The first table below looks at the demand for RPG skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RPG over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM RPG
Rank 780 746 649
Rank change year-on-year
-34 -97
Permanent jobs citing RPG 84 154 222
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.077% 0.126% 0.182%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.145% 0.234% 0.346%
Number of salaries quoted 63 104 145
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,700 £33,300 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £49,295 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +8.10%
All Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
57807 65840 64225
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 53.15% 53.68% 52.54%
Number of salaries quoted 49720 58014 55744
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
Jobs Demand Trend

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

RPG Jobs Demand Trend

RPG
Salary Trend

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

RPG Salary Trend

RPG
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing RPG over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

RPG Salary Histogram

RPG
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 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 -45 65 £40,000 -
South East +25 31 £40,000 -6.97%
South Wales +17 19 £36,400 +21.33%
Wales +9 19 £36,400 -0.27%
Cardiff -1 18 £36,400 +15.55%
Kent -6 14 £40,000 +31.14%
London +7 12 £49,295 -17.84%
Hampshire +4 11 £35,500 -19.31%
South West 0 10 £30,000 -25.00%
Somerset - 8 £27,500 -
North West -13 6 £43,750 +25.00%
City of London -13 4 £49,295 -17.84%
Kidlington - 4 £42,500 -
Oxford - 4 £42,500 -
Oxfordshire - 4 £42,500 -
Cheshire +6 3 £45,000 +20.00%
Birmingham -15 3 £49,295 +51.67%
West Midlands -29 3 £49,295 +40.84%
Taunton - 3 £27,500 -
Southampton +6 2 £35,500 -21.11%
East of England 0 2 £37,500 -25.00%
Yorkshire -12 2 £37,500 -16.20%
Bristol - 2 £35,000 -
Folkestone - 2 £30,500 -
Manchester - 2 £42,250 -
Bedfordshire - 2 £37,500 -
East Midlands - 2 £38,750 -
West Yorkshire - 1 £37,500 -
Surrey - 1 - -
Wakefield - 1 £37,500 -

RPG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 147 (69.34%) AS400
2 130 (61.32%) RPG IV
3 84 (39.62%) SQL
4 60 (28.30%) iSeries
5 50 (23.58%) Finance
6 49 (23.11%) Java
7 35 (16.51%) RPG/400
8 33 (15.57%) ERP
9 28 (13.21%) Banking
10 27 (12.74%) Unit Testing
10 27 (12.74%) Synon
11 26 (12.26%) Telecoms
12 25 (11.79%) JD Edwards
13 22 (10.38%) Degree
14 21 (9.906%) DB2
14 21 (9.906%) HTML
15 17 (8.019%) INSURE/90
16 16 (7.547%) Project Management
17 15 (7.075%) XML
18 14 (6.604%) .NET
19 13 (6.132%) JavaScript
20 12 (5.660%) JSP
20 12 (5.660%) EDI
21 11 (5.189%) IBM
21 11 (5.189%) SQL Server
22 10 (4.717%) OS/400
23 9 (4.245%) Change Management
23 9 (4.245%) Internet
23 9 (4.245%) BPCS
23 9 (4.245%) Apache Flex

