Visual Studio Code Contracts in England

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Visual Studio Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Studio Code over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 500 622 707
Rank change year-on-year +122 +85 -116
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 37 29 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.060% 0.098%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.87% 0.41% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 43
10th Percentile £336 £418 £465
25th Percentile £413 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £650 £540
Median % change year-on-year -27.88% +20.37% +7.78%
75th Percentile £678 £785 £631
90th Percentile £775 £820 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £602 £545
% change year-on-year -16.94% +10.46% +6.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

All Development Application Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,252 7,052 12,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.64% 18.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,907 5,015 9,022
10th Percentile £352 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 203 186
10th Percentile £31.84 £43.17 £38.68
25th Percentile £54.38 £53.13 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.71
90th Percentile £78.68 £84.44 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Visual Studio Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Code in England

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio Code in England.

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio Code in England

Visual Studio Code
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio Code in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio Code in England

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio Code in England.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio Code in England

Visual Studio Code
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio Code within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +106 25 £488 -33.08% 4
South East +16 4 £363 -19.44% 5
South West +11 2 £500 +8.11% 2
North of England +25 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £550 - 6
North West - 1 - - 3
Visual Studio Code
UK

Visual Studio Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (8.11%) IIS
2 2 (5.41%) Apache
2 2 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.41%) CMS
2 2 (5.41%) Headless CMS
2 2 (5.41%) Kentico
3 1 (2.70%) Ethereum
3 1 (2.70%) MetaMask
3 1 (2.70%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (5.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (45.95%) Azure
2 10 (27.03%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (24.32%) GitHub
4 8 (21.62%) AWS
5 4 (10.81%) Serverless
6 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
6 3 (8.11%) Figma
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (5.41%) IaaS
7 2 (5.41%) PaaS
7 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.70%) GCP
8 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (2.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) DNS
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
1 2 (5.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.41%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (62.16%) Git
2 8 (21.62%) GitLab
3 7 (18.92%) JIRA
4 6 (16.22%) Visual Studio
5 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
6 3 (8.11%) SonarQube
7 2 (5.41%) Android Studio
7 2 (5.41%) Artifactory
7 2 (5.41%) JUnit
7 2 (5.41%) Maven
7 2 (5.41%) Mockito
7 2 (5.41%) ScalaTest
7 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (5.41%) Subversion
8 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.70%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.70%) Selenium
General
1 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.41%) Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Marketing
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (51.35%) Developer
2 7 (18.92%) Salesforce Developer
3 4 (10.81%) Architect
3 4 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Full Stack Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Technical Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Build Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Scala Developer
6 1 (2.70%) .NET Developer
6 1 (2.70%) C++ Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) QA Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (29.73%) CSS
1 11 (29.73%) JSON
2 9 (24.32%) REST
3 8 (21.62%) HTML
4 7 (18.92%) Lightning Web Components
4 7 (18.92%) React
5 5 (13.51%) .NET
6 4 (10.81%) jQuery
6 4 (10.81%) SailPoint
6 4 (10.81%) XML
6 4 (10.81%) YAML
7 3 (8.11%) .NET Core
7 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
7 3 (8.11%) Flutter
7 3 (8.11%) GatsbyJS
7 3 (8.11%) JDBC
7 3 (8.11%) Jest
7 3 (8.11%) React Native
7 3 (8.11%) Vue
8 2 (5.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.81%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.11%) Hedge funds
4 2 (5.41%) Fixed Income
4 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.70%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Android
2 2 (5.41%) Windows
3 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) Agile
2 15 (40.54%) DevOps
3 13 (35.14%) CI/CD
4 9 (24.32%) Scrum
4 9 (24.32%) Test Scripting
5 7 (18.92%) CRM
5 7 (18.92%) Test Automation
5 7 (18.92%) User Experience
5 7 (18.92%) Web Development
6 6 (16.22%) Microservices
6 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (13.51%) Computer Science
7 5 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (13.51%) Design Patterns
7 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (13.51%) Migration
7 5 (13.51%) MVC
8 4 (10.81%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (10.81%) Unit Testing
9 3 (8.11%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) JavaScript
2 10 (27.03%) SQL
3 7 (18.92%) Apex Code
3 7 (18.92%) Java
3 7 (18.92%) SOQL
4 6 (16.22%) Python
5 5 (13.51%) C#
6 2 (5.41%) C++
6 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.41%) Scala
6 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.70%) Solidity
7 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.51%) Degree
2 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) CISSP
4 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.62%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Terraform
2 4 (10.81%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (8.11%) PingFederate
4 2 (5.41%) Ansible
4 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Salesforce
2 6 (16.22%) Oracle
3 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.11%) CyberArk
4 3 (8.11%) ForgeRock
4 3 (8.11%) Okta
4 3 (8.11%) Xamarin
5 2 (5.41%) MuleSoft
5 2 (5.41%) Talend
6 1 (2.70%) Pardot
6 1 (2.70%) Spotify