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 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 294 337 432
Rank change year-on-year +43 +95 +138
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 15 15 21
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.10% 0.088%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.94% 0.84% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 12
10th Percentile - £329 £309
25th Percentile £413 £391 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £438 £463
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -5.41% -19.57%
75th Percentile £630 £523 £500
90th Percentile £690 £662 £534
UK median daily rate £500 £636 £500
% change year-on-year -21.41% +27.25% -4.76%

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 1,599 1,778 3,441
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.79% 12.14% 14.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 1,260 2,461
10th Percentile £330 £360 £369
25th Percentile £406 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -4.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £650
90th Percentile £690 £710 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 35 103
10th Percentile £29.10 £18.34 £40.04
25th Percentile £60.69 £40.00 £51.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile £72.00 £75.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £86.68 £87.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -8.46% +4.00% +18.60%

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 4 July 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 1 (6.67%) CMS
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
1 1 (6.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (6.67%) NetSuite
1 1 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) GitHub
2 7 (46.67%) AWS
3 6 (40.00%) Azure
4 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (20.00%) Serverless
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (6.67%) Figma
7 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (6.67%) Lucidchart
7 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
7 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 1 (6.67%) Rekognition
7 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (6.67%) Slack
7 1 (6.67%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) HTTP
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
3 1 (6.67%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (13.33%) InterSystems Cache
2 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.67%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Power BI
3 1 (6.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 5 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 4 (26.67%) Git
2 4 (26.67%) Postman
3 3 (20.00%) Mocha
3 3 (20.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (13.33%) TeamCity
5 1 (6.67%) Android Studio
5 1 (6.67%) CircleCI
5 1 (6.67%) Gradle
5 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (6.67%) WebStorm
5 1 (6.67%) Xcode
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) React Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Developer
4 1 (6.67%) C# Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) CSS
1 6 (40.00%) React
2 5 (33.33%) HTML
3 4 (26.67%) .NET
3 4 (26.67%) Jest
3 4 (26.67%) Node.js
3 4 (26.67%) REST
4 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (20.00%) AWS CDK
4 3 (20.00%) GatsbyJS
4 3 (20.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (20.00%) HTML5
4 3 (20.00%) OpenAPI
4 3 (20.00%) Redux
4 3 (20.00%) SVG
4 3 (20.00%) Swagger
4 3 (20.00%) Vue
4 3 (20.00%) WebRTC
4 3 (20.00%) WebSockets
5 2 (13.33%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 3 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (20.00%) Vector Graphics
3 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) DevOps
2 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (53.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
4 4 (26.67%) User Experience
4 4 (26.67%) UX Design
5 3 (20.00%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (20.00%) Jamstack
5 3 (20.00%) Microservices
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) SEO
5 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) API Development
6 2 (13.33%) Asynchronous Programming
6 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (13.33%) Impact Assessments
6 2 (13.33%) Mobile Development
6 2 (13.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
2 5 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 4 (26.67%) C#
4 3 (20.00%) Python
5 2 (13.33%) VB
5 2 (13.33%) VB6
6 1 (6.67%) Apex Code
6 1 (6.67%) Java
6 1 (6.67%) JSX
6 1 (6.67%) PHP
6 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) MIIS
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (13.33%) InterSystems
2 2 (13.33%) Solace
3 1 (6.67%) Dell
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Sage
3 1 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow