VSAM Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term VSAM in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VSAM over the 3 months to 20 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 London 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM)
Rank 380 400 432
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +32
Contract jobs citing VSAM 1 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.005% 0.007% 0.007%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.014% 0.023% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £320 £180
% change year-on-year
- +78.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 7183 8631 11636
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.11% 32.14% 37.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4988 5866 7862
Average daily rate £475 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £283 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 207 196
Average hourly rate £24.00 £22.50 £20.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £52.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
VSAM
England

VSAM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London VSAM Daily 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 London region over the 3 months to 20 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
City of London +18 1 - -
VSAM
England

VSAM
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) SAS
2 2 (66.67%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (66.67%) Base SAS
2 2 (66.67%) Data Extraction
3 1 (33.33%) Unisys
3 1 (33.33%) COBOL
3 1 (33.33%) OS/390
3 1 (33.33%) zOS
3 1 (33.33%) MVS
3 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
3 1 (33.33%) JCL
3 1 (33.33%) DB2
3 1 (33.33%) MS Office
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Critical Path Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution

VSAM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
1 1 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Base SAS
2 1 (33.33%) DB2
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) SAS Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) SAS Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (66.67%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (66.67%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) OS/390
1 1 (33.33%) zOS
1 1 (33.33%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Critical Path Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) JCL
2 1 (33.33%) COBOL
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Unisys
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