North East RPG Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for IBM RPG (Report Program Generator) skills within the North East region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RPG over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM RPG (Report Program Generator)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Carlisle Cheshire City of London Cornwall Coventry Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Elland England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenock Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Inverclyde Isle of Man Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Margate Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Ramsgate Scotland Solihull South East South West Southampton St Albans Sunderland Surrey Sussex Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	47
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching permanent IT job ads	49	50
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	9.939 %	7.082 %
Salaries quoted	46	46
Average minimum salary	£29,771	£26,978
Average salary	£30,734	£27,859
% change on same period last year	+10.32 %
Average maximum salary	£31,698	£28,739
UK excluding London average salary	£35,231	£39,190
% change on same period last year	-10.10 %
Programming Languages North East
Matching permanent IT job ads	493	706
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.288 %	0.303 %
Salaries quoted	408	584
Average minimum salary	£30,162	£29,089
Average salary	£32,414	£31,531
% change on same period last year	+2.80 %
Average maximum salary	£34,666	£33,974
UK excluding London average salary	£35,495	£35,768
% change on same period last year	-0.76 %
RPG England

RPG
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing RPG across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

RPG
Salary Trend

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

RPG
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing RPG across the North East region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RPG within the North East region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Tyne and Wear	-5	24	£31,317	+13.05 %
Durham	-	16	£30,000	-

RPG England

RPG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the North East 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 75 (97.40 %) AS400 2 25 (32.47 %) Finance 3 15 (19.48 %) Mathematics 3 15 (19.48 %) Degree 4 12 (15.58 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 12 (15.58 %) Unit Testing 4 12 (15.58 %) System Testing 5 11 (14.29 %) CRM 5 11 (14.29 %) ERP 6 10 (12.99 %) Business Intelligence 6 10 (12.99 %) EDI 6 10 (12.99 %) SQL 6 10 (12.99 %) Supply Chain Management 7 8 (10.39 %) IBM 7 8 (10.39 %) WebSphere

8 7 (9.091 %) Project Management 8 7 (9.091 %) E-business 9 4 (5.195 %) Change Management 9 4 (5.195 %) Insurance 9 4 (5.195 %) C 9 4 (5.195 %) PRINCE2 9 4 (5.195 %) Fund Management 10 3 (3.896 %) Problem Management 10 3 (3.896 %) Business Analysis 10 3 (3.896 %) .NET 10 3 (3.896 %) Manufacturing 11 1 (1.299 %) Asset Management 11 1 (1.299 %) Logistics 11 1 (1.299 %) SQL Server 11 1 (1.299 %) MS Excel

RPG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the North East 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 10 (12.99 %) EDI 2 8 (10.39 %) WebSphere 3 3 (3.896 %) .NET	Applications 1 1 (1.299 %) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.299 %) SQL Server	General 1 25 (32.47 %) Finance 2 4 (5.195 %) Insurance 3 3 (3.896 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 56 (72.73 %) Analyst 1 56 (72.73 %) Analyst Programmer 1 56 (72.73 %) Programmer 2 53 (68.83 %) AS400 Analyst Programmer 3 50 (64.94 %) RPG Programmer 3 50 (64.94 %) RPG Analyst Programmer 4 30 (38.96 %) Developer 5 29 (37.66 %) RPG Developer 6 27 (35.06 %) AS400 Developer 7 16 (20.78 %) Software Developer 8 15 (19.48 %) Analyst Developer 9 6 (7.792 %) Development Manager 10 4 (5.195 %) Senior Analyst Programmer 10 4 (5.195 %) Senior Analyst 10 4 (5.195 %) Senior Programmer 11 3 (3.896 %) Senior AS400 Analyst Programmer 11 3 (3.896 %) Senior RPG Analyst Programmer 11 3 (3.896 %) Senior RPG Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 75 (97.40 %) AS400 2 15 (19.48 %) Mathematics
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (15.58 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 12 (15.58 %) Unit Testing 1 12 (15.58 %) System Testing 2 11 (14.29 %) CRM 2 11 (14.29 %) ERP 3 10 (12.99 %) Business Intelligence 3 10 (12.99 %) Supply Chain Management 4 7 (9.091 %) E-business 4 7 (9.091 %) Project Management 5 4 (5.195 %) Change Management 5 4 (5.195 %) Fund Management 5 4 (5.195 %) PRINCE2 6 3 (3.896 %) Problem Management 6 3 (3.896 %) Business Analysis 7 1 (1.299 %) Asset Management 7 1 (1.299 %) Logistics	Programming Languages 1 10 (12.99 %) SQL 2 4 (5.195 %) C 3 1 (1.299 %) C# 3 1 (1.299 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 15 (19.48 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.299 %) QA
Vendors 1 8 (10.39 %) IBM 2 1 (1.299 %) Microsoft