IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring RACF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited RACF over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 785 866 1273
Rank change year-on-year +81 +407 -259
Permanent jobs citing RACF 57 21 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.026% 0.001%
As % of the System Software category 0.60% 0.16% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 0 21 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £55,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year - +19.57% -25.32%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £50,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £46,000
% change year-on-year - - -25.32%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 9,464 12,848 30,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.47% 15.92% 17.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,021 8,994 15,471
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,293 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

RACF
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RACF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RACF in the UK

RACF
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RACF.

Salary trend for RACF in the UK

RACF
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RACF within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Work from Home - 53 - -
England +64 50 - -
UK excluding London - 49 - -
North of England - 27 - -
Yorkshire - 12 - -
Midlands - 10 - -
North West - 10 - -
London +66 7 - -
Scotland - 7 - -
East Midlands - 5 - -
North East - 5 - -
South West - 5 - -
West Midlands - 5 - -

RACF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.26%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 51 (89.47%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.75%) Azure
General
1 50 (87.72%) Banking
1 50 (87.72%) Finance
1 50 (87.72%) Legal
2 4 (7.02%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (91.23%) Analyst
2 50 (87.72%) Governance Analyst
2 50 (87.72%) Senior
2 50 (87.72%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (5.26%) Programmer
3 3 (5.26%) Systems Programmer
3 3 (5.26%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 2 (3.51%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (3.51%) Security Engineer
5 1 (1.75%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (1.75%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (1.75%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 1 (1.75%) Unix Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 51 (89.47%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.53%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.26%) zOS
2 1 (1.75%) Linux
2 1 (1.75%) Unix
2 1 (1.75%) Windows
2 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (91.23%) Agile
1 52 (91.23%) Roadmaps
2 51 (89.47%) Cybersecurity
2 51 (89.47%) Privileged Access Management
3 50 (87.72%) Coaching
3 50 (87.72%) Identity Access Management
3 50 (87.72%) Information Security
3 50 (87.72%) RBAC
3 50 (87.72%) Security Operations
3 50 (87.72%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (5.26%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (5.26%) Risk Management
4 3 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (3.51%) CI/CD
5 2 (3.51%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (3.51%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (3.51%) Customer Service
5 2 (3.51%) DevOps
5 2 (3.51%) Operational Stability
5 2 (3.51%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 51 (89.47%) PowerShell
2 50 (87.72%) SQL
3 5 (8.77%) JCL
3 5 (8.77%) REXX
4 3 (5.26%) Assembly Language
5 2 (3.51%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.75%) CREST Certified
1 1 (1.75%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
1 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (91.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.26%) ACF2
2 3 (5.26%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (5.26%) OMEGAMON
2 2 (3.51%) Ansible
2 2 (3.51%) zSecure
3 1 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 51 (89.47%) CyberArk
1 51 (89.47%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.26%) Broadcom
2 3 (5.26%) IBM
2 3 (5.26%) Splunk
3 1 (1.75%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (1.75%) Citrix
3 1 (1.75%) Sybase
3 1 (1.75%) YouTube