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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 - 175
Rank change year-on-year - - +63
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 2 0 18
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.044% - 0.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.23% - 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 17
10th Percentile £358 - £435
25th Percentile £359 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 - £588
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.50%
75th Percentile £360 - £619
90th Percentile £360 - £621
England median daily rate £500 £688 £506
% change year-on-year -27.27% +35.80% -3.57%

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 877 553 579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.48% 13.84% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 356 408
10th Percentile £325 £334 £350
25th Percentile £381 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £586
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 41
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £45.88
25th Percentile £40.38 - -
Median hourly rate £59.20 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +28.19% - -34.03%
75th Percentile £70.12 £49.88 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.33 £66.90 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Visual Studio Code job vacancy trend 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
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 6 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
North West - 2 £359 - 7
Visual Studio Code
England

Visual Studio Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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