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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 321 376
Rank change year-on-year +15 +55 +237
Contract jobs citing RACF 8 20 55
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.079% 0.15% 0.25%
As % of the System Software category 0.71% 1.47% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 17
10th Percentile - £556 £500
25th Percentile - £606 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £750 £650
90th Percentile - - £720
UK median daily rate £593 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -3.27% +2.08% +29.73%

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 1,128 1,362 2,731
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.14% 10.32% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 781 985 1,906
10th Percentile £325 £300 £270
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.78%
75th Percentile £594 £619 £645
90th Percentile £669 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 101
10th Percentile £30.00 £15.91 £17.75
25th Percentile £52.00 £50.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +4.00% +30.10%
75th Percentile £79.75 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £91.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.39 £23.80 £50.00
% change year-on-year +31.87% -52.40% +132.56%

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
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 3 (37.50%) CICS
2 2 (25.00%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) GCC
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Security Administrator
2 3 (37.50%) Mainframe Programmer
2 3 (37.50%) Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) CICS Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) CICS Systems Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Support
3 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Support
3 1 (12.50%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (25.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Mainframe
2 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) zOS
2 2 (25.00%) OS/2
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (50.00%) Security Auditing
1 4 (50.00%) Security Management
2 3 (37.50%) Data Sharing
2 3 (37.50%) High Availability
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (25.00%) Change Data Capture
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
4 1 (12.50%) Runbook
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Assembly Language
1 2 (25.00%) CLIST
1 2 (25.00%) COBOL
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) JCL
1 2 (25.00%) PL/1
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) CISSP
1 4 (50.00%) IBM Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 2 (25.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) OMEGAMON
2 2 (25.00%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) IBM