Visual Studio Code Contract Job Trends in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Visual Studio Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 - 152
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.12% - 0.063%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.10% - 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £420 - £460
25th Percentile £431 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £500
75th Percentile - - £525
90th Percentile - - £540
England median daily rate £450 £443 £469
% change year-on-year +1.58% -5.49% -18.76%

All Development Application Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 364 182 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.93% 10.63% 11.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 133 213
10th Percentile £380 £354 £425
25th Percentile £445 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £641 £606 £650
90th Percentile £738 £683 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £531
% change year-on-year - -5.84% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 10 56
10th Percentile £61.25 £58.75 £56.25
25th Percentile - £65.31 £64.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £71.25 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +5.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £68.00 £76.88 £71.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.04 £77.75
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Visual Studio Code job vacancy trend in the South West

Visual Studio Code
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Visual Studio Code
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Gloucestershire - 3 £450 -
Wiltshire - 1 - - 1
Visual Studio Code
England

Visual Studio Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 4 (100.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (75.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Author
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Author
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Author
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) NetApp