The first table below looks at the demand for RPG skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RPG over the 3 months to 20 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM RPG
Rank 110 91 79
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -12
Permanent jobs citing RPG 3 6 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.180% 0.413% 0.843%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.400% 0.913% 2.119%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 11
Average salary £49,295 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+51.67% +8.33%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
750 657 519
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 44.99% 45.22% 39.77%
Number of salaries quoted 651 609 471
Average salary £37,500 £35,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.63% +18.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
RPG
West Midlands

RPG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham RPG Jobs Demand Trend

RPG
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing RPG across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham RPG Salary Trend

RPG
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited RPG.

1 3 (75.00%) OO
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Games
1 3 (75.00%) Billing
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) AS400
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) System Testing
2 1 (25.00%) iSeries
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) DB2
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (25.00%) Lotus Domino
2 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Lotus
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware

RPG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited RPG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) J2EE
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (25.00%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) DB2
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Games
1 3 (75.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Web Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Games Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Systems Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (25.00%) AS400
1 1 (25.00%) iSeries
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Lotus