VSAM Contracts in Cheshire

Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM)
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VSAM in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VSAM over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VSAM 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.34% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.80% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £380 - -
25th Percentile £402 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 - -
75th Percentile £437 - -
90th Percentile £447 - -
North West median daily rate £402 - -

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

VSAM falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 158 156 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 35.19% 30.95% 46.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 101 143
10th Percentile £314 £297 £263
25th Percentile £358 £425 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.88% +13.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile £553 £567 £580
90th Percentile £636 £606 £648
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 7
10th Percentile £29.46 £14.15 £21.89
25th Percentile £29.80 £17.72 £23.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £36.50 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +30.45% +47.26%
75th Percentile £33.75 £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile £55.50 - £66.25
North West median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
% change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%

VSAM
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VSAM in Cheshire

VSAM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VSAM in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for VSAM in Cheshire

VSAM
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VSAM within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford - 6 £404 -
VSAM
North West

VSAM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 6 (100.00%) CICS
2 3 (50.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) DB2
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) Easytrieve
2 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) SOAtest
General
1 5 (83.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) General Ledger
2 2 (33.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Designer
1 2 (33.33%) Mainframe Designer
1 2 (33.33%) Test Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) J2EE
2 2 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (33.33%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (33.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) API Integration
3 2 (33.33%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Batch Processing
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) User Stories
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) COBOL
1 6 (100.00%) JCL
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Ab Initio
1 2 (33.33%) Informatica
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) Parasoft