The first table below looks at the demand for RACF skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RACF over the 3 months to 21 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
Rank 837 855 858
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +3
Permanent jobs citing RACF 10 1 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.010% 0.001% 0.003%
As % of the System Software category 0.102% 0.010% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 4
Average salary £45,000 - £41,000
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 - £38,250
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 - £42,000
UK excluding London average salary £43,500 - £44,750
All System Software
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
9823 9842 8816
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 9.667% 8.651% 7.628%
Number of salaries quoted 8363 8564 7279
Average salary £41,000 £42,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.38% +5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,946 £39,000 £37,875
% change year-on-year
-0.13% +2.97%
RACF
UK

RACF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England RACF Jobs Demand Trend

RACF
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing RACF across the England region.

England RACF Salary Trend

RACF
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RACF within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London - 3 £50,000 -
North West - 3 £40,000 -
South West - 3 £46,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £43,500 -
RACF
UK

RACF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited RACF.

1 10 (83.33%) Mainframe
2 6 (50.00%) UNIX
3 5 (41.67%) Oracle
3 5 (41.67%) Finance
4 4 (33.33%) IBM
4 4 (33.33%) zOS
5 3 (25.00%) CA
5 3 (25.00%) SAS
5 3 (25.00%) LDAP
5 3 (25.00%) ISPF
5 3 (25.00%) REXX
6 2 (16.67%) SecurID
6 2 (16.67%) Banking
6 2 (16.67%) AS400
6 2 (16.67%) Legal
6 2 (16.67%) IPsec
6 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
6 2 (16.67%) Internet
6 2 (16.67%) CRM
6 2 (16.67%) Siebel
6 2 (16.67%) Windows
6 2 (16.67%) ATM
6 2 (16.67%) VPN
6 2 (16.67%) DNS
6 2 (16.67%) Unicenter
6 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
7 1 (8.333%) EMC
7 1 (8.333%) Interwoven
7 1 (8.333%) TeamSite
7 1 (8.333%) CICS

RACF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited RACF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (25.00%) ISPF
2 1 (8.333%) J2EE
2 1 (8.333%) XML
2 1 (8.333%) Hibernate
2 1 (8.333%) Apache Axis
2 1 (8.333%) Spring MVC
2 1 (8.333%) Spring Web Flow
2 1 (8.333%) RichFaces
2 1 (8.333%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) SAS
2 1 (8.333%) TeamSite
2 1 (8.333%) CICS
2 1 (8.333%) Apache
2 1 (8.333%) Tomcat
2 1 (8.333%) WebLogic
2 1 (8.333%) WebLogic Portal
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) LDAP
2 2 (16.67%) IPsec
2 2 (16.67%) Internet
2 2 (16.67%) ATM
2 2 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (8.333%) HTTP
3 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) MySQL
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
1 1 (8.333%) DB2
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Legal
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.333%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Security Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Security Administrator
2 2 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (8.333%) Architect
3 1 (8.333%) Programmer
3 1 (8.333%) Systems Programmer
3 1 (8.333%) IT Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Mainframe
2 2 (16.67%) SecurID
2 2 (16.67%) AS400
3 1 (8.333%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.333%) Computer Science
3 1 (8.333%) Credit Risk
3 1 (8.333%) Open Source
3 1 (8.333%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) UNIX
2 4 (33.33%) zOS
3 2 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (8.333%) MVS
4 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (8.333%) UML
2 1 (8.333%) OO
2 1 (8.333%) Change Management
2 1 (8.333%) Identity Management
2 1 (8.333%) Workflow
2 1 (8.333%) MVC
2 1 (8.333%) Project Planning
2 1 (8.333%) Use Case
2 1 (8.333%) Data Architecture
2 1 (8.333%) Software Architecture
2 1 (8.333%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) REXX
2 1 (8.333%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Unicenter
2 1 (8.333%) CA Endevor
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle
2 4 (33.33%) IBM
3 3 (25.00%) CA
4 2 (16.67%) Siebel
5 1 (8.333%) EMC
5 1 (8.333%) Interwoven
5 1 (8.333%) Sun
5 1 (8.333%) JBoss
5 1 (8.333%) webMethods
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