Visual Studio Code Job Trends in Merseyside

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Visual Studio Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 53 77
Rank change year-on-year -6 +24 +19
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 6 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.77% 0.24% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.79% 5.26% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33,750 £53,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £57,500 £25,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% +125.49% -42.37%
75th Percentile £41,250 £61,250 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £37,500 £57,500 £25,500
% change year-on-year -34.78% +125.49% -42.37%

All Development Application Skills
Merseyside

Visual Studio Code falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 38 19 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 4.88% 4.52% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 38 19 86
10th Percentile - £28,450 £35,375
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £55,000 £45,625
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% +20.55% -8.75%
75th Percentile £53,313 £59,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £60,250 £90,000
North West median annual salary £55,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.48% +4.55% -4.35%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Visual Studio Code relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Visual Studio Code job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Visual Studio Code
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Visual Studio Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio Code within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 6 March 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool -3 6 £37,500 -34.78% 3
Visual Studio Code
North West

Visual Studio Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 6 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 6 (100.00%) Programmer
1 6 (100.00%) Trainee
1 6 (100.00%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 6 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 6 (100.00%) NumPy
1 6 (100.00%) Pandas
1 6 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 6 (100.00%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) AI
1 6 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 6 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 6 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 6 (100.00%) LLM
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 6 (100.00%) Neural Network
1 6 (100.00%) OO
1 6 (100.00%) OOP
1 6 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 6 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis
1 6 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 6 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft