The first table below looks at the demand for RPG skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RPG over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Cardiff region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM RPG
Rank 26 29 27
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -2
Contract jobs citing RPG 2 4 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 1.075% 1.762% 3.766%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.000% 6.452% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
Average daily rate £388 £425 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.82% +13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £378 £425 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £248 £290 £375
% change year-on-year
-14.65% -22.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £40.00
All Programming Languages
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
40 62 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 21.51% 27.31% 30.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 41 40
Average daily rate £344 £275 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -21.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £412 £428 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £36.25 - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
RPG
South Wales

RPG
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing RPG across the Cardiff region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Cardiff RPG Jobs Demand Trend

RPG
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RPG across the Cardiff region.

Cardiff RPG Daily Rate Trend

RPG
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing RPG also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited RPG.

1 10 (100.00%) DB2
2 8 (80.00%) IIS
2 8 (80.00%) OS/400
2 8 (80.00%) IBM
2 8 (80.00%) Finance
3 7 (70.00%) WebSphere
3 7 (70.00%) AS400
3 7 (70.00%) Shell Script
3 7 (70.00%) COBOL
3 7 (70.00%) UNIX
4 6 (60.00%) MS Office
4 6 (60.00%) Project Management
4 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (60.00%) iSeries
5 5 (50.00%) TestDirector
5 5 (50.00%) UML
5 5 (50.00%) OO
5 5 (50.00%) MS Project
6 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (40.00%) Degree
7 3 (30.00%) AIX
8 2 (20.00%) Windows
8 2 (20.00%) SLA
8 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (20.00%) RPG IV
8 2 (20.00%) Rackspace
8 2 (20.00%) Banking

RPG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing RPG also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited RPG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (70.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 8 (80.00%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) MS Office
2 5 (50.00%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) DB2
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) TestDirector
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Analyst
2 6 (60.00%) Support Analyst
2 6 (60.00%) Applications Support
2 6 (60.00%) Applications Support Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) AS400 Support
4 1 (10.00%) AS400 Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) AS400
2 6 (60.00%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) OS/400
2 7 (70.00%) UNIX
3 3 (30.00%) AIX
4 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Project Management
2 5 (50.00%) UML
2 5 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Shell Script
1 7 (70.00%) COBOL
2 2 (20.00%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) IBM
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Rackspace