Visual Studio Code Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Visual Studio Code skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 - 181
Rank change year-on-year - - +72
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 3 0 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.075% - 0.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.40% - 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 18
10th Percentile £358 - £413
25th Percentile £359 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 - £588
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.50%
75th Percentile £468 - £619
90th Percentile £532 - £621
England median daily rate £500 £675 £513
% change year-on-year -25.93% +31.71% -2.38%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 754 544 569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.84% 13.11% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 363 396
10th Percentile £320 £356 £352
25th Percentile £381 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £613
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 35
10th Percentile £47.20 £37.55 £42.11
25th Percentile £60.55 £41.86 -
Median hourly rate £70.08 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.75% - -34.03%
75th Percentile £75.63 £47.47 £64.38
90th Percentile £77.88 £51.00 £77.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Code in the North of England

Visual Studio Code
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Visual Studio Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio Code in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio Code in the North of England

Visual Studio Code
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
North West - 3 £360 - 2
Visual Studio Code
England

Visual Studio Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
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