VSAM Contracts
 
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 across the UK. 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.

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 522 569 577
Rank change year-on-year
+47 +8
Contract jobs citing VSAM 11 4 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.024% 0.007% 0.018%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.090% 0.028% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £335 £180
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +86.62%
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
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 12273 14324 16984
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.38% 24.55% 28.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7382 8428 10080
Average daily rate £430 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £251 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 539 660 718
Average hourly rate £22.66 £23.00 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.47% -1.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.05 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%

VSAM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

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 within the UK.

VSAM Hourly Rate Trend

VSAM
Top 13 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 UK 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
England +69 8 - -
North West - 5 - -
Manchester - 5 - -
Edinburgh +7 3 - -
Scotland -8 3 - -
London +20 1 - -
City of London +18 1 - -
Halifax - 1 - -
Reading - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
South East - 1 - -

VSAM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 15 (83.33%) Mainframe
2 13 (72.22%) CICS
3 10 (55.56%) DB2
3 10 (55.56%) JCL
3 10 (55.56%) zOS
3 10 (55.56%) Banking
4 9 (50.00%) IBM
5 7 (38.89%) CA
6 6 (33.33%) HP
6 6 (33.33%) COBOL
6 6 (33.33%) SQL
6 6 (33.33%) WebSphere
6 6 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
7 5 (27.78%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (27.78%) Firewall
7 5 (27.78%) Oracle
7 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
7 5 (27.78%) Windows
7 5 (27.78%) Citrix
7 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
7 5 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (27.78%) Cisco
7 5 (27.78%) VMware
7 5 (27.78%) CheckPoint
7 5 (27.78%) Tivoli
8 4 (22.22%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (22.22%) Internet
8 4 (22.22%) Middleware
8 4 (22.22%) RACF

VSAM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 4 (22.22%) Middleware
3 2 (11.11%) Web Services
4 1 (5.556%) SOAP
4 1 (5.556%) ISPF
Application Platforms
1 13 (72.22%) CICS
2 4 (22.22%) WebLogic
3 2 (11.11%) SAS
3 2 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (5.556%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (5.556%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Office
1 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
1 1 (5.556%) MS Visio
1 1 (5.556%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
1 5 (27.78%) Firewall
2 4 (22.22%) Internet
2 4 (22.22%) SNA
2 4 (22.22%) SAN
3 1 (5.556%) CTI
3 1 (5.556%) VoIP
3 1 (5.556%) FTP
3 1 (5.556%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) DB2
2 5 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.11%) Base SAS
4 1 (5.556%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) LoadRunner
General
1 10 (55.56%) Banking
2 4 (22.22%) Retail
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (5.556%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.556%) Billing
3 1 (5.556%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Architect
1 3 (16.67%) Analyst
1 3 (16.67%) Designer
2 2 (11.11%) Technical Design Leader
2 2 (11.11%) Systems Programmer
2 2 (11.11%) Mainframe Architect
2 2 (11.11%) CICS Systems Programmer
2 2 (11.11%) Programmer
2 2 (11.11%) CICS Programmer
3 1 (5.556%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (5.556%) Data Analyst
3 1 (5.556%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (5.556%) SAS Analyst
3 1 (5.556%) Performance Analyst
3 1 (5.556%) SAS Consultant
3 1 (5.556%) Test Analyst
3 1 (5.556%) Technical Architect
3 1 (5.556%) Consultant
3 1 (5.556%) Senior Performance Test Analyst
3 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Designer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (83.33%) Mainframe
2 6 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
3 4 (22.22%) Mobile Banking
3 4 (22.22%) PKI
3 4 (22.22%) Online Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Data Extraction
5 1 (5.556%) Visualisation
5 1 (5.556%) CMDB
5 1 (5.556%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) zOS
2 5 (27.78%) Windows
3 4 (22.22%) AIX
3 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (11.11%) UNIX
4 2 (11.11%) OS/390
4 2 (11.11%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (22.22%) ITIL
2 4 (22.22%) ETL
3 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 2 (11.11%) Validation
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Stress Testing
5 1 (5.556%) Data Migration
5 1 (5.556%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.556%) Performance Testing
5 1 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (5.556%) Data Management
5 1 (5.556%) Critical Path Analysis
5 1 (5.556%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) JCL
2 6 (33.33%) COBOL
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 4 (22.22%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 4 (22.22%) RACF
1 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Tivoli
2 2 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (5.556%) Control-M
3 1 (5.556%) Foglight
3 1 (5.556%) NetBackup
3 1 (5.556%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) IBM
2 7 (38.89%) CA
3 6 (33.33%) HP
4 5 (27.78%) Citrix
4 5 (27.78%) Oracle
4 5 (27.78%) CheckPoint
4 5 (27.78%) VMware
4 5 (27.78%) Cisco
5 4 (22.22%) Brocade
6 1 (5.556%) TSYS
6 1 (5.556%) Teradata
6 1 (5.556%) Nokia
6 1 (5.556%) Unisys
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