RACF Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring RACF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 - 38
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RACF 1 0 14
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.14% - 3.58%
As % of the System Software category 0.67% - 20.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £411
25th Percentile - - £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £430
75th Percentile - - £481
90th Percentile - - £588
South Yorkshire median daily rate - - £430

All System Software Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 150 64 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 21.01% 20.58% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 46 46
10th Percentile £355 £236 £220
25th Percentile £421 £471 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £550 £430
Median % change year-on-year -11.64% +27.91% -21.82%
75th Percentile £547 £624 £592
90th Percentile £624 £688 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £550 £430
% change year-on-year -11.82% +27.91% -21.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +100.82%

RACF
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

RACF job vacancy trend in Sheffield

RACF
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing RACF

RACF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
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%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option