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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 565 565
Rank change year-on-year +34 0 +211
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 5 68 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.12% 0.054%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.22% 1.56% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4 46 9
10th Percentile - - £44,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £23,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £46,688 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £56,475 £72,500 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.13% -9.62% +9.20%

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 2,301 4,359 4,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.70% 7.88% 12.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,294 2,515 3,438
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -5.17% +5.45%
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Visual Studio Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Code 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 +29 3 £37,500 -44.44% 4
South West +68 1 £60,000 - 2
Scotland - 1 - -
Visual Studio Code
UK

Visual Studio Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) CMS
1 3 (60.00%) IIS
1 3 (60.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) Google Workspace
2 3 (60.00%) npm
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) GSM
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (60.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (60.00%) Vite
3 1 (20.00%) GCC
3 1 (20.00%) gcov
3 1 (20.00%) GDB
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (20.00%) PyCharm
General
1 3 (60.00%) Advertising
1 3 (60.00%) Back Office
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Umbraco Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Linux Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) Sass
2 1 (20.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (20.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Front End Development
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Application Security
2 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) SEO
2 3 (60.00%) Time Management
2 3 (60.00%) User Experience
2 3 (60.00%) UX Design
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) C
4 1 (20.00%) C++
4 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) QNX