RACF Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring RACF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 - 39
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RACF 1 0 16
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.100% - 3.79%
As % of the System Software category 0.49% - 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - £415
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 - £430
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £645 - £430
% change year-on-year - - -18.87%

All System Software Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 204 73 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 20.32% 20.45% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 52 65
10th Percentile £324 £323 £185
25th Percentile £400 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £430
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +16.28% -14.00%
75th Percentile £534 £602 £530
90th Percentile £580 £650 £595
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £450 £413
% change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +114.84%
Yorkshire median hourly rate £31.86 - £14.63
% change year-on-year - - -55.00%

RACF
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

RACF job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

RACF
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing RACF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing RACF

RACF
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RACF within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 April 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
Sheffield - 1 £514 - 2
RACF
Yorkshire

RACF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DB2 Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) MVS
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) CLIST
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) ACF2
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 1 (100.00%) IBM