RPG Contracts in England

IBM RPG
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 455 537 623
Rank change year-on-year +82 +86 +124
Contract jobs citing RPG 30 5 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.013% 0.059%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.36% 0.046% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 20
10th Percentile £377 - -
25th Percentile £392 - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £526 - £566
90th Percentile £600 - £750
UK median daily rate £450 £420 £525
% change year-on-year +7.14% -20.00% +50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

RPG
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for RPG in England

RPG
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for RPG in England

RPG
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RPG in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RPG in England

RPG
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for RPG in England

RPG
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 within the England 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
London +58 24 £455 +8.33% 9
Yorkshire - 2 £374 -
North of England - 2 £374 - 1
Midlands - 1 £600 - 3
South East - 1 £390 - 6
West Midlands - 1 £600 -
RPG
UK

RPG
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (16.67%) MQSeries
2 2 (6.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (36.67%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (26.67%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (6.67%) Gatling
1 2 (6.67%) Git
1 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
1 2 (6.67%) JMeter
1 2 (6.67%) REST Assured
1 2 (6.67%) Selenium
1 2 (6.67%) TeamCity
1 2 (6.67%) TestCafe
General
1 23 (76.67%) Finance
2 8 (26.67%) Banking
3 6 (20.00%) Billing
3 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Private Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (83.33%) Developer
2 11 (36.67%) .NET Developer
2 11 (36.67%) RPG Developer
3 9 (30.00%) Cloud Developer
4 5 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (16.67%) C# Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) AWS Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 3 (10.00%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior C# Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Analyst Developer
6 2 (6.67%) AS400 Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Banking Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) HTML Developer
7 1 (3.33%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (3.33%) QA Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (36.67%) .NET
1 11 (36.67%) .NET Framework
1 11 (36.67%) Entity Framework
2 5 (16.67%) XML
3 4 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (10.00%) CSS
4 3 (10.00%) HTML
5 2 (6.67%) Middleware
6 1 (3.33%) REST
6 1 (3.33%) SOAP
6 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) AS400
1 8 (26.67%) iSeries
2 2 (6.67%) Derivative
2 2 (6.67%) LPAR
2 2 (6.67%) Mobile Banking
2 2 (6.67%) Online Banking
2 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
1 10 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (26.67%) Containerisation
2 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 3 (10.00%) Agile
6 3 (10.00%) Project Management
6 3 (10.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (10.00%) Wealth Management
6 3 (10.00%) Web Development
7 2 (6.67%) BDD
7 2 (6.67%) Kanban
7 2 (6.67%) Portfolio Management
7 2 (6.67%) Test Automation
7 2 (6.67%) Test Planning
7 2 (6.67%) Time Management
7 2 (6.67%) User Experience
7 2 (6.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 24 (80.00%) SQL
2 16 (53.33%) RPG IV
3 11 (36.67%) C#
3 11 (36.67%) PL/SQL
4 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 4 (13.33%) Java
6 2 (6.67%) Python
7 1 (3.33%) R
7 1 (3.33%) RPG/400
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 11 (36.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Ansible
2 2 (6.67%) Control-M
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) IBM
2 4 (13.33%) Solace
2 4 (13.33%) TIBCO