Visual Studio Code Contracts

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 553 672
Rank change year-on-year +71 +119 +106
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 37 47 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.069%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.90% 0.91% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 21
10th Percentile £400 £359 £425
25th Percentile £413 £416 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £554
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.75% +1.65%
75th Percentile £575 £693 £719
90th Percentile £690 £775 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -13.64% +7.84% +2.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Visual Studio Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio Code over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +61 32 £443 -9.13% 34
London +32 19 £425 -16.05% 9
Work from Home +43 16 £450 - 36
UK excluding London +55 12 £475 -13.64% 26
South East +43 4 - - 6
North of England +31 4 £423 - 10
Midlands +26 3 £475 -13.64% 2
North East - 3 £370 - 1
East Midlands +11 2 £475 -13.64% 1
North West +11 1 £550 - 5
Scotland +7 1 £450 -35.71% 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 1

Visual Studio Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (16.22%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.11%) CMS
2 3 (8.11%) Jupyter
2 3 (8.11%) WordPress
3 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Trello
2 1 (2.70%) SPSS
2 1 (2.70%) Stata
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (62.16%) Azure
2 13 (35.14%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (29.73%) AWS
4 10 (27.03%) GitHub
5 9 (24.32%) Serverless
6 8 (21.62%) Power Platform
7 6 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (13.51%) Azure Functions
8 5 (13.51%) Azure WebJobs
8 5 (13.51%) PaaS
9 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (10.81%) SaaS
10 3 (8.11%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
10 3 (8.11%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (8.11%) DigitalOcean
10 3 (8.11%) Figma
10 3 (8.11%) Google Workspace
10 3 (8.11%) Heroku
10 3 (8.11%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) DNS
1 3 (8.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) MongoDB
1 6 (16.22%) Power BI
2 4 (10.81%) Redis
3 3 (8.11%) DynamoDB
3 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.41%) Impala
4 2 (5.41%) InterSystems Cache
4 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.70%) QGIS
5 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.70%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 12 (32.43%) Git
2 10 (27.03%) Visual Studio
3 9 (24.32%) Cypress.io
4 7 (18.92%) JIRA
5 6 (16.22%) Bitbucket
6 5 (13.51%) Postman
7 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
7 3 (8.11%) Mocha
7 3 (8.11%) Selenium
8 2 (5.41%) Artifactory
8 2 (5.41%) Moq
8 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
8 2 (5.41%) SpecFlow
8 2 (5.41%) TeamCity
9 1 (2.70%) Appium
9 1 (2.70%) git-flow
9 1 (2.70%) GitLab
9 1 (2.70%) PyCharm
9 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (2.70%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (24.32%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Banking
4 3 (8.11%) French Language
5 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Developer
2 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Architect
3 5 (13.51%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Python Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) C# Developer
5 3 (8.11%) SharePoint Architect
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (5.41%) JavaScript Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Python Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (43.24%) CSS
2 12 (32.43%) HTML
2 12 (32.43%) React
3 9 (24.32%) .NET
4 8 (21.62%) RESTful
5 7 (18.92%) AngularJS
6 6 (16.22%) Vue
7 5 (13.51%) Bootstrap
7 5 (13.51%) SPFx
8 4 (10.81%) Node.js
8 4 (10.81%) YAML
9 3 (8.11%) ASP.NET
9 3 (8.11%) HTML5
9 3 (8.11%) Laravel
9 3 (8.11%) pytest
9 3 (8.11%) REST
9 3 (8.11%) SVG
9 3 (8.11%) WebRTC
9 3 (8.11%) WebSockets
9 3 (8.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.81%) Mobile App
3 3 (8.11%) Algorithms
3 3 (8.11%) Data Structures
3 3 (8.11%) Vector Graphics
4 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (62.16%) DevOps
2 16 (43.24%) Agile
3 15 (40.54%) CI/CD
4 12 (32.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (27.03%) Test Automation
6 9 (24.32%) Software Engineering
6 9 (24.32%) User Experience
7 8 (21.62%) Unit Testing
8 7 (18.92%) UX Design
9 6 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (16.22%) Microservices
9 6 (16.22%) Technical Debt
10 5 (13.51%) Design Patterns
10 5 (13.51%) Document Management
10 5 (13.51%) Scrum
10 5 (13.51%) SOLID
10 5 (13.51%) Sprint Planning
11 4 (10.81%) Artificial Intelligence
11 4 (10.81%) CRM
11 4 (10.81%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 14 (37.84%) C#
2 10 (27.03%) JavaScript
2 10 (27.03%) TypeScript
3 8 (21.62%) PowerShell
3 8 (21.62%) Python
4 3 (8.11%) PHP
4 3 (8.11%) SQL
5 2 (5.41%) Bicep
5 2 (5.41%) VB
5 2 (5.41%) VB6
6 1 (2.70%) Java
6 1 (2.70%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
1 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Ansible
2 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) Terraform
3 1 (2.70%) MIIS
Vendors
1 14 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) Google
2 3 (8.11%) Sage
3 2 (5.41%) InterSystems
3 2 (5.41%) New Relic
3 2 (5.41%) Solace
4 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce