The first table below looks at the demand for RACF skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RACF over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the System Software category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
Rank 213 208 -
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -
Contract jobs citing RACF 2 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.029% 0.079% -
As % of the System Software category 0.367% 1.005% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Average daily rate £400 £176 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+126.95% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £296 £265
% change year-on-year
+35.24% +11.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £85.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
- +90.90%
All System Software
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
545 597 569
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 7.909% 7.846% 5.678%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 350 337
Average daily rate £388 £363 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.89% -5.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £310
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +1.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 59 86
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.43% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.99 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £34.10 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
- +3.03%
RACF
London

RACF
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing RACF across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

City of London RACF Jobs Demand Trend

RACF
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RACF across the City of London region.

City of London RACF Daily Rate Trend

RACF
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing RACF across the City of London region.

City of London RACF Hourly Rate Trend

RACF
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing RACF also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited RACF.

1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) zOS
1 2 (66.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (33.33%) CA Endevor
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) DB2
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (33.33%) MQSeries
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) CICS
2 1 (33.33%) CA

RACF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing RACF also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited RACF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (33.33%) MQSeries
1 1 (33.33%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Security Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CA
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