Visual Studio Code Contracts in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 122 -
Rank change year-on-year +12 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.24% 0.13% -
As % of the Development Applications category 2.22% 1.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.53% - -
75th Percentile £521 £438 -
90th Percentile £538 - -
South East median daily rate £500 £425 -
% change year-on-year +17.65% - -

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 180 251 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.88% 11.08% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 160 192
10th Percentile £325 £348 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £625
90th Percentile £600 £671 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 3
10th Percentile £47.99 £41.49 £23.25
25th Percentile £63.56 £61.75 £33.75
Median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% +23.81% -18.52%
75th Percentile £87.97 £78.00 £56.63
90th Percentile £89.63 £94.00 £58.35
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +10.17% -6.16%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Visual Studio Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +20 4 £504 +18.53% 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (50.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (25.00%) PaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Salesforce Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) jQuery
1 3 (75.00%) JSON
1 3 (75.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (75.00%) SOAP
1 3 (75.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Swagger
3 1 (25.00%) WSDL
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Case Management
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) Apex Code
2 3 (75.00%) SOQL
3 1 (25.00%) C#
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft