Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Visual Studio Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Studio Code over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 790 885 997
Rank change year-on-year +95 +112 -182
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Code 100 92 247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.093% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.05% 0.65% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 60 30 154
10th Percentile £25,500 £42,438 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -10.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £69,063 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,625 £81,250 £80,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% -22.73%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,528 14,205 36,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.54% 14.32% 22.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,654 8,679 15,823
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio Code over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio Code in the UK

Visual Studio Code
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio Code within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +14 84 £52,500 +5.00% 17
England +90 79 £52,500 - 22
Work from Home +84 46 £52,500 -19.23% 11
South East +39 40 £52,500 +2.44% 4
London +78 15 £80,000 +14.29% 3
Scotland -52 15 - -
North of England +53 7 £43,750 -1.13% 3
Midlands -15 7 £26,000 -60.00% 6
East of England - 6 £46,500 - 3
Wales +7 5 £27,500 -
North West +5 4 £34,625 -21.75% 3
South West -30 4 - - 2
East Midlands - 4 £26,000 - 1
Yorkshire +84 3 £90,000 -
West Midlands +2 3 £47,500 -26.92% 5

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 6 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.00%) Jupyter
3 4 (4.00%) Confluence
4 2 (2.00%) WordPress
5 1 (1.00%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (1.00%) CMS
5 1 (1.00%) IIS
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 24 (24.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.00%) Trello
3 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.00%) FileZilla
5 1 (1.00%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (1.00%) Adobe XD
5 1 (1.00%) InVision
5 1 (1.00%) Photoshop
5 1 (1.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 62 (62.00%) Azure
2 33 (33.00%) GitHub
3 28 (28.00%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (18.00%) AWS
5 9 (9.00%) SaaS
6 8 (8.00%) Power Platform
7 7 (7.00%) Figma
7 7 (7.00%) Pulumi
8 6 (6.00%) GCP
8 6 (6.00%) PowerApps
9 5 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (4.00%) Serverless
11 3 (3.00%) npm
12 2 (2.00%) Amazon Cognito
12 2 (2.00%) Azure Pipelines
12 2 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.00%) Google Sheets
12 2 (2.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.00%) Network Security
2 6 (6.00%) Firewall
3 4 (4.00%) Internet
4 2 (2.00%) DNS
4 2 (2.00%) FTP
4 2 (2.00%) VPN
5 1 (1.00%) MQTT
5 1 (1.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (37.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.00%) Big Data
2 6 (6.00%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.00%) Redis
4 4 (4.00%) Metabase
5 3 (3.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.00%) Power BI
6 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 50 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 47 (47.00%) Git
3 28 (28.00%) Jasmine
4 15 (15.00%) Karma Test Runner
4 15 (15.00%) Selenium
5 13 (13.00%) NUnit
6 10 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (8.00%) JIRA
8 7 (7.00%) IntelliJ
8 7 (7.00%) TeamCity
9 5 (5.00%) Eclipse
10 4 (4.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (3.00%) SonarQube
12 2 (2.00%) Cypress.io
12 2 (2.00%) ESLint
12 2 (2.00%) JMeter
12 2 (2.00%) Mocha
12 2 (2.00%) WebDriver
13 1 (1.00%) Maven
13 1 (1.00%) Mercurial
General
1 46 (46.00%) Finance
2 34 (34.00%) Social Skills
3 21 (21.00%) Law
4 17 (17.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (15.00%) Banking
5 15 (15.00%) Private Banking
6 10 (10.00%) Retail
7 6 (6.00%) Multimedia
8 5 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (4.00%) Manufacturing
10 3 (3.00%) Legal
11 2 (2.00%) Agriculture
11 2 (2.00%) Marketing
11 2 (2.00%) Public Sector
12 1 (1.00%) Back Office
12 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (66.00%) Developer
2 32 (32.00%) .NET Developer
3 18 (18.00%) Senior
4 16 (16.00%) Software Developer
5 12 (12.00%) .NET Software Developer
5 12 (12.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 12 (12.00%) C# Developer
5 12 (12.00%) C# Software Developer
5 12 (12.00%) Full Stack Developer
6 11 (11.00%) Senior Developer
7 10 (10.00%) Lead
8 9 (9.00%) Lead Developer
8 9 (9.00%) UI Developer
9 8 (8.00%) AWS Developer
9 8 (8.00%) Azure Developer
10 7 (7.00%) Lead .NET Developer
10 7 (7.00%) Lead C# Developer
10 7 (7.00%) Lead Software Developer
11 6 (6.00%) ASP.NET Developer
11 6 (6.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (71.00%) .NET
1 71 (71.00%) HTML
2 50 (50.00%) CSS
3 37 (37.00%) ASP.NET
4 36 (36.00%) HTML5
5 31 (31.00%) RESTful
6 24 (24.00%) AngularJS
7 22 (22.00%) .NET Framework
7 22 (22.00%) ASP.NET Web API
8 20 (20.00%) Blazor
9 19 (19.00%) .NET Core
9 19 (19.00%) Sass
10 18 (18.00%) jQuery
11 17 (17.00%) OpenAPI
11 17 (17.00%) Swagger
12 16 (16.00%) Entity Framework
13 15 (15.00%) ASP.NET MVC
13 15 (15.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
13 15 (15.00%) LESS
13 15 (15.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.00%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.00%) Low-Code
4 4 (4.00%) Raspberry Pi
5 3 (3.00%) Hackathon
6 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.00%) IoT
7 1 (1.00%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.00%) NHS
7 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.00%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.00%) Linux
1 9 (9.00%) Windows
2 4 (4.00%) AIX
2 4 (4.00%) Windows 7
2 4 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.00%) Android
3 1 (1.00%) Solaris
3 1 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (47.00%) Agile
2 36 (36.00%) DevOps
2 36 (36.00%) MVC
3 30 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 24 (24.00%) Full Stack Development
5 23 (23.00%) Front End Development
6 21 (21.00%) Web Development
7 19 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (16.00%) Asset Management
8 16 (16.00%) Wealth Management
9 15 (15.00%) Investment Management
9 15 (15.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 14 (14.00%) SOA
10 14 (14.00%) Software Engineering
11 13 (13.00%) Analytics
11 13 (13.00%) Multithreading
11 13 (13.00%) Scrum
12 11 (11.00%) Design Patterns
13 10 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (9.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 68 (68.00%) JavaScript
2 45 (45.00%) C#
2 45 (45.00%) SQL
3 33 (33.00%) TypeScript
4 25 (25.00%) T-SQL
5 12 (12.00%) Java
6 10 (10.00%) Python
7 7 (7.00%) Bicep
8 5 (5.00%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.00%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.00%) PHP
9 2 (2.00%) XPath
10 1 (1.00%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (10.00%) Degree
2 8 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.00%) Accessibility
2 15 (15.00%) WAI
3 4 (4.00%) QA
4 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 13 (13.00%) Docker
2 4 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (11.00%) Kubernetes
1 11 (11.00%) Terraform
2 7 (7.00%) MIIS
3 1 (1.00%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 17 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.00%) Meraki
2 4 (4.00%) Veeam
2 4 (4.00%) VMware
3 3 (3.00%) Google
4 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.00%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.00%) Adobe
5 1 (1.00%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.00%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle
5 1 (1.00%) Sybase