RACF Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring RACF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RACF over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 320 453
Rank change year-on-year +30 +133 +161
Contract jobs citing RACF 12 32 17
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.21% 0.066%
As % of the System Software category 1.02% 2.19% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 26 11
10th Percentile - £430 £535
25th Percentile £480 £463 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £570 £647
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% -11.90% +29.40%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £653
90th Percentile - £750 £664
UK median daily rate £480 £572 £600
% change year-on-year -16.01% -4.75% +18.81%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

RACF falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,176 1,463 3,209
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.86% 9.51% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 1,065 2,298
10th Percentile £358 £263 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.40% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £610 £633
90th Percentile £775 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 35 101
10th Percentile £25.25 £15.50 £19.00
25th Percentile £61.50 £16.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £66.00 £40.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.98% -38.08% +165.31%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £92.50 £84.42 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.72 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +23.20% -57.88% +167.13%

RACF
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing RACF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

RACF trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

RACF
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing RACF.

RACF daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

RACF
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing RACF over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

RACF daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

RACF
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) AWS KMS
2 3 (25.00%) IaaS
2 3 (25.00%) PaaS
2 3 (25.00%) Route 53
2 3 (25.00%) SaaS
2 3 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) IPsec
1 3 (25.00%) Kerberos
1 3 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
1 3 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Administrator
1 4 (33.33%) Security Administrator
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) IAM Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) IAM Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Identity Management Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Node.js
1 3 (25.00%) OAuth
1 3 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (25.00%) OpenID
1 3 (25.00%) REST
1 3 (25.00%) SAML
1 3 (25.00%) Spring
1 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (25.00%) Web Services
1 3 (25.00%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Mainframe
2 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 3 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) zOS
2 4 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
3 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 4 (33.33%) Security Auditing
3 4 (33.33%) Security Management
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) BPEL
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) Microservices
4 3 (25.00%) Project Management
4 3 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) SOA
4 3 (25.00%) Software Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) TDD
4 3 (25.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Assembly Language
2 1 (8.33%) JCL
2 1 (8.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) CISSP
1 4 (33.33%) IBM Certification
2 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (8.33%) ACF2
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
1 3 (25.00%) Packer
1 3 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) IBM
2 4 (33.33%) CyberArk