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 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 529 649 768
Rank change year-on-year +120 +119 -148
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 47 35 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.061% 0.093%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.91% 0.42% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 49
10th Percentile £355 £419 £460
25th Percentile £413 £460 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £602 £545
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +10.46% +6.24%
75th Percentile £575 £771 £650
90th Percentile £775 £819 £866
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £456 £500
% change year-on-year -1.37% -8.75% -
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 5,137 8,429 15,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.07% 14.80% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,452 5,946 11,103
10th Percentile £353 £381 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 228 212
10th Percentile £32.23 £44.06 £38.43
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.11
90th Percentile £78.45 £82.50 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

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 16 May 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 10 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 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
England +122 37 £469 -27.88% 25
London +106 25 £488 -33.08% 4
Work from Home +127 22 £450 -3.74% 12
UK excluding London +55 8 £450 -1.37% 19
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
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 3 (6.38%) IIS
3 2 (4.26%) Apache
3 2 (4.26%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.13%) Ethereum
4 1 (2.13%) MetaMask
4 1 (2.13%) Tomcat
4 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 22 (46.81%) Azure
2 15 (31.91%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (27.66%) GitHub
4 8 (17.02%) AWS
5 4 (8.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 4 (8.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 4 (8.51%) Serverless
6 3 (6.38%) Entra ID
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%) GCP
8 1 (2.13%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) DNS
1 2 (4.26%) Firewall
1 2 (4.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.26%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (59.57%) Git
2 12 (25.53%) GitLab
3 7 (14.89%) JIRA
4 6 (12.77%) Visual Studio
5 4 (8.51%) Jenkins
6 3 (6.38%) SonarQube
7 2 (4.26%) Android Studio
7 2 (4.26%) Artifactory
7 2 (4.26%) JUnit
7 2 (4.26%) Maven
7 2 (4.26%) Mockito
7 2 (4.26%) ScalaTest
7 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (4.26%) Subversion
8 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.13%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.13%) Selenium
General
1 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Finance
3 4 (8.51%) Marketing
3 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.26%) Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (61.70%) 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%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Build Engineer
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
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.04%) CSS
1 16 (34.04%) JSON
2 13 (27.66%) HTML
3 12 (25.53%) Lightning Web Components
3 12 (25.53%) React
4 9 (19.15%) jQuery
4 9 (19.15%) REST
4 9 (19.15%) XML
5 8 (17.02%) GatsbyJS
6 7 (14.89%) DOM
6 7 (14.89%) GraphQL
7 5 (10.64%) .NET
8 4 (8.51%) SailPoint
8 4 (8.51%) YAML
9 3 (6.38%) .NET Core
9 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
9 3 (6.38%) Flutter
9 3 (6.38%) Jest
9 3 (6.38%) React Native
9 3 (6.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.64%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.38%) Hedge funds
4 2 (4.26%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.26%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.13%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Android
2 2 (4.26%) Windows
3 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (48.94%) Agile
1 23 (48.94%) DevOps
2 14 (29.79%) CI/CD
3 12 (25.53%) CRM
4 11 (23.40%) User Experience
5 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (19.15%) Scrum
5 9 (19.15%) Test Automation
5 9 (19.15%) Test Scripting
6 8 (17.02%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
6 8 (17.02%) Front End Development
7 7 (14.89%) Web Development
8 6 (12.77%) Microservices
9 5 (10.64%) Computer Science
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
Programming Languages
1 26 (55.32%) JavaScript
2 12 (25.53%) Apex Code
2 12 (25.53%) SOQL
3 10 (21.28%) SQL
4 7 (14.89%) Java
5 6 (12.77%) Python
6 5 (10.64%) C#
7 2 (4.26%) C++
7 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.26%) Scala
7 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.13%) Solidity
8 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.64%) Degree
2 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) CISSP
4 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.28%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (12.77%) Docker
2 3 (6.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (19.15%) Terraform
2 4 (8.51%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (6.38%) PingFederate
4 2 (4.26%) Ansible
4 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (25.53%) Salesforce
2 6 (12.77%) Oracle
3 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.38%) CyberArk
4 3 (6.38%) ForgeRock
4 3 (6.38%) Okta
4 3 (6.38%) Pardot
4 3 (6.38%) Xamarin
5 2 (4.26%) MuleSoft
5 2 (4.26%) Talend
6 1 (2.13%) Spotify