RPG IV Contract Job Trends in the South East

IBM RPG IV (ILE RPG)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring RPG IV skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RPG IV 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.029% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £350 £540 £375
% change year-on-year -35.19% +44.00% +50.00%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 904 1,162 1,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.92% 25.13% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 781 936
10th Percentile £281 £325 £325
25th Percentile £393 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £575 £613 £615
90th Percentile £625 £656 £688
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 73
10th Percentile £50.00 £27.00 £32.32
25th Percentile £51.56 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £56.06
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +24.87% -6.57%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £68.75
90th Percentile - £76.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.46% - +13.04%

RPG IV
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing RPG IV as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for RPG IV in the South East

RPG IV
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RPG IV.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RPG IV

RPG IV
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RPG IV.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RPG IV

RPG IV
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 18 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
Hampshire - 1 £350 -
RPG IV
England

RPG IV
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) RPG Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AS400
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) RPG
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM