RACF Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring RACF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 - 71
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RACF 1 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.11% - 0.70%
As % of the System Software category 0.73% - 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate - - £430

All System Software Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 137 84 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 14.92% 11.91% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 58 126
10th Percentile £213 £188 £263
25th Percentile £359 £263 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.44% -15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £498 £575
90th Percentile £550 £568 £669
Yorkshire median daily rate £476 £425 £430
% change year-on-year +11.88% -1.16% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £14.30
25th Percentile £26.25 - £15.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £17.35
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.39%
75th Percentile £28.75 - £29.05
90th Percentile - - £48.82
Yorkshire median hourly rate £29.68 £21.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +41.33% +5.00% -6.98%

RACF
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

RACF job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

RACF
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

RACF
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 December 2025. 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
Leeds - 1 - -
RACF
Yorkshire

RACF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Technical Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) ArchiMate
1 1 (100.00%) BPEL
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft