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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 532 580
Rank change year-on-year -67 +48 -13
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 53 5 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.064% 0.014% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.86% 0.22% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 42 4 47
10th Percentile £45,250 - £23,750
25th Percentile £51,563 £33,750 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £37,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -28.57% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £46,688 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £56,475 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year - +2.13% -9.62%

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 2,843 2,323 4,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.42% 6.72% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,901 1,315 2,591
10th Percentile £31,500 £32,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,435 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +4.43% -5.98%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £61,018 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.37% +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 11 September 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 11 September 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
South East -20 26 £60,000 +60.00% 22
Midlands - 12 £70,000 - 15
North of England - 10 £55,000 - 17
West Midlands - 8 £70,000 - 7
North West - 7 £51,750 - 6
South West -73 4 £62,500 +4.17% 12
East Midlands - 4 £70,000 - 8
Yorkshire - 3 £62,500 - 6
East of England - 1 - - 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 5 (9.43%) Jupyter
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.77%) Confluence
3 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.89%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.89%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Chatbot
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (7.55%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.89%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 15 (28.30%) Azure
2 12 (22.64%) Dynamics 365
3 11 (20.75%) AWS
4 9 (16.98%) Power Automate
5 8 (15.09%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (15.09%) SaaS
6 6 (11.32%) Power Platform
7 5 (9.43%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (9.43%) GitHub
8 4 (7.55%) PowerApps
8 4 (7.55%) Serverless
9 3 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (5.66%) Azure Functions
9 3 (5.66%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (5.66%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (5.66%) dbt
9 3 (5.66%) Fivetran
9 3 (5.66%) GCP
9 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (5.66%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) HTTP
1 1 (1.89%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.32%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.55%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.66%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (5.66%) BigQuery
3 3 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.66%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.66%) MySQL
3 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.66%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.77%) Big Data
4 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.77%) Power BI
5 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (58.49%) Git
2 14 (26.42%) GitLab
3 7 (13.21%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.55%) Bitbucket
4 4 (7.55%) Eclipse
4 4 (7.55%) Visual Studio
5 2 (3.77%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.77%) Jasmine
5 2 (3.77%) JIRA
5 2 (3.77%) JUnit
5 2 (3.77%) NUnit
5 2 (3.77%) Selenium
5 2 (3.77%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.89%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.89%) DBeaver
6 1 (1.89%) GoogleTest
6 1 (1.89%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (1.89%) PyCharm
6 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.89%) Terragrunt
General
1 17 (32.08%) Finance
2 12 (22.64%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.98%) Manufacturing
4 5 (9.43%) Retail
5 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.89%) Billing
8 1 (1.89%) Electronics
8 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 26 (49.06%) Developer
2 20 (37.74%) Software Engineer
3 18 (33.96%) Senior
4 10 (18.87%) Senior Software Engineer
5 7 (13.21%) Senior Developer
6 6 (11.32%) Software Developer
7 5 (9.43%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 4 (7.55%) Business Developer
8 4 (7.55%) CRM Developer
8 4 (7.55%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
8 4 (7.55%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Data Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 2 (3.77%) Data Scientist
10 2 (3.77%) Junior
10 2 (3.77%) Junior Developer
10 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Developer
10 2 (3.77%) RPG Developer
10 2 (3.77%) Senior Software Developer
10 2 (3.77%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.21%) .NET
2 5 (9.43%) Web Services
3 4 (7.55%) HTML
3 4 (7.55%) REST
3 4 (7.55%) Terraform
4 3 (5.66%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.66%) ASP.NET
4 3 (5.66%) AWS CDK
4 3 (5.66%) Hugging Face
4 3 (5.66%) Matplotlib
4 3 (5.66%) Node.js
4 3 (5.66%) NumPy
4 3 (5.66%) Pandas
4 3 (5.66%) Sass
4 3 (5.66%) scikit-learn
4 3 (5.66%) Spring
4 3 (5.66%) Spring Boot
4 3 (5.66%) Streamlit
5 2 (3.77%) NestJS
5 2 (3.77%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 23 (43.40%) Algorithms
2 12 (22.64%) Product Ownership
3 6 (11.32%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (7.55%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.66%) Replication
5 3 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.77%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.77%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.89%) Pharmacovigilance
7 1 (1.89%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.64%) Linux
2 1 (1.89%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (1.89%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (47.17%) DevOps
2 24 (45.28%) Agile
2 24 (45.28%) CI/CD
3 21 (39.62%) Computer Science
4 20 (37.74%) Software Engineering
5 18 (33.96%) Software Architecture
6 17 (32.08%) SDLC
7 16 (30.19%) Decision-Making
7 16 (30.19%) Scrum
8 15 (28.30%) Line Management
9 14 (26.42%) Embedded Software Development
10 13 (24.53%) AI
10 13 (24.53%) Kanban
11 9 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (15.09%) Software Testing
13 7 (13.21%) Data Transformation
14 6 (11.32%) Collaborative Working
14 6 (11.32%) Technical Debt
14 6 (11.32%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (54.72%) Python
2 25 (47.17%) C#
3 20 (37.74%) C++
4 11 (20.75%) SQL
5 6 (11.32%) JavaScript
5 6 (11.32%) TypeScript
6 4 (7.55%) C
6 4 (7.55%) Java
7 2 (3.77%) Bicep
7 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.77%) RPG
7 2 (3.77%) VBA
8 1 (1.89%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (39.62%) Degree
2 14 (26.42%) SC Cleared
2 14 (26.42%) Security Cleared
3 9 (16.98%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.66%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) Accessibility
1 5 (9.43%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.77%) WCAG
3 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 17 (32.08%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.77%) MIIS
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.77%) Databricks
2 2 (3.77%) IBM
3 1 (1.89%) Google
3 1 (1.89%) Infor
3 1 (1.89%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.89%) Veracode