RPG/400 Job Trends in Birmingham

IBM RPG/400
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring RPG/400 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 - 138
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing RPG/400 1 0 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.035% - 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.26% - 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £45,000
75th Percentile £57,500 - £47,500
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 - £45,000

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

RPG/400 falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 387 365 764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.38% 28.99% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 310 291 699
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

RPG/400
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing RPG/400 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

RPG/400 job vacancy trend in Birmingham

RPG/400
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing RPG/400.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing RPG/400

RPG/400
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) RPG Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AS400
1 1 (100.00%) iSeries
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) RPG
1 1 (100.00%) RPG IV
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM