VSAM Contract Job Trends in the South East

Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VSAM in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VSAM over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VSAM 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.030% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £402 £600
% change year-on-year +36.82% -33.00% +26.32%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,957 1,103 1,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.56% 31.68% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 693 770
10th Percentile £300 £204 £236
25th Percentile £413 £350 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.71% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £619 £588 £613
90th Percentile £700 £664 £690
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 94 111
10th Percentile £12.84 £15.13 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.95 £33.13
Median hourly rate £38.49 £33.05 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +16.44% -42.37% +4.87%
75th Percentile £71.38 £58.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.05 £70.16 £75.16
England median hourly rate £37.50 £33.05 £57.35
% change year-on-year +13.46% -42.37% +24.59%

VSAM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VSAM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

VSAM job vacancy trend in the South East

VSAM
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VSAM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VSAM

VSAM
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VSAM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VSAM

VSAM
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VSAM within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. 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
Berkshire - 1 £475 - 1
Thames Valley - 1 £475 - 1
Home Counties - 1 - -
VSAM
England

VSAM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Database Security
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) RACF
1 1 (50.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Broadcom