Visual Studio Code Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Visual Studio Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Studio Code over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 451 582
Rank change year-on-year +122 +131 -133
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 23 19 52
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.073% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.23% 0.48% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 31
10th Percentile £348 £434 £425
25th Percentile £413 £486 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.94% -7.09% +7.21%
75th Percentile £500 £533 £663
90th Percentile £560 £590 £858
UK median daily rate £500 £554 £545
% change year-on-year -9.75% +1.65% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Visual Studio Code is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,863 3,952 8,294
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.12% 15.28% 18.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,332 2,835 5,988
10th Percentile £360 £395 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 114 103
10th Percentile £27.62 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £47.06 £54.06 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £61.08
90th Percentile - £81.75 £67.40
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%

Visual Studio Code
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Visual Studio Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Visual Studio Code trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Visual Studio Code over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 5 (21.74%) CMS
1 5 (21.74%) Headless CMS
1 5 (21.74%) Kentico
2 2 (8.70%) IIS
3 1 (4.35%) Confluence
3 1 (4.35%) Ethereum
3 1 (4.35%) MetaMask
3 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.35%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.35%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 9 (39.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) GitHub
4 4 (17.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 3 (13.04%) AWS
5 3 (13.04%) Serverless
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (8.70%) IaaS
6 2 (8.70%) PaaS
6 2 (8.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (4.35%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) DNS
2 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (47.83%) Git
2 6 (26.09%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Marketing
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Developer
2 9 (39.13%) Salesforce Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Azure Developer
3 5 (21.74%) CMS Developer
3 5 (21.74%) DevOps Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (21.74%) HTML CSS Developer
3 5 (21.74%) HTML Developer
3 5 (21.74%) JavaScript Developer
3 5 (21.74%) React Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Blockchain Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (4.35%) PowerShell Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (60.87%) JSON
2 9 (39.13%) CSS
2 9 (39.13%) Lightning Web Components
3 8 (34.78%) XML
4 7 (30.43%) HTML
4 7 (30.43%) jQuery
4 7 (30.43%) React
5 5 (21.74%) DOM
5 5 (21.74%) GatsbyJS
5 5 (21.74%) GraphQL
6 3 (13.04%) REST
7 2 (8.70%) .NET
7 2 (8.70%) ARM Templates
7 2 (8.70%) YAML
8 1 (4.35%) .NET Remoting
8 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
8 1 (4.35%) CSS3
8 1 (4.35%) HTML5
8 1 (4.35%) Node.js
8 1 (4.35%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
1 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Agile
1 13 (56.52%) DevOps
2 9 (39.13%) CRM
2 9 (39.13%) User Experience
3 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
4 6 (26.09%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 6 (26.09%) Front End Development
5 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (17.39%) ITSM
7 3 (13.04%) Microservices
7 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
8 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (8.70%) Open Source
8 2 (8.70%) Scrum
8 2 (8.70%) Test Scripting
8 2 (8.70%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) JavaScript
2 9 (39.13%) Apex Code
2 9 (39.13%) SOQL
3 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) Solidity
4 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Salesforce
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.35%) Pardot
3 1 (4.35%) Xamarin