RPG Job Trends in London

IBM RPG
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring RPG skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing RPG 10 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.073% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.23% - -
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £28,500 - -
25th Percentile £81,563 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
75th Percentile £102,500 - -
90th Percentile £107,875 - -
England median annual salary £85,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +61.90% +5.00% -20.00%

All Programming Languages
London

RPG 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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,281 6,630 7,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 31.26% 41.82% 44.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,009 4,301 6,761
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £101,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

RPG
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

RPG job vacancy trend in London

RPG
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing RPG.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing RPG

RPG
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing RPG in London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for RPG in London

RPG
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RPG within the London region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London - 4 £85,000 - 2
RPG
England

RPG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Misys Equation
1 1 (10.00%) Misys Midas
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) DB2
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (30.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
1 3 (30.00%) Selenium
1 3 (30.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (20.00%) Synon
2 2 (20.00%) webpack
General
1 8 (80.00%) Banking
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (50.00%) Financial Institution
4 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (20.00%) Retail
6 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (10.00%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) RPG Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Graduate
3 2 (20.00%) Graduate Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Graduate Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior RPG Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) React
2 3 (30.00%) CSS
2 3 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (30.00%) Gherkin
2 3 (30.00%) HTML
2 3 (30.00%) Node.js
2 3 (30.00%) RESTful
3 2 (20.00%) CSS3
3 2 (20.00%) HTML5
3 2 (20.00%) Sass
4 1 (10.00%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (10.00%) AS400
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (40.00%) Migration
4 3 (30.00%) BDD
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Dynamic Code Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) Epics
4 3 (30.00%) Front End Development
4 3 (30.00%) Integration Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Static Code Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (30.00%) User Experience
4 3 (30.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (10.00%) Misys
3 1 (10.00%) Temenos