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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 414 470
Rank change year-on-year +55 +56 +186
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 8 22 36
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.051% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.64% 0.98% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8 14 29
10th Percentile £68,000 £51,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £69,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.91% +31.90% +16.99%
75th Percentile £84,375 £75,000 £58,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,875 £88,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +41.67% +14.29% -4.55%

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 1,254 2,252 3,361
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.07% 13.74% 13.79%
Number of salaries quoted 809 1,260 2,848
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,501 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%

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 23 January 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 3 (37.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) GitHub
3 4 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Azure App Service
4 3 (37.50%) Azure Functions
4 3 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (37.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (37.50%) Power Automate
4 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
4 3 (37.50%) PowerApps
4 3 (37.50%) Serverless
5 2 (25.00%) Azure AI
5 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (25.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 3 (37.50%) JMeter
2 3 (37.50%) Postman
2 3 (37.50%) Selenium
2 3 (37.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (37.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 5 (62.50%) Senior Developer
3 3 (37.50%) .NET Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Digital Developer
3 3 (37.50%) React Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior .NET Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior React Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Python Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) React
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Core
2 3 (37.50%) CSS
2 3 (37.50%) GraphQL
2 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 3 (37.50%) Node.js
2 3 (37.50%) Nuxt
2 3 (37.50%) OpenAPI
2 3 (37.50%) RESTful
2 3 (37.50%) Swagger
2 3 (37.50%) Vue
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
2 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
3 2 (25.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
4 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (37.50%) API Design
4 3 (37.50%) API Development
4 3 (37.50%) Backlog Management
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
4 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
4 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (37.50%) High Availability
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) Mobile First
4 3 (37.50%) Observability
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Accessibility
1 3 (37.50%) QA
1 3 (37.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Dynatrace
3 2 (25.00%) Foundry