RACF Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for RACF skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RACF over the 3 months to 23 May 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 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
Rank 374 401 431
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +30
Contract jobs citing RACF 3 9 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.014% 0.033% 0.013%
As % of the System Software category 0.182% 0.429% 0.211%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
Average daily rate £425 £85 £455
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+400.00% -81.31%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £423 £300
% change year-on-year
-5.32% +40.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £85.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 1647 2097 1900
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.612% 7.787% 6.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 974 1200 987
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 179 205
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £36.70 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
RACF
England

RACF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

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 London region.

London RACF Hourly Rate Trend

RACF
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RACF within the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +17 1 - -
RACF
England

RACF
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 8 (88.89%) Mainframe
2 4 (44.44%) IBM
2 4 (44.44%) zOS
2 4 (44.44%) Banking
2 4 (44.44%) IBM Mainframe
3 3 (33.33%) CICS
3 3 (33.33%) CA
3 3 (33.33%) DB2
3 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 3 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) SAS
4 2 (22.22%) REXX
4 2 (22.22%) ISPF
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) ChangeMan
5 1 (11.11%) Information Security
5 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
5 1 (11.11%) CA Endevor
5 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
5 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (11.11%) SLA
5 1 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (11.11%) MQSeries
5 1 (11.11%) Validation
5 1 (11.11%) Migration

RACF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 2 (22.22%) ISPF
2 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) CICS
2 2 (22.22%) SAS
3 1 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (11.11%) MQSeries
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) ChangeMan
General
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Security Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) IT Security Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Mainframe
2 4 (44.44%) IBM Mainframe
3 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Information Security
1 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
1 1 (11.11%) Validation
1 1 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) REXX
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) IBM
2 3 (33.33%) CA
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