VSAM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VSAM in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VSAM over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 396 440
Rank change year-on-year +68 +44 +65
Contract jobs citing VSAM 11 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.014% 0.029%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.26% 0.049% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 7
10th Percentile £376 - £330
25th Percentile £402 - £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.80% -4.76% +16.02%
75th Percentile £543 - £547
90th Percentile £589 - £568
UK median daily rate £426 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -14.80% -2.44% +12.33%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,246 6,122 7,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.19% 29.50% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,666 5,259
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £376 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 724 436
10th Percentile £16.81 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.28 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.42 £28.13 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.72% +27.84% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.64 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.28 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.58% +33.42% -18.24%

VSAM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VSAM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VSAM in the UK excluding London

VSAM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VSAM in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VSAM in the UK excluding London

VSAM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VSAM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VSAM in the UK excluding London

VSAM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VSAM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VSAM in the UK excluding London

VSAM
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VSAM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England - 7 £402 -
North West - 7 £402 -
Scotland - 4 £575 -
VSAM
UK

VSAM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (100.00%) CICS
2 4 (36.36%) CMS
3 3 (27.27%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) DB2
2 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (18.18%) Easytrieve
2 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Selenium
2 2 (18.18%) SOAtest
General
1 6 (54.55%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) General Ledger
2 2 (18.18%) Retail Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Consultant
1 3 (27.27%) Mainframe Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Designer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Mainframe Designer
2 2 (18.18%) Mainframe Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Test Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst Programmer
3 1 (9.09%) Mainframe Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Programmer
3 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Web Services
2 4 (36.36%) Middleware
3 2 (18.18%) J2EE
3 2 (18.18%) JSON
3 2 (18.18%) REST
3 2 (18.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (18.18%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Unix
2 2 (18.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Capacity Management
1 4 (36.36%) Migration
1 4 (36.36%) Task Automation
1 4 (36.36%) User Experience
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) API Integration
3 2 (18.18%) API Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Batch Processing
3 2 (18.18%) ETL
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Management
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (18.18%) SDLC
3 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Test Planning
3 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) REXX
2 7 (63.64%) COBOL
2 7 (63.64%) JCL
3 3 (27.27%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) Assembly Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Ab Initio
1 2 (18.18%) Informatica
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) Parasoft