The first table below looks at the demand for RPG IV skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RPG IV over the 3 months to 23 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.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM RPG IV (ILE RPG)
Rank 798 829 752
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -77
Permanent jobs citing RPG IV 64 69 121
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.060% 0.057% 0.096%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.112% 0.106% 0.183%
Number of salaries quoted 45 35 71
Average salary £36,400 £40,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.00% +2.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £35,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,400 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-9.00% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
57161 64813 66145
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 53.15% 53.69% 52.48%
Number of salaries quoted 49151 57089 57424
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

RPG IV
Jobs Demand Trend

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

RPG IV Jobs Demand Trend

RPG IV
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing RPG IV within the UK.

RPG IV Salary Trend

RPG IV
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing RPG IV over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

RPG IV Salary Histogram

RPG IV
Top 27 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RPG IV within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +10 47 £37,500 -6.25%
South East +20 24 £40,000 +31.14%
Wales +12 17 £36,400 -5.08%
South Wales - 17 £36,400 -
Cardiff - 17 £36,400 -
Kent -6 14 £40,000 +31.14%
South West +10 11 £30,000 -25.00%
Hampshire +12 10 £35,500 -
Somerset - 9 £27,500 -
London +16 5 £70,000 -
North West -13 3 £45,000 +28.57%
Taunton - 3 £27,500 -
Yorkshire -5 2 £37,500 -6.25%
Bristol - 2 £35,000 -
Folkestone - 2 £30,500 -
Cheshire - 2 £45,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £38,750 -
City of London -17 1 £77,500 -
West Yorkshire - 1 £37,500 -
Wakefield - 1 £37,500 -
Stockport - 1 £34,500 -
Southampton - 1 £35,500 -
Manchester - 1 £34,500 -
Leeds - 1 £37,500 -
Huddersfield - 1 £37,500 -
Halifax - 1 £37,500 -
Dover - 1 £34,000 -

RPG IV
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing RPG IV 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 IV.

1 130 (99.24%) RPG
2 108 (82.44%) AS400
3 40 (30.53%) SQL
4 39 (29.77%) Finance
5 32 (24.43%) iSeries
6 27 (20.61%) RPG/400
7 26 (19.85%) Unit Testing
8 22 (16.79%) Banking
8 22 (16.79%) Synon
9 20 (15.27%) Java
10 19 (14.50%) Telecoms
11 17 (12.98%) Degree
11 17 (12.98%) INSURE/90
11 17 (12.98%) DB2
12 15 (11.45%) JD Edwards
13 14 (10.69%) ERP
13 14 (10.69%) HTML
14 10 (7.634%) IBM
15 9 (6.870%) EDI
15 9 (6.870%) JavaScript
16 7 (5.344%) JSP
16 7 (5.344%) XML
16 7 (5.344%) OS/400
17 6 (4.580%) Derivative
17 6 (4.580%) Apache Flex
17 6 (4.580%) Integration Testing
17 6 (4.580%) WSDL
17 6 (4.580%) Internet
17 6 (4.580%) Python
17 6 (4.580%) Perl

RPG IV
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing RPG IV 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 IV. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (10.69%) HTML
2 9 (6.870%) EDI
3 7 (5.344%) JSP
3 7 (5.344%) XML
4 6 (4.580%) Apache Flex
4 6 (4.580%) WSDL
5 3 (2.290%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.527%) CSS
7 1 (0.763%) XSLT
7 1 (0.763%) .NET
7 1 (0.763%) J2EE
7 1 (0.763%) Hibernate
7 1 (0.763%) Java EE
7 1 (0.763%) Spring
7 1 (0.763%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 4 (3.053%) MQSeries
2 2 (1.527%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (0.763%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.763%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (0.763%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.763%) GlassFish
3 1 (0.763%) Liferay
Business Applications
1 17 (12.98%) INSURE/90
2 5 (3.817%) BPCS
3 4 (3.053%) SunGard GMI
4 1 (0.763%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
4 1 (0.763%) Apache OFBiz
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.580%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.98%) DB2
2 2 (1.527%) DataStage
3 1 (0.763%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (16.79%) Synon
2 6 (4.580%) Ant
3 2 (1.527%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.763%) COOL2E
General
1 39 (29.77%) Finance
2 22 (16.79%) Banking
3 19 (14.50%) Telecoms
4 5 (3.817%) Marketing
5 4 (3.053%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.527%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 92 (70.23%) Developer
2 68 (51.91%) AS400 Developer
3 58 (44.27%) RPG Developer
4 39 (29.77%) Analyst
5 31 (23.66%) Programmer
6 28 (21.37%) Analyst Programmer
7 18 (13.74%) Senior Analyst
8 17 (12.98%) Senior Developer
9 13 (9.924%) Senior Analyst Programmer
9 13 (9.924%) Senior Programmer
10 7 (5.344%) Java Developer
10 7 (5.344%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (4.580%) Developer Analyst
11 6 (4.580%) Graduate Developer
11 6 (4.580%) Senior Analyst Developer
11 6 (4.580%) Java Analyst Programmer
11 6 (4.580%) Java Programmer
11 6 (4.580%) Analyst Developer
11 6 (4.580%) Senior Java Analyst Programmer
11 6 (4.580%) Senior Java Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 108 (82.44%) AS400
2 32 (24.43%) iSeries
3 6 (4.580%) Derivative
4 2 (1.527%) SaaS
5 1 (0.763%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.763%) Replication
5 1 (0.763%) LPAR
5 1 (0.763%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.344%) OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (19.85%) Unit Testing
2 14 (10.69%) ERP
3 6 (4.580%) Integration Testing
4 5 (3.817%) ETL
4 5 (3.817%) Systems Analysis
5 4 (3.053%) Project Management
5 4 (3.053%) Change Management
6 2 (1.527%) System Testing
6 2 (1.527%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (1.527%) E-Commerce
7 1 (0.763%) EAM
7 1 (0.763%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (0.763%) CRM
7 1 (0.763%) UML
7 1 (0.763%) OO
7 1 (0.763%) ITIL
7 1 (0.763%) Asset Management
7 1 (0.763%) Business Analysis
7 1 (0.763%) Logistics
7 1 (0.763%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 130 (99.24%) RPG
2 40 (30.53%) SQL
3 27 (20.61%) RPG/400
4 20 (15.27%) Java
5 9 (6.870%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.580%) Python
6 6 (4.580%) Perl
6 6 (4.580%) PHP
6 6 (4.580%) VB
6 6 (4.580%) VBA
7 1 (0.763%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.763%) C
7 1 (0.763%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.763%) RPG III
7 1 (0.763%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 17 (12.98%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.763%) SLA
Vendors
1 15 (11.45%) JD Edwards
2 10 (7.634%) IBM
3 4 (3.053%) SunGard
3 4 (3.053%) CODA
4 2 (1.527%) Infor
5 1 (0.763%) Cognos
5 1 (0.763%) JBoss
5 1 (0.763%) Oracle
5 1 (0.763%) Business Objects
5 1 (0.763%) AccuRev
Taunton, South West
The position is for an RPG Developer with strong experience of RPG400 and RPGILE. Coupled with this ability you will have good interpersonal skills, be able to communicate...
Michael Rothstein
Salary: £20,000 - £30,000 per year
Posted: 29 April 2013