REXX Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 321 331 453
Rank change year-on-year +10 +122 +49
Contract jobs citing REXX 18 62 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.30% 0.025%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.50% 1.27% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 40 3
10th Percentile £382 £358 -
25th Percentile £447 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.19% -9.47% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £491 £506
90th Percentile £598 £588 £518
UK median daily rate £436 £430 £513
% change year-on-year +1.40% -16.10% +1.99%

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 3,630 4,875 6,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.50% 23.45% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,396 3,286 4,998
10th Percentile £325 £316 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £594
90th Percentile £650 £651 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 396 346
10th Percentile £22.35 £37.56 £23.61
25th Percentile £41.75 £50.56 £50.00
Median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.20% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing REXX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for REXX in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REXX in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for REXX in the UK excluding London

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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 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REXX in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REXX in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for REXX in the UK excluding London

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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 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
North of England -5 12 £447 +3.95% 1
Yorkshire -22 8 £531 +23.55% 1
Scotland +9 6 £575 +15.00%
North West - 4 £413 -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (44.44%) CICS
2 5 (27.78%) CMS
3 3 (16.67%) Confluence
3 3 (16.67%) SAS
3 3 (16.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) AWS
1 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) SNA
1 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) DB2
2 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.56%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Selenium
2 2 (11.11%) SOAtest
General
1 5 (27.78%) Banking
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) General Ledger
3 2 (11.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Consultant
1 4 (22.22%) Mainframe Consultant
1 4 (22.22%) Programmer
2 3 (16.67%) Systems Programmer
2 3 (16.67%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Test Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Tester
3 2 (11.11%) z/OS Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) z/OS Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst Programmer
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Mainframe Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Mainframe Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) ISPF
1 4 (22.22%) Middleware
2 3 (16.67%) Web Services
3 2 (11.11%) J2EE
3 2 (11.11%) JSON
3 2 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 8 (44.44%) VSAM
3 2 (11.11%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (11.11%) Mobile Payment
4 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.56%) LPAR
4 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) zOS
2 5 (27.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Capacity Management
1 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (27.78%) User Experience
2 4 (22.22%) Agile
2 4 (22.22%) Task Automation
2 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (11.11%) API Testing
4 2 (11.11%) Impact Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (11.11%) Process Improvement
4 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 2 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (11.11%) Test Planning
4 2 (11.11%) Test Strategy
4 2 (11.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) JCL
2 5 (27.78%) COBOL
3 4 (22.22%) CLIST
4 3 (16.67%) Assembly Language
4 3 (16.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.56%) ACF2
3 1 (5.56%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (5.56%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) OMEGAMON
1 2 (11.11%) Tivoli NetView
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) IBM
2 2 (11.11%) Ab Initio
2 2 (11.11%) Informatica
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Parasoft
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft