VSAM Job Trends in England

Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VSAM in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited VSAM over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 671 - 820
Rank change year-on-year - - +101
Permanent jobs citing VSAM 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.002% - 0.004%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.009% - 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £63,750 - -
25th Percentile £73,125 - £68,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - £71,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.34%
75th Percentile £105,625 - £74,000
90th Percentile £114,250 - -
UK median annual salary £90,000 - £71,000
% change year-on-year - - +20.34%

All Generic Skills
England

VSAM falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 22,988 15,865 29,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.29% 40.79% 35.21%
Number of salaries quoted 12,118 8,374 20,820
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,241 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,044
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

VSAM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VSAM relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

VSAM job vacancy trend in England

VSAM
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing VSAM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing VSAM

VSAM
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VSAM in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Salary histogram for VSAM in England

VSAM
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VSAM within the England region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 1 £120,000 - 2
South East - 1 £60,000 - 2
VSAM
UK

VSAM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 2 (100.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) ChangeMan
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior COBOL Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) VMware