REXX Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

REXX
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 289 299 454
Rank change year-on-year +10 +155 +145
Contract jobs citing REXX 13 53 16
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.34% 0.062%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.35% 1.03% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 42 9
10th Percentile £372 £360 £488
25th Percentile £374 £430 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £459 £643
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% -28.56% +27.23%
75th Percentile £553 £497 £649
90th Percentile £578 £588 £681
UK median daily rate £436 £430 £513
% change year-on-year +1.40% -16.10% +1.99%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

REXX falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,701 5,147 9,658
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.47% 37.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,630 3,710 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £423 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £639 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 146 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.75 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% -6.75% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.88 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing REXX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

REXX trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing REXX.

REXX daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

REXX daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (30.77%) CICS
2 3 (23.08%) WebSphere
3 2 (15.38%) CMS
3 2 (15.38%) JBoss
3 2 (15.38%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) DB2
2 2 (15.38%) IMS/DB
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Finance
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Programmer
2 2 (15.38%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Support Specialist
2 2 (15.38%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Systems Programmer
2 2 (15.38%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst Programmer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Mainframe Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Storage Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Middleware
2 3 (23.08%) Web Services
3 2 (15.38%) EJB
3 2 (15.38%) ISPF
3 2 (15.38%) J2EE
3 2 (15.38%) JDBC
3 2 (15.38%) RESTful
3 2 (15.38%) SOAP
3 2 (15.38%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (15.38%) XML
3 2 (15.38%) XSLT
3 2 (15.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Mainframe
2 4 (30.77%) VSAM
3 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
3 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) zOS
2 3 (23.08%) MVS
2 3 (23.08%) Unix
3 2 (15.38%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Problem Management
2 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (15.38%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) Analytics
3 2 (15.38%) AOP
3 2 (15.38%) Availability Management
3 2 (15.38%) Capacity Management
3 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
3 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
3 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) ITSM
3 2 (15.38%) Microservices
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Management
3 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
3 2 (15.38%) Project Management
3 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (15.38%) Storage Management
3 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
3 2 (15.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) JCL
2 3 (23.08%) Assembly Language
2 3 (23.08%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) COBOL
3 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) CLIST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (15.38%) ACF2
2 2 (15.38%) NFS
3 1 (7.69%) Microcode
3 1 (7.69%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (7.69%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) IBM
2 4 (30.77%) Broadcom
3 2 (15.38%) Brocade
3 2 (15.38%) Dell
3 2 (15.38%) MuleSoft
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle