VSAM Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VSAM in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VSAM over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VSAM 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.032% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.094% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £475 - -

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,066 574 644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 34.13% 35.06% 28.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 351 363
10th Percentile £330 £250 £250
25th Percentile £425 £375 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £610 £575 £608
90th Percentile £713 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £525 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +6.71% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 30 29
10th Percentile £12.84 £14.94 £15.84
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.13 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.72 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.34% +0.51% -29.17%
75th Percentile £82.28 £62.31 £60.60
90th Percentile £96.25 £87.64 £69.79
South East median hourly rate £38.72 £33.05 £57.35
% change year-on-year +17.16% -42.37% +4.87%

VSAM
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

VSAM job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

VSAM
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing VSAM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing VSAM

VSAM
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing VSAM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing VSAM

VSAM
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VSAM within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 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
VSAM
South East

VSAM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (100.00%) CICS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) RACF
1 1 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 1 (100.00%) IBM