Visual Studio Code Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 155 201 219
Rank change year-on-year +46 +18 +40
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 4 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% 0.072% 0.052%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.12% 0.74% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £311 £442
25th Percentile - £328 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £363 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -28.92% +2.00%
75th Percentile - £403 £513
90th Percentile - £424 £514
England median daily rate £443 £488 £600
% change year-on-year -9.13% -18.75% +11.11%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 357 542 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.86% 9.75% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 334 481
10th Percentile £361 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £586 £619 £628
90th Percentile £638 £675 £698
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 33 39
10th Percentile £47.25 £38.65 £35.74
25th Percentile £49.50 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £56.24
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.14% +2.25%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.63 £70.00 £75.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Code in the South East

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio Code in the South East

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio Code in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio Code in the South East

Visual Studio Code
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Surrey - 4 - - 2
Visual Studio Code
England

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

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Stack
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Moq
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
1 4 (100.00%) YAML
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) Bootstrap
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) Vue
2 2 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Insurtech
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 4 (100.00%) Progressive Web App
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) SOLID
1 4 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 4 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
1 4 (100.00%) UX Design
1 4 (100.00%) Wireframes
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft