The first table below looks at the demand for RPG skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RPG over the 3 months to 17 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 Cardiff region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM RPG
Rank 46 45 50
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +5
Permanent jobs citing RPG 18 2 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 3.147% 0.478% 3.813%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.538% 0.962% 6.061%
Number of salaries quoted 18 2 20
Average salary £36,400 £31,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.55% -21.25%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Programming Languages
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
325 208 363
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 56.82% 49.76% 62.91%
Number of salaries quoted 298 196 339
Average salary £34,400 £32,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.50% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
RPG
South Wales

RPG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff RPG Salary Trend

RPG
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing RPG across the Cardiff region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cardiff RPG Salary Histogram

RPG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 17 (68.00%) Telecoms
1 17 (68.00%) Banking
1 17 (68.00%) Degree
1 17 (68.00%) INSURE/90
1 17 (68.00%) Unit Testing
1 17 (68.00%) RPG IV
2 15 (60.00%) AS400
3 12 (48.00%) RPG/400
3 12 (48.00%) SQL
3 12 (48.00%) DB2
4 4 (16.00%) Change Management
4 4 (16.00%) VB.NET
4 4 (16.00%) .NET
4 4 (16.00%) Java
4 4 (16.00%) Release Management
5 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (12.00%) HTML
5 3 (12.00%) SLA
5 3 (12.00%) CSS
5 3 (12.00%) JSP
5 3 (12.00%) XML
5 3 (12.00%) Internet
6 2 (8.000%) Middleware
6 2 (8.000%) MPLS
6 2 (8.000%) Firewall
6 2 (8.000%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (8.000%) ITIL
6 2 (8.000%) Windows
6 2 (8.000%) MS Exchange
6 2 (8.000%) LAN

RPG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 4 (16.00%) .NET
2 3 (12.00%) CSS
2 3 (12.00%) JSP
2 3 (12.00%) XML
2 3 (12.00%) HTML
3 2 (8.000%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.000%) MS Exchange
Business Applications
1 17 (68.00%) INSURE/90
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Internet
2 2 (8.000%) MPLS
2 2 (8.000%) Firewall
2 2 (8.000%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (8.000%) LAN
2 2 (8.000%) VoIP
2 2 (8.000%) WAN
2 2 (8.000%) DHCP
2 2 (8.000%) Ethernet
2 2 (8.000%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (48.00%) DB2
General
1 17 (68.00%) Telecoms
1 17 (68.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (80.00%) Analyst
2 9 (36.00%) Senior Analyst
3 8 (32.00%) Analyst Programmer
3 8 (32.00%) Programmer
4 4 (16.00%) Release Manager
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Analyst Programmer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Programmer
5 3 (12.00%) Change Manager
6 1 (4.000%) Release Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) Development Manager
6 1 (4.000%) Change Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 15 (60.00%) AS400
2 1 (4.000%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (16.00%) Change Management
2 4 (16.00%) Release Management
3 2 (8.000%) ITIL
4 1 (4.000%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 17 (68.00%) RPG IV
2 12 (48.00%) RPG/400
2 12 (48.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) VB.NET
3 4 (16.00%) Java
4 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.000%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 17 (68.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.000%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) SLA
2 2 (8.000%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (8.000%) Cisco
1 2 (8.000%) Intel
1 2 (8.000%) Nortel