VSAM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VSAM in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VSAM over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 437 500
Rank change year-on-year +48 +63 -76
Contract jobs citing VSAM 1 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.026% 0.023%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.017% 0.079% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 3
10th Percentile - £403 £401
25th Percentile - £484 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £531 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +18.06% -
75th Percentile - £548 £513
90th Percentile - £572 £520
UK median daily rate £600 £513 £475
% change year-on-year +17.07% +7.89% +4.11%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,963 7,572 9,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.11% 32.41% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,579 5,094 6,703
10th Percentile £208 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £672
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 723 430 460
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.02
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +4.66% -12.42%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.16
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +3.19%

VSAM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VSAM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VSAM in the UK excluding London

VSAM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VSAM in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VSAM in the UK excluding London

VSAM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VSAM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VSAM in the UK excluding London

VSAM
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VSAM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +18 1 - -
VSAM
UK

VSAM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (100.00%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL