Visual Studio Code Contract Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Visual Studio Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 124 131
Rank change year-on-year -44 +7 +16
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.027% 0.046% 0.037%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.25% 0.33% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £500 £649
% change year-on-year -10.00% -22.93% +16.63%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 404 305 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 11.00% 14.16% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 238 184
10th Percentile £357 £319 £335
25th Percentile £399 £361 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £586 £518 £550
90th Percentile £650 £604 £634
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 12
10th Percentile £27.28 £64.65 £28.95
25th Percentile £35.56 £70.12 £37.55
Median hourly rate £54.90 £73.75 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -25.56% +60.75% -0.65%
75th Percentile £76.00 £77.81 £49.31
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.70 £70.35
England median hourly rate £68.00 £63.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.94% -3.08% +4.00%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Visual Studio Code job vacancy trend in the North West

Visual Studio Code
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Visual Studio Code
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 15 July 2026. 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
Cheshire - 1 £600 - 3
Visual Studio Code
England

Visual Studio Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Claude Code
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft