RPG IV Contracts in London

IBM RPG IV (ILE RPG)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring RPG IV skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RPG IV 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 337 390 487
Rank change year-on-year +53 +97 +107
Contract jobs citing RPG IV 16 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.006% 0.022%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.32% 0.016% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £393
25th Percentile - - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £525
75th Percentile £526 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,959 6,430 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.52% 36.06% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 4,906 8,206
10th Percentile £380 £380 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £712 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 57 85
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.55
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £61.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £70.75 £83.45
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

RPG IV
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for RPG IV in London

RPG IV
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for RPG IV in London

RPG IV
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for RPG IV in London

RPG IV
Contract Job Locations in London

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 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
Central London - 2 - -
RPG IV
England

RPG IV
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (68.75%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (68.75%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (12.50%) DB2
General
1 15 (93.75%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Billing
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
2 11 (68.75%) .NET Developer
3 9 (56.25%) Cloud Developer
4 5 (31.25%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (31.25%) C# Developer
4 5 (31.25%) RPG Developer
5 3 (18.75%) AWS Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Senior
5 3 (18.75%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Senior C# .NET Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Senior C# Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) .NET
1 11 (68.75%) .NET Framework
1 11 (68.75%) Entity Framework
2 4 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.25%) Middleware
3 1 (6.25%) Web Services
3 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) AS400
2 2 (12.50%) iSeries
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
1 8 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) Project Management
4 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
5 1 (6.25%) Asset Management
5 1 (6.25%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (6.25%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) RPG
1 16 (100.00%) SQL
2 11 (68.75%) C#
2 11 (68.75%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Solace
1 4 (25.00%) TIBCO
2 3 (18.75%) IBM