CA ACF2
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ACF2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ACF2 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 538 702 846
Rank change year-on-year +164 +144 -176
Contract jobs citing ACF2 62 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.018% 0.011%
As % of the System Software category 1.32% 0.14% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 6 5
10th Percentile £430 £561 £459
25th Percentile £463 £628 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £648 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% +29.60% +25.00%
75th Percentile £627 £660 £525
90th Percentile £700 £707 £533
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 - £513
% change year-on-year - - +79.82%

All System Software Skills
UK

ACF2 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 requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,691 7,882 12,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.76% 13.21% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,206 5,629 8,605
10th Percentile £198 £205 £200
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +8.25%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £483 £450
% change year-on-year -4.69% +7.26% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 280 317
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.95 £13.20
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.88% +167.13% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £44.69
90th Percentile £77.90 £75.00 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £41.88 £18.12
% change year-on-year -47.46% +131.16% +2.93%

ACF2
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ACF2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ACF2 in the UK

ACF2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ACF2.

Daily rate trend for ACF2 in the UK

ACF2
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ACF2 over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ACF2 in the UK

ACF2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ACF2.

Hourly rate trend for ACF2 in the UK

ACF2
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ACF2 within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +147 47 £550 -14.40% 4
Work from Home +136 27 £570 -12.17%
London +129 26 £614 -4.47% 3
UK excluding London - 19 £430 -
North of England - 17 £430 -
Yorkshire - 17 £430 -
Scotland - 2 - -

ACF2
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 17 (27.42%) SAS
2 4 (6.45%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 28 (45.16%) GitHub
2 13 (20.97%) AWS
2 13 (20.97%) Azure
2 13 (20.97%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (45.16%) MySQL
1 28 (45.16%) Oracle Reports
1 28 (45.16%) SQL Server
General
1 25 (40.32%) Finance
2 21 (33.87%) Social Skills
3 20 (32.26%) Financial Institution
4 6 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (8.06%) Banking
5 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (24.19%) Developer
1 15 (24.19%) SailPoint Developer
2 13 (20.97%) Architect
2 13 (20.97%) Programmer
2 13 (20.97%) SailPoint Architect
2 13 (20.97%) SailPoint Engineer
2 13 (20.97%) Systems Programmer
2 13 (20.97%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 8 (12.90%) Senior
3 8 (12.90%) Senior Developer
4 7 (11.29%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.06%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) CICS Specialist
6 4 (6.45%) z/OS Specialist
7 2 (3.23%) Administrator
8 1 (1.61%) IAM Developer
8 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow Developer
8 1 (1.61%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (1.61%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (66.13%) HTML
1 41 (66.13%) JSP
1 41 (66.13%) LDAP
1 41 (66.13%) SailPoint
1 41 (66.13%) Servlets
1 41 (66.13%) SOAP
1 41 (66.13%) SPML
1 41 (66.13%) XML
2 28 (45.16%) JDBC
2 28 (45.16%) Web Services
3 17 (27.42%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 34 (54.84%) Mainframe
2 28 (45.16%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.84%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 21 (33.87%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (64.52%) RBAC
2 15 (24.19%) Performance Monitoring
2 15 (24.19%) Risk Management
3 13 (20.97%) Secrets Management
3 13 (20.97%) Technical Architecture
4 7 (11.29%) Architectural Design
5 5 (8.06%) Software Engineering
6 4 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (6.45%) Project Delivery
6 4 (6.45%) Project Management
7 2 (3.23%) Capacity Management
7 2 (3.23%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 41 (66.13%) Java
1 41 (66.13%) JavaScript
2 40 (64.52%) SQL
3 17 (27.42%) Assembly Language
3 17 (27.42%) JCL
3 17 (27.42%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (1.61%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 62 (100.00%) RACF
2 41 (66.13%) Active Directory
2 41 (66.13%) IAG
3 17 (27.42%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 19 (30.65%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 41 (66.13%) ServiceNow
2 28 (45.16%) Oracle
2 28 (45.16%) Sybase
3 18 (29.03%) IBM
4 17 (27.42%) Broadcom
5 15 (24.19%) Splunk
6 13 (20.97%) BeyondTrust
6 13 (20.97%) CyberArk
7 2 (3.23%) BMC