REXX
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for REXX skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited REXX over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 512 694 788
Rank change year-on-year +182 +94 -133
Contract jobs citing REXX 86 25 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.042% 0.069%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.67% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 15 24
10th Percentile £360 - £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £513 £503
Median % change year-on-year -16.10% +1.99% -4.29%
75th Percentile £484 £648 £569
90th Percentile £526 £658 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -9.47% -5.00% -4.76%

All Programming Languages
UK

REXX is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,747 20,965 32,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.44% 35.05% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,054 15,147 23,495
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 477 511
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.39 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £77.00 £67.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.25
% change year-on-year - +26.90% +15.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for REXX in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for REXX in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REXX over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REXX in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for REXX in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REXX within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +180 64 £430 -11.79% 7
UK excluding London +121 62 £430 -9.47% 1
Work from Home +168 53 £459 -28.56% 1
North of England +75 45 £430 -9.47%
Yorkshire +62 45 £430 -9.47%
Midlands - 9 £358 - 1
West Midlands - 9 £358 -
Scotland +37 6 £500 -
London +98 4 £475 -5.00% 4
South East - 4 £358 -

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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 40 (46.51%) SAS
2 20 (23.26%) CICS
3 2 (2.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.47%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (29.07%) DB2
2 14 (16.28%) IDMS
3 5 (5.81%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 19 (22.09%) Jenkins
2 14 (16.28%) Git
General
1 54 (62.79%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.47%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.81%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.49%) Finance
5 2 (2.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (23.26%) Programmer
2 19 (22.09%) Systems Programmer
2 19 (22.09%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 16 (18.60%) Developer
4 13 (15.12%) IBM Mainframe Developer
4 13 (15.12%) Mainframe Developer
4 13 (15.12%) Storage Manager
4 13 (15.12%) z/OS Specialist
5 9 (10.47%) z/OS Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) DB2 Specialist
7 5 (5.81%) IBM Storage Specialist
7 5 (5.81%) Storage Specialist
8 4 (4.65%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) COBOL Developer
9 3 (3.49%) DB2 Developer
9 3 (3.49%) Hardware Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
10 2 (2.33%) Administrator
10 2 (2.33%) Hardware Specialist
11 1 (1.16%) Mainframe Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (48.84%) ISPF
2 19 (22.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (70.93%) Mainframe
2 21 (24.42%) IBM Mainframe
3 18 (20.93%) Data Centre
4 9 (10.47%) LPAR
5 5 (5.81%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 83 (96.51%) zOS
2 19 (22.09%) Linux
3 2 (2.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (39.53%) Agile
2 33 (38.37%) Risk Management
3 25 (29.07%) Performance Monitoring
4 23 (26.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (23.26%) Storage Management
6 19 (22.09%) Problem Management
7 16 (18.60%) Scrum
8 15 (17.44%) Project Management
8 15 (17.44%) Requirements Gathering
9 10 (11.63%) Cost Management
9 10 (11.63%) Software Testing
10 8 (9.30%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (8.14%) Disaster Recovery
12 5 (5.81%) Capacity Planning
12 5 (5.81%) Configuration Management
12 5 (5.81%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (5.81%) Data Security
12 5 (5.81%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (5.81%) Software Engineering
12 5 (5.81%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 61 (70.93%) JCL
2 28 (32.56%) CLIST
3 25 (29.07%) COBOL
4 22 (25.58%) Assembly Language
5 19 (22.09%) Python
6 15 (17.44%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 13 (15.12%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 63 (73.26%) Time Sharing Option
2 19 (22.09%) NFS
3 17 (19.77%) ACF2
3 17 (19.77%) RACF
4 9 (10.47%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 9 (10.47%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 24 (27.91%) OMEGAMON
2 19 (22.09%) Ansible
3 18 (20.93%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 77 (89.53%) IBM
2 47 (54.65%) Broadcom
3 24 (27.91%) CA
4 20 (23.26%) Dell
5 19 (22.09%) Brocade
5 19 (22.09%) Splunk
6 16 (18.60%) Syncsort
7 7 (8.14%) BMC
8 2 (2.33%) ICL
8 2 (2.33%) Microsoft