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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 625 646 641
Rank change year-on-year +21 -5 +291
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 18 82 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.50% 1.43% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 17 52 29
10th Percentile £60,000 - £46,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £23,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.22% +7.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £93,750 £69,125 £87,500
90th Percentile - £77,250 £95,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £40,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +50.00% -23.81% -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 3,635 5,744 6,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.06% 10.31% 12.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,402 3,365 5,160
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -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 27 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Top 6 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 27 December 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 +37 15 £85,000 +25.93% 14
London +38 13 £90,000 +33.33% 4
Work from Home +74 12 £77,500 +11.91% 18
West Midlands +15 2 £60,000 +14.29%
Midlands +12 2 £60,000 +14.29%
UK excluding London -6 2 £60,000 +50.00% 21

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 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 11 (61.11%) Azure DevOps
2 11 (61.11%) GitHub
3 5 (27.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
4 4 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (16.67%) Azure AI
5 3 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 3 (16.67%) Azure App Service
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Functions
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (16.67%) Power Automate
5 3 (16.67%) PowerApps
5 3 (16.67%) Serverless
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Cognitive Search
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.11%) Power BI
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) Git
2 8 (44.44%) JIRA
2 8 (44.44%) Visual Studio
3 5 (27.78%) Cypress.io
4 3 (16.67%) JMeter
4 3 (16.67%) Postman
4 3 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 10 (55.56%) Retail
2 4 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Developer
2 10 (55.56%) Senior
2 10 (55.56%) Senior Developer
3 6 (33.33%) Azure Developer
4 5 (27.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 5 (27.78%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 4 (22.22%) Business Developer
6 3 (16.67%) .NET Developer
6 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (16.67%) Digital Developer
6 3 (16.67%) Python Developer
6 3 (16.67%) React Developer
6 3 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (16.67%) Senior React Developer
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 2 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (11.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) CSS
1 8 (44.44%) GraphQL
1 8 (44.44%) HTML
1 8 (44.44%) Node.js
1 8 (44.44%) Nuxt
1 8 (44.44%) RESTful
1 8 (44.44%) Vue
2 5 (27.78%) Jest
2 5 (27.78%) React
2 5 (27.78%) Tailwind CSS
2 5 (27.78%) Vitest
3 4 (22.22%) Web Services
4 3 (16.67%) .NET
4 3 (16.67%) .NET Core
4 3 (16.67%) OpenAPI
4 3 (16.67%) Swagger
5 2 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (27.78%) Product Ownership
2 5 (27.78%) Public Cloud
3 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 3 (16.67%) Private Cloud
4 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
4 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
1 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) DevOps
2 11 (61.11%) Agile
2 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
3 8 (44.44%) Backlog Management
3 8 (44.44%) Front End Development
3 8 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (44.44%) Mentoring
4 5 (27.78%) Analytics
4 5 (27.78%) API Integration
4 5 (27.78%) Clean Code
4 5 (27.78%) Customer-Centricity
4 5 (27.78%) E-Commerce
4 5 (27.78%) Pair Programming
4 5 (27.78%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (27.78%) Responsive Web Design
4 5 (27.78%) SDLC
4 5 (27.78%) SEO
4 5 (27.78%) User Experience
4 5 (27.78%) UX Design
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) JavaScript
1 8 (44.44%) TypeScript
2 6 (33.33%) Python
3 5 (27.78%) C#
4 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) Accessibility
1 8 (44.44%) QA
2 5 (27.78%) GDPR
2 5 (27.78%) PERC
3 3 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Ansible
2 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 3 (16.67%) Foundry