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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 548 635
Rank change year-on-year +39 +87 +164
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 42 47 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.080%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.91% 0.87% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 26 29
10th Percentile £413 £381 £375
25th Percentile £443 £416 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £636 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.41% +27.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £563 £719 £719
90th Percentile £626 £800 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £650 £438
% change year-on-year -23.08% +48.57% -12.50%

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 4,603 5,377 7,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.57% 12.38% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,086 3,567 5,545
10th Percentile £331 £355 £363
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £694 £725 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 248 235
10th Percentile £20.98 £30.28 £45.47
25th Percentile £47.36 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £59.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +4.00% +18.60%
75th Percentile £72.81 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £85.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

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 4 July 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 11 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 4 July 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 +46 24 £500 -22.93% 86
UK excluding London +37 19 £500 -23.08% 41
Work from Home +43 15 £575 +31.43% 51
London +25 13 £431 -24.14% 53
Scotland - 10 £500 - 7
South East +42 5 £500 +17.65% 8
Midlands +10 3 £500 -9.09% 4
West Midlands - 2 - - 3
North of England +8 1 £550 - 17
North West +5 1 £550 - 11
East Midlands +4 1 £500 -9.09% 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 4 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) CMS
3 1 (2.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.38%) SPSS
1 1 (2.38%) Stata
1 1 (2.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.38%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (2.38%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (69.05%) Azure
2 23 (54.76%) GitHub
3 21 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (45.24%) AWS
5 9 (21.43%) Serverless
6 8 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (16.67%) Power Platform
7 7 (16.67%) SaaS
7 7 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 6 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
10 3 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (7.14%) Azure Functions
10 3 (7.14%) Azure WebJobs
10 3 (7.14%) PaaS
11 2 (4.76%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (4.76%) Azure Stack
11 2 (4.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) DNS
2 3 (7.14%) DKIM
2 3 (7.14%) HTTP
3 1 (2.38%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) Power BI
2 3 (7.14%) DynamoDB
2 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.76%) GIS
3 2 (4.76%) InterSystems Cache
3 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.38%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.38%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (2.38%) QGIS
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.38%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (40.48%) Git
2 16 (38.10%) JIRA
3 15 (35.71%) Visual Studio
4 14 (33.33%) Bitbucket
5 10 (23.81%) IntelliJ
5 10 (23.81%) Jenkins
6 9 (21.43%) PyCharm
7 7 (16.67%) Cypress.io
8 5 (11.90%) Postman
9 3 (7.14%) Mocha
9 3 (7.14%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (4.76%) Moq
10 2 (4.76%) TeamCity
11 1 (2.38%) Android Studio
11 1 (2.38%) Poetry
11 1 (2.38%) Selenium
11 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (2.38%) WebDriver
11 1 (2.38%) WebStorm
11 1 (2.38%) Xcode
General
1 14 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Banking
3 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.38%) Aviation
4 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.38%) Legal
4 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (47.62%) Developer
2 7 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 7 (16.67%) Salesforce Developer
3 6 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Python Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Architect
5 4 (9.52%) Python Developer
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Cloud Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Senior
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) JavaScript Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) React Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) C# Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Migration Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) HTML
2 12 (28.57%) CSS
3 7 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
3 7 (16.67%) React
3 7 (16.67%) XML
4 6 (14.29%) .NET
4 6 (14.29%) JSON
4 6 (14.29%) Node.js
5 5 (11.90%) AngularJS
5 5 (11.90%) REST
6 4 (9.52%) Jest
7 3 (7.14%) .NET Core
7 3 (7.14%) AWS CDK
7 3 (7.14%) GatsbyJS
7 3 (7.14%) GraphQL
7 3 (7.14%) OpenAPI
7 3 (7.14%) Redux
7 3 (7.14%) SPFx
7 3 (7.14%) Swagger
7 3 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Public Cloud
2 6 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 5 (11.90%) Mobile App
4 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
5 3 (7.14%) Algorithms
5 3 (7.14%) Data Structures
5 3 (7.14%) Vector Graphics
6 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.38%) Low-Code
7 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Linux
1 10 (23.81%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Android
2 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (73.81%) DevOps
2 24 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 22 (52.38%) Agile
4 14 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 11 (26.19%) SDLC
6 10 (23.81%) Deployment Automation
6 10 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (19.05%) Build Automation
7 8 (19.05%) User Experience
8 7 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 6 (14.29%) UX Design
10 5 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (11.90%) Code Quality
11 4 (9.52%) Issue Tracking
11 4 (9.52%) Microservices
11 4 (9.52%) OO
11 4 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (9.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 17 (40.48%) C#
1 17 (40.48%) TypeScript
2 16 (38.10%) Python
3 15 (35.71%) JavaScript
4 12 (28.57%) Java
5 7 (16.67%) Apex Code
6 5 (11.90%) SOQL
7 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.76%) Bash
8 2 (4.76%) SQL
8 2 (4.76%) VB
8 2 (4.76%) VB6
9 1 (2.38%) JSX
9 1 (2.38%) PHP
9 1 (2.38%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 8 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) SLA
2 1 (2.38%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (28.57%) Terraform
2 11 (26.19%) Kubernetes
3 10 (23.81%) Ansible
4 1 (2.38%) MIIS
4 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 9 (21.43%) Salesforce
3 3 (7.14%) Oracle
3 3 (7.14%) SAP
3 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.76%) InterSystems
4 2 (4.76%) Solace
5 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.38%) Databricks
5 1 (2.38%) Dell
5 1 (2.38%) Google
5 1 (2.38%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.38%) Sage