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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 416 479
Rank change year-on-year -31 +63 +19
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 20 11 19
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.081% 0.066% 0.085%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.26% 0.76% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 11 10 11
10th Percentile £48,750 £59,700 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.49% +30.48%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,250 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%

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 1,585 1,444 2,386
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.38% 8.72% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,029 859 1,360
10th Percentile £38,988 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,732
Median % change year-on-year - +3.93% -11.18%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £88,750 £87,625
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Visual Studio Code and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Visual Studio Code job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Visual Studio Code
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Visual Studio Code
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Visual Studio Code over the 6 months to 29 September 2026.

Visual Studio Code salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Visual Studio Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (10.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (10.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (5.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (35.00%) GitHub
2 7 (35.00%) SaaS
3 4 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 4 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (20.00%) PowerApps
3 4 (20.00%) Serverless
4 3 (15.00%) dbt
4 3 (15.00%) Fivetran
4 3 (15.00%) GCP
4 3 (15.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (10.00%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (15.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (15.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.00%) Big Data
3 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (5.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (60.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.00%) Claude Code
3 2 (10.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Business Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 2 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (10.00%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
3 2 (10.00%) Web Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
4 1 (5.00%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
1 4 (20.00%) Web Services
2 3 (15.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (15.00%) Node.js
2 3 (15.00%) PySpark
2 3 (15.00%) Sass
3 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (10.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) Jest
3 2 (10.00%) NestJS
3 2 (10.00%) NgRx
3 2 (10.00%) Playwright
3 2 (10.00%) REST
3 2 (10.00%) Vitest
3 2 (10.00%) YAML
4 1 (5.00%) .NET
4 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Private Cloud
1 4 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Replication
2 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (10.00%) CMDB
3 2 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) AI
1 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (40.00%) Data Transformation
3 8 (40.00%) DevOps
4 7 (35.00%) Decision-Making
5 6 (30.00%) Agile
6 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (20.00%) Data Engineering
7 4 (20.00%) Data Migration
7 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 4 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 4 (20.00%) ERP
7 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (20.00%) Migration
7 4 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (20.00%) User Experience
8 3 (15.00%) Clean Code
8 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Python
2 9 (45.00%) SQL
3 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (15.00%) C#
4 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.00%) VBA
6 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.00%) PHP
6 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) WCAG
3 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (10.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) EMC
3 2 (10.00%) F5
3 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.00%) Foundry
4 1 (5.00%) OpenAI