The first table below looks at the demand for RPG skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RPG over the 3 months to 19 June 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 England 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM RPG
Rank 459 504 498
Rank change year-on-year
+45 -6
Contract jobs citing RPG 73 41 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.169% 0.077% 0.143%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.444% 0.216% 0.371%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 21 48
Average daily rate £300 £391 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.27% -2.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £275 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £603 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £220 £300 £344
% change year-on-year
-26.66% -12.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £40.00
All Programming Languages
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
16458 19011 22124
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 38.03% 35.90% 38.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10343 11552 13265
Average daily rate £400 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 699 800
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £18.00 £19.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
RPG
UK

RPG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England RPG Daily Rate Trend

RPG
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RPG across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England RPG Daily Rate Histogram

RPG
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing RPG across the England region.

England RPG Hourly Rate Trend

RPG
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RPG within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
South East +46 35 £175 -53.70% 7
London +40 31 £550 +31.34% 2
South West +36 6 £220 +15.78% 2
West Midlands +3 1 - -
East Midlands -1 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £300 -
North West - - - - 2
East of England - - - -
RPG
UK

RPG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 61 (53.51%) AS400
2 50 (43.86%) RPG IV
3 39 (34.21%) iSeries
4 31 (27.19%) Finance
5 27 (23.68%) Java
6 26 (22.81%) WebSphere
6 26 (22.81%) Banking
7 22 (19.30%) IBM
8 19 (16.67%) .NET
9 17 (14.91%) WebSphere MQ
10 16 (14.04%) Oracle
11 15 (13.16%) SQL Server
11 15 (13.16%) SQL
12 14 (12.28%) XML
12 14 (12.28%) JD Edwards
12 14 (12.28%) DataStage
13 12 (10.53%) OS/400
13 12 (10.53%) Project Management
13 12 (10.53%) Migration
13 12 (10.53%) Misys Midas
14 11 (9.649%) PDM
14 11 (9.649%) SAP
15 9 (7.895%) DB2
15 9 (7.895%) Photoshop
15 9 (7.895%) Flash
15 9 (7.895%) MS Visio
15 9 (7.895%) Adobe Illustrator
15 9 (7.895%) Games
15 9 (7.895%) TOGAF
15 9 (7.895%) JDE World

RPG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 26 (22.81%) WebSphere
2 19 (16.67%) .NET
3 17 (14.91%) WebSphere MQ
4 14 (12.28%) XML
5 9 (7.895%) Flash
6 7 (6.140%) Web Services
7 4 (3.509%) MSMQ
7 4 (3.509%) SOAP
8 2 (1.754%) EDI
9 1 (0.877%) HTML
9 1 (0.877%) EDIFACT
Application Platforms
1 6 (5.263%) Oracle Workflow
1 6 (5.263%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.509%) IIS
2 4 (3.509%) Adobe CQ
3 3 (2.632%) IBM Notes
4 2 (1.754%) MQSeries
Applications
1 9 (7.895%) Photoshop
1 9 (7.895%) MS Visio
1 9 (7.895%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (2.632%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.632%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (10.53%) Misys Midas
2 9 (7.895%) JDE World
3 5 (4.386%) SAP FI
4 4 (3.509%) SunGard GMI
4 4 (3.509%) Misys Equation
5 3 (2.632%) INSURE/90
6 1 (0.877%) JDE OneWorld
6 1 (0.877%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.632%) FTP
2 2 (1.754%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.754%) Internet
3 1 (0.877%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.16%) SQL Server
2 14 (12.28%) DataStage
3 9 (7.895%) DB2
4 7 (6.140%) TOAD
5 6 (5.263%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.632%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.877%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (6.140%) ERwin
General
1 31 (27.19%) Finance
2 26 (22.81%) Banking
3 9 (7.895%) Games
4 8 (7.018%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.386%) Retail
6 4 (3.509%) Retail Banking
6 4 (3.509%) Private Banking
7 2 (1.754%) Advertising
7 2 (1.754%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.877%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.877%) Back Office
8 1 (0.877%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (47.37%) Developer
2 27 (23.68%) RPG Developer
3 25 (21.93%) Programmer
4 23 (20.18%) AS400 Developer
5 21 (18.42%) Analyst
6 16 (14.04%) Consultant
7 15 (13.16%) Analyst Programmer
8 9 (7.895%) Technical Consultant
8 9 (7.895%) RPG Programmer
8 9 (7.895%) UI Designer
8 9 (7.895%) Designer
9 8 (7.018%) JDE Consultant
10 6 (5.263%) RPG Analyst Programmer
11 5 (4.386%) JDE Functional Consultant
11 5 (4.386%) Architect
11 5 (4.386%) Project Manager
11 5 (4.386%) Technical Project Manager
11 5 (4.386%) Functional Consultant
11 5 (4.386%) Technical Manager
12 4 (3.509%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 61 (53.51%) AS400
2 39 (34.21%) iSeries
3 4 (3.509%) Online Banking
3 4 (3.509%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.754%) SWIFT
5 1 (0.877%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.877%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.877%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.53%) OS/400
2 4 (3.509%) UNIX
2 4 (3.509%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (10.53%) Project Management
1 12 (10.53%) Migration
2 11 (9.649%) PDM
3 9 (7.895%) TOGAF
3 9 (7.895%) Web Application Development
4 8 (7.018%) Waterfall
4 8 (7.018%) Automated Testing
4 8 (7.018%) Lean Six Sigma
4 8 (7.018%) Six Sigma
4 8 (7.018%) DSDM
4 8 (7.018%) ITIL
5 7 (6.140%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (6.140%) Problem Management
6 6 (5.263%) Resource Management
6 6 (5.263%) Workflow
6 6 (5.263%) ERP
7 5 (4.386%) ETL
7 5 (4.386%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (4.386%) Unit Testing
7 5 (4.386%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 50 (43.86%) RPG IV
2 27 (23.68%) Java
3 15 (13.16%) SQL
4 6 (5.263%) RPG/400
5 3 (2.632%) RPG III
6 2 (1.754%) C#
7 1 (0.877%) C
7 1 (0.877%) COBOL
7 1 (0.877%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (1.754%) Degree
1 2 (1.754%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (1.754%) IBM Certification
1 2 (1.754%) MCSD
2 1 (0.877%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.877%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.877%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (1.754%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 22 (19.30%) IBM
2 16 (14.04%) Oracle
3 14 (12.28%) JD Edwards
4 11 (9.649%) SAP
5 5 (4.386%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.509%) Misys
6 4 (3.509%) SunGard
7 3 (2.632%) Lotus
8 1 (0.877%) Empirix
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Posted: 12 June 2013
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Posted: 12 June 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Core systems are based on iSeries, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, WebSphere (MQ and DataStage), RPG & .NET... iSeries/zSeries, UNIX, Linux & corresponding applications & tools... Waterfall, Agile, TOGAF, Lean/Six...
SEC Recruitment Limited
Rate: £200 - £240 per annum + daily
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Slough, Berkshire
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Rate: £220 - £230 per day
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Posted: 13 June 2013
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Rate: £250 - £600 per day
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