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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 342 361
Rank change year-on-year -92 +19 +79
Contract jobs citing REXX 19 17 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.31% 0.42% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 19
10th Percentile £357 £301 £348
25th Percentile £394 £313 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £400 £472
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -15.25% -0.63%
75th Percentile £515 £475 £500
90th Percentile £524 £519 £588
UK median daily rate £480 £400 £459
% change year-on-year +20.00% -12.85% -8.20%

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 6,083 4,035 4,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.01% 28.35% 23.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,797 2,654 3,271
10th Percentile £335 £313 £322
25th Percentile £408 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £582
90th Percentile £650 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £511 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.29% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 179 446
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.99 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.50 £44.76 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -4.62% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.96 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

REXX
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

REXX
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

REXX
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 4 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REXX in the UK excluding London

REXX
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

REXX
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 4 July 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 -77 13 £513 +31.75%
Yorkshire -51 10 £514 +0.29%
Midlands - 4 £475 -
North West -46 3 £355 -0.84%
West Midlands - 3 £475 -
Scotland -11 1 £500 -2.44%
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
South East - 1 - -
REXX
UK

REXX
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 6 (31.58%) SAS
2 3 (15.79%) Confluence
3 1 (5.26%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Db2
2 1 (5.26%) OLTP
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Administrator
1 4 (21.05%) Programmer
1 4 (21.05%) Systems Programmer
2 3 (15.79%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Mainframe Programmer
2 3 (15.79%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
2 3 (15.79%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 2 (10.53%) DB2 Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Storage Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) DB2 Support
4 1 (5.26%) IBM Storage Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Storage Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Support Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) ISPF
2 2 (10.53%) REST
2 2 (10.53%) YAML
3 1 (5.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (89.47%) Mainframe
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (57.89%) zOS
2 5 (26.32%) MVS
3 3 (15.79%) Linux
4 2 (10.53%) Windows
4 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Agile
1 5 (26.32%) Change Management
1 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (26.32%) Storage Management
2 4 (21.05%) ITIL
2 4 (21.05%) Migration
2 4 (21.05%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (21.05%) Risk Management
3 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (15.79%) Project Management
3 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (10.53%) Cost Management
4 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (10.53%) Problem Management
4 2 (10.53%) Release Management
4 2 (10.53%) Software Testing
5 1 (5.26%) API Integration
5 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) JCL
2 8 (42.11%) CLIST
3 4 (21.05%) Assembly Language
3 4 (21.05%) COBOL
4 3 (15.79%) Python
5 1 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Time Sharing Option
2 4 (21.05%) ACF2
2 4 (21.05%) RACF
3 2 (10.53%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (10.53%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 4 (21.05%) OMEGAMON
3 3 (15.79%) Ansible
3 3 (15.79%) CA Endevor
3 3 (15.79%) Tivoli
4 2 (10.53%) Control-M
4 2 (10.53%) Tivoli NetView
5 1 (5.26%) Nagios
5 1 (5.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) IBM
2 8 (42.11%) Broadcom
3 4 (21.05%) BMC
4 2 (10.53%) Brocade
4 2 (10.53%) Dell
4 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
4 2 (10.53%) Splunk
5 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
5 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft