RPG Contracts in Central London

IBM RPG
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring RPG skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RPG over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 - 171
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RPG 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.10% - 0.026%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.26% - 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £700
75th Percentile - - £750
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £455 £420 £525
% change year-on-year +8.33% -20.00% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
Central London

RPG falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 773 833 1,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.71% 34.06% 42.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 608 1,091
10th Percentile £409 £412 £420
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £620
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -8.87% +3.33%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% -4.96%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
London median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%

RPG
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing RPG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for RPG in Central London

RPG
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RPG in Central London.

Daily rate trend for RPG in Central London

RPG
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RPG in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for RPG in Central London

RPG
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RPG within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 2 - - 1
RPG
London

RPG
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) RPG Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AS400
2 1 (50.00%) iSeries
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) RPG IV
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM