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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 721 847 894
Rank change year-on-year +126 +47 +370
Permanent jobs citing RACF 4 53 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.048% 0.020%
As % of the System Software category 0.063% 0.44% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 18
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile - - £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

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 6,395 12,041 14,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.30% 10.92% 15.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,711 9,159 9,488
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,761
25th Percentile £35,625 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £76,125 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%

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 4 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 24 June 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
UK excluding London +135 3 - - 77
Scotland +103 3 - - 6
England +125 1 - - 98
London +111 1 - - 30

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 2 (50.00%) CICS
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
2 1 (25.00%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Tech Ops
3 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) COBOL
1 1 (25.00%) JCL
1 1 (25.00%) Natural
1 1 (25.00%) PL/1
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) ACF2
1 1 (25.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Broadcom
2 1 (25.00%) Cincom
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk