REXX Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

REXX
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring REXX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 315 327
Rank change year-on-year -89 +12 +122
Contract jobs citing REXX 22 18 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.091% 0.14% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.40% 0.49% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 40
10th Percentile £313 £382 £358
25th Percentile £344 £447 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £430
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +19.19% -9.47%
75th Percentile £492 £588 £491
90th Percentile £520 £598 £588
UK median daily rate £475 £423 £430
% change year-on-year +12.43% -1.74% -15.06%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,501 3,658 4,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.76% 28.65% 23.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,500 2,420 3,250
10th Percentile £326 £325 £317
25th Percentile £406 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £571 £575 £585
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 491 191 401
10th Percentile £46.25 £22.48 £37.63
25th Percentile £56.38 £42.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% +1.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.46% +1.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing REXX relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

REXX job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing REXX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing REXX

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REXX in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REXX in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing REXX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing REXX

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2026. 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
North of England -58 13 £350 -21.70% 2
North West -29 10 £350 -15.15% 2
Midlands - 5 £475 - 1
Yorkshire -52 3 £514 -3.25%
West Midlands - 3 £475 -
East Midlands - 2 £498 - 1
East of England - 2 £475 -
Scotland -15 1 £500 -13.04%
South East - 1 - -
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UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (9.09%) Confluence
1 2 (9.09%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) DB2
1 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Administrator
2 3 (13.64%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Security Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) DB2 Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Mainframe Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Storage Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (68.18%) ISPF
2 2 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) Middleware
3 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (95.45%) Mainframe
2 2 (9.09%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (4.55%) Clustering
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) zOS
2 4 (18.18%) MVS
3 2 (9.09%) Linux
3 2 (9.09%) Windows
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (50.00%) Change Management
2 11 (50.00%) Storage Management
3 9 (40.91%) Release Management
4 5 (22.73%) ITIL
5 4 (18.18%) Agile
5 4 (18.18%) Migration
6 2 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (9.09%) Project Management
6 2 (9.09%) RBAC
6 2 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (9.09%) Runbook
6 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (4.55%) CI/CD
7 1 (4.55%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (4.55%) Cost Management
7 1 (4.55%) Generative AI
7 1 (4.55%) Roadmaps
7 1 (4.55%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (4.55%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) JCL
2 13 (59.09%) CLIST
3 10 (45.45%) COBOL
4 2 (9.09%) Python
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (59.09%) RACF
2 11 (50.00%) ACF2
2 11 (50.00%) Time Sharing Option
3 3 (13.64%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (4.55%) NFS
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 10 (45.45%) CA Endevor
2 10 (45.45%) Tivoli
3 2 (9.09%) Ansible
3 2 (9.09%) Control-M
3 2 (9.09%) zSecure
4 1 (4.55%) Nagios
4 1 (4.55%) Tivoli NetView
4 1 (4.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) IBM
2 6 (27.27%) Broadcom
3 4 (18.18%) BMC
4 3 (13.64%) Splunk
5 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.55%) Brocade
6 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.55%) Dell
6 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace