VSAM Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term VSAM in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VSAM over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM)
Rank 504 557 559
Rank change year-on-year
+53 +2
Contract jobs citing VSAM 9 2 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.022% 0.004% 0.021%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.080% 0.015% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £168 £350 £180
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-52.14% +94.98%
UK excluding London average daily rate £168 £320 £180
% change year-on-year
-47.65% +78.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 11208 13487 16440
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 26.96% 25.29% 29.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6896 8084 9903
Average daily rate £438 £437 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.11% -16.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £255 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £607 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 492 617 685
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% -2.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.60 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
VSAM
UK

VSAM
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VSAM across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

England VSAM Jobs Demand Trend

VSAM
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VSAM across the England region.

England VSAM Daily Rate Trend

VSAM
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VSAM across the England region.

England VSAM Hourly Rate Trend

VSAM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VSAM within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
North West - 5 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £168 -
London +37 1 - -
South East - 1 - -
VSAM
UK

VSAM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VSAM also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VSAM.

1 14 (87.50%) Mainframe
2 11 (68.75%) CICS
3 10 (62.50%) DB2
3 10 (62.50%) JCL
4 9 (56.25%) zOS
4 9 (56.25%) Banking
4 9 (56.25%) IBM
5 7 (43.75%) CA
5 7 (43.75%) HP
5 7 (43.75%) COBOL
6 6 (37.50%) SQL
6 6 (37.50%) Tivoli
6 6 (37.50%) WebSphere
6 6 (37.50%) IBM Mainframe
7 5 (31.25%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (31.25%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 5 (31.25%) CheckPoint
7 5 (31.25%) Firewall
7 5 (31.25%) VMware
7 5 (31.25%) Oracle
7 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
7 5 (31.25%) Windows
7 5 (31.25%) Citrix
7 5 (31.25%) Cisco
7 5 (31.25%) TCP/IP
8 4 (25.00%) SNA
8 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
8 4 (25.00%) SAN
8 4 (25.00%) AIX

VSAM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VSAM also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VSAM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (37.50%) WebSphere
2 4 (25.00%) Middleware
3 2 (12.50%) Web Services
4 1 (6.250%) ISPF
4 1 (6.250%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 11 (68.75%) CICS
2 4 (25.00%) WebLogic
3 2 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (12.50%) SAS
4 1 (6.250%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (6.250%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
1 1 (6.250%) MS Office
1 1 (6.250%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Firewall
1 5 (31.25%) TCP/IP
2 4 (25.00%) SNA
2 4 (25.00%) SAN
2 4 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (6.250%) CTI
3 1 (6.250%) VoIP
3 1 (6.250%) FTP
3 1 (6.250%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) DB2
2 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
3 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (12.50%) Base SAS
5 1 (6.250%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) LoadRunner
General
1 9 (56.25%) Banking
2 4 (25.00%) Retail
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.250%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.250%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Designer
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Systems Programmer
2 2 (12.50%) Programmer
2 2 (12.50%) CICS Programmer
2 2 (12.50%) CICS Systems Programmer
2 2 (12.50%) Technical Design Leader
3 1 (6.250%) Senior Performance Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) Test Leader
3 1 (6.250%) Senior Performance Test Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Designer
3 1 (6.250%) Performance Test Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) SAS Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) Performance Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) SAS Consultant
3 1 (6.250%) Test Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) Technical Architect
3 1 (6.250%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 14 (87.50%) Mainframe
2 6 (37.50%) IBM Mainframe
3 4 (25.00%) Online Banking
3 4 (25.00%) PKI
3 4 (25.00%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Data Extraction
5 1 (6.250%) Visualisation
5 1 (6.250%) CMDB
5 1 (6.250%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) zOS
2 5 (31.25%) Windows
3 4 (25.00%) AIX
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (18.75%) MVS
4 3 (18.75%) OS/390
5 2 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (25.00%) ITIL
2 4 (25.00%) ETL
3 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
4 2 (12.50%) Validation
4 2 (12.50%) Stress Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (6.250%) Incident Management
5 1 (6.250%) Performance Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (6.250%) Data Management
5 1 (6.250%) Critical Path Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) JCL
2 7 (43.75%) COBOL
3 6 (37.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (18.75%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Tivoli
2 2 (12.50%) Control-M
2 2 (12.50%) CA Endevor
2 2 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (6.250%) Foglight
3 1 (6.250%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) IBM
2 7 (43.75%) CA
2 7 (43.75%) HP
3 5 (31.25%) CheckPoint
3 5 (31.25%) VMware
3 5 (31.25%) Oracle
3 5 (31.25%) Citrix
3 5 (31.25%) Cisco
4 4 (25.00%) Brocade
5 1 (6.250%) Unisys
5 1 (6.250%) Nokia
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