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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 746 645 696
Rank change year-on-year -101 +51 +37
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 64 15 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.055% 0.030% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.36% 0.40% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 42 14 55
10th Percentile £47,625 £33,750 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,188 £23,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £74,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £37,500 £49,375
% change year-on-year +60.00% -24.05% -5.95%

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 4,716 3,750 6,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.03% 7.61% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,942 2,227 3,743
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £38,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -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 24 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Top 13 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 24 September 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 -73 60 £60,000 -20.00% 105
UK excluding London -81 50 £60,000 +60.00% 78
South East -35 23 £58,750 +56.67% 20
Work from Home -33 21 £70,000 -6.67% 31
Midlands - 11 £70,000 - 17
North of England - 11 £53,750 - 19
London -54 8 - - 35
North West - 8 £48,500 - 9
West Midlands - 8 £70,000 - 10
South West -75 4 £62,500 +4.17% 9
East Midlands - 3 £70,000 - 7
Yorkshire - 3 £62,500 - 6
East of England - 1 - - 12

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 (4.69%) Jupyter
2 2 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.13%) Confluence
3 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.56%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (6.25%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.56%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 23 (35.94%) Azure
2 13 (20.31%) Dynamics 365
2 13 (20.31%) GitHub
3 10 (15.63%) AWS
3 10 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (15.63%) Power Automate
3 10 (15.63%) SaaS
4 7 (10.94%) Power Platform
5 5 (7.81%) GitHub Copilot
5 5 (7.81%) PowerApps
5 5 (7.81%) Serverless
6 4 (6.25%) Azure Functions
6 4 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (4.69%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (4.69%) dbt
7 3 (4.69%) Fivetran
7 3 (4.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) HTTP
1 1 (1.56%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) MySQL
1 4 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 4 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (6.25%) Relational Database
1 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.69%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (4.69%) BigQuery
2 3 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.13%) Big Data
3 2 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.13%) Metadata
3 2 (3.13%) Power BI
4 1 (1.56%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 38 (59.38%) Git
2 14 (21.88%) GitLab
3 8 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.81%) Eclipse
5 4 (6.25%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.69%) JUnit
6 3 (4.69%) Visual Studio
7 2 (3.13%) Claude Code
7 2 (3.13%) Cypress.io
7 2 (3.13%) JIRA
8 1 (1.56%) DBeaver
8 1 (1.56%) GoogleTest
8 1 (1.56%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (1.56%) PyCharm
8 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 19 (29.69%) Finance
2 16 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 6 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.69%) Law
6 3 (4.69%) Marketing
6 3 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Retail
7 1 (1.56%) Billing
7 1 (1.56%) Electronics
7 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 26 (40.63%) Developer
2 20 (31.25%) Software Engineer
3 19 (29.69%) Senior
4 10 (15.63%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (9.38%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.81%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Business Developer
6 5 (7.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 5 (7.81%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Software Developer
7 4 (6.25%) CRM Developer
7 4 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
7 4 (6.25%) Lead
7 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Data Scientist
8 2 (3.13%) Salesforce Administrator
8 2 (3.13%) Senior Salesforce Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.63%) Terraform
2 6 (9.38%) .NET
2 6 (9.38%) Web Services
3 4 (6.25%) HTML
3 4 (6.25%) Spring
3 4 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 3 (4.69%) A2A Protocol
4 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.69%) AWS CDK
4 3 (4.69%) Hibernate
4 3 (4.69%) Model Context Protocol
4 3 (4.69%) Node.js
4 3 (4.69%) PySpark
4 3 (4.69%) REST
4 3 (4.69%) Sass
5 2 (3.13%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.13%) CSS
5 2 (3.13%) Jest
5 2 (3.13%) OAuth
5 2 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (32.81%) Algorithms
2 12 (18.75%) Product Ownership
3 6 (9.38%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (7.81%) Private Cloud
4 5 (7.81%) Public Cloud
5 4 (6.25%) AI Agents
5 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 4 (6.25%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.69%) CMDB
6 3 (4.69%) Replication
6 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.56%) Pharmacovigilance
8 1 (1.56%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.56%) Linux
2 5 (7.81%) Windows
2 5 (7.81%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.56%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (1.56%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 27 (42.19%) DevOps
3 26 (40.63%) Agile
4 25 (39.06%) Computer Science
5 24 (37.50%) Software Engineering
6 19 (29.69%) SDLC
7 18 (28.13%) Software Architecture
8 17 (26.56%) AI
8 17 (26.56%) Decision-Making
9 16 (25.00%) Scrum
10 15 (23.44%) Line Management
10 15 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (21.88%) Embedded Software Development
12 13 (20.31%) Kanban
13 9 (14.06%) Data Transformation
13 9 (14.06%) Mentoring
14 8 (12.50%) Migration
14 8 (12.50%) Software Testing
14 8 (12.50%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 37 (57.81%) Python
2 25 (39.06%) C#
3 20 (31.25%) C++
4 13 (20.31%) SQL
5 7 (10.94%) PowerShell
6 6 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 6 (9.38%) TypeScript
7 5 (7.81%) Java
8 4 (6.25%) C
9 2 (3.13%) RPG
9 2 (3.13%) VBA
10 1 (1.56%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.56%) PHP
10 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (43.75%) Degree
2 14 (21.88%) SC Cleared
2 14 (21.88%) Security Cleared
3 12 (18.75%) Master's Degree
4 5 (7.81%) Azure Certification
5 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.81%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.13%) WCAG
4 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 16 (25.00%) Docker
2 5 (7.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.56%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (1.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.81%) Ansible
3 3 (4.69%) Packer
4 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.69%) Cisco
2 3 (4.69%) Databricks
2 3 (4.69%) EMC
2 3 (4.69%) F5
2 3 (4.69%) Palo Alto
2 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow
2 3 (4.69%) VMware
3 2 (3.13%) IBM
3 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.56%) Foundry
4 1 (1.56%) Google
4 1 (1.56%) Infor
4 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.56%) Veracode