RPG IV Contract Job Trends in England

IBM RPG IV (ILE RPG)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring RPG IV skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 521 601
Rank change year-on-year +6 +80 +174
Contract jobs citing RPG IV 4 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.015% 0.005%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.044% 0.047% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 £480 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £540 £375
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +44.00% +50.00%
75th Percentile £375 £600 £388
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £350 £540 £388
% change year-on-year -35.19% +39.35% +55.00%

All Programming Languages
England

RPG IV 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,133 10,730 13,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.84% 32.57% 32.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,172 7,343 9,851
10th Percentile £350 £350 £373
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 309 415
10th Percentile £31.25 £30.40 £35.00
25th Percentile £42.50 £50.00 £48.36
Median hourly rate £56.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £71.39
90th Percentile £80.00 £79.34 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +11.40%

RPG IV
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing RPG IV as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for RPG IV in England

RPG IV
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RPG IV.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RPG IV

RPG IV
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RPG IV.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RPG IV

RPG IV
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RPG IV within the England region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
London +5 3 - - 2
South East - 1 £350 - 1
RPG IV
UK

RPG IV
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Developer
2 2 (50.00%) RPG Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 2 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) AS400
2 1 (25.00%) iSeries
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) RPG
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) Solace
1 2 (50.00%) TIBCO