Hybrid/Remote Visual Studio Code Job Trends

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Visual Studio Code skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 483 513
Rank change year-on-year +70 +30 +203
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 11 21 17
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.067% 0.090% 0.069%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.74% 0.86% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 10 16 12
10th Percentile £59,700 £46,563 £50,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,250 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.30% +0.73% +17.50%
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £83,250 £83,125 £91,491
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.13% -9.62% +8.76%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,477 2,453 3,741
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.06% 10.46% 15.16%
Number of salaries quoted 900 1,461 3,158
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,125 £57,965 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% -10.82% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £95,680
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

Visual Studio Code
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Visual Studio Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Visual Studio Code trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Visual Studio Code
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Visual Studio Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Visual Studio Code over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Visual Studio Code salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (27.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Power Platform
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (36.36%) GitHub
4 3 (27.27%) Azure App Service
4 3 (27.27%) Azure Functions
4 3 (27.27%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (27.27%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (27.27%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (27.27%) Power Automate
4 3 (27.27%) PowerApps
4 3 (27.27%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) AWS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AI
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) GSM
1 1 (9.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
2 4 (36.36%) Visual Studio
3 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 3 (27.27%) JMeter
3 3 (27.27%) Postman
3 3 (27.27%) Selenium
4 1 (9.09%) GCC
4 1 (9.09%) gcov
4 1 (9.09%) GDB
4 1 (9.09%) GitLab
4 1 (9.09%) IntelliJ
4 1 (9.09%) PyCharm
General
1 6 (54.55%) Retail
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) .NET Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Business Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Digital Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 3 (27.27%) React Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior .NET Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior React Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) React
2 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) .NET Core
2 3 (27.27%) CSS
2 3 (27.27%) GraphQL
2 3 (27.27%) HTML
2 3 (27.27%) Node.js
2 3 (27.27%) Nuxt
2 3 (27.27%) OpenAPI
2 3 (27.27%) RESTful
2 3 (27.27%) Swagger
2 3 (27.27%) Vue
2 3 (27.27%) Web Services
3 1 (9.09%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (9.09%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
2 3 (27.27%) Public Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) Private Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
1 6 (54.55%) SDLC
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Clean Code
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Front End Development
4 3 (27.27%) API Design
4 3 (27.27%) API Development
4 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (27.27%) High Availability
4 3 (27.27%) Kanban
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) Mobile First
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) C#
1 4 (36.36%) Python
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
3 2 (18.18%) C
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Accessibility
1 3 (27.27%) QA
1 3 (27.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Dynatrace
3 1 (9.09%) Foundry
3 1 (9.09%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) QNX