Visual Studio Code Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.24% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.84% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £321 - -
25th Percentile £335 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 - -
75th Percentile £386 - -
90th Percentile £396 - -
England median daily rate £500 £650 £588
% change year-on-year -23.08% +10.64% +11.90%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 217 197 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.13% 10.57% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 143 164
10th Percentile £354 £340 £319
25th Percentile £413 £375 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £502 £537
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% -6.57% +8.43%
75th Percentile £517 £612 £600
90th Percentile £588 £687 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - £37.20 -
25th Percentile £54.75 £55.63 £31.69
Median hourly rate £56.50 £56.25 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% +68.49% -
75th Percentile £58.25 £58.75 £35.08
90th Percentile - £65.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +18.18%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Code in the West Midlands

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio Code in the West Midlands

Visual Studio Code
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham - 3 £364 - 2
Coventry - 1 - -
Visual Studio Code
England

Visual Studio Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (25.00%) Moqups
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) SSH
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Parquet
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Poetry
2 2 (50.00%) PyCharm
2 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) Android Studio
3 1 (25.00%) Gradle
3 1 (25.00%) MLflow
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (25.00%) Xcode
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) React Developer
2 1 (25.00%) UI Designer
2 1 (25.00%) UI/UX Designer
2 1 (25.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) Flask
1 2 (50.00%) NumPy
1 2 (50.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Avro
2 1 (25.00%) Blazor
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) React Native
2 1 (25.00%) Redux
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Android
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) UX Design
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Code Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Cross-Platform Development
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Development
3 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (25.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Groovy
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) JSX
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Argo
1 1 (25.00%) Istio
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft