Visual Studio Code Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Visual Studio Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 205 292
Rank change year-on-year -26 +87 +30
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 13 13 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.13% 0.26% 0.050%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.59% 3.07% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 5
10th Percentile - £41,000 -
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £26,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +92.31% -60.00%
75th Percentile £41,250 £56,250 £26,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £57,000 £39,850
England median annual salary £37,500 £67,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -44.44% +28.57% -2.33%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 362 423 784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.56% 8.43% 7.87%
Number of salaries quoted 275 321 656
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,875 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +8.91% -8.18%
75th Percentile £64,250 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,450 £75,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Visual Studio Code job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Visual Studio Code
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Visual Studio Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio Code in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio Code in the Midlands

Visual Studio Code
Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
West Midlands +4 11 £37,500 -25.00% 6
East Midlands - 2 £46,250 - 13
Visual Studio Code
England

Visual Studio Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (69.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
1 9 (69.23%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (30.77%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 10 (76.92%) Retail
3 9 (69.23%) Manufacturing
4 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 7 (53.85%) Programmer
1 7 (53.85%) Trainee
1 7 (53.85%) Trainee Programmer
2 6 (46.15%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Business Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Junior
3 2 (15.38%) Junior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) CRM Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) Hugging Face
1 9 (69.23%) Matplotlib
1 9 (69.23%) NumPy
1 9 (69.23%) Pandas
1 9 (69.23%) scikit-learn
1 9 (69.23%) Streamlit
2 2 (15.38%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) Web Services
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Algorithms
2 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
2 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) AI
1 9 (69.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 9 (69.23%) Conversational UI
1 9 (69.23%) Customer Service
1 9 (69.23%) Data Privacy
1 9 (69.23%) LLM
1 9 (69.23%) Machine Learning
1 9 (69.23%) Neural Network
1 9 (69.23%) OO
1 9 (69.23%) OOP
1 9 (69.23%) Prompt Engineering
1 9 (69.23%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 9 (69.23%) Sentiment Analysis
1 9 (69.23%) Visualisation
1 9 (69.23%) Workflow
2 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
2 2 (15.38%) Logistics
2 2 (15.38%) Migration
2 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (15.38%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) AWS Certification
1 9 (69.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft