RPG Contracts in London

IBM RPG
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 329 387 476
Rank change year-on-year +58 +89 +96
Contract jobs citing RPG 24 4 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.022% 0.063%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.48% 0.062% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 11
10th Percentile £433 - £413
25th Percentile £450 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £420 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -20.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £526 - £700
90th Percentile £600 - £750
England median daily rate £450 £420 £450
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +28.57%

All Programming Languages
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 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
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for RPG in London

RPG
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for RPG in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for RPG in London

RPG
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for RPG in London

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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 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 - - 1
RPG
England

RPG
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 5 (20.83%) MQSeries
2 2 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (45.83%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (45.83%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (8.33%) Gatling
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
1 2 (8.33%) JMeter
1 2 (8.33%) REST Assured
1 2 (8.33%) Selenium
1 2 (8.33%) TeamCity
1 2 (8.33%) TestCafe
General
1 21 (87.50%) Finance
2 8 (33.33%) Banking
3 6 (25.00%) Billing
4 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
5 4 (16.67%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (87.50%) Developer
2 11 (45.83%) .NET Developer
3 9 (37.50%) Cloud Developer
4 7 (29.17%) RPG Developer
5 5 (20.83%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (20.83%) C# Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Analyst
6 3 (12.50%) AWS Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Senior
6 3 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Senior C# .NET Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Senior C# Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Senior Developer
7 2 (8.33%) Analyst Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Automation Tester
8 1 (4.17%) Banking Analyst
8 1 (4.17%) QA Analyst
8 1 (4.17%) QA Test Analyst
8 1 (4.17%) Test Analyst
8 1 (4.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) .NET
1 11 (45.83%) .NET Framework
1 11 (45.83%) Entity Framework
2 5 (20.83%) XML
3 4 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (8.33%) Middleware
5 1 (4.17%) CSS
5 1 (4.17%) HTML
5 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) AS400
2 6 (25.00%) iSeries
3 2 (8.33%) Derivative
3 2 (8.33%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Online Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) System Integration Testing
1 10 (41.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
5 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 3 (12.50%) Project Management
6 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 3 (12.50%) Wealth Management
7 2 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (8.33%) API Testing
7 2 (8.33%) Change Control
7 2 (8.33%) Defect Management
7 2 (8.33%) Digital Banking
7 2 (8.33%) Portfolio Management
7 2 (8.33%) Test Planning
7 2 (8.33%) Traceability Matrix
7 2 (8.33%) User Experience
7 2 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 22 (91.67%) SQL
2 16 (66.67%) RPG IV
3 11 (45.83%) C#
3 11 (45.83%) PL/SQL
4 4 (16.67%) Java
5 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.33%) Python
7 1 (4.17%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 11 (45.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) IBM
2 4 (16.67%) Solace
2 4 (16.67%) TIBCO