RPG Contract Job Trends in the South East

IBM RPG
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring RPG skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 - 202
Rank change year-on-year - - +69
Contract jobs citing RPG 1 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.029% - 0.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.11% - 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £363
25th Percentile £325 - £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.57%
75th Percentile £375 - £540
90th Percentile - - £550
England median daily rate £600 £376 £450
% change year-on-year +59.47% -16.39% +33.33%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 898 1,142 1,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.01% 25.03% 24.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 766 944
10th Percentile £278 £325 £316
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 £613
90th Percentile £625 £654 £688
England median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 58 75
10th Percentile £50.00 £27.00 £32.32
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.31 £49.87
Median hourly rate £55.00 £69.69 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.08% +26.70% -8.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £74.97 £68.13
90th Percentile - £75.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £56.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.85% - +13.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for RPG in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
England

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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 IV
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM