RACF Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring RACF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 340 380
Rank change year-on-year -63 +40 +71
Contract jobs citing RACF 19 4 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.088% 0.031% 0.081%
As % of the System Software category 0.74% 0.20% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 10
10th Percentile £312 - £414
25th Percentile £316 £440 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £465 £430
Median % change year-on-year -24.65% +8.02% +27.41%
75th Percentile £375 £479 £588
90th Percentile £518 - -
UK median daily rate £365 £480 £560
% change year-on-year -23.96% -14.29% -6.67%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,552 1,990 2,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.77% 15.45% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,773 1,344 1,707
10th Percentile £188 £188 £175
25th Percentile £325 £325 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £647 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 69 195
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.21 £14.03
25th Percentile £19.19 £21.05 £15.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +15.38% +22.73%
75th Percentile £72.97 £66.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £80.00 £79.46 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £42.31 £32.50 £30.45
% change year-on-year +30.19% +6.73% -26.21%

RACF
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

RACF job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

RACF
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RACF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RACF

RACF
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RACF in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RACF in the UK excluding London

RACF
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RACF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RACF

RACF
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 RACF within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 March 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
North of England - 16 £350 -
North West - 11 £350 -
Yorkshire - 5 £775 -
East of England - 2 £475 -
Scotland +7 1 - - 4
North East - 1 - -
RACF
UK

RACF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (26.32%) AWS
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
1 5 (26.32%) IaaS
1 5 (26.32%) PaaS
1 5 (26.32%) SaaS
1 5 (26.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) IPsec
1 5 (26.32%) Kerberos
1 5 (26.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) DB2
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Military
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Administrator
2 5 (26.32%) Architect
2 5 (26.32%) Senior
2 5 (26.32%) Senior Architect
2 5 (26.32%) Senior Technical Architect
2 5 (26.32%) Technical Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Mainframe Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (68.42%) ISPF
2 5 (26.32%) OAuth
2 5 (26.32%) OAuth2
2 5 (26.32%) OpenID
2 5 (26.32%) SAML
2 5 (26.32%) Web Services
2 5 (26.32%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (73.68%) Mainframe
2 5 (26.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (52.63%) Change Management
2 10 (52.63%) Storage Management
3 9 (47.37%) Release Management
4 6 (31.58%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (26.32%) ArchiMate
5 5 (26.32%) Architectural Patterns
5 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
5 5 (26.32%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (26.32%) Data Architecture
5 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
5 5 (26.32%) Design Patterns
5 5 (26.32%) DevOps
5 5 (26.32%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (26.32%) Microservices
5 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
5 5 (26.32%) Security Architecture
5 5 (26.32%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) CLIST
1 13 (68.42%) JCL
1 13 (68.42%) REXX
2 11 (57.89%) COBOL
3 5 (26.32%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) ACF2
2 11 (57.89%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) CA Endevor
2 10 (52.63%) Tivoli
2 10 (52.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 5 (26.32%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (10.53%) zSecure
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) IBM
3 1 (5.26%) Broadcom