Visual Studio Code Job Trends

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Visual Studio Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 656 657
Rank change year-on-year +16 +1 +305
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 21 94 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.039% 0.14% 0.095%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.57% 1.52% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 20 59 26
10th Percentile £55,875 - £43,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £23,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +4.76% -11.80%
75th Percentile £90,938 £68,750 £87,125
90th Percentile £93,750 £75,500 £93,467
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £37,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +30.00% -28.57% -4.55%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,693 6,185 6,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.85% 9.21% 12.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,378 3,530 5,349
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £42,431
25th Percentile £42,780 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.17% +5.45%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Visual Studio Code relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Visual Studio Code job vacancy trend in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visual Studio Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio Code over the 6 months to 27 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Top 7 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +34 17 £80,000 +18.52% 20
London +52 14 £85,000 +25.93% 7
Work from Home +91 13 £75,000 +8.30% 18
UK excluding London +22 3 £48,750 +30.00% 22
West Midlands +45 2 £60,000 +14.29% 4
Midlands +21 2 £60,000 +44.58% 4
South East +38 1 £37,500 -46.43% 3

Visual Studio Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) CMS
2 1 (4.76%) IIS
2 1 (4.76%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) Azure
2 12 (57.14%) GitHub
3 11 (52.38%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (28.57%) Power Platform
5 5 (23.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (23.81%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (14.29%) Azure AI
6 3 (14.29%) Azure AKS
6 3 (14.29%) Azure App Service
6 3 (14.29%) Azure Functions
6 3 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (14.29%) Power Automate
6 3 (14.29%) PowerApps
6 3 (14.29%) Serverless
7 2 (9.52%) AWS
7 2 (9.52%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 1 (4.76%) Google Analytics
8 1 (4.76%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 3 (14.29%) Power BI
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (66.67%) Git
2 9 (42.86%) JIRA
2 9 (42.86%) Visual Studio
3 6 (28.57%) Cypress.io
4 4 (19.05%) Postman
4 4 (19.05%) Selenium
5 3 (14.29%) JMeter
6 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
6 1 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (4.76%) Vite
6 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (52.38%) Retail
2 5 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 2 (9.52%) Finance
6 1 (4.76%) Advertising
6 1 (4.76%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 17 (80.95%) Developer
2 10 (47.62%) Senior
2 10 (47.62%) Senior Developer
3 6 (28.57%) Azure Developer
4 5 (23.81%) Business Developer
4 5 (23.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 5 (23.81%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 3 (14.29%) .NET Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Digital Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Python Developer
5 3 (14.29%) React Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior React Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) CSS
1 9 (42.86%) HTML
2 8 (38.10%) GraphQL
2 8 (38.10%) Node.js
2 8 (38.10%) Nuxt
2 8 (38.10%) RESTful
2 8 (38.10%) Vue
3 5 (23.81%) Jest
3 5 (23.81%) React
3 5 (23.81%) Tailwind CSS
3 5 (23.81%) Vitest
3 5 (23.81%) Web Services
4 4 (19.05%) .NET
4 4 (19.05%) .NET Core
5 3 (14.29%) OpenAPI
5 3 (14.29%) Swagger
6 2 (9.52%) REST
7 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
7 1 (4.76%) Playwright
7 1 (4.76%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 5 (23.81%) Product Ownership
2 5 (23.81%) Public Cloud
3 3 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 3 (14.29%) Private Cloud
4 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
4 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
1 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
1 13 (61.90%) DevOps
2 11 (52.38%) Agile
3 9 (42.86%) Front End Development
3 9 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 8 (38.10%) Backlog Management
5 6 (28.57%) Analytics
5 6 (28.57%) SDLC
5 6 (28.57%) SEO
5 6 (28.57%) User Experience
5 6 (28.57%) UX Design
6 5 (23.81%) API Integration
6 5 (23.81%) Clean Code
6 5 (23.81%) Customer-Centricity
6 5 (23.81%) E-Commerce
6 5 (23.81%) Pair Programming
6 5 (23.81%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (23.81%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 9 (42.86%) TypeScript
2 6 (28.57%) C#
2 6 (28.57%) Python
3 5 (23.81%) SQL
4 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (42.86%) Accessibility
1 9 (42.86%) QA
2 5 (23.81%) GDPR
2 5 (23.81%) PERC
3 3 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Ansible
2 3 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 3 (14.29%) Foundry
3 1 (4.76%) Google