IBM RPG/400
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs 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 707 - 851
Rank change year-on-year - - +121
Permanent jobs citing RPG/400 1 0 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.001% - 0.017%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.006% - 0.049%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 16
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £45,000
75th Percentile £57,500 - £47,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 - £45,000

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15,752 13,930 32,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.38% 32.08% 33.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,725 9,989 24,968
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,617 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

RPG/400
Job Vacancy Trend

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

RPG/400 job vacancy trend in the UK

RPG/400
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RPG/400.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RPG/400

RPG/400
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RPG/400 within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2026. 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
Midlands - 1 £55,000 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £55,000 - 1
England - 1 £55,000 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £55,000 - 1

RPG/400
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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