Visual Studio Code Contracts

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 672 779
Rank change year-on-year +119 +107 -148
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 47 41 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.069% 0.087%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.91% 0.45% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 21 49
10th Percentile £359 £425 £445
25th Percentile £416 £511 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £554 £545
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% +1.65% +9.00%
75th Percentile £693 £719 £650
90th Percentile £775 £813 £866
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% +4.17%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,178 9,015 15,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.88% 15.10% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,476 6,340 11,249
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.02%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 246 214
10th Percentile £32.23 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £81.90 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

Visual Studio Code
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio Code over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England +105 34 £488 -18.75% 24
Work from Home +122 23 £450 -11.94% 10
London +104 22 £506 -26.42% 6
UK excluding London +66 11 £550 +7.84% 17
South East +19 4 £363 -28.92% 4
Scotland +35 3 £700 +33.33% 1
South West - 2 £500 - 4
North of England +28 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 1
Midlands - 1 £550 - 7
North West - 1 - - 3

Visual Studio Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (14.89%) CMS
1 7 (14.89%) Headless CMS
1 7 (14.89%) Kentico
2 6 (12.77%) IIS
3 3 (6.38%) Confluence
3 3 (6.38%) SharePoint
4 2 (4.26%) Apache
4 2 (4.26%) Apache Spark
4 2 (4.26%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (2.13%) Ethereum
5 1 (2.13%) MetaMask
5 1 (2.13%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (4.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (25.53%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (42.55%) Azure
2 15 (31.91%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (25.53%) GitHub
4 7 (14.89%) AWS
5 4 (8.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 4 (8.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 4 (8.51%) Serverless
6 3 (6.38%) Figma
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.26%) IaaS
7 2 (4.26%) PaaS
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.13%) GCP
8 1 (2.13%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) DNS
2 2 (4.26%) Firewall
2 2 (4.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.26%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (61.70%) Git
2 11 (23.40%) GitLab
3 7 (14.89%) JIRA
4 6 (12.77%) Visual Studio
5 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
5 3 (6.38%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.26%) Android Studio
6 2 (4.26%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.26%) JUnit
6 2 (4.26%) Maven
6 2 (4.26%) Mockito
6 2 (4.26%) ScalaTest
6 2 (4.26%) Subversion
7 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.64%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (10.64%) Finance
3 4 (8.51%) Marketing
3 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (68.09%) Developer
2 12 (25.53%) Salesforce Developer
3 7 (14.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (12.77%) JavaScript Developer
4 6 (12.77%) React Developer
5 5 (10.64%) Azure Developer
5 5 (10.64%) CMS Developer
5 5 (10.64%) DevOps Developer
5 5 (10.64%) HTML CSS Developer
5 5 (10.64%) HTML Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Architect
6 4 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Full Stack Developer
7 3 (6.38%) PowerShell Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Scala Developer
8 2 (4.26%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (38.30%) JSON
2 16 (34.04%) CSS
3 13 (27.66%) HTML
4 12 (25.53%) Lightning Web Components
4 12 (25.53%) React
5 11 (23.40%) XML
6 9 (19.15%) jQuery
6 9 (19.15%) REST
7 8 (17.02%) GatsbyJS
8 7 (14.89%) .NET
8 7 (14.89%) DOM
8 7 (14.89%) GraphQL
9 4 (8.51%) YAML
10 3 (6.38%) .NET Core
10 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
10 3 (6.38%) Flutter
10 3 (6.38%) Jest
10 3 (6.38%) React Native
10 3 (6.38%) Vue
11 2 (4.26%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.38%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.26%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.26%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.13%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.13%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Windows
2 4 (8.51%) Linux
3 3 (6.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (53.19%) Agile
1 25 (53.19%) DevOps
2 14 (29.79%) CI/CD
3 13 (27.66%) User Experience
4 12 (25.53%) CRM
5 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (19.15%) Scrum
6 8 (17.02%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
6 8 (17.02%) Front End Development
7 7 (14.89%) Test Scripting
7 7 (14.89%) Web Development
8 6 (12.77%) Microservices
8 6 (12.77%) Test Automation
9 5 (10.64%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (10.64%) Design Patterns
9 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (10.64%) Migration
9 5 (10.64%) MVC
10 4 (8.51%) ITSM
10 4 (8.51%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (55.32%) JavaScript
2 12 (25.53%) Apex Code
2 12 (25.53%) SOQL
3 8 (17.02%) SQL
4 5 (10.64%) C#
4 5 (10.64%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.51%) Java
5 4 (8.51%) Python
6 2 (4.26%) C++
6 2 (4.26%) Scala
6 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.13%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) Degree
4 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.13%) CISSP
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.02%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Docker
2 4 (8.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (19.15%) Terraform
2 2 (4.26%) Ansible
2 2 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.13%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 12 (25.53%) Salesforce
2 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.51%) Oracle
4 3 (6.38%) Pardot
4 3 (6.38%) Xamarin
5 2 (4.26%) MuleSoft
5 2 (4.26%) Talend
6 1 (2.13%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.13%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.13%) Okta