IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for RACF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited RACF over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 874 961 1237
Rank change year-on-year +87 +276 -327
Permanent jobs citing RACF 16 16 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.016% 0.004%
As % of the System Software category 0.13% 0.10% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 2 14 5
10th Percentile - - £49,500
25th Percentile £68,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% -8.33% -2.60%
75th Percentile £74,000 £57,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,000 - £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.52%

All System Software Skills
UK

RACF is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 11,980 15,379 29,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.99% 15.51% 18.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,464 10,075 15,564
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,860 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £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 18 May 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
England +89 15 £71,000 +29.09% 1
UK excluding London - 15 £71,000 -
Work from Home +87 14 £71,000 - 1
North of England - 11 £71,000 -
Yorkshire - 5 - -
North West - 5 £71,000 -
Midlands - 2 - -
London +96 1 - - 1
North East - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

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 (18.75%) SAS
2 2 (12.50%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) IaaS
2 1 (6.25%) PaaS
2 1 (6.25%) SaaS
2 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) IPsec
1 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) DB2
1 2 (12.50%) Easytrieve
General
1 10 (62.50%) Banking
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
1 10 (62.50%) Legal
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Senior
2 10 (62.50%) Analyst
2 10 (62.50%) Governance Analyst
2 10 (62.50%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) DB2 DBA
3 2 (12.50%) DBA
3 2 (12.50%) Programmer
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Programmer
3 2 (12.50%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) ISPF
2 2 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
3 1 (6.25%) OpenID
3 1 (6.25%) SAML
3 1 (6.25%) Web Services
3 1 (6.25%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Management Information System
2 3 (18.75%) Mainframe
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (12.50%) VSAM
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
2 11 (68.75%) Agile
2 11 (68.75%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (68.75%) Roadmaps
3 10 (62.50%) Coaching
3 10 (62.50%) Identity Access Management
3 10 (62.50%) Information Security
3 10 (62.50%) Privileged Access Management
3 10 (62.50%) RBAC
3 10 (62.50%) Security Operations
4 5 (31.25%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
6 2 (12.50%) Business Strategy
6 2 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (12.50%) Change Management
6 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (6.25%) ArchiMate
7 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
7 1 (6.25%) DevOps
7 1 (6.25%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) SQL
2 10 (62.50%) PowerShell
3 5 (31.25%) JCL
3 5 (31.25%) REXX
4 3 (18.75%) Assembly Language
5 2 (12.50%) COBOL
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) Time Sharing Option
3 3 (18.75%) ACF2
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) OMEGAMON
2 2 (12.50%) MAINVIEW
3 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 10 (62.50%) CyberArk
3 5 (31.25%) IBM
4 3 (18.75%) Broadcom
4 3 (18.75%) Splunk
5 2 (12.50%) BMC