RPG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 21 (9.906%) HTML
2 15 (7.075%) XML
3 14 (6.604%) .NET
4 12 (5.660%) JSP
4 12 (5.660%) EDI
5 9 (4.245%) Apache Flex
6 7 (3.302%) WSDL
7 5 (2.358%) CSS
8 4 (1.887%) WebSphere
9 3 (1.415%) J2EE
9 3 (1.415%) Hibernate
9 3 (1.415%) Middleware
9 3 (1.415%) Spring
9 3 (1.415%) Java EE
10 2 (0.943%) Grails
10 2 (0.943%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.943%) XSLT
10 2 (0.943%) Flash
11 1 (0.472%) ASP
11 1 (0.472%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (1.887%) MQSeries
1 4 (1.887%) Lotus Domino
2 2 (0.943%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (0.943%) MS Exchange
2 2 (0.943%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.472%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (0.472%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (0.472%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.472%) Liferay
3 1 (0.472%) Confluence
3 1 (0.472%) Oracle UPK
3 1 (0.472%) GlassFish
Applications
1 2 (0.943%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.472%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.472%) MS Office
2 1 (0.472%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 17 (8.019%) INSURE/90
2 9 (4.245%) BPCS
3 7 (3.302%) JDE World
4 5 (2.358%) Loan IQ
5 3 (1.415%) SunGard GMI
6 1 (0.472%) Apache OFBiz
6 1 (0.472%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.245%) Internet
2 2 (0.943%) Firewall
2 2 (0.943%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.943%) MPLS
2 2 (0.943%) DHCP
2 2 (0.943%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.943%) LAN
2 2 (0.943%) VoIP
2 2 (0.943%) WAN
2 2 (0.943%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.906%) DB2
2 11 (5.189%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.415%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.943%) DataStage
5 1 (0.472%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.472%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.472%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (12.74%) Synon
2 7 (3.302%) Ant
3 3 (1.415%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.472%) JMeter
4 1 (0.472%) COOL2E
4 1 (0.472%) JIRA
General
1 50 (23.58%) Finance
2 28 (13.21%) Banking
3 26 (12.26%) Telecoms
4 6 (2.830%) Marketing
5 5 (2.358%) Games
5 5 (2.358%) International Banking
6 4 (1.887%) Billing
6 4 (1.887%) Investment Banking
6 4 (1.887%) Manufacturing
6 4 (1.887%) Advertising
7 1 (0.472%) Back Office
7 1 (0.472%) Retail
7 1 (0.472%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (58.49%) Developer
2 75 (35.38%) AS400 Developer
3 67 (31.60%) Analyst
4 59 (27.83%) RPG Developer
5 40 (18.87%) Programmer
6 37 (17.45%) Analyst Programmer
7 19 (8.962%) Senior Analyst
8 18 (8.491%) Senior Developer
9 16 (7.547%) Support Analyst
10 14 (6.604%) Senior Programmer
10 14 (6.604%) Developer Analyst
10 14 (6.604%) Senior Analyst Programmer
11 13 (6.132%) Java Developer
12 12 (5.660%) Applications Support
13 10 (4.717%) Applications Developer
14 9 (4.245%) AS400 Support
15 8 (3.774%) RPG Programmer
15 8 (3.774%) Senior Java Developer
16 7 (3.302%) Release Manager
16 7 (3.302%) RPG Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 147 (69.34%) AS400
2 60 (28.30%) iSeries
3 6 (2.830%) Derivative
4 3 (1.415%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (0.943%) Open Source
5 2 (0.943%) SaaS
5 2 (0.943%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.943%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.472%) Replication
6 1 (0.472%) Data Conversion
6 1 (0.472%) Data Integration
6 1 (0.472%) LPAR
6 1 (0.472%) Social Media
6 1 (0.472%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.717%) OS/400
2 6 (2.830%) Windows
3 4 (1.887%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (1.887%) Windows 7
3 4 (1.887%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (1.887%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (15.57%) ERP
2 27 (12.74%) Unit Testing
3 16 (7.547%) Project Management
4 9 (4.245%) Change Management
5 8 (3.774%) ITIL
6 7 (3.302%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (3.302%) Integration Testing
7 6 (2.830%) Business Analysis
7 6 (2.830%) Systems Analysis
7 6 (2.830%) ETL
8 5 (2.358%) OO
9 4 (1.887%) Release Management
9 4 (1.887%) System Testing
9 4 (1.887%) Volume Testing
10 3 (1.415%) SOA
10 3 (1.415%) UML
10 3 (1.415%) PRINCE2
10 3 (1.415%) Software Architecture
10 3 (1.415%) Agile Software Development
11 2 (0.943%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 130 (61.32%) RPG IV
2 84 (39.62%) SQL
3 49 (23.11%) Java
4 35 (16.51%) RPG/400
5 13 (6.132%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.302%) Perl
6 7 (3.302%) PHP
6 7 (3.302%) VB
6 7 (3.302%) VB.NET
6 7 (3.302%) C
6 7 (3.302%) Python
7 6 (2.830%) VBA
8 3 (1.415%) C#
8 3 (1.415%) COBOL
9 2 (0.943%) Groovy
9 2 (0.943%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.472%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.472%) Prolog
10 1 (0.472%) RPG III
10 1 (0.472%) VB6
Qualifications
1 22 (10.38%) Degree
2 2 (0.943%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 2 (0.943%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (0.472%) ISEB
3 1 (0.472%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.774%) SLA
2 2 (0.943%) QA
3 1 (0.472%) TickIT
3 1 (0.472%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.472%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 25 (11.79%) JD Edwards
2 11 (5.189%) IBM
3 5 (2.358%) Oracle
3 5 (2.358%) CODA
4 4 (1.887%) Intel
5 3 (1.415%) SunGard
5 3 (1.415%) Lotus
6 2 (0.943%) Twitter
6 2 (0.943%) AccuRev
6 2 (0.943%) Infor
6 2 (0.943%) Business Objects
6 2 (0.943%) SAP
6 2 (0.943%) Nortel
6 2 (0.943%) Cisco
6 2 (0.943%) Cognos
6 2 (0.943%) JBoss
7 1 (0.472%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.472%) Perforce
7 1 (0.472%) LANSA
7 1 (0.472%) Salesforce.com
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
Nottingham, East Midlands
Are you a Senior ERP Manufacturing Business Process Analyst looking to join my client's international Enterprise team, being based their Nottingham office? If you are, my client...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Nottingham, East Midlands
Are you a Senior ERP Manufacturing Business Process Analyst looking to join my client's international Enterprise team, being based their Nottingham office? If you are, my client...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Hounslow, South East
Our client a leading Bank requires a Data Architect to lead the strategy of the companies data. This role will set and enforce data architecture design principles as...
Salary: £55000.00 - £64500.00 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
Bolton, Lancashire
We need a passionate tester to own and grow the testing function in a friendly and focussed development team with multiple technologies in play including Java, RPG, Android,...
Appliance Online
Salary: Competitive Salary - Negotiable dependant on Experience
Posted: 7 May 2013
Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
If you are, my client is looking for an ERP professional with a strong track record of implementing IBM based MRP/ERP systems like , System 21, Infor XA,...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cheshire
The environment is currently Java, and candidates would ideally have exposure to the following: Jmeter SoapUI LoadUI Experience required: 2 years working within a structured performance test environment...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013