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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 605 781
Rank change year-on-year -21 +176 +89
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 93 33 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.079% 0.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.23% 0.78% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 80 22 56
10th Percentile - £51,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £52,813 £42,156
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +33.33% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £78,750 £69,063
90th Percentile £82,625 £92,650 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -46.43% +33.33% +5.00%

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 4,175 4,248 9,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.78% 10.16% 9.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,748 3,013 6,780
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,900 £81,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,001 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

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 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Top 14 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 20 April 2026. 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 -26 83 £37,500 -46.43% 60
UK excluding London -41 72 £37,500 -46.43% 66
North of England -30 29 £37,500 -47.46% 14
London +8 17 £80,000 +35.02% 18
Work from Home +8 16 £70,000 +21.74% 14
Midlands -26 16 £37,500 - 8
West Midlands -24 14 £37,500 - 6
South East -32 14 £67,500 -3.57% 24
North West -13 13 £37,500 -34.78% 7
Yorkshire -50 11 £37,500 -56.01% 5
South West -45 7 £37,500 -51.61% 5
Scotland -16 6 £37,500 -47.18% 6
North East - 5 £37,500 - 3
East Midlands - 2 £46,250 - 2

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 54 (58.06%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.15%) Confluence
3 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 54 (58.06%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.08%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 58 (62.37%) AWS
2 54 (58.06%) Cloud Computing
3 20 (21.51%) Azure
4 12 (12.90%) GitHub
5 8 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (8.60%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (5.38%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.23%) Azure AI
7 3 (3.23%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.15%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.15%) SaaS
9 1 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.08%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.08%) GCP
9 1 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.08%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.08%) Power BI
2 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (27.96%) Git
2 10 (10.75%) GitLab
3 5 (5.38%) JIRA
3 5 (5.38%) Visual Studio
4 3 (3.23%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.15%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.15%) NUnit
5 2 (2.15%) Selenium
5 2 (2.15%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.08%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.08%) GoogleTest
6 1 (1.08%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.08%) PyCharm
6 1 (1.08%) SonarQube
General
1 58 (62.37%) Retail
2 57 (61.29%) Finance
3 55 (59.14%) Manufacturing
4 9 (9.68%) Social Skills
5 6 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.15%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.08%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 51 (54.84%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 51 (54.84%) Programmer
1 51 (54.84%) Trainee
1 51 (54.84%) Trainee Programmer
2 19 (20.43%) Developer
3 17 (18.28%) Senior
4 12 (12.90%) Software Engineer
5 9 (9.68%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
6 8 (8.60%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 8 (8.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 8 (8.60%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.30%) CRM Developer
8 4 (4.30%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
8 4 (4.30%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 4 (4.30%) Junior
9 3 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 3 (3.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.23%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (58.06%) Hugging Face
1 54 (58.06%) Matplotlib
1 54 (58.06%) NumPy
1 54 (58.06%) Pandas
1 54 (58.06%) scikit-learn
1 54 (58.06%) Streamlit
2 6 (6.45%) .NET
3 5 (5.38%) RESTful
4 4 (4.30%) CSS
4 4 (4.30%) HTML
4 4 (4.30%) REST
5 3 (3.23%) GraphQL
5 3 (3.23%) Jest
5 3 (3.23%) Node.js
5 3 (3.23%) Nuxt
5 3 (3.23%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (3.23%) Vitest
5 3 (3.23%) Vue
5 3 (3.23%) Web Services
6 2 (2.15%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 65 (69.89%) Algorithms
2 10 (10.75%) Public Cloud
3 9 (9.68%) Private Cloud
4 6 (6.45%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.30%) CMDB
6 3 (3.23%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.23%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.15%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.20%) Linux
2 9 (9.68%) Windows
2 9 (9.68%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.08%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (1.08%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (63.44%) AI
2 56 (60.22%) Data Privacy
3 55 (59.14%) Workflow
4 54 (58.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 54 (58.06%) Conversational UI
4 54 (58.06%) Customer Service
4 54 (58.06%) LLM
4 54 (58.06%) Machine Learning
4 54 (58.06%) Neural Network
4 54 (58.06%) OO
4 54 (58.06%) OOP
4 54 (58.06%) Prompt Engineering
4 54 (58.06%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 54 (58.06%) Sentiment Analysis
4 54 (58.06%) Visualisation
5 28 (30.11%) CI/CD
6 21 (22.58%) DevOps
7 17 (18.28%) Agile
8 13 (13.98%) Computer Science
8 13 (13.98%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 79 (84.95%) Python
2 14 (15.05%) C#
3 12 (12.90%) C++
4 9 (9.68%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.53%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.23%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.15%) Bicep
8 1 (1.08%) C
8 1 (1.08%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (58.06%) AWS Certification
1 54 (58.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 17 (18.28%) Degree
3 9 (9.68%) Azure Certification
4 8 (8.60%) Master's Degree
5 7 (7.53%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.53%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.23%) GDPR
2 3 (3.23%) PERC
2 3 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 13 (13.98%) Docker
2 9 (9.68%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.08%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (1.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (15.05%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.90%) Terraform
3 9 (9.68%) Ansible
4 4 (4.30%) Packer
5 2 (2.15%) MIIS
Vendors
1 73 (78.49%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.30%) Cisco
2 4 (4.30%) EMC
2 4 (4.30%) F5
2 4 (4.30%) Palo Alto
2 4 (4.30%) ServiceNow
2 4 (4.30%) VMware
3 3 (3.23%) Foundry
4 1 (1.08%) FIS
4 1 (1.08%) Google