Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Visual Studio Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Studio Code over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 798 894 996
Rank change year-on-year +96 +102 -183
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 99 107 216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.10% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.03% 0.68% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 56 35 143
10th Percentile £25,500 £42,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,156 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -3.85% +44.44%
75th Percentile £69,063 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,500 £77,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.91% +30.59%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Visual Studio Code is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,582 15,687 33,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.85% 14.67% 22.06%
Number of salaries quoted 6,805 9,552 15,952
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,131 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £77,715 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Visual Studio Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio Code.

Salary trend for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio Code over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Top 16 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 18 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +58 82 £52,500 +5.00% 12
England +120 77 £52,500 -10.64% 18
Work from Home +109 50 £52,500 -19.23% 7
South East +66 38 £52,500 +2.44% 6
London +112 16 £80,000 +3.23% 7
Scotland -49 15 - - 1
Midlands +5 7 £26,000 -60.00% 3
North of England +55 6 £34,625 -21.75% 1
East of England - 6 £46,500 -
Wales +6 5 £27,500 -
South West -14 4 - - 2
East Midlands - 4 £26,000 - 2
Yorkshire +80 3 £90,000 -
West Midlands +31 3 £47,500 -26.92% 1
North West +8 3 £25,500 -42.37% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £90,000 -

Visual Studio Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (6.06%) Jupyter
1 6 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.04%) Confluence
3 2 (2.02%) WordPress
4 1 (1.01%) CMS
4 1 (1.01%) IIS
Applications
1 27 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.04%) Trello
3 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.02%) FileZilla
5 1 (1.01%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (1.01%) Adobe XD
5 1 (1.01%) InVision
5 1 (1.01%) Photoshop
5 1 (1.01%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 60 (60.61%) Azure
2 36 (36.36%) GitHub
3 23 (23.23%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (18.18%) AWS
5 10 (10.10%) Power Platform
6 7 (7.07%) GCP
6 7 (7.07%) Pulumi
7 6 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (6.06%) Figma
7 6 (6.06%) PowerApps
8 5 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (4.04%) SaaS
9 4 (4.04%) Serverless
10 2 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.02%) Firebase
10 2 (2.02%) Google Analytics
10 2 (2.02%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (2.02%) IaaS
10 2 (2.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.08%) Network Security
2 6 (6.06%) Firewall
3 4 (4.04%) Internet
4 2 (2.02%) DNS
4 2 (2.02%) FTP
4 2 (2.02%) VPN
5 1 (1.01%) MQTT
5 1 (1.01%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.06%) Big Data
3 5 (5.05%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.05%) Redis
4 4 (4.04%) Metabase
4 4 (4.04%) Power BI
5 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.02%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 47 (47.47%) Visual Studio
2 43 (43.43%) Git
3 23 (23.23%) Jasmine
4 15 (15.15%) Karma Test Runner
5 12 (12.12%) Selenium
6 9 (9.09%) IntelliJ
6 9 (9.09%) JIRA
6 9 (9.09%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (8.08%) NUnit
8 7 (7.07%) TeamCity
9 4 (4.04%) Eclipse
9 4 (4.04%) JMeter
9 4 (4.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (4.04%) WebDriver
10 2 (2.02%) Bitbucket
10 2 (2.02%) Cypress.io
10 2 (2.02%) ESLint
10 2 (2.02%) Mocha
10 2 (2.02%) RStudio
10 2 (2.02%) SonarQube
General
1 49 (49.49%) Finance
2 40 (40.40%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (16.16%) Law
5 15 (15.15%) Banking
5 15 (15.15%) Private Banking
6 10 (10.10%) Retail
7 7 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (4.04%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.03%) Legal
10 2 (2.02%) Agriculture
10 2 (2.02%) Marketing
10 2 (2.02%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.02%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.01%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 61 (61.62%) Developer
2 29 (29.29%) .NET Developer
3 13 (13.13%) Senior
4 12 (12.12%) Software Developer
5 11 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
6 9 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
6 9 (9.09%) C# Developer
6 9 (9.09%) UI Developer
7 8 (8.08%) AWS Developer
7 8 (8.08%) Lead
8 7 (7.07%) .NET Software Developer
8 7 (7.07%) Azure Developer
8 7 (7.07%) C# Software Developer
8 7 (7.07%) Lead .NET Developer
8 7 (7.07%) Lead C# Developer
8 7 (7.07%) Lead Developer
8 7 (7.07%) Lead Software Developer
9 6 (6.06%) ASP.NET Developer
9 6 (6.06%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 6 (6.06%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (72.73%) HTML
2 66 (66.67%) .NET
3 48 (48.48%) CSS
4 38 (38.38%) HTML5
5 32 (32.32%) ASP.NET
6 26 (26.26%) RESTful
7 24 (24.24%) AngularJS
8 23 (23.23%) Blazor
9 18 (18.18%) Sass
10 17 (17.17%) .NET Framework
10 17 (17.17%) ASP.NET Web API
10 17 (17.17%) jQuery
10 17 (17.17%) OpenAPI
10 17 (17.17%) Swagger
11 15 (15.15%) ASP.NET MVC
11 15 (15.15%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 15 (15.15%) LESS
11 15 (15.15%) OAuth
11 15 (15.15%) OAuth2
12 14 (14.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.06%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.05%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.04%) Low-Code
4 4 (4.04%) Raspberry Pi
5 3 (3.03%) Hackathon
5 3 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.02%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.02%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.02%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.01%) IoT
7 1 (1.01%) NHS
7 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.09%) Windows
2 8 (8.08%) Linux
3 4 (4.04%) AIX
3 4 (4.04%) Windows 7
3 4 (4.04%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.02%) Android
5 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (49.49%) Agile
2 39 (39.39%) MVC
3 31 (31.31%) DevOps
4 27 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 22 (22.22%) Front End Development
5 22 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (19.19%) Full Stack Development
6 19 (19.19%) Web Development
7 17 (17.17%) Asset Management
8 15 (15.15%) Investment Management
8 15 (15.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 15 (15.15%) Wealth Management
9 14 (14.14%) Analytics
10 13 (13.13%) Scrum
11 11 (11.11%) Mentoring
11 11 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (10.10%) Software Engineering
13 9 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (9.09%) Software Architecture
14 8 (8.08%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 70 (70.71%) JavaScript
2 51 (51.52%) SQL
3 42 (42.42%) C#
4 31 (31.31%) TypeScript
5 25 (25.25%) T-SQL
6 14 (14.14%) Python
7 13 (13.13%) Java
8 7 (7.07%) Bicep
9 5 (5.05%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.02%) PHP
10 2 (2.02%) R
10 2 (2.02%) XPath
11 1 (1.01%) Bash
11 1 (1.01%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (12.12%) Degree
2 9 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.01%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.01%) OCP
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.16%) Accessibility
2 15 (15.15%) WAI
3 5 (5.05%) QA
4 3 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.02%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 13 (13.13%) Docker
2 4 (4.04%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 11 (11.11%) Terraform
2 7 (7.07%) MIIS
Vendors
1 16 (16.16%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.04%) Google
2 4 (4.04%) Meraki
2 4 (4.04%) Veeam
2 4 (4.04%) VMware
3 2 (2.02%) Alteryx
3 2 (2.02%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.01%) Adobe
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle