Visual Studio Code Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 324 388 451
Rank change year-on-year +64 +63 +47
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 12 11 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.053% 0.046%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.70% 0.49% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 7
10th Percentile £337 £368 £405
25th Percentile £385 £431 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +7.84% +2.00%
75th Percentile £488 £638 £526
90th Percentile £523 £700 £583
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £554
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.75% +1.65%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,711 2,265 3,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.40% 10.90% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 1,466 2,398
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 169 184
10th Percentile £46.25 £40.00 £45.38
25th Percentile £52.42 £52.50 £52.47
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.36 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Visual Studio Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Code in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio Code in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio Code in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio Code in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio Code in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio Code in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio Code in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio Code
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +46 4 - - 7
North of England +22 4 £423 - 10
Midlands +24 3 £475 -13.64% 2
North East - 3 £370 - 1
East Midlands +11 2 £475 -13.64% 1
North West +17 1 £550 - 5
Scotland +11 1 £450 -35.71% 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Visual Studio Code
UK

Visual Studio Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 8 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) SaaS
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Stack
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (8.33%) Azure API Management
5 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (16.67%) Redis
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Git
1 7 (58.33%) Visual Studio
2 4 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 3 (25.00%) JIRA
3 3 (25.00%) Selenium
4 2 (16.67%) Moq
4 2 (16.67%) SpecFlow
5 1 (8.33%) Appium
5 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (8.33%) git-flow
5 1 (8.33%) IntelliJ
5 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
5 1 (8.33%) Postman
5 1 (8.33%) PyCharm
5 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (25.00%) French Language
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Aviation
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) CRM Architect
4 1 (8.33%) CRM Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) CSS
2 7 (58.33%) HTML
2 7 (58.33%) RESTful
3 5 (41.67%) .NET
4 4 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 4 (33.33%) React
4 4 (33.33%) YAML
5 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (16.67%) .NET Core
6 2 (16.67%) Bootstrap
6 2 (16.67%) JSON
6 2 (16.67%) Vue
6 2 (16.67%) XML
7 1 (8.33%) ADO
7 1 (8.33%) Chai
7 1 (8.33%) Kafka
7 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
1 9 (75.00%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Sprint Planning
3 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
3 5 (41.67%) User Experience
4 4 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 4 (33.33%) Insurtech
4 4 (33.33%) OO
4 4 (33.33%) Product Backlog
4 4 (33.33%) Progressive Web App
4 4 (33.33%) Scrum
4 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) SOLID
4 4 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
4 4 (33.33%) Technical Debt
4 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 4 (33.33%) UX Design
4 4 (33.33%) Wireframes
5 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) C#
2 7 (58.33%) TypeScript
3 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) Bicep
4 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (8.33%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) New Relic
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft