REXX Contracts in England

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UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring REXX skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REXX over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 479 636
Rank change year-on-year +27 +157 +108
Contract jobs citing REXX 28 64 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.17% 0.024%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.34% 0.59% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 41 8
10th Percentile £355 £358 -
25th Percentile £383 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £430 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -11.79% -2.50%
75th Percentile £479 £473 £560
90th Percentile £524 £588 £690
UK median daily rate £436 £430 £513
% change year-on-year +1.40% -16.10% +1.99%

All Programming Languages
England

REXX falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,215 10,919 17,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.75% 29.34% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,685 7,932 13,006
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 439 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year - +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for REXX in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for REXX in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REXX in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REXX in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for REXX in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REXX within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +44 13 £423 -11.05% 5
North of England -5 12 £447 +3.95% 1
Yorkshire -22 8 £531 +23.55% 1
North West - 4 £413 -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (25.00%) CICS
1 7 (25.00%) SAS
2 5 (17.86%) WebSphere
3 2 (7.14%) Confluence
3 2 (7.14%) JBoss
3 2 (7.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.57%) AWS
1 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DWDM
1 1 (3.57%) SNA
1 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) DB2
2 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
2 2 (7.14%) IMS/DB
3 1 (3.57%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) ChangeMan
1 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) Selenium
2 2 (7.14%) SOAtest
General
1 16 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 11 (39.29%) Banking
3 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (7.14%) General Ledger
4 2 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Programmer
1 10 (35.71%) Systems Programmer
1 10 (35.71%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 3 (10.71%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Architect
3 2 (7.14%) Consultant
3 2 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Support Specialist
3 2 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Test Architect
3 2 (7.14%) Tester
3 2 (7.14%) z/OS Specialist
4 1 (3.57%) Administrator
4 1 (3.57%) Developer
4 1 (3.57%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (3.57%) Mainframe Developer
4 1 (3.57%) Mainframe Tester
4 1 (3.57%) Network Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (3.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (42.86%) ISPF
2 5 (17.86%) Web Services
3 4 (14.29%) J2EE
3 4 (14.29%) XML
4 2 (7.14%) EJB
4 2 (7.14%) JDBC
4 2 (7.14%) JSON
4 2 (7.14%) Middleware
4 2 (7.14%) RESTful
4 2 (7.14%) SOAP
4 2 (7.14%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (7.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 26 (92.86%) Mainframe
2 4 (14.29%) VSAM
3 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (10.71%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (7.14%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.57%) LPAR
5 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 16 (57.14%) zOS
2 6 (21.43%) Unix
3 3 (10.71%) MVS
3 3 (10.71%) Windows
4 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 7 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 6 (21.43%) Agile
4 4 (14.29%) Performance Management
4 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 3 (10.71%) Analytics
5 3 (10.71%) Change Management
5 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
5 3 (10.71%) ITIL
5 3 (10.71%) Migration
5 3 (10.71%) Process Improvement
5 3 (10.71%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (10.71%) SDLC
6 2 (7.14%) Configuration Management
6 2 (7.14%) ETL
6 2 (7.14%) Incident Management
6 2 (7.14%) ITSM
6 2 (7.14%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 21 (75.00%) JCL
2 10 (35.71%) Assembly Language
3 9 (32.14%) CLIST
4 5 (17.86%) COBOL
4 5 (17.86%) Java
5 3 (10.71%) SQL
6 2 (7.14%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (42.86%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (7.14%) ACF2
2 2 (7.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (3.57%) Microcode
3 1 (3.57%) RACF
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (3.57%) Ansible
2 1 (3.57%) Control-M
2 1 (3.57%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 18 (64.29%) IBM
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle
3 3 (10.71%) Micro Focus
4 2 (7.14%) Ab Initio
4 2 (7.14%) Broadcom
4 2 (7.14%) Informatica
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.14%) MuleSoft
4 2 (7.14%) Parasoft
5 1 (3.57%) Syncsort