REXX Contracts

REXX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 481 514 688
Rank change year-on-year +33 +174 +106
Contract jobs citing REXX 38 86 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.20% 0.042%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.38% 0.67% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 58 15
10th Percentile £361 £360 -
25th Percentile £377 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £430 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -16.10% +1.99%
75th Percentile £519 £484 £648
90th Percentile £588 £526 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £430 £475
% change year-on-year +19.19% -9.47% -5.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,942 12,854 20,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.01% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,743 9,130 15,092
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £769 £760 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 485 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.25 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% - +26.21%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing REXX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for REXX in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REXX.

Daily rate trend for REXX in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REXX over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REXX in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REXX.

Hourly rate trend for REXX in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

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 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
England +27 28 £423 -1.74% 6
UK excluding London +10 18 £513 +19.19% 1
London +44 13 £423 -11.05% 5
Work from Home +10 13 £402 -12.53% 2
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 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 11 (28.95%) CICS
2 7 (18.42%) SAS
3 5 (13.16%) CMS
3 5 (13.16%) WebSphere
4 3 (7.89%) Confluence
5 2 (5.26%) JBoss
5 2 (5.26%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.26%) GitHub
2 1 (2.63%) AWS
2 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) SNA
1 2 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.63%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (31.58%) DB2
2 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.26%) Hadoop
2 2 (5.26%) IMS/DB
3 1 (2.63%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.89%) ChangeMan
2 3 (7.89%) JIRA
3 2 (5.26%) Selenium
3 2 (5.26%) SOAtest
General
1 19 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.95%) Banking
3 8 (21.05%) Finance
4 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.26%) General Ledger
5 2 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Programmer
2 10 (26.32%) Systems Programmer
2 10 (26.32%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 6 (15.79%) Consultant
4 4 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Mainframe Consultant
4 4 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Support Specialist
6 2 (5.26%) Test Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Tester
6 2 (5.26%) z/OS Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) z/OS Specialist
7 1 (2.63%) Administrator
7 1 (2.63%) Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Analyst Programmer
7 1 (2.63%) Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (31.58%) ISPF
2 6 (15.79%) Middleware
3 5 (13.16%) Web Services
4 4 (10.53%) J2EE
4 4 (10.53%) XML
5 2 (5.26%) EJB
5 2 (5.26%) JDBC
5 2 (5.26%) JSON
5 2 (5.26%) RESTful
5 2 (5.26%) SOAP
5 2 (5.26%) WebSphere MQ
5 2 (5.26%) XSLT
5 2 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (89.47%) Mainframe
2 8 (21.05%) VSAM
3 3 (7.89%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.89%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.26%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.63%) LPAR
5 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (50.00%) zOS
2 7 (18.42%) Unix
3 5 (13.16%) MVS
4 3 (7.89%) Linux
4 3 (7.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (23.68%) Agile
3 7 (18.42%) Performance Monitoring
3 7 (18.42%) Risk Management
4 5 (13.16%) Capacity Management
4 5 (13.16%) Change Management
4 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (13.16%) User Experience
5 4 (10.53%) ITIL
5 4 (10.53%) Migration
5 4 (10.53%) Performance Management
5 4 (10.53%) Problem Management
5 4 (10.53%) Process Improvement
5 4 (10.53%) Task Automation
5 4 (10.53%) Test Automation
6 3 (7.89%) Analytics
6 3 (7.89%) Data Protection
6 3 (7.89%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (7.89%) Project Delivery
6 3 (7.89%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (63.16%) JCL
2 10 (26.32%) Assembly Language
3 9 (23.68%) CLIST
4 5 (13.16%) COBOL
4 5 (13.16%) Java
5 3 (7.89%) SQL
6 2 (5.26%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.26%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (36.84%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (5.26%) ACF2
2 2 (5.26%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 2 (5.26%) Microcode
2 2 (5.26%) NFS
2 2 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.63%) RACF
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (7.89%) Ansible
3 2 (5.26%) Tivoli NetView
3 2 (5.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (2.63%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (55.26%) IBM
2 6 (15.79%) Broadcom
3 4 (10.53%) Oracle
4 3 (7.89%) Micro Focus
5 2 (5.26%) Ab Initio
5 2 (5.26%) Brocade
5 2 (5.26%) Dell
5 2 (5.26%) Informatica
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.26%) MuleSoft
5 2 (5.26%) Parasoft
6 1 (2.63%) Syncsort