Visual Studio Code Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 386 441 495
Rank change year-on-year +55 +54 -79
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 8 8 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.035% 0.046%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.36% 0.25% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 9
10th Percentile £345 £403 £420
25th Percentile £413 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £456 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% -8.75% -
75th Percentile £550 £522 -
90th Percentile £565 £594 £555
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,243 3,202 4,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.05% 13.92% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,462 2,258 3,178
10th Percentile £350 £342 £363
25th Percentile £413 £417 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 166 111
10th Percentile £40.94 £45.45 £38.68
25th Percentile £56.19 £52.50 £44.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £79.59 £79.00 £76.64
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Visual Studio Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Code in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio Code in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio Code in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio Code in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio Code in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio Code in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio Code
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
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 - 1
Midlands - 1 £550 - 7
North West - 1 - - 3
Visual Studio Code
UK

Visual Studio Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (25.00%) CMS
1 2 (25.00%) Headless CMS
1 2 (25.00%) Kentico
2 1 (12.50%) Ethereum
2 1 (12.50%) MetaMask
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Blockchain Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Blockchain Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (12.50%) React Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
1 4 (50.00%) JSON
2 3 (37.50%) GatsbyJS
2 3 (37.50%) React
3 2 (25.00%) DOM
3 2 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (25.00%) jQuery
3 2 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
4 1 (12.50%) CSS3
4 1 (12.50%) HTML5
4 1 (12.50%) Smart Contracts
4 1 (12.50%) Truffle
4 1 (12.50%) Web Components
4 1 (12.50%) web3js
4 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Blockchain
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 2 (25.00%) CRM
3 2 (25.00%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) DeFi
4 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) RBAC
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Apex Code
2 2 (25.00%) SOQL
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft