IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for RACF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RACF over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 678 820
Rank change year-on-year +148 +142 -182
Contract jobs citing RACF 68 41 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.069% 0.033%
As % of the System Software category 1.46% 0.52% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 26 9
10th Percentile £430 £438 £445
25th Percentile £463 £540 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £600 £505
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +18.81% -30.34%
75th Percentile £699 £654 £688
90th Percentile £750 £675 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £375 £513
% change year-on-year +14.67% -26.83% +2.50%

All System Software Skills
UK

RACF is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,653 7,900 12,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.75% 13.21% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,179 5,646 8,623
10th Percentile £197 £205 £200
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -5.13% +7.75% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 284 318
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.83 £13.21
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -
75th Percentile £60.19 £66.00 £44.07
90th Percentile £77.95 £75.35 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £44.93 £18.12
% change year-on-year -52.15% +148.01% +2.06%

RACF
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RACF in the UK

RACF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for RACF in the UK

RACF
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RACF over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RACF in the UK

RACF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for RACF in the UK

RACF
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RACF within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +154 52 £613 +2.08% 5
Work from Home +146 32 £570 -11.90% 1
London +112 30 £666 +11.04% 4
UK excluding London +78 19 £430 +14.67%
North of England +48 17 £430 -27.12%
Yorkshire +36 17 £430 -18.87%
Scotland +32 2 - -

RACF
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 17 (25.00%) SAS
2 5 (7.35%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 28 (41.18%) GitHub
2 13 (19.12%) AWS
2 13 (19.12%) Azure
2 13 (19.12%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) SSL
2 1 (1.47%) SNA
2 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (41.18%) MySQL
1 28 (41.18%) Oracle Reports
1 28 (41.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.47%) DB2
General
1 25 (36.76%) Finance
1 25 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 20 (29.41%) Financial Institution
3 6 (8.82%) Banking
3 6 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (25.00%) Architect
2 15 (22.06%) Developer
2 15 (22.06%) SailPoint Developer
3 13 (19.12%) Programmer
3 13 (19.12%) SailPoint Architect
3 13 (19.12%) SailPoint Engineer
3 13 (19.12%) Systems Programmer
3 13 (19.12%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 8 (11.76%) Senior
4 8 (11.76%) Senior Developer
5 7 (10.29%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (7.35%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) z/OS Specialist
7 4 (5.88%) CICS Specialist
7 4 (5.88%) Mainframe Architect
7 4 (5.88%) Security Architect
8 2 (2.94%) Administrator
8 2 (2.94%) Mainframe Specialist
9 1 (1.47%) RACF Specialist
9 1 (1.47%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (60.29%) HTML
1 41 (60.29%) JSP
1 41 (60.29%) LDAP
1 41 (60.29%) SailPoint
1 41 (60.29%) Servlets
1 41 (60.29%) SOAP
1 41 (60.29%) SPML
1 41 (60.29%) XML
2 28 (41.18%) JDBC
2 28 (41.18%) Web Services
3 17 (25.00%) ISPF
4 1 (1.47%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 40 (58.82%) Mainframe
2 28 (41.18%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.41%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 22 (32.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (58.82%) RBAC
2 15 (22.06%) Performance Monitoring
2 15 (22.06%) Risk Management
3 13 (19.12%) Secrets Management
3 13 (19.12%) Technical Architecture
4 7 (10.29%) Architectural Design
5 5 (7.35%) Software Engineering
6 4 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (5.88%) Project Delivery
6 4 (5.88%) Project Management
6 4 (5.88%) Security Architecture
7 3 (4.41%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (2.94%) Capacity Management
9 1 (1.47%) Performance Analysis
9 1 (1.47%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (60.29%) Java
1 41 (60.29%) JavaScript
2 40 (58.82%) SQL
3 17 (25.00%) Assembly Language
3 17 (25.00%) JCL
3 17 (25.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 62 (91.18%) ACF2
2 41 (60.29%) Active Directory
2 41 (60.29%) IAG
3 17 (25.00%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (27.94%) OMEGAMON
2 4 (5.88%) zSecure
Vendors
1 41 (60.29%) ServiceNow
2 28 (41.18%) Oracle
2 28 (41.18%) Sybase
3 23 (33.82%) IBM
4 17 (25.00%) Broadcom
5 15 (22.06%) Splunk
6 13 (19.12%) BeyondTrust
6 13 (19.12%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.94%) BMC
8 1 (1.47%) SunGard
8 1 (1.47%) Teradata