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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 518 668
Rank change year-on-year +18 +150 +138
Contract jobs citing REXX 38 59 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.14% 0.038%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.37% 0.45% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 42 12
10th Percentile £325 £358 -
25th Percentile £374 £376 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £459 £488
Median % change year-on-year -12.85% -5.85% -3.94%
75th Percentile £494 £488 £649
90th Percentile £544 £500 £662
UK excluding London median daily rate £424 £472 £475
% change year-on-year -10.28% -0.63% -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 10,170 13,188 18,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.80% 30.34% 33.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,897 9,255 13,461
10th Percentile £350 £350 £380
25th Percentile £413 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £676
90th Percentile £750 £775 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 553 442
10th Percentile £25.65 £31.25 £30.08
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.62%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £83.27 £75.00 £79.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -5.38% +4.00% +19.05%

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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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +53 31 £410 -8.89% 161
London +61 15 £423 -10.11% 29
UK excluding London +31 14 £424 -10.28% 141
North of England +28 13 £400 -20.00% 37
Work from Home +6 13 £374 -18.52% 17
Yorkshire -2 7 £513 +2.50% 16
North West - 6 £368 - 18
Scotland -3 1 £513 +2.50% 6

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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 12 (31.58%) CICS
2 9 (23.68%) SAS
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
1 2 (5.26%) 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 11 (28.95%) 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%) JIRA
3 2 (5.26%) Selenium
3 2 (5.26%) SOAtest
4 1 (2.63%) GCC
General
1 16 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 12 (31.58%) Banking
3 8 (21.05%) Finance
4 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.26%) General Ledger
5 2 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) Programmer
2 10 (26.32%) Systems Programmer
3 9 (23.68%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 6 (15.79%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Mainframe Programmer
5 4 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Architect
7 2 (5.26%) CICS Programmer
7 2 (5.26%) Network Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Support Specialist
7 2 (5.26%) Test Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Tester
7 2 (5.26%) z/OS Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) z/OS Specialist
8 1 (2.63%) Capacity and Performance Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) DB2 Administrator
8 1 (2.63%) DB2 Programmer
8 1 (2.63%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (36.84%) ISPF
2 5 (13.16%) Web Services
3 4 (10.53%) J2EE
3 4 (10.53%) XML
4 2 (5.26%) EJB
4 2 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (5.26%) JDBC
4 2 (5.26%) JSON
4 2 (5.26%) Middleware
4 2 (5.26%) RESTful
4 2 (5.26%) SOAP
4 2 (5.26%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (5.26%) XSLT
4 2 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (89.47%) Mainframe
2 6 (15.79%) VSAM
3 5 (13.16%) IBM Mainframe
4 3 (7.89%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.26%) Mobile Payment
5 2 (5.26%) Replication
6 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.63%) LPAR
6 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 24 (63.16%) zOS
2 7 (18.42%) Unix
3 5 (13.16%) MVS
4 3 (7.89%) Linux
4 3 (7.89%) Windows
5 1 (2.63%) OS/2
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (18.42%) Agile
2 7 (18.42%) Performance Monitoring
2 7 (18.42%) Problem Management
2 7 (18.42%) Risk Management
3 6 (15.79%) ITIL
3 6 (15.79%) Performance Management
4 5 (13.16%) Change Management
4 5 (13.16%) DevOps
4 5 (13.16%) High Availability
4 5 (13.16%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (10.53%) Migration
5 4 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (10.53%) Process Improvement
5 4 (10.53%) Test Automation
6 3 (7.89%) Analytics
6 3 (7.89%) Configuration Management
6 3 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (7.89%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 26 (68.42%) JCL
2 15 (39.47%) CLIST
3 14 (36.84%) Assembly Language
4 7 (18.42%) COBOL
5 6 (15.79%) Java
6 4 (10.53%) Python
7 3 (7.89%) PL/1
7 3 (7.89%) SQL
8 2 (5.26%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (42.11%) Time Sharing Option
2 3 (7.89%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 3 (7.89%) RACF
3 2 (5.26%) Microcode
3 2 (5.26%) NFS
3 2 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.63%) ACF2
Systems Management
1 13 (34.21%) OMEGAMON
2 6 (15.79%) Tivoli NetView
3 3 (7.89%) Ansible
3 3 (7.89%) CA Endevor
4 2 (5.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (2.63%) Control-M
Vendors
1 27 (71.05%) IBM
2 6 (15.79%) Broadcom
3 4 (10.53%) Oracle
4 2 (5.26%) Ab Initio
4 2 (5.26%) Brocade
4 2 (5.26%) Dell
4 2 (5.26%) Informatica
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.26%) MuleSoft
4 2 (5.26%) Parasoft
5 1 (2.63%) Syncsort