RACF Contracts with Work from Home Options

IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
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 RACF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RACF over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 453 614
Rank change year-on-year +133 +161 -171
Contract jobs citing RACF 32 17 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.066% 0.045%
As % of the System Software category 2.19% 0.53% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 11 7
10th Percentile £430 £535 £434
25th Percentile £463 £540 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £647 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +29.40% -31.03%
75th Percentile £619 £653 £606
90th Percentile £750 £664 £688
UK median daily rate £572 £600 £505
% change year-on-year -4.75% +18.81% -30.34%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

RACF 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 1,463 3,209 5,522
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.51% 12.41% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,065 2,298 4,077
10th Percentile £263 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £633 £625
90th Percentile £675 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 101 104
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £14.28
25th Percentile £16.25 £47.50 £17.69
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +165.31% -33.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £52.81
90th Percentile £84.42 £78.00 £65.86
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.43 £20.00
% change year-on-year -57.88% +167.13% -

RACF
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

RACF trend for jobs with a WFH option

RACF
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 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 a work from home option citing RACF over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (28.13%) SAS
2 1 (3.13%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 16 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (3.13%) AWS
2 1 (3.13%) Azure
2 1 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (50.00%) MySQL
1 16 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
1 16 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (43.75%) Finance
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Financial Institution
3 6 (18.75%) Banking
4 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Developer
1 9 (28.13%) SailPoint Developer
2 8 (25.00%) Programmer
2 8 (25.00%) Systems Programmer
2 8 (25.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 7 (21.88%) SailPoint Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Senior
4 6 (18.75%) Senior Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Architect
5 5 (15.63%) Software Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Mainframe Architect
6 4 (12.50%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.13%) CICS Specialist
7 1 (3.13%) Mainframe Specialist
7 1 (3.13%) RACF Specialist
7 1 (3.13%) SailPoint Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.13%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (53.13%) HTML
1 17 (53.13%) JSP
1 17 (53.13%) LDAP
1 17 (53.13%) SailPoint
1 17 (53.13%) Servlets
1 17 (53.13%) SOAP
1 17 (53.13%) SPML
1 17 (53.13%) XML
2 16 (50.00%) JDBC
2 16 (50.00%) Web Services
3 9 (28.13%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 16 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (31.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) RBAC
2 9 (28.13%) Performance Monitoring
2 9 (28.13%) Risk Management
3 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
4 4 (12.50%) Security Architecture
5 1 (3.13%) Architectural Design
5 1 (3.13%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (3.13%) Project Delivery
5 1 (3.13%) Project Management
5 1 (3.13%) Secrets Management
5 1 (3.13%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) Java
1 17 (53.13%) JavaScript
1 17 (53.13%) SQL
2 9 (28.13%) Assembly Language
2 9 (28.13%) JCL
2 9 (28.13%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 27 (84.38%) ACF2
2 17 (53.13%) Active Directory
2 17 (53.13%) IAG
3 9 (28.13%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) OMEGAMON
2 4 (12.50%) zSecure
Vendors
1 17 (53.13%) ServiceNow
2 16 (50.00%) Oracle
2 16 (50.00%) Sybase
3 13 (40.63%) IBM
4 9 (28.13%) Broadcom
4 9 (28.13%) Splunk
5 1 (3.13%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (3.13%) CyberArk