The first table below looks at the demand for the RPG Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RPG Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
RPG Developer
Rank 519 579 579
Rank change year-on-year
+60 0
Contract jobs requiring an RPG Developer 15 7 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.032% 0.012% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.013% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
Average daily rate £255 £290 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.06% -42.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £248 £420
10% offered a daily rate of more than £402 £371 £540
UK excluding London average daily rate £220 £290 -
% change year-on-year
-24.13% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £29.00 - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £40.00
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2155 2623 2895
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

RPG Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing RPG Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

RPG Developer Jobs Demand Trend

RPG Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RPG Developer within the UK.

RPG Developer Daily Rate Trend

RPG Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RPG Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

RPG Developer Daily Rate Histogram

RPG Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing RPG Developer within the UK.

RPG Developer Hourly Rate Trend

RPG Developer
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RPG Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 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
England +68 14 £290 -7.71%
London - 9 £450 -
South West - 3 £220 -
Gloucester - 2 - -
Gloucestershire - 2 - -
South East +17 1 - -
Berkshire +14 1 - -
South Wales - 1 £220 -
Wales - 1 £220 -
Leicestershire - 1 £290 -
Somerset - 1 £220 -
City of London - 1 £450 -
East Midlands - 1 £290 -
Leicester - 1 £290 -
Slough - 1 - -
Taunton - 1 £220 -

RPG Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited RPG Developer in their job title 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 with RPG Developer in their job title.

1 19 (100.00%) RPG
2 10 (52.63%) AS400
2 10 (52.63%) RPG IV
3 8 (42.11%) Banking
4 6 (31.58%) iSeries
5 3 (15.79%) SQL
6 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
6 2 (10.53%) DB2
6 2 (10.53%) INSURE/90
6 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
6 2 (10.53%) Finance
6 2 (10.53%) Advertising
6 2 (10.53%) Migration
7 1 (5.263%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (5.263%) WebSphere
7 1 (5.263%) Problem Management
7 1 (5.263%) Automated Testing
7 1 (5.263%) PHP
7 1 (5.263%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (5.263%) RPG III
7 1 (5.263%) Web Application Development
7 1 (5.263%) XML
7 1 (5.263%) FTP
7 1 (5.263%) TOAD
7 1 (5.263%) IBM
7 1 (5.263%) DataStage
7 1 (5.263%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (5.263%) ERwin
7 1 (5.263%) Oracle
7 1 (5.263%) Workflow

RPG Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited RPG Developer in their job title 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 with RPG Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.263%) WebSphere
1 1 (5.263%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.263%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (5.263%) WebSphere MQ
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) INSURE/90
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
1 2 (10.53%) DB2
2 1 (5.263%) TOAD
2 1 (5.263%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 1 (5.263%) ERwin
General
1 8 (42.11%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) AS400
2 6 (31.58%) iSeries
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
1 2 (10.53%) Migration
2 1 (5.263%) Problem Management
2 1 (5.263%) Automated Testing
2 1 (5.263%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (5.263%) Web Application Development
2 1 (5.263%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) RPG
2 10 (52.63%) RPG IV
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
4 1 (5.263%) PHP
4 1 (5.263%) RPG III
Vendors
1 1 (5.263%) IBM
1 1 (5.263%) Oracle