VSAM Contracts in England

Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VSAM in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VSAM over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 647 768
Rank change year-on-year +107 +121 -170
Contract jobs citing VSAM 3 11 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% 0.021% 0.015%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.026% 0.064% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 4
10th Percentile - £330 £335
25th Percentile - £354 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £453
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +2.21% -0.82%
75th Percentile - £525 £593
90th Percentile - £566 £717
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £456
% change year-on-year -2.44% +12.33% -

All Generic Skills
England

VSAM is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,496 17,234 24,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.89% 33.64% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,516 11,950 17,291
10th Percentile £263 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £670
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 816 613 643
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £13.78
25th Percentile £15.13 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -15.15% +2.91%
75th Percentile £59.06 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.14
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £22.49 £27.00
% change year-on-year +25.64% -16.72% +5.88%

VSAM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VSAM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VSAM in England

VSAM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VSAM in England.

Daily rate trend for VSAM in England

VSAM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VSAM in England.

Hourly rate trend for VSAM in England

VSAM
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 VSAM within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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
London +103 2 £500 - 1
South East +14 1 - -
VSAM
UK

VSAM
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 3 (100.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DB2
2 2 (66.67%) IDMS
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Mainframe Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Test Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Test Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
1 2 (66.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (66.67%) Batch Processing
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Product Vision
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) COBOL
1 3 (100.00%) JCL
2 2 (66.67%) Assembly Language
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft