Visual Studio Code Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 288 322 458
Rank change year-on-year +34 +136 +122
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 16 23 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.15% 0.073%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.08% 1.24% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 7
10th Percentile £345 £348 £434
25th Percentile £413 £413 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £511
Median % change year-on-year - -11.94% -7.09%
75th Percentile £626 £500 £533
90th Percentile £690 £560 £590
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £554
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.75% +1.65%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Visual Studio Code
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Visual Studio Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Visual Studio Code trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Visual Studio Code
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Visual Studio Code.

Visual Studio Code daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio Code
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Visual Studio Code over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Visual Studio Code daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio Code
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Visual Studio Code.

Visual Studio Code hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (18.75%) CMS
1 3 (18.75%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
1 8 (50.00%) GitHub
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon Cognito
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) DigitalOcean
3 3 (18.75%) Figma
3 3 (18.75%) Google Workspace
3 3 (18.75%) Heroku
3 3 (18.75%) Serverless
3 3 (18.75%) Slack
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DNS
1 3 (18.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
3 2 (12.50%) InterSystems Cache
3 2 (12.50%) Redis
4 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (6.25%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.25%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Visual Studio
2 5 (31.25%) Cypress.io
2 5 (31.25%) Git
3 4 (25.00%) JIRA
3 4 (25.00%) Postman
4 3 (18.75%) Bitbucket
4 3 (18.75%) Mocha
5 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
6 1 (6.25%) git-flow
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) French Language
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (18.75%) C# Developer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Lead C# Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (6.25%) React Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) CSS
2 7 (43.75%) .NET
2 7 (43.75%) HTML
2 7 (43.75%) React
3 4 (25.00%) Node.js
3 4 (25.00%) RESTful
3 4 (25.00%) Vue
4 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
4 3 (18.75%) Bootstrap
4 3 (18.75%) GatsbyJS
4 3 (18.75%) GraphQL
4 3 (18.75%) HTML5
4 3 (18.75%) Jest
4 3 (18.75%) Laravel
4 3 (18.75%) REST
4 3 (18.75%) SVG
4 3 (18.75%) Swagger
4 3 (18.75%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (18.75%) WebRTC
4 3 (18.75%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
2 3 (18.75%) Data Structures
2 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) Vector Graphics
3 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) DevOps
1 10 (62.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) Microservices
4 4 (25.00%) Project Management
5 3 (18.75%) Analytics
5 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (18.75%) CRM
5 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (18.75%) Jamstack
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Prototyping
5 3 (18.75%) SDLC
5 3 (18.75%) SEO
5 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
5 3 (18.75%) User Experience
5 3 (18.75%) UX Design
5 3 (18.75%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) C#
2 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (18.75%) PHP
5 2 (12.50%) Python
5 2 (12.50%) VB
5 2 (12.50%) VB6
6 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) MIIS
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Google
2 3 (18.75%) Sage
3 2 (12.50%) InterSystems
3 2 (12.50%) New Relic
3 2 (12.50%) Solace
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce