ACF2 Contracts with Work from Home Options

CA ACF2
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 473 613
Rank change year-on-year +153 +140 -147
Contract jobs citing ACF2 27 9 8
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.034% 0.018%
As % of the System Software category 1.82% 0.27% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 5 6
10th Percentile £430 £632 £400
25th Percentile £453 £647 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £649 £488
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +33.13% +21.88%
75th Percentile £619 £664 £521
90th Percentile - £716 £538
UK median daily rate £570 £648 £500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +29.60% +25.00%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,487 3,328 5,593
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.54% 12.59% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 2,384 4,146
10th Percentile £263 £300 £331
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £631 £625
90th Percentile £683 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 105 103
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.11 £14.27
25th Percentile £17.00 £47.50 £17.63
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +165.31% -38.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.50 £53.13
90th Percentile £73.00 £81.60 £65.91
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -55.00% +150.00% -

ACF2
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing ACF2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ACF2 trend for jobs with a WFH option

ACF2
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing ACF2.

ACF2 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

ACF2
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing ACF2 over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

ACF2 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ACF2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (33.33%) SAS
2 1 (3.70%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) GitHub
2 1 (3.70%) AWS
2 1 (3.70%) Azure
2 1 (3.70%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (59.26%) MySQL
1 16 (59.26%) Oracle Reports
1 16 (59.26%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (51.85%) Finance
2 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
3 9 (33.33%) Financial Institution
4 5 (18.52%) Banking
4 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Developer
1 9 (33.33%) SailPoint Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Programmer
2 8 (29.63%) Systems Programmer
2 8 (29.63%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 7 (25.93%) SailPoint Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) Senior
4 6 (22.22%) Senior Developer
5 5 (18.52%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Architect
6 1 (3.70%) CICS Specialist
6 1 (3.70%) SailPoint Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (62.96%) HTML
1 17 (62.96%) JSP
1 17 (62.96%) LDAP
1 17 (62.96%) SailPoint
1 17 (62.96%) Servlets
1 17 (62.96%) SOAP
1 17 (62.96%) SPML
1 17 (62.96%) XML
2 16 (59.26%) JDBC
2 16 (59.26%) Web Services
3 9 (33.33%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (59.26%) Onboarding
2 11 (40.74%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) RBAC
2 9 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 9 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
4 1 (3.70%) Architectural Design
4 1 (3.70%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (3.70%) Project Delivery
4 1 (3.70%) Project Management
4 1 (3.70%) Secrets Management
4 1 (3.70%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 17 (62.96%) Java
1 17 (62.96%) JavaScript
1 17 (62.96%) SQL
2 9 (33.33%) Assembly Language
2 9 (33.33%) JCL
2 9 (33.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 27 (100.00%) RACF
2 17 (62.96%) Active Directory
2 17 (62.96%) IAG
3 9 (33.33%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 17 (62.96%) ServiceNow
2 16 (59.26%) Oracle
2 16 (59.26%) Sybase
3 9 (33.33%) Broadcom
3 9 (33.33%) IBM
3 9 (33.33%) Splunk
4 1 (3.70%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (3.70%) CyberArk