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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 419 486
Rank change year-on-year -15 +67 +10
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 24 11 21
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.099% 0.068% 0.090%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.54% 0.75% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 12 10 16
10th Percentile £49,375 £59,700 £46,563
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £75,000 £69,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.30% +0.73%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,500 £83,250 £83,125
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year +4.17% +2.13% -9.62%

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 1,561 1,469 2,449
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.42% 9.04% 10.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,026 900 1,468
10th Percentile £38,987 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -10.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £88,750 £87,875
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 17 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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (8.33%) Jupyter
2 1 (4.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) Azure
2 10 (41.67%) GitHub
3 9 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (29.17%) SaaS
5 5 (20.83%) AWS
6 4 (16.67%) Azure Functions
6 4 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (16.67%) Power Automate
6 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
6 4 (16.67%) PowerApps
6 4 (16.67%) Serverless
7 3 (12.50%) dbt
7 3 (12.50%) Fivetran
7 3 (12.50%) GCP
7 3 (12.50%) Snowflake
8 2 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (12.50%) BigQuery
2 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.33%) Big Data
3 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (62.50%) Git
2 3 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.33%) Claude Code
3 2 (8.33%) Cypress.io
3 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.17%) Jasmine
4 1 (4.17%) NUnit
4 1 (4.17%) Selenium
4 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (29.17%) Finance
4 4 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 4 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Business Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Data Scientist
5 2 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (8.33%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
5 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Web Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Backend Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (16.67%) Web Services
3 3 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 3 (12.50%) Node.js
3 3 (12.50%) PySpark
3 3 (12.50%) REST
3 3 (12.50%) Sass
4 2 (8.33%) .NET
4 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (8.33%) HTML
4 2 (8.33%) Jest
4 2 (8.33%) NestJS
4 2 (8.33%) NgRx
4 2 (8.33%) Playwright
4 2 (8.33%) Vitest
4 2 (8.33%) YAML
5 1 (4.17%) Kafka
5 1 (4.17%) React
5 1 (4.17%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Private Cloud
1 7 (29.17%) Public Cloud
2 4 (16.67%) CMDB
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (12.50%) Replication
3 3 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
4 2 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.17%) AI Agents
5 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.17%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
2 7 (29.17%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 12 (50.00%) AI
3 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (41.67%) DevOps
5 8 (33.33%) Data Transformation
6 7 (29.17%) Decision-Making
6 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Automation
6 7 (29.17%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (25.00%) Agile
7 6 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
9 4 (16.67%) Business Continuity
9 4 (16.67%) Data Engineering
9 4 (16.67%) Data Migration
9 4 (16.67%) ERP
9 4 (16.67%) Information Security
9 4 (16.67%) Migration
9 4 (16.67%) Process Improvement
9 4 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) Python
2 9 (37.50%) SQL
3 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
4 4 (16.67%) C#
5 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 2 (8.33%) VBA
7 1 (4.17%) Bicep
7 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.17%) PHP
7 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Azure Certification
1 7 (29.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.33%) WCAG
3 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.83%) Docker
3 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (29.17%) Ansible
3 4 (16.67%) Packer
4 1 (4.17%) MIIS
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Cisco
2 4 (16.67%) EMC
2 4 (16.67%) F5
2 4 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 4 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 4 (16.67%) VMware
3 3 (12.50%) Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) Foundry
4 1 (4.17%) OpenAI