Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VSAM in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VSAM over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 669 830
Rank change year-on-year +95 +161 -162
Contract jobs citing VSAM 2 15 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.026% 0.022%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.016% 0.079% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 8
10th Percentile - £416 £367
25th Percentile - £463 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% +7.89% +4.11%
75th Percentile - £542 £622
90th Percentile - £554 £799
UK excluding London median daily rate - £531 £450
% change year-on-year - +18.06% -

All Generic Skills
UK

VSAM is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,877 18,959 28,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.26% 33.28% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,295 13,044 20,250
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £668 £676 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 892 627 718
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.13 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.25 £22.00 £21.13
% change year-on-year +32.95% +4.14% -11.98%

VSAM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VSAM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VSAM in the UK

VSAM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VSAM.

Daily rate trend for VSAM in the UK

VSAM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VSAM.

Hourly rate trend for VSAM in the UK

VSAM
Top 3 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
England +105 2 £600 +26.32%
UK excluding London +50 1 - - 1
South East +13 1 - -

VSAM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (50.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
2 1 (50.00%) IDMS
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Database Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Server Migrations
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL
1 1 (50.00%) JCL
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft