REXX Contract Job Trends in the North West

REXX
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring REXX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing REXX 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.39% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £291 - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
75th Percentile £447 - -
90th Percentile £453 - -
England median daily rate £430 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -9.53% -5.00% +22.55%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 576 519 787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 25.08% 22.04% 27.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 320 577
10th Percentile £312 £329 £329
25th Percentile £359 £382 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £500 £540 £583
90th Percentile £616 £610 £675
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 19 47
10th Percentile £29.28 £37.55 £40.00
25th Percentile £47.89 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £68.25 £49.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +39.29% +6.11% -20.31%
75th Percentile £85.63 £73.00 £54.50
90th Percentile £95.23 £90.00 £73.95
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing REXX relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

REXX job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing REXX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing REXX

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REXX in the North West over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REXX in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REXX within the North West region over the 6 months to 23 October 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
Manchester - 6 £313 - 3
Cheshire - 3 £447 - 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) CICS
2 3 (33.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) DB2
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) Selenium
2 2 (22.22%) SOAtest
General
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) General Ledger
2 2 (22.22%) Retail Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Test Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Mainframe Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) ISPF
2 3 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (22.22%) J2EE
3 2 (22.22%) JSON
3 2 (22.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 9 (100.00%) VSAM
2 5 (55.56%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (22.22%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) zOS
2 3 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 6 (66.67%) SDLC
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (55.56%) Release Management
4 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
4 4 (44.44%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (33.33%) Migration
6 2 (22.22%) Agile
6 2 (22.22%) API Testing
6 2 (22.22%) ETL
6 2 (22.22%) Impact Analysis
6 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 2 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (22.22%) Test Planning
6 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
6 2 (22.22%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) JCL
2 6 (66.67%) CLIST
3 4 (44.44%) COBOL
4 3 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) OMEGAMON
2 5 (55.56%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (22.22%) Ab Initio
2 2 (22.22%) Informatica
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Parasoft
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft