Visual Studio Code Contracts in England

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Visual Studio Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Visual Studio Code over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 596 705
Rank change year-on-year +102 +109 -109
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 36 35 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.096% 0.074% 0.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.81% 0.53% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 39
10th Percentile £333 £398 £445
25th Percentile £413 £428 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -11.90% -
75th Percentile £700 £710 £616
90th Percentile £775 £813 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £473 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
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 falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,433 6,652 12,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.83% 14.14% 17.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,988 4,753 8,920
10th Percentile £350 £369 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £670
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 194 175
10th Percentile £32.48 £46.20 £38.16
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +23.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £84.94 £75.51
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.10
% change year-on-year +5.69% +22.75% +4.65%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +86 23 £525 -30.65% 4
South East +20 4 £363 -19.44% 4
South West +2 3 £700 +60.00% 1
North of England +26 1 - - 2
North West +14 1 - - 1
East of England +2 1 £700 +7.69%
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 2
Midlands - 1 £550 - 4
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 4 (11.11%) Confluence
2 3 (8.33%) IIS
3 2 (5.56%) Apache
3 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.56%) CMS
3 2 (5.56%) Headless CMS
3 2 (5.56%) Kentico
4 1 (2.78%) Ethereum
4 1 (2.78%) MetaMask
4 1 (2.78%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (5.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) Azure
2 9 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (22.22%) AWS
3 8 (22.22%) GitHub
4 4 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 4 (11.11%) Serverless
5 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.56%) Figma
6 2 (5.56%) IaaS
6 2 (5.56%) PaaS
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.78%) GCP
7 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (2.78%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) DNS
1 2 (5.56%) Firewall
1 2 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.11%) Big Data
2 4 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 25 (69.44%) Git
2 11 (30.56%) JIRA
3 7 (19.44%) GitLab
4 6 (16.67%) Visual Studio
5 5 (13.89%) Bitbucket
6 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
7 2 (5.56%) Android Studio
7 2 (5.56%) Artifactory
7 2 (5.56%) JUnit
7 2 (5.56%) Maven
7 2 (5.56%) Mockito
7 2 (5.56%) ScalaTest
7 2 (5.56%) SonarQube
7 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (5.56%) Subversion
8 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.78%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.78%) Selenium
General
1 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.56%) Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Marketing
6 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) Developer
2 7 (19.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Architect
3 4 (11.11%) Salesforce Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Technical Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Build Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Scala Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Blockchain Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Blockchain Software Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) React Developer
6 1 (2.78%) SailPoint Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (30.56%) React
2 9 (25.00%) CSS
3 8 (22.22%) JSON
4 7 (19.44%) REST
5 6 (16.67%) HTML
5 6 (16.67%) Node.js
6 4 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (11.11%) SailPoint
6 4 (11.11%) YAML
7 3 (8.33%) .NET
7 3 (8.33%) .NET Core
7 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
7 3 (8.33%) GatsbyJS
7 3 (8.33%) JDBC
8 2 (5.56%) DOM
8 2 (5.56%) GraphQL
8 2 (5.56%) HATEOAS
8 2 (5.56%) Jinja
8 2 (5.56%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Onboarding
2 3 (8.33%) Hedge funds
2 3 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (5.56%) Fixed Income
3 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.56%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.78%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Android
2 2 (5.56%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) Agile
2 18 (50.00%) DevOps
3 13 (36.11%) CI/CD
4 9 (25.00%) Scrum
4 9 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 7 (19.44%) Test Automation
6 6 (16.67%) Microservices
6 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
7 5 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (13.89%) Full Stack Development
7 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (13.89%) Migration
7 5 (13.89%) User Experience
7 5 (13.89%) Web Development
8 4 (11.11%) CRM
8 4 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
9 3 (8.33%) Front End Development
9 3 (8.33%) Privileged Access Management
9 3 (8.33%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 15 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 10 (27.78%) Python
2 10 (27.78%) SQL
3 7 (19.44%) Java
4 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
5 4 (11.11%) Apex Code
5 4 (11.11%) Bash
5 4 (11.11%) Ruby
5 4 (11.11%) SOQL
6 3 (8.33%) C#
7 2 (5.56%) C++
7 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.56%) Scala
7 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.78%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) Degree
2 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) CISSP
5 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.22%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (27.78%) Docker
2 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Terraform
2 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (13.89%) Kibana
4 4 (11.11%) logstash
4 4 (11.11%) Rancher
4 4 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (8.33%) PingFederate
6 2 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 4 (11.11%) Salesforce
4 3 (8.33%) CyberArk
4 3 (8.33%) ForgeRock
4 3 (8.33%) Okta
5 2 (5.56%) MuleSoft
5 2 (5.56%) Talend
5 2 (5.56%) Xamarin
6 1 (2.78%) BT
6 1 (2.78%) Pardot
6 1 (2.78%) Spotify