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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 542 527
Rank change year-on-year +21 -15 +243
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 6 67 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.14% 0.084%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.27% 1.74% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4 39 16
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £23,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £46,563 £68,125 £62,188
90th Percentile £56,125 £75,000 £90,967
UK median annual salary £77,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +40.91% +4.76% -5.41%

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 2,246 3,856 3,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.32% 8.08% 12.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,366 2,071 3,130
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £81,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 +25 3 £37,500 -45.45% 14
Midlands +42 2 £60,000 +44.58% 11
West Midlands +28 2 £60,000 +14.29% 6
Scotland - 1 - - 10
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 3 (50.00%) CMS
1 3 (50.00%) IIS
1 3 (50.00%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 3 (50.00%) Google Workspace
2 3 (50.00%) npm
3 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
2 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
3 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (50.00%) JIRA
3 3 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (50.00%) Vite
4 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
4 1 (16.67%) PyCharm
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Advertising
2 3 (50.00%) Back Office
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Business Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Umbraco Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Linux Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
1 3 (50.00%) Sass
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Front End Development
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Application Security
2 3 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) SEO
2 3 (50.00%) Time Management
2 3 (50.00%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) UX Design
3 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 2 (33.33%) Logistics
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Software Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft