The first table below looks at the demand for RPG/400 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/400 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/400
Rank 529 544 562
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +18
Contract jobs citing RPG/400 3 1 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.007% 0.002% 0.031%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.018% 0.005% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 9
Average daily rate £225 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.18% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £275 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
-18.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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/400
UK

RPG/400
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing RPG/400 across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

England RPG/400 Jobs Demand Trend

RPG/400
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RPG/400 across the England region.

England RPG/400 Daily Rate Trend

RPG/400
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing RPG/400 across the England region.

England RPG/400 Hourly Rate Trend

RPG/400
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RPG/400 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
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Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Average Daily Rate
% Change
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RPG/400
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing RPG/400 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/400.

1 6 (100.00%) RPG
1 6 (100.00%) AS400
2 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) RPG IV
3 3 (50.00%) iSeries
3 3 (50.00%) JDE World
3 3 (50.00%) JD Edwards
4 2 (33.33%) DataStage
4 2 (33.33%) Internet
4 2 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (33.33%) ERwin
4 2 (33.33%) Six Sigma
4 2 (33.33%) Mainframe
4 2 (33.33%) Service Management
4 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (33.33%) DB2
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) C#
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) UNIX
4 2 (33.33%) Linux
4 2 (33.33%) OOP
4 2 (33.33%) OO
4 2 (33.33%) DSDM
4 2 (33.33%) MQSeries
4 2 (33.33%) SharePoint

RPG/400
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing RPG/400 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/400. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (33.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) MQSeries
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JDE World
2 2 (33.33%) Misys Midas
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
1 2 (33.33%) FTP
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) DataStage
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) DB2
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) ERwin
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Consultant
2 3 (50.00%) Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) JDE Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) RPG Developer
4 1 (16.67%) AS400 Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Applications Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) AS400
2 3 (50.00%) iSeries
3 2 (33.33%) Mainframe
3 2 (33.33%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Six Sigma
1 2 (33.33%) Service Management
1 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) OOP
1 2 (33.33%) OO
1 2 (33.33%) DSDM
1 2 (33.33%) ERP
1 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Web Application Development
1 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
1 2 (33.33%) Resource Management
1 2 (33.33%) Lean Six Sigma
1 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (16.67%) Automated Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) RPG
2 4 (66.67%) RPG IV
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) Java
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) JD Edwards
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
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