RACF Contracts in the North of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for RACF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RACF over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 217 243
Rank change year-on-year +48 +26 -59
Contract jobs citing RACF 17 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.36% 0.034% 0.042%
As % of the System Software category 2.98% 0.24% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile £415 £542 £479
25th Percentile - £559 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £590 £513
Median % change year-on-year -27.12% +15.12% +79.82%
75th Percentile £588 £624 £534
90th Percentile - £643 £536
England median daily rate £613 £600 £515
% change year-on-year +2.08% +16.50% +14.44%

All System Software Skills
North of England

RACF is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 571 849 1,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.94% 14.51% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 641 744
10th Percentile £178 £181 £152
25th Percentile £275 £305 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +17.65% +1.19%
75th Percentile £569 £576 £549
90th Percentile £650 £670 £638
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 38 49
10th Percentile - £13.99 £14.87
25th Percentile £14.06 £16.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.21 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.90% +38.31% -12.50%
75th Percentile £18.56 £63.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.21 £65.23 £24.75
England median hourly rate £22.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -56.00% +163.16% -1.30%

RACF
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing RACF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for RACF in the North of England

RACF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RACF in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for RACF in the North of England

RACF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RACF in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for RACF in the North of England

RACF
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Yorkshire +43 17 £430 -18.87%
RACF
England

RACF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 15 (88.24%) SAS
2 1 (5.88%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) GCP
General
1 16 (94.12%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Programmer
1 13 (76.47%) Systems Programmer
1 13 (76.47%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 1 (5.88%) Architect
2 1 (5.88%) CICS Specialist
2 1 (5.88%) SailPoint Architect
2 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) z/OS Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (88.24%) ISPF
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) JSP
2 1 (5.88%) LDAP
2 1 (5.88%) SailPoint
2 1 (5.88%) Servlets
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
2 1 (5.88%) SPML
2 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Performance Monitoring
1 15 (88.24%) Risk Management
2 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (5.88%) Project Delivery
2 1 (5.88%) Project Management
2 1 (5.88%) RBAC
2 1 (5.88%) Secrets Management
2 1 (5.88%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) Assembly Language
1 15 (88.24%) JCL
1 15 (88.24%) REXX
2 1 (5.88%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 17 (100.00%) ACF2
2 15 (88.24%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.88%) IAG
Systems Management
1 16 (94.12%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) Broadcom
1 15 (88.24%) IBM
1 15 (88.24%) Splunk
2 1 (5.88%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow