RACF Contract Job Trends in London

IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
England > London

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 368 444
Rank change year-on-year -3 +76 +133
Contract jobs citing RACF 4 22 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.030% 0.13% 0.050%
As % of the System Software category 0.27% 1.26% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 20 5
10th Percentile - £479 £540
25th Percentile £450 £606 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £683 £675
Median % change year-on-year -26.74% +1.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £750 £688
90th Percentile - - £725
England median daily rate £593 £613 £638
% change year-on-year -3.27% -3.92% +12.04%

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,485 1,745 2,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.03% 10.71% 11.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 925 1,207 1,861
10th Percentile £300 £262 £225
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £675
90th Percentile £700 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 31
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.00 £25.75
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.98 £40.41
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -60.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £35.75 £24.39 £68.80
90th Percentile £40.00 £60.00 £83.00
England median hourly rate £34.50 £24.50 £47.86
% change year-on-year +40.82% -48.81% +117.56%

RACF
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for RACF in London

RACF
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RACF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RACF

RACF
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RACF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RACF

RACF
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RACF within the London region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Central London - 1 - -
RACF
England

RACF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (75.00%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) CICS Programmer
1 3 (75.00%) CICS Systems Programmer
1 3 (75.00%) Mainframe Programmer
1 3 (75.00%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
1 3 (75.00%) Programmer
1 3 (75.00%) Systems Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Support
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Support
2 1 (25.00%) Unix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) zOS
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Sharing
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (25.00%) COBOL
1 1 (25.00%) PL/1
1 1 (25.00%) REXX
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) OMEGAMON