The first table below looks at the demand for REXX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited REXX over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Edinburgh region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
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Rank 56 - 70
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing REXX 6 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.661% - 0.150%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.500% - 0.664%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £338 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £349 £337 £315
% change year-on-year
+3.64% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.50 -
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
240 207 301
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 26.43% 19.42% 22.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 72 111
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £441 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 3
Average hourly rate £24.00 £32.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +1.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.25 £16.00 £18.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £37.60 £32.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
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Scotland

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Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing REXX across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Edinburgh REXX Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing REXX across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh REXX Daily Rate Trend

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Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing REXX across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh REXX Hourly Rate Trend

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Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing REXX also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited REXX.

1 4 (66.67%) zOS
1 4 (66.67%) JCL
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) IBM
2 3 (50.00%) EMC
2 3 (50.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) ISPF
3 1 (16.67%) CA Endevor
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) PROIV
3 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (16.67%) Assembly Language
3 1 (16.67%) COBOL
3 1 (16.67%) DB2
3 1 (16.67%) SAS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing REXX also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited REXX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) ISPF
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) PROIV
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Storage Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JCL
2 1 (16.67%) Assembly Language
2 1 (16.67%) COBOL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) IBM
1 3 (50.00%) EMC
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