Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VSAM in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VSAM over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 871 979 1220
Rank change year-on-year +108 +241 -310
Permanent jobs citing VSAM 14 7 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.007% 0.001%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.040% 0.016% 0.003%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile - £53,550 £48,250
25th Percentile £68,000 £55,125 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% +7.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £74,000 £61,625 £61,875
90th Percentile - £62,450 £63,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,000 £59,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.34% +18.00% +5.26%

All Generic Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,901 44,470 73,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.49% 42.76% 47.27%
Number of salaries quoted 23,023 23,971 34,149
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,350 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

VSAM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VSAM in the UK

VSAM
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VSAM.

Salary trend for VSAM in the UK

VSAM
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VSAM within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +13 14 £71,000 +20.34%
Scotland -44 11 - -
England +111 3 £71,000 +20.34% 3
North West - 3 £71,000 -
Work from Home - 3 £71,000 -
North of England - 3 £71,000 -

VSAM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (100.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) DB2
2 3 (21.43%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) ChangeMan
General
1 11 (78.57%) Finance
1 11 (78.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 11 (78.57%) Law
1 11 (78.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Mainframe Software Engineer
1 11 (78.57%) Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) DB2 DBA
2 3 (21.43%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (78.57%) Mainframe
1 11 (78.57%) Reference Data
2 3 (21.43%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Agile
1 11 (78.57%) Artificial Intelligence
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
1 11 (78.57%) Decision-Making
1 11 (78.57%) Machine Learning
1 11 (78.57%) Operational Stability
1 11 (78.57%) SDLC
1 11 (78.57%) Software Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) Business Strategy
2 3 (21.43%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (21.43%) Change Management
2 3 (21.43%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) COBOL
1 14 (100.00%) JCL
2 11 (78.57%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) REXX
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
System Software
1 14 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 3 (21.43%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) BMC
2 3 (21.43%) IBM