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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 638 758
Rank change year-on-year +106 +120 -97
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Code 43 44 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.100% 0.078% 0.091%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.83% 0.55% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 27 46
10th Percentile £348 £405 £438
25th Percentile £413 £431 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £700 £675 £647
90th Percentile £775 £813 £878
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +37.14% -12.50% -
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 5,155 8,073 15,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.40% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,455 5,696 11,047
10th Percentile £351 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £457 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 226 201
10th Percentile £26.77 £44.82 £38.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +8.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

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 1 June 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 1 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
England +84 35 £538 +13.76% 19
London +95 23 £525 -25.00% 5
Work from Home +108 17 £469 +1.35% 11
UK excluding London +31 9 £600 +37.14% 13
South East +14 4 £363 -19.44% 4
South West 0 2 £675 +54.34% 1
North West +21 1 - - 1
North of England +20 1 - - 2
East of England +4 1 £700 +7.69% 3
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 1
Midlands - 1 £550 - 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 (16.28%) CMS
1 7 (16.28%) Headless CMS
1 7 (16.28%) Kentico
2 3 (6.98%) Confluence
2 3 (6.98%) IIS
3 2 (4.65%) Apache
3 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.33%) Ethereum
4 1 (2.33%) MetaMask
4 1 (2.33%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (4.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (46.51%) Azure
2 14 (32.56%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (23.26%) GitHub
4 8 (18.60%) AWS
5 4 (9.30%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 4 (9.30%) Serverless
6 3 (6.98%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.98%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.65%) Figma
7 2 (4.65%) IaaS
7 2 (4.65%) PaaS
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.33%) GCP
8 1 (2.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) DNS
1 2 (4.65%) Firewall
1 2 (4.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.98%) Big Data
2 3 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.65%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 29 (67.44%) Git
2 10 (23.26%) JIRA
3 9 (20.93%) GitLab
4 6 (13.95%) Visual Studio
5 4 (9.30%) Bitbucket
5 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.65%) Android Studio
6 2 (4.65%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.65%) JUnit
6 2 (4.65%) Maven
6 2 (4.65%) Mockito
6 2 (4.65%) ScalaTest
6 2 (4.65%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (4.65%) Subversion
7 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.33%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.28%) Finance
3 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Financial Institution
4 3 (6.98%) Marketing
5 2 (4.65%) Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (51.16%) Developer
2 7 (16.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 7 (16.28%) Salesforce Developer
3 6 (13.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) JavaScript Developer
3 6 (13.95%) React Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Azure Developer
4 5 (11.63%) CMS Developer
4 5 (11.63%) DevOps Developer
4 5 (11.63%) HTML CSS Developer
4 5 (11.63%) HTML Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Build Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.88%) React
2 14 (32.56%) CSS
3 11 (25.58%) HTML
3 11 (25.58%) JSON
4 8 (18.60%) GatsbyJS
5 7 (16.28%) DOM
5 7 (16.28%) GraphQL
5 7 (16.28%) Lightning Web Components
5 7 (16.28%) REST
6 5 (11.63%) Node.js
7 4 (9.30%) jQuery
7 4 (9.30%) SailPoint
7 4 (9.30%) XML
7 4 (9.30%) YAML
8 3 (6.98%) .NET
8 3 (6.98%) .NET Core
8 3 (6.98%) AngularJS
8 3 (6.98%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (6.98%) JDBC
9 2 (4.65%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.98%) Hedge funds
2 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.65%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (4.65%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.33%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.28%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Android
2 2 (4.65%) Windows
3 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (58.14%) DevOps
2 21 (48.84%) Agile
3 14 (32.56%) CI/CD
4 9 (20.93%) Scrum
4 9 (20.93%) Test Scripting
5 8 (18.60%) Front End Development
5 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
5 8 (18.60%) User Experience
6 7 (16.28%) CRM
7 6 (13.95%) Microservices
8 5 (11.63%) Computer Science
8 5 (11.63%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (11.63%) Migration
8 5 (11.63%) Web Development
9 4 (9.30%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
9 4 (9.30%) Full Stack Development
9 4 (9.30%) Identity Access Management
10 3 (6.98%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (51.16%) JavaScript
2 10 (23.26%) SQL
3 9 (20.93%) Python
4 7 (16.28%) Apex Code
4 7 (16.28%) Java
4 7 (16.28%) SOQL
5 4 (9.30%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.98%) Bash
6 3 (6.98%) C#
6 3 (6.98%) Ruby
7 2 (4.65%) C++
7 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.65%) Scala
7 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.33%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) Degree
2 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) CISSP
3 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.93%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Terraform
2 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.30%) Kibana
3 4 (9.30%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (6.98%) logstash
4 3 (6.98%) PingFederate
4 3 (6.98%) Rancher
5 2 (4.65%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) Salesforce
2 6 (13.95%) Oracle
3 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.98%) Atlassian
4 3 (6.98%) CyberArk
4 3 (6.98%) ForgeRock
4 3 (6.98%) Okta
4 3 (6.98%) Pardot
5 2 (4.65%) MuleSoft
5 2 (4.65%) Talend
5 2 (4.65%) Xamarin
6 1 (2.33%) BT
6 1 (2.33%) Spotify