The first table below looks at the demand for RACF skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RACF over the 3 months to 24 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
Rank 849 898 864
Rank change year-on-year
+49 -34
Permanent jobs citing RACF 13 1 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.012% 0.001% 0.014%
As % of the System Software category 0.126% 0.009% 0.180%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 15
Average salary £44,250 - £42,000
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 - £28,700
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 - £54,800
UK excluding London average salary £41,750 - £42,000
All System Software
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
10354 10549 9467
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 9.580% 8.741% 7.609%
Number of salaries quoted 8721 9090 7789
Average salary £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.61% +3.75%
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 £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%

RACF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

RACF Jobs Demand Trend

RACF
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing RACF within the UK.

RACF Salary Trend

RACF
Top 14 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 UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +35 11 £44,250 -
Manchester - 4 £40,000 -
North West - 4 £40,000 -
Wiltshire - 3 £46,000 -
Swindon - 3 £46,000 -
London - 3 £50,000 -
South West - 3 £46,000 -
Scotland - 2 - -
Erskine - 2 - -
Renfrewshire - 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £43,500 -
City of London - 1 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £43,500 -
Nottingham - 1 £43,500 -

RACF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 13 (86.67%) Mainframe
2 8 (53.33%) UNIX
3 7 (46.67%) zOS
4 6 (40.00%) REXX
4 6 (40.00%) Finance
4 6 (40.00%) SAS
5 4 (26.67%) IBM
5 4 (26.67%) CICS
5 4 (26.67%) CA
5 4 (26.67%) Oracle
5 4 (26.67%) ISPF
6 3 (20.00%) Degree
6 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (20.00%) DB2
6 3 (20.00%) LDAP
6 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (13.33%) SNA
7 2 (13.33%) ATM
7 2 (13.33%) SMTP
7 2 (13.33%) HTTP
7 2 (13.33%) Assembly Language
7 2 (13.33%) BMC
7 2 (13.33%) Windows
7 2 (13.33%) Legal
7 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
7 2 (13.33%) Identity Management
7 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
7 2 (13.33%) AS400
7 2 (13.33%) SLA
7 2 (13.33%) Banking

RACF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 4 (26.67%) ISPF
2 1 (6.667%) Spring
2 1 (6.667%) Apache Axis
2 1 (6.667%) Spring MVC
2 1 (6.667%) Spring Web Flow
2 1 (6.667%) RichFaces
2 1 (6.667%) Hibernate
2 1 (6.667%) XML
2 1 (6.667%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 6 (40.00%) SAS
2 4 (26.67%) CICS
3 1 (6.667%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (6.667%) Apache
3 1 (6.667%) Tomcat
3 1 (6.667%) WebLogic
3 1 (6.667%) TeamSite
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) LDAP
1 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (13.33%) SNA
2 2 (13.33%) ATM
2 2 (13.33%) SMTP
2 2 (13.33%) HTTP
3 1 (6.667%) Network Security
3 1 (6.667%) Internet
3 1 (6.667%) X.500
3 1 (6.667%) IPsec
3 1 (6.667%) Wireless
3 1 (6.667%) DNS
3 1 (6.667%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) DB2
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) MySQL
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Legal
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 1 (6.667%) Marketing
3 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Security Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Systems Programmer
2 3 (20.00%) Programmer
2 3 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Mainframe Programmer
4 1 (6.667%) Architect
4 1 (6.667%) Security Consultant
4 1 (6.667%) Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (6.667%) Consultant
4 1 (6.667%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) IT Architect
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Security Consultant
4 1 (6.667%) Security Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 13 (86.67%) Mainframe
2 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (13.33%) AS400
4 1 (6.667%) SecurID
4 1 (6.667%) PKI
4 1 (6.667%) Credit Risk
4 1 (6.667%) Open Source
4 1 (6.667%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) UNIX
2 7 (46.67%) zOS
3 2 (13.33%) Windows
4 1 (6.667%) MVS
4 1 (6.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
1 2 (13.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (6.667%) Project Planning
2 1 (6.667%) Use Case
2 1 (6.667%) Data Architecture
2 1 (6.667%) Software Architecture
2 1 (6.667%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (6.667%) Web Application Development
2 1 (6.667%) MVC
2 1 (6.667%) Workflow
2 1 (6.667%) Change Management
2 1 (6.667%) Information Security
2 1 (6.667%) UML
2 1 (6.667%) OO
2 1 (6.667%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) REXX
2 2 (13.33%) Assembly Language
3 1 (6.667%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.667%) CISA
2 1 (6.667%) CISM
2 1 (6.667%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
2 1 (6.667%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) CA Endevor
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle Identity Manager
1 1 (6.667%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) IBM
1 4 (26.67%) CA
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) BMC
3 1 (6.667%) webMethods
3 1 (6.667%) JBoss
3 1 (6.667%) Siebel
3 1 (6.667%) Sun
3 1 (6.667%) EMC
3 1 (6.667%) Interwoven
Bristol, Avon
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Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £33000 - £38000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013