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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 678 693
Rank change year-on-year +38 +15 +298
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 22 83 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.044% 0.12% 0.079%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.57% 1.39% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 20 55 22
10th Percentile £33,750 - £42,500
25th Percentile £59,375 £23,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -5.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £68,750 £74,688
90th Percentile £93,750 £76,500 £91,491
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £38,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -26.19% -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 3,855 5,975 7,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.72% 8.78% 13.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,292 3,329 5,740
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,574 £42,385
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%

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 30 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Top 8 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 30 October 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 +35 17 £77,500 +14.81% 40
Work from Home +55 14 £75,000 +7.14% 33
London +58 12 £80,000 +18.52% 11
UK excluding London +3 6 £37,500 -3.23% 42
South East +31 3 £37,500 -44.44% 7
West Midlands +31 2 £60,000 +14.29% 4
Midlands +28 2 £60,000 +44.58% 6
Scotland - 1 - - 6

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 (13.64%) CMS
1 3 (13.64%) Confluence
1 3 (13.64%) IIS
1 3 (13.64%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) Azure
2 12 (54.55%) GitHub
3 10 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) Power Platform
5 5 (22.73%) AWS
5 5 (22.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (22.73%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (13.64%) Azure AI
6 3 (13.64%) Azure AKS
6 3 (13.64%) Azure App Service
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Functions
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (13.64%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (13.64%) Google Workspace
6 3 (13.64%) npm
6 3 (13.64%) Power Automate
6 3 (13.64%) PowerApps
6 3 (13.64%) Serverless
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Cognitive Search
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
1 3 (13.64%) Power BI
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (63.64%) Git
2 10 (45.45%) Visual Studio
3 9 (40.91%) JIRA
4 4 (18.18%) Cypress.io
4 4 (18.18%) Postman
4 4 (18.18%) Selenium
5 3 (13.64%) Bitbucket
5 3 (13.64%) JMeter
5 3 (13.64%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (13.64%) Vite
6 1 (4.55%) IntelliJ
6 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
6 1 (4.55%) PyCharm
6 1 (4.55%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (40.91%) Retail
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (13.64%) Advertising
4 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Back Office
4 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 3 (13.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (81.82%) Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Senior
2 8 (36.36%) Senior Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Azure Developer
4 5 (22.73%) Business Developer
5 4 (18.18%) Python Developer
6 3 (13.64%) .NET Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Digital Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (13.64%) React Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior React Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) CSS
1 9 (40.91%) HTML
2 6 (27.27%) .NET
2 6 (27.27%) .NET Core
2 6 (27.27%) GraphQL
2 6 (27.27%) Node.js
2 6 (27.27%) Nuxt
2 6 (27.27%) RESTful
2 6 (27.27%) Vue
3 5 (22.73%) React
3 5 (22.73%) Web Services
4 3 (13.64%) .NET Framework
4 3 (13.64%) Jest
4 3 (13.64%) OpenAPI
4 3 (13.64%) Sass
4 3 (13.64%) Swagger
4 3 (13.64%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (13.64%) Vitest
5 2 (9.09%) REST
6 1 (4.55%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 5 (22.73%) Public Cloud
3 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (13.64%) Mobile App
3 3 (13.64%) Private Cloud
3 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
4 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
4 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 11 (50.00%) DevOps
3 10 (45.45%) Agile
3 10 (45.45%) Front End Development
4 9 (40.91%) Full-Stack Development
4 9 (40.91%) Mentoring
5 7 (31.82%) Test Automation
6 6 (27.27%) Backlog Management
6 6 (27.27%) Clean Code
6 6 (27.27%) SDLC
6 6 (27.27%) SEO
6 6 (27.27%) User Experience
6 6 (27.27%) UX Design
7 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (18.18%) Analytics
9 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 3 (13.64%) High Availability
9 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (13.64%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) JavaScript
2 8 (36.36%) C#
2 8 (36.36%) SQL
3 7 (31.82%) Python
3 7 (31.82%) TypeScript
4 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
1 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (40.91%) Accessibility
2 7 (31.82%) QA
3 3 (13.64%) GDPR
3 3 (13.64%) PERC
3 3 (13.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 4 (18.18%) Ansible
2 4 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Dynatrace
2 3 (13.64%) Foundry
3 1 (4.55%) Google