Visual Studio Code Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Visual Studio Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 477 630
Rank change year-on-year -12 +153 +98
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 58 42 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.42% 1.42% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 55 21 41
10th Percentile - £23,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +33.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £41,250 £78,750 £53,750
90th Percentile - £82,500 -
UK median annual salary £37,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -37.50% +14.29% -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,401 2,956 5,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.55% 10.54% 10.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,594 1,921 4,441
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £84,000
UK 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 UK excluding London

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

Visual Studio Code job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio Code
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Visual Studio Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio Code in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio Code in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio Code
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
North of England -16 28 £37,500 -47.46% 30
Midlands -23 13 £37,500 -25.00% 23
North West -4 12 £37,500 -34.78% 13
West Midlands -9 11 £37,500 -25.00% 7
Yorkshire -45 11 £37,500 -56.01% 12
Scotland -12 6 £37,500 -47.18% 7
South West -20 6 £37,500 -51.61% 11
South East -24 5 £67,500 -3.57% 36
North East - 5 £37,500 - 6
East Midlands - 2 £46,250 - 16
Visual Studio Code
UK

Visual Studio Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 49 (84.48%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 49 (84.48%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.72%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 51 (87.93%) AWS
2 49 (84.48%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.45%) Azure
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.72%) GCP
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.72%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.72%) Power BI
1 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Git
2 3 (5.17%) GitLab
3 1 (1.72%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.72%) NUnit
3 1 (1.72%) Selenium
3 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (87.93%) Finance
2 50 (86.21%) Retail
3 49 (84.48%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.17%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 46 (79.31%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 46 (79.31%) Programmer
1 46 (79.31%) Trainee
1 46 (79.31%) Trainee Programmer
2 8 (13.79%) Developer
3 4 (6.90%) Junior
3 4 (6.90%) Senior
4 3 (5.17%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 3 (5.17%) Junior Developer
4 3 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (5.17%) Software Engineer
5 2 (3.45%) Business Developer
6 1 (1.72%) CRM Developer
6 1 (1.72%) Data Engineer
6 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
6 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (1.72%) Senior Developer
6 1 (1.72%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (1.72%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (84.48%) Hugging Face
1 49 (84.48%) Matplotlib
1 49 (84.48%) NumPy
1 49 (84.48%) Pandas
1 49 (84.48%) scikit-learn
1 49 (84.48%) Streamlit
2 3 (5.17%) REST
3 2 (3.45%) .NET
3 2 (3.45%) Web Services
4 1 (1.72%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.72%) CSS
4 1 (1.72%) HTML
4 1 (1.72%) OpenID
4 1 (1.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 52 (89.66%) Algorithms
2 3 (5.17%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (86.21%) AI
2 49 (84.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 49 (84.48%) Conversational UI
2 49 (84.48%) Customer Service
2 49 (84.48%) Data Privacy
2 49 (84.48%) LLM
2 49 (84.48%) Machine Learning
2 49 (84.48%) Neural Network
2 49 (84.48%) OO
2 49 (84.48%) OOP
2 49 (84.48%) Prompt Engineering
2 49 (84.48%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 49 (84.48%) Sentiment Analysis
2 49 (84.48%) Visualisation
2 49 (84.48%) Workflow
3 5 (8.62%) Software Architecture
4 4 (6.90%) Computer Science
4 4 (6.90%) DevOps
5 3 (5.17%) Embedded Software Development
5 3 (5.17%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (91.38%) Python
2 4 (6.90%) C#
3 3 (5.17%) C++
4 1 (1.72%) Bicep
4 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (84.48%) AWS Certification
1 49 (84.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 4 (6.90%) Degree
3 3 (5.17%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.72%) MIIS
1 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (93.10%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.72%) FIS