VSAM Contracts in England

Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VSAM in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VSAM over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 558 625
Rank change year-on-year +78 +67 +152
Contract jobs citing VSAM 23 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.085% 0.006% 0.013%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% 0.018% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 1 5
10th Percentile £309 - £368
25th Percentile £340 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £372 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +26.32% +11.11%
75th Percentile £437 - £488
90th Percentile £483 - £518
UK median daily rate £372 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -38.08% +20.00% -

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,478 11,183 15,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.82% 30.92% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,009 7,215 10,948
10th Percentile £306 £292 £310
25th Percentile £409 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 743 453
10th Percentile £15.41 £12.50 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.08
Median hourly rate £32.95 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +14.29% +32.65%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £79.64
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% +11.19%

VSAM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VSAM in England

VSAM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VSAM in England

VSAM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VSAM in England over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VSAM in England

VSAM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VSAM in England.

Hourly rate trend for VSAM in England

VSAM
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VSAM within the England region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
North of England - 17 £378 - 1
North West - 14 £368 -
London - 3 £558 - 2
Yorkshire - 3 £500 - 1
East Midlands - 3 £340 -
Midlands - 3 £340 -
VSAM
UK

VSAM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 22 (95.65%) CICS
2 4 (17.39%) CMS
3 3 (13.04%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 4 (17.39%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.35%) IaaS
3 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.35%) PaaS
3 1 (4.35%) SaaS
3 1 (4.35%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) DB2
2 3 (13.04%) Easytrieve
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle Database
2 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (21.74%) Selenium
3 4 (17.39%) Git
3 4 (17.39%) Maven
4 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
4 3 (13.04%) Eclipse
4 3 (13.04%) IntelliJ
4 3 (13.04%) REST Assured
5 2 (8.70%) SOAtest
6 1 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (4.35%) JIRA
6 1 (4.35%) JUnit
6 1 (4.35%) Mockito
6 1 (4.35%) Postman
6 1 (4.35%) SoapUI
6 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
6 1 (4.35%) Subversion
6 1 (4.35%) Xcode
6 1 (4.35%) XCTest
General
1 11 (47.83%) Banking
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 6 (26.09%) Finance
4 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Legal
4 3 (13.04%) Retail Banking
5 2 (8.70%) General Ledger
6 1 (4.35%) Billing
6 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Mainframe Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Tester
4 3 (13.04%) Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Automation Tester
5 2 (8.70%) COBOL Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Designer
5 2 (8.70%) Mainframe Designer
5 2 (8.70%) Test Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Assembler Developer
6 1 (4.35%) CMS Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Mainframe Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Mainframe Assembler Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Mainframe Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) ISPF
1 6 (26.09%) Web Services
2 3 (13.04%) J2EE
2 3 (13.04%) REST
3 2 (8.70%) JSON
3 2 (8.70%) XML
4 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.35%) Bootstrap
4 1 (4.35%) CSS
4 1 (4.35%) CSS3
4 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.35%) HTML
4 1 (4.35%) HTML5
4 1 (4.35%) JPA
4 1 (4.35%) Kafka
4 1 (4.35%) SOAP
4 1 (4.35%) Spring
4 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.35%) Spring MVC
4 1 (4.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 5 (21.74%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.70%) Mobile Payment
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) zOS
2 4 (17.39%) Unix
3 2 (8.70%) Linux
4 1 (4.35%) AIX
4 1 (4.35%) Solaris
4 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) DevOps
1 12 (52.17%) SDLC
2 11 (47.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (30.43%) Migration
4 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
5 5 (21.74%) Code Quality
5 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) Problem Management
5 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (21.74%) Test Strategy
6 4 (17.39%) Agile
6 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
6 4 (17.39%) Release Management
6 4 (17.39%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (17.39%) Software Testing
7 3 (13.04%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (13.04%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (95.65%) JCL
2 19 (82.61%) COBOL
3 9 (39.13%) REXX
4 7 (30.43%) Java
5 5 (21.74%) CLIST
5 5 (21.74%) SQL
6 2 (8.70%) Assembly Language
7 1 (4.35%) Bash
7 1 (4.35%) Groovy
7 1 (4.35%) HLASM
7 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) QA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) OMEGAMON
2 4 (17.39%) CA Endevor
3 1 (4.35%) Control-M
3 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) IBM
2 5 (21.74%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) Ab Initio
3 2 (8.70%) Informatica
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Parasoft
4 1 (4.35%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.35%) NetApp
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk