RPG IV Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM RPG IV (ILE RPG)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring RPG IV skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RPG IV over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 412 503
Rank change year-on-year +47 +91 +15
Contract jobs citing RPG IV 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.005% 0.013%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.093% 0.019% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £531 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £400 £250
Median % change year-on-year +43.57% +60.00% -41.18%
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £480 £350 £250
% change year-on-year +37.14% +40.00% -41.18%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

RPG IV falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,313 5,397 9,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.74% 25.85% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,589 3,723 6,610
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -2.44% +10.81%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% +8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 345 386
10th Percentile £25.85 £35.55 £21.78
25th Percentile £46.22 £48.32 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.80 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year - +3.31% +27.37%

RPG IV
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing RPG IV as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for RPG IV in the UK excluding London

RPG IV
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RPG IV in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for RPG IV in the UK excluding London

RPG IV
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RPG IV in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RPG IV in the UK excluding London

RPG IV
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RPG IV in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for RPG IV in the UK excluding London

RPG IV
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RPG IV within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Yorkshire - 4 £574 - 1
North of England - 4 £574 - 1
RPG IV
UK

RPG IV
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) DB2
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) RPG Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JWT
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) iSeries
2 1 (25.00%) AS400
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) API Design
4 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Debt
4 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) RPG
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk