Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Visual Studio Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Studio Code over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 684 961 944
Rank change year-on-year +277 -17 -242
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 57 115 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.093% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.83% 0.52% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26 72 95
10th Percentile £43,125 £36,250 £39,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -13.85% +52.94%
75th Percentile £87,125 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,467 £87,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +41.18%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Visual Studio Code is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,903 22,328 26,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 18.01% 20.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,279 12,623 16,358
10th Percentile £42,255 £39,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,581 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,548 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £98,000 £98,750 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.82% +10.00% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio Code.

Salary trend for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio Code over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Top 10 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 4 December 2023. 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
UK excluding London +241 41 £52,500 -4.55% 13
England +265 33 £52,500 -11.80% 19
Work from Home +222 28 £52,500 -4.55% 11
South East +179 17 £52,500 -34.38% 5
Wales - 14 - -
London +216 12 £65,250 -13.00% 8
Scotland +55 5 £40,000 -27.27% 3
North of England +141 3 £83,577 +51.96% 4
Yorkshire +86 3 £83,577 +51.96% 3
Northern Ireland +36 2 £87,500 +59.09%

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 6 (10.53%) Confluence
2 5 (8.77%) IIS
3 4 (7.02%) Jupyter
4 2 (3.51%) CICS
5 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.75%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 13 (22.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.75%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.75%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.75%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 34 (59.65%) Azure
2 20 (35.09%) Azure DevOps
2 20 (35.09%) GitHub
3 11 (19.30%) Azure Service Bus
4 7 (12.28%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.02%) AWS
5 4 (7.02%) Serverless
6 3 (5.26%) Azure AKS
6 3 (5.26%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.51%) npm
8 1 (1.75%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.75%) NuGet
8 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.75%) PaaS
8 1 (1.75%) SaaS
8 1 (1.75%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (43.86%) SQL Server
2 7 (12.28%) Redis
3 6 (10.53%) Power BI
4 4 (7.02%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database
5 3 (5.26%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.51%) DB2
7 1 (1.75%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (50.88%) Visual Studio
2 18 (31.58%) Git
3 16 (28.07%) JIRA
4 7 (12.28%) MSBuild
5 6 (10.53%) Selenium
6 5 (8.77%) IntelliJ
7 4 (7.02%) JMeter
7 4 (7.02%) RStudio
7 4 (7.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (7.02%) WebDriver
8 3 (5.26%) Bitbucket
8 3 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (3.51%) Jasmine
9 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
9 2 (3.51%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (3.51%) Postman
10 1 (1.75%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.75%) ESLint
10 1 (1.75%) Gradle
10 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (59.65%) Social Skills
2 17 (29.82%) Finance
3 5 (8.77%) Banking
4 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.51%) Back Office
6 2 (3.51%) Law
6 2 (3.51%) Private Banking
6 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (45.61%) Developer
2 14 (24.56%) Analyst
2 14 (24.56%) Applications Support
2 14 (24.56%) Applications Support Analyst
2 14 (24.56%) Support Analyst
3 12 (21.05%) .NET Developer
4 8 (14.04%) Senior
5 7 (12.28%) C# .NET Developer
5 7 (12.28%) C# Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Data Scientist
6 4 (7.02%) Senior Data Scientist
6 4 (7.02%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Test Specialist
7 3 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (3.51%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
8 2 (3.51%) Mainframe Software Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Mobile Developer
8 2 (3.51%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (68.42%) .NET
2 22 (38.60%) HTML
3 19 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 13 (22.81%) AngularJS
4 13 (22.81%) Blazor
4 13 (22.81%) HTML5
5 10 (17.54%) ASP.NET MVC
6 9 (15.79%) .NET Framework
6 9 (15.79%) CSS
7 7 (12.28%) RESTful
8 6 (10.53%) JSON
9 5 (8.77%) XML
10 4 (7.02%) .NET Core
10 4 (7.02%) Sass
11 3 (5.26%) Apache Cordova
11 3 (5.26%) Ionic Framework
11 3 (5.26%) jQuery
11 3 (5.26%) Node.js
11 3 (5.26%) Swagger
12 2 (3.51%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Mobile App
1 5 (8.77%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (7.02%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.51%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (3.51%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.51%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.75%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.75%) FMCG
5 1 (1.75%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.75%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Windows
2 2 (3.51%) zOS
3 1 (1.75%) Android
3 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.11%) MVC
2 22 (38.60%) Mentoring
3 19 (33.33%) DevOps
4 16 (28.07%) Agile
4 16 (28.07%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (26.32%) Actionable Insight
6 14 (24.56%) Client Onboarding
6 14 (24.56%) Service Delivery
7 8 (14.04%) Test Automation
8 7 (12.28%) Change Control
8 7 (12.28%) ITIL
8 7 (12.28%) ITSM
8 7 (12.28%) Service Management
9 6 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (10.53%) Computer Science
9 6 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (8.77%) CI/CD
10 5 (8.77%) Full Stack Development
10 5 (8.77%) Project Management
10 5 (8.77%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 39 (68.42%) SQL
2 32 (56.14%) C#
3 23 (40.35%) JavaScript
4 10 (17.54%) Python
5 8 (14.04%) Java
6 4 (7.02%) R
7 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.51%) Bash
8 2 (3.51%) COBOL
8 2 (3.51%) JCL
8 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.51%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.51%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.75%) C
9 1 (1.75%) C++
Qualifications
1 16 (28.07%) Degree
2 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.75%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.75%) OCP
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.05%) SLA
2 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.51%) ISO 9001
3 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.51%) QA
3 2 (3.51%) WAI
4 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.02%) Terraform
2 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.75%) logstash
Vendors
1 17 (29.82%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) Oracle
3 4 (7.02%) Alteryx
4 2 (3.51%) IBM
5 1 (1.75%) Adobe
5 1 (1.75%) Google
5 1 (1.75%) Salesforce