RPG IV Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM RPG IV (ILE RPG)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring RPG IV skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RPG IV 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 303 - 475
Rank change year-on-year - - +149
Contract jobs citing RPG IV 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% - 0.008%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.027% - 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £450 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

RPG IV
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing RPG IV as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

RPG IV trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

RPG IV
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing RPG IV.

RPG IV daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

RPG IV
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) RPG
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes