The first table below looks at the demand for RPG skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM RPG
Rank 81 83 61
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -22
Permanent jobs citing RPG 2 5 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 0.240% 0.535% 1.468%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.440% 0.898% 2.980%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 0
Average salary £35,500 £45,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.11% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Programming Languages
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
455 557 302
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 54.49% 59.57% 49.27%
Number of salaries quoted 433 525 279
Average salary £35,000 £38,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.89% +16.92%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
RPG
Hampshire

RPG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton RPG Salary Trend

RPG
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 7 (100.00%) RPG IV
2 6 (85.71%) Synon
3 5 (71.43%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) HTML
4 2 (28.57%) JD Edwards
4 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 2 (28.57%) CSS
4 2 (28.57%) EDI

RPG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
1 2 (28.57%) EDI
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Synon
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Analyst
1 7 (100.00%) Analyst Programmer
1 7 (100.00%) Programmer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Analyst Programmer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Programmer
3 1 (14.29%) Team Leader
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) RPG IV
2 5 (71.43%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) JD Edwards