Visual Studio Code Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Visual Studio Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Studio Code over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 143 162
Rank change year-on-year +1 +19 -
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.15% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.53% 0.94% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £311 £442 £497
25th Percentile £328 £468 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -28.92% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £403 £513 -
90th Percentile £424 £514 -
South East median daily rate £363 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -28.92% +2.00% +38.89%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

Visual Studio Code is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 261 319 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.71% 10.92% 10.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 214 261
10th Percentile £329 £363 £333
25th Percentile £419 £436 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +11.58% +11.76%
75th Percentile £650 £627 £575
90th Percentile £688 £719 £650
South East median daily rate £538 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 3
10th Percentile - £53.13 £55.35
25th Percentile £46.25 £55.94 £58.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.25 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -6.49% +31.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.94 £67.25
90th Percentile - £68.38 £67.85
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £55.87 £55.00
% change year-on-year +11.87% +1.58% +19.05%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Code in the Thames Valley

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio Code in the Thames Valley

Visual Studio Code
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
Buckinghamshire - 3 £300 -
Berkshire -14 1 £425 -16.67% 1
Visual Studio Code
South East

Visual Studio Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (50.00%) CMS
1 2 (50.00%) Headless CMS
1 2 (50.00%) Kentico
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (25.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) GatsbyJS
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) DOM
2 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) Web Components
3 1 (25.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft