REXX Contracts

REXX
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for REXX skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited REXX over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 665 786
Rank change year-on-year +176 +121 -89
Contract jobs citing REXX 86 17 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.030% 0.059%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.66% 0.089% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 10 22
10th Percentile £360 - £394
25th Percentile £413 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £571 £508
Median % change year-on-year -24.73% +12.56% +14.04%
75th Percentile £488 £649 £569
90th Percentile £518 £672 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -9.47% -5.00% +2.04%

All Programming Languages
UK

REXX is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,939 19,124 31,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.05% 34.12% 36.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,176 13,793 23,095
10th Percentile £350 £388 £388
25th Percentile £425 £461 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £660
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 433 488
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.60 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.95 £71.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%

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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 1 June 2024.

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 10 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 1 June 2024. 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 +141 65 £430 -9.47% 13
UK excluding London +98 63 £430 -9.47% 7
Work from Home +154 52 £459 -29.06% 9
North of England +67 46 £430 -9.47%
Yorkshire +61 46 £430 -9.47%
Midlands - 9 £358 - 5
West Midlands - 9 £358 -
Scotland - 6 £500 - 1
London +92 4 £475 -5.00% 4
South East - 4 £358 - 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 41 (47.67%) SAS
2 19 (22.09%) CICS
3 2 (2.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.09%) GitHub
2 1 (1.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.47%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (27.91%) DB2
2 14 (16.28%) IDMS
3 5 (5.81%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 19 (22.09%) Jenkins
2 14 (16.28%) Git
General
1 55 (63.95%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.47%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.81%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.49%) Banking
4 3 (3.49%) Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (24.42%) Programmer
2 20 (23.26%) Systems Programmer
2 20 (23.26%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 16 (18.60%) Developer
4 13 (15.12%) IBM Mainframe Developer
4 13 (15.12%) Mainframe Developer
4 13 (15.12%) Storage Manager
4 13 (15.12%) z/OS Specialist
5 9 (10.47%) z/OS Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) DB2 Specialist
7 5 (5.81%) IBM Storage Specialist
7 5 (5.81%) Storage Specialist
8 4 (4.65%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) COBOL Developer
9 3 (3.49%) DB2 Developer
9 3 (3.49%) Hardware Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
10 2 (2.33%) Administrator
10 2 (2.33%) Hardware Specialist
11 1 (1.16%) z/OS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (50.00%) ISPF
2 19 (22.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (70.93%) Mainframe
2 21 (24.42%) IBM Mainframe
3 18 (20.93%) Data Centre
4 9 (10.47%) LPAR
5 5 (5.81%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 84 (97.67%) zOS
2 19 (22.09%) Linux
3 2 (2.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (39.53%) Agile
1 34 (39.53%) Risk Management
2 26 (30.23%) Performance Monitoring
3 23 (26.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (23.26%) Storage Management
5 19 (22.09%) Problem Management
6 16 (18.60%) Scrum
7 15 (17.44%) Project Management
7 15 (17.44%) Requirements Gathering
8 10 (11.63%) Cost Management
8 10 (11.63%) Software Testing
9 8 (9.30%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (8.14%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (5.81%) Capacity Planning
11 5 (5.81%) Configuration Management
11 5 (5.81%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (5.81%) Data Security
11 5 (5.81%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (5.81%) Software Engineering
11 5 (5.81%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 62 (72.09%) JCL
2 29 (33.72%) CLIST
3 24 (27.91%) COBOL
4 23 (26.74%) Assembly Language
5 19 (22.09%) Python
6 15 (17.44%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 13 (15.12%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 64 (74.42%) Time Sharing Option
2 19 (22.09%) NFS
3 17 (19.77%) ACF2
3 17 (19.77%) RACF
4 9 (10.47%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 9 (10.47%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 25 (29.07%) OMEGAMON
2 19 (22.09%) Ansible
3 18 (20.93%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 78 (90.70%) IBM
2 47 (54.65%) Broadcom
3 25 (29.07%) CA
4 20 (23.26%) Dell
5 19 (22.09%) Brocade
5 19 (22.09%) Splunk
6 16 (18.60%) Syncsort
7 7 (8.14%) BMC
8 2 (2.33%) ICL
8 2 (2.33%) Microsoft