46.25 £57.50 £66.59
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% -13.65% +10.99%
75th Percentile £52.69 £58.75 £73.58
90th Percentile £56.03 - £77.30
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Visual Studio Code job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Visual Studio Code
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

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 30 November 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
West Midlands -19 3 £364 - 3
Visual Studio Code
England

Visual Studio Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (33.33%) Moqups
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Parquet
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Poetry
2 2 (66.67%) PyCharm
2 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (33.33%) MLflow
3 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) UI Designer
2 1 (33.33%) UI/UX Designer
2 1 (33.33%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Flask
1 2 (66.67%) NumPy
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Avro
2 1 (33.33%) Blazor
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Dependency Management
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Memory Management
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) UX Design
3 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Groovy
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Istio
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) Cloudera
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft