ACF2 Contracts in the UK excluding London

CA ACF2
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for ACF2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ACF2 over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 - 512
Rank change year-on-year - - -100
Contract jobs citing ACF2 19 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.091% - 0.010%
As % of the System Software category 0.77% - 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £415 - £479
25th Percentile - - £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - +79.82%
75th Percentile £588 - £534
90th Percentile - - £536
UK median daily rate £570 £648 £500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +29.60% +25.00%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

ACF2 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,465 3,668 4,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.86% 15.19% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,653 2,661 3,296
10th Percentile £175 £181 £158
25th Percentile £275 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% +6.79% +7.14%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £560
90th Percentile £650 £675 £644
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 202 247
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £12.95
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.00 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -46.25% +120.81% +2.06%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £78.20 £70.00 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.35 £20.00
% change year-on-year -57.83% +166.75% -

ACF2
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ACF2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ACF2 in the UK excluding London

ACF2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ACF2 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ACF2 in the UK excluding London

ACF2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ACF2 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for ACF2 in the UK excluding London

ACF2
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ACF2 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 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
North of England - 17 £430 -
Yorkshire - 17 £430 -
Scotland - 2 - -
ACF2
UK

ACF2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 17 (89.47%) SAS
2 1 (5.26%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) AWS
1 1 (5.26%) Azure
1 1 (5.26%) GCP
General
1 18 (94.74%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Programmer
1 13 (68.42%) Systems Programmer
1 13 (68.42%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 2 (10.53%) Administrator
3 1 (5.26%) Architect
3 1 (5.26%) CICS Specialist
3 1 (5.26%) SailPoint Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) z/OS Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (89.47%) ISPF
2 1 (5.26%) HTML
2 1 (5.26%) JSP
2 1 (5.26%) LDAP
2 1 (5.26%) SailPoint
2 1 (5.26%) Servlets
2 1 (5.26%) SOAP
2 1 (5.26%) SPML
2 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (10.53%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 18 (94.74%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Performance Monitoring
1 15 (78.95%) Risk Management
2 2 (10.53%) Capacity Management
2 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (5.26%) Project Delivery
3 1 (5.26%) Project Management
3 1 (5.26%) RBAC
3 1 (5.26%) Secrets Management
3 1 (5.26%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) Assembly Language
1 17 (89.47%) JCL
1 17 (89.47%) REXX
2 1 (5.26%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 19 (100.00%) RACF
2 17 (89.47%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.26%) IAG
Systems Management
1 16 (84.21%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 17 (89.47%) Broadcom
1 17 (89.47%) IBM
2 15 (78.95%) Splunk
3 2 (10.53%) BMC
4 1 (5.26%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow