RACF Contract Job Trends in the North East

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring RACF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RACF 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.21% - -
As % of the System Software category 1.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £350 £480 £525
% change year-on-year -27.08% -8.57% -12.50%

All System Software Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 64 47 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 13.31% 14.20% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 30 34
10th Percentile £200 £195 £137
25th Percentile £406 £316 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -32.63%
75th Percentile £550 £605 £464
90th Percentile £596 £629 £546
England median daily rate £500 £525 £485
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £21.75 - £19.95
25th Percentile £22.50 - £26.63
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £38.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -42.42%
75th Percentile £27.50 - £49.13
90th Percentile £28.25 - £55.65
England median hourly rate £34.00 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.24% -27.50% +3.90%

RACF
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

RACF job vacancy trend in the North East

RACF
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

RACF
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RACF within the North East region over the 6 months to 5 February 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 - -
RACF
England

RACF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Technical Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) ArchiMate
1 1 (100.00%) BPEL
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft