RPG IV Contract Job Trends

IBM RPG IV (ILE RPG)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring RPG IV skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 557 629
Rank change year-on-year +4 +72 +207
Contract jobs citing RPG IV 4 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.013% 0.006%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.037% 0.040% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - - £366
25th Percentile £325 £480 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £540 £388
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +39.35% +55.00%
75th Percentile £375 £600 £397
90th Percentile - - £399
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £600 £400
% change year-on-year -41.67% +50.00% +60.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,836 12,360 15,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.89% 32.08% 32.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,163 8,335 11,245
10th Percentile £344 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 347 456
10th Percentile £29.00 £27.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £46.18 £48.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +11.40%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £70.06
90th Percentile £79.63 £78.00 £82.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%

RPG IV
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RPG IV in the UK

RPG IV
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

RPG IV
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

RPG IV
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 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
England +6 4 £350 -35.19% 2
London +5 3 - - 2
UK excluding London +8 1 £350 -41.67% 1
Work from Home - 1 £350 -
South East - 1 £350 - 1

RPG IV
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Developer
2 2 (50.00%) RPG Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 2 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) AS400
2 1 (25.00%) iSeries
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) RPG
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) Solace
1 2 (50.00%) TIBCO