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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 661 711 739
Rank change year-on-year +50 +28 +252
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 15 85 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.11% 0.063%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.40% 1.27% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 14 58 19
10th Percentile £33,750 £23,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,188 £28,125 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -9.62% +9.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £84,375
90th Percentile £82,500 £73,250 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -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 3,787 6,683 7,864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.66% 8.56% 13.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,255 3,894 6,289
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £42,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,375 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,750 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,785 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +3.25% -5.17% +5.45%

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

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 18 September 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 18 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
Work from Home +64 11 £75,000 +8.30% 14
England +49 11 £75,000 +11.11% 16
London +58 7 £75,000 +11.11% 8
UK excluding London +50 5 £37,500 -28.57% 11
South East +28 3 £37,500 -44.44% 4
South West +73 1 £60,000 - 2
Scotland - 1 - -

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 3 (20.00%) CMS
1 3 (20.00%) Confluence
1 3 (20.00%) IIS
1 3 (20.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) GitHub
3 6 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (33.33%) AWS
5 4 (26.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (20.00%) Azure App Service
6 3 (20.00%) Azure Functions
6 3 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (20.00%) Google Workspace
6 3 (20.00%) npm
6 3 (20.00%) Power Automate
6 3 (20.00%) PowerApps
6 3 (20.00%) Serverless
7 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 1 (6.67%) BrowserStack
7 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) GSM
1 1 (6.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (20.00%) Power BI
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Git
2 7 (46.67%) Visual Studio
3 6 (40.00%) JIRA
4 4 (26.67%) Postman
4 4 (26.67%) Selenium
5 3 (20.00%) Bitbucket
5 3 (20.00%) JMeter
5 3 (20.00%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (20.00%) Vite
6 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
6 1 (6.67%) GCC
6 1 (6.67%) gcov
6 1 (6.67%) GDB
6 1 (6.67%) GitLab
6 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
6 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
6 1 (6.67%) PyCharm
6 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (40.00%) Retail
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Advertising
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Back Office
3 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Business Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Digital Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (20.00%) React Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior React Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Umbraco Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) .NET
1 6 (40.00%) .NET Core
1 6 (40.00%) CSS
1 6 (40.00%) HTML
2 4 (26.67%) React
3 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 3 (20.00%) Node.js
3 3 (20.00%) Nuxt
3 3 (20.00%) OpenAPI
3 3 (20.00%) RESTful
3 3 (20.00%) Sass
3 3 (20.00%) Swagger
3 3 (20.00%) Vue
3 3 (20.00%) Web Services
4 1 (6.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (6.67%) Playwright
4 1 (6.67%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (46.67%) Front End Development
3 6 (40.00%) DevOps
3 6 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 6 (40.00%) SDLC
4 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) Clean Code
4 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 3 (20.00%) API Design
5 3 (20.00%) API Development
5 3 (20.00%) Application Security
5 3 (20.00%) Backlog Management
5 3 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (20.00%) Microservices
5 3 (20.00%) Mobile First
5 3 (20.00%) Observability
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 7 (46.67%) C#
3 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (26.67%) Python
4 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
5 2 (13.33%) C
5 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (26.67%) QA
3 3 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
2 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (6.67%) Foundry
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) IBM
3 1 (6.67%) QNX