VSAM Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VSAM in permanent job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited VSAM over the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing VSAM 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.24% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.77% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median annual salary - - -

All Generic Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 130 151 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 31.40% 31.20% 33.04%
Number of salaries quoted 34 54 92
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,475 £32,813
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,713 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £65,000 £57,291
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +13.46% +6.59%
75th Percentile £70,000 £93,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £117,422 £101,750 £82,375
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -

VSAM
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

VSAM job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

VSAM
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VSAM within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
County Antrim - 1 - -
VSAM
UK

VSAM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Product Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Human-Centred Design
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Telematics
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager