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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 492 582
Rank change year-on-year -11 +90 +157
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 33 50 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.44% 1.49% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 31 25 35
10th Percentile - - £25,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £23,750 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £41,250 £75,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £78,750 £89,000
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 2,286 3,345 5,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.82% 10.22% 10.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,459 1,886 4,167
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £33,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £78,150 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,419 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.37% -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 February 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 February 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 +9 16 £37,500 -45.26% 22
North West +16 8 £37,500 -40.48% 10
Midlands 0 6 £37,500 -28.57% 14
West Midlands +6 5 £37,500 -28.57% 5
Yorkshire -31 5 £37,500 -56.01% 9
South West -9 4 £37,500 -51.61% 8
Scotland -13 4 £37,500 -47.18% 6
South East +17 3 £68,750 -1.79% 20
North East - 3 £37,500 - 3
East Midlands - 1 £55,000 - 9
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 26 (78.79%) Jupyter
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 26 (78.79%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (3.03%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 27 (81.82%) AWS
2 26 (78.79%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.03%) Azure
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.03%) GCP
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.03%) Power BI
1 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Git
2 3 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 28 (84.85%) Finance
2 27 (81.82%) Retail
3 26 (78.79%) Manufacturing
4 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (78.79%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 26 (78.79%) Programmer
1 26 (78.79%) Trainee
1 26 (78.79%) Trainee Programmer
2 3 (9.09%) Developer
2 3 (9.09%) Senior
2 3 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (9.09%) Software Engineer
3 2 (6.06%) Business Developer
4 1 (3.03%) Data Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) Junior
4 1 (3.03%) Junior Data Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (78.79%) Hugging Face
1 26 (78.79%) Matplotlib
1 26 (78.79%) NumPy
1 26 (78.79%) Pandas
1 26 (78.79%) scikit-learn
1 26 (78.79%) Streamlit
2 2 (6.06%) REST
2 2 (6.06%) Web Services
3 1 (3.03%) CSS
3 1 (3.03%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (87.88%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (81.82%) AI
2 26 (78.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 26 (78.79%) Conversational UI
2 26 (78.79%) Customer Service
2 26 (78.79%) Data Privacy
2 26 (78.79%) LLM
2 26 (78.79%) Machine Learning
2 26 (78.79%) Neural Network
2 26 (78.79%) OO
2 26 (78.79%) OOP
2 26 (78.79%) Prompt Engineering
2 26 (78.79%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 26 (78.79%) Sentiment Analysis
2 26 (78.79%) Visualisation
2 26 (78.79%) Workflow
3 5 (15.15%) Software Architecture
4 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
5 3 (9.09%) Embedded Software Development
5 3 (9.09%) Kanban
5 3 (9.09%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (90.91%) Python
2 3 (9.09%) C#
2 3 (9.09%) C++
3 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (78.79%) AWS Certification
1 26 (78.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 4 (12.12%) Degree
3 3 (9.09%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
Vendors
1 30 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.03%) FIS