REXX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring REXX skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited REXX over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 688 884 983
Rank change year-on-year +196 +99 +216
Permanent jobs citing REXX 4 12 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.012% 0.006%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.026% 0.036% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £60,650 £56,025
25th Percentile - £65,375 £65,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £71,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.07% +3.57%
75th Percentile - £74,000 £73,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £71,000 -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15,622 33,278 45,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.02% 33.79% 43.37%
Number of salaries quoted 11,533 25,047 28,788
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +2.33%

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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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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing REXX.

Salary trend for REXX in the UK

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Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REXX within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +165 3 - - 6
UK excluding London +201 2 - - 1
London +110 2 - - 5
Work from Home +190 1 - - 2
North of England +77 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +71 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - -

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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 2 (50.00%) CICS
2 1 (25.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Mainframe Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ISPF
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (25.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) zOS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Presales
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JCL
2 2 (50.00%) Assembly Language
2 2 (50.00%) COBOL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (25.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (25.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Broadcom
2 1 (25.00%) Brocade
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Syncsort