REXX Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 354 405
Rank change year-on-year -33 +51 +79
Contract jobs citing REXX 19 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.050% 0.035%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.41% 0.19% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 7
10th Percentile £302 £441 £463
25th Percentile £313 £483 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £563 £475
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +18.42% +17.28%
75th Percentile £408 £588 £500
90th Percentile £484 £595 £535
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -5.10% +5.26%

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 4,663 4,261 5,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.95% 26.57% 25.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,018 2,524 3,500
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £565 £582 £600
90th Percentile £640 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.24% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 222 330
10th Percentile £40.75 £22.00 £32.32
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £48.34
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £63.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year +1.19% +4.13% -3.20%

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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 December 2025.

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 December 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 -27 16 £325 -
North West - 14 £325 -
Yorkshire -29 2 £413 -
East of England - 2 £475 -
East Midlands -14 1 £497 +8.82%
Midlands -29 1 £497 +8.82%
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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 7 (36.84%) CICS
2 1 (5.26%) CMS
2 1 (5.26%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) VisionPLUS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) ChangeMan
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Administrator
2 6 (31.58%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Mainframe Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Programmer
4 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Systems Programmer
4 1 (5.26%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (94.74%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 6 (31.58%) VSAM
3 5 (26.32%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Release Management
2 8 (42.11%) Change Management
2 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (36.84%) DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) Storage Management
4 6 (31.58%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (31.58%) Problem Management
4 6 (31.58%) SDLC
5 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (21.05%) Configuration Management
6 4 (21.05%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (10.53%) RBAC
7 2 (10.53%) Runbook
8 1 (5.26%) Batch Scheduling
8 1 (5.26%) Generative AI
8 1 (5.26%) Privileged Access Management
8 1 (5.26%) Security Monitoring
8 1 (5.26%) Security Operations
8 1 (5.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) JCL
2 17 (89.47%) CLIST
3 10 (52.63%) COBOL
4 1 (5.26%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (78.95%) Time Sharing Option
2 10 (52.63%) RACF
3 8 (42.11%) ACF2
4 1 (5.26%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 14 (73.68%) CA Endevor
2 7 (36.84%) OMEGAMON
2 7 (36.84%) Tivoli
2 7 (36.84%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (10.53%) zSecure
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) IBM
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk