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 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 549 671
Rank change year-on-year +7 +122 -21
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 89 12 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.036% 0.100%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.45% 0.46% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 80 10 53
10th Percentile - £33,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £38,438 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £78,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,250 £79,125 £72,500
UK median annual salary £37,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -37.50% +14.29% +0.96%

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 2,580 2,589 6,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.61% 7.66% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,822 1,595 4,242
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £61,418 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +13.04% -11.54%

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 July 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 July 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 - 31 £37,500 - 23
South East +2 27 £60,000 +60.00% 20
Midlands - 15 £37,500 - 12
North West - 14 £37,500 - 11
West Midlands - 13 £37,500 - 4
Yorkshire - 12 £37,500 - 7
South West -58 10 £37,500 -51.61% 13
Scotland +12 6 £37,500 - 1
North East - 5 £37,500 - 7
East Midlands - 2 £46,250 - 8
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 51 (57.30%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 49 (55.06%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.12%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (1.12%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 54 (60.67%) AWS
2 51 (57.30%) Cloud Computing
3 11 (12.36%) Azure
4 7 (7.87%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (6.74%) Power Automate
6 5 (5.62%) GitHub
6 5 (5.62%) SaaS
7 4 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.25%) Figma
9 2 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.25%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.12%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (1.12%) GCP
10 1 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.12%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.12%) Serverless
10 1 (1.12%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) HTTP
1 1 (1.12%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.25%) Big Data
2 2 (2.25%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.25%) Power BI
3 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.12%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (30.34%) Git
2 17 (19.10%) GitLab
3 4 (4.49%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.25%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.25%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.25%) Jasmine
4 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.25%) JIRA
4 2 (2.25%) NUnit
4 2 (2.25%) Selenium
4 2 (2.25%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.12%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.12%) DBeaver
5 1 (1.12%) GoogleTest
5 1 (1.12%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (1.12%) PyCharm
5 1 (1.12%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 51 (57.30%) Finance
2 50 (56.18%) Manufacturing
2 50 (56.18%) Retail
3 9 (10.11%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.12%) Electronics
5 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 46 (51.69%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 46 (51.69%) Programmer
1 46 (51.69%) Trainee
1 46 (51.69%) Trainee Programmer
2 22 (24.72%) Software Engineer
3 18 (20.22%) Senior
4 17 (19.10%) Developer
5 13 (14.61%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) CRM Developer
6 5 (5.62%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
6 5 (5.62%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 4 (4.49%) Junior
7 4 (4.49%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.37%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 3 (3.37%) Junior Developer
9 2 (2.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 2 (2.25%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
9 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Developer
9 2 (2.25%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (55.06%) Hugging Face
1 49 (55.06%) Matplotlib
1 49 (55.06%) NumPy
1 49 (55.06%) Pandas
1 49 (55.06%) scikit-learn
1 49 (55.06%) Streamlit
2 8 (8.99%) .NET
3 5 (5.62%) HTML
4 4 (4.49%) REST
5 3 (3.37%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.37%) ASP.NET
5 3 (3.37%) CSS
5 3 (3.37%) Node.js
6 2 (2.25%) Jest
6 2 (2.25%) OpenID
6 2 (2.25%) PySpark
6 2 (2.25%) RESTful
6 2 (2.25%) Sass
6 2 (2.25%) Vitest
6 2 (2.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (79.78%) Algorithms
2 11 (12.36%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.62%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (5.62%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.37%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.25%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.12%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.12%) Pharmacovigilance
6 1 (1.12%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.48%) Linux
2 1 (1.12%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (1.12%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (60.67%) AI
2 50 (56.18%) Workflow
3 49 (55.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 49 (55.06%) Conversational UI
3 49 (55.06%) Customer Service
3 49 (55.06%) Data Privacy
3 49 (55.06%) LLM
3 49 (55.06%) Machine Learning
3 49 (55.06%) Neural Network
3 49 (55.06%) OO
3 49 (55.06%) OOP
3 49 (55.06%) Prompt Engineering
3 49 (55.06%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 49 (55.06%) Sentiment Analysis
3 49 (55.06%) Visualisation
4 26 (29.21%) Agile
5 24 (26.97%) Computer Science
6 23 (25.84%) CI/CD
6 23 (25.84%) DevOps
7 22 (24.72%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 74 (83.15%) Python
2 25 (28.09%) C#
3 22 (24.72%) C++
4 6 (6.74%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.74%) SQL
5 5 (5.62%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.25%) Bicep
6 2 (2.25%) Java
6 2 (2.25%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.25%) VBA
7 1 (1.12%) C
7 1 (1.12%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 49 (55.06%) AWS Certification
1 49 (55.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 24 (26.97%) Degree
3 15 (16.85%) SC Cleared
3 15 (16.85%) Security Cleared
4 12 (13.48%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.25%) WCAG
3 1 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 16 (17.98%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (4.49%) Terraform
2 2 (2.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.25%) MIIS
Vendors
1 60 (67.42%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.25%) Databricks
3 1 (1.12%) FIS
3 1 (1.12%) Google
3 1 (1.12%) Infor
3 1 (1.12%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.12%) Veracode