VSAM Contracts in Northamptonshire

Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VSAM in contract job vacancies in Northamptonshire. 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 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VSAM 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 0.63% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.96% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £340 - -

All Generic Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 51 54 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 31.88% 25.96% 31.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 36 63
10th Percentile £284 £242 £186
25th Percentile £356 £358 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £445 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% +11.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £497 £500 £538
90th Percentile £536 £559 £642
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 6
10th Percentile - - £14.49
25th Percentile - - £17.82
Median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -25.33% -12.79%
75th Percentile - - £24.67
90th Percentile - - £45.72
East Midlands median hourly rate £13.81 £14.00 £21.97
% change year-on-year -1.36% -36.26% +28.41%

VSAM
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VSAM in Northamptonshire

VSAM
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VSAM within the Northamptonshire 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
Northampton - 1 £340 -
VSAM
East Midlands

VSAM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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