RPG IV Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IBM RPG IV (ILE RPG)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 375 366 415
Rank change year-on-year -9 +49 +100
Contract jobs citing RPG IV 1 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.006% 0.017% 0.005%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.023% 0.068% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £504 -
25th Percentile £325 £540 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% +50.00% +60.00%
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £350 £540 £388
% change year-on-year -35.19% +39.35% +55.00%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,271 4,428 5,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.61% 24.71% 26.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,767 2,815 3,820
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £584 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 273 341
10th Percentile £33.91 £31.79 £37.75
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.36 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.84 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +12.50%

RPG IV
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for RPG IV in the UK excluding London

RPG IV
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RPG IV.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RPG IV

RPG IV
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RPG IV.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RPG IV

RPG IV
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
South East - 1 £350 - 1
RPG IV
UK

RPG IV
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

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