VSAM Contract Job Trends in the Home Counties

Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM)
South East > Home Counties

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VSAM in contract job vacancies in the Home Counties. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VSAM over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VSAM 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Home Counties 7.14% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
Home Counties

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 the Home Counties.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 50.00% 42.86% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £510 £559 -
25th Percentile £525 £574 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £597 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% - -
75th Percentile £613 £621 -
90th Percentile £650 £635 -
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +4.00% -2.44% +2.50%

VSAM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Home Counties by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM