RACF Job Trends in Scotland

IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring RACF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 141 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Permanent jobs citing RACF 2 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.073% 0.22% -
As % of the System Software category 0.93% 2.42% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median annual salary - - £71,000
% change year-on-year - - -21.11%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

RACF falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 215 248 404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.90% 9.16% 13.69%
Number of salaries quoted 88 144 317
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £27,429
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £79,405 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,750 £85,000 £78,129
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -0.90%

RACF
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing RACF relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

RACF job vacancy trend in Scotland

RACF
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing RACF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing RACF

RACF
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RACF within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 31 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -8 2 - -
RACF
UK

RACF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) CICS
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Tech Ops
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow