CLIST
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CLIST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CLIST over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 716 826
Rank change year-on-year +146 +110 -154
Contract jobs citing CLIST 28 3 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.005% 0.026%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.22% 0.014% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 2 6
10th Percentile £351 - £495
25th Percentile £360 £463 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £412 £475 £569
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% -16.52% +8.38%
75th Percentile £430 £488 £569
90th Percentile £488 - £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £475 -
% change year-on-year -11.38% - -

All Programming Languages
UK

CLIST is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,747 20,965 32,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.44% 35.05% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,054 15,147 23,495
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 477 511
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.39 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £77.00 £67.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.25
% change year-on-year - +26.90% +15.88%

CLIST
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CLIST in the UK

CLIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CLIST.

Daily rate trend for CLIST in the UK

CLIST
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CLIST over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CLIST in the UK

CLIST
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CLIST within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +147 22 £421 -11.38% 1
UK excluding London +83 21 £421 -11.38%
Work from Home - 19 £430 -
North of England +41 10 £430 -9.47%
Yorkshire +28 10 £430 -9.47%
Midlands - 9 £358 -
West Midlands - 9 £358 -
South East - 4 £358 -

CLIST
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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (67.86%) SAS
2 14 (50.00%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (32.14%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (50.00%) DB2
1 14 (50.00%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 14 (50.00%) Git
General
1 15 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Developer
1 13 (46.43%) IBM Mainframe Developer
1 13 (46.43%) Mainframe Developer
2 5 (17.86%) z/OS Specialist
3 3 (10.71%) Hardware Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) z/OS Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Programmer
4 2 (7.14%) Systems Programmer
4 2 (7.14%) z/OS Systems Programmer
5 1 (3.57%) COBOL Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Hardware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (50.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 28 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 14 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 9 (32.14%) LPAR
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Agile
1 14 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 14 (50.00%) Scrum
2 13 (46.43%) Requirements Gathering
2 13 (46.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (17.86%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (10.71%) Configuration Management
4 3 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
5 2 (7.14%) Analytics
5 2 (7.14%) Data Analytics
5 2 (7.14%) Data Extraction
5 2 (7.14%) ETL
6 1 (3.57%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) REXX
2 14 (50.00%) COBOL
2 14 (50.00%) JCL
3 13 (46.43%) SELCOPY
4 5 (17.86%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 11 (39.29%) SC Cleared
1 11 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 14 (50.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 9 (32.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 9 (32.14%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 28 (100.00%) IBM
2 14 (50.00%) Syncsort
3 5 (17.86%) CA
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft