RACF Contract Job Trends in the East of England

IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring RACF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 - 110
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RACF 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.066% - 0.055%
As % of the System Software category 0.51% - 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £350 £488 £650
% change year-on-year -28.21% -25.00% +14.24%

All System Software Skills
East of England

RACF falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 198 132 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.03% 10.34% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 50 185
10th Percentile £185 £185 £170
25th Percentile £213 £227 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £369 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -26.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £675
90th Percentile £628 £619 £775
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 17 37
10th Percentile £12.82 - £14.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.46 £24.73
Median hourly rate £54.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -15.38% +311.52%
75th Percentile £78.13 £66.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £84.36
England median hourly rate £32.32 £50.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -35.37% +14.17% +75.17%

RACF
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RACF relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

RACF job vacancy trend in the East of England

RACF
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing RACF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing RACF

RACF
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing RACF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing RACF

RACF
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RACF within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 November 2025. 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
Hertfordshire - 1 - -
RACF
England

RACF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) CLIST
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) zSecure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM