VSAM Contracts in the Midlands

Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM)
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VSAM in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VSAM over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 - 158
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VSAM 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.052% - 0.059%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% - 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - £330
England median daily rate £402 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -33.00% +26.32% +5.56%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 588 836 1,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.55% 30.72% 32.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 542 732
10th Percentile £199 £220 £258
25th Percentile £381 £350 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £600
90th Percentile £657 £749 £700
England median daily rate £549 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -0.27% -3.93% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 62 44
10th Percentile - £10.47 £16.98
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.93 £18.22
Median hourly rate £17.64 £19.50 £24.83
Median % change year-on-year -9.53% -21.47% +50.48%
75th Percentile £26.48 £28.88 £52.81
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £34.50 £32.12 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.43% +42.83% -15.91%

VSAM
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VSAM in the Midlands

VSAM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for VSAM in the Midlands

VSAM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for VSAM in the Midlands

VSAM
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VSAM within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 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
East Midlands - 1 £340 -
VSAM
England

VSAM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle