CLIST Contracts in England

CLIST
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring CLIST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CLIST over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 539 631
Rank change year-on-year +69 +92 +135
Contract jobs citing CLIST 13 14 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.052% 0.037% 0.008%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.15% 0.12% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 3
10th Percentile £307 £333 -
25th Percentile £338 £351 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £358 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.73% -24.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £435 £378 £488
90th Percentile £513 £508 -
UK median daily rate £400 £360 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -24.21% -16.52%

All Programming Languages
England

CLIST falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,465 11,403 16,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.87% 30.41% 34.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,885 8,146 11,758
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £540 £560
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £785 £800
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 498 407
10th Percentile £28.16 £35.52 £28.84
25th Percentile £35.75 £49.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.13 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.50 £80.55
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

CLIST
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CLIST in England

CLIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for CLIST in England

CLIST
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CLIST in England over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CLIST in England

CLIST
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CLIST within the England region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +20 6 £357 -28.70% 3
London - 6 £410 - 5
Yorkshire +5 4 £475 -5.00%
North West - 2 £306 - 3
CLIST
UK

CLIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (46.15%) SAS
2 4 (30.77%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) DB2
2 1 (7.69%) Easytrieve
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Programmer
2 7 (53.85%) Systems Programmer
2 7 (53.85%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) z/OS Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) CICS Programmer
4 1 (7.69%) DB2 Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) DB2 Programmer
4 1 (7.69%) Mainframe Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (23.08%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (15.38%) VSAM
4 1 (7.69%) LPAR
4 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Performance Monitoring
2 5 (38.46%) Risk Management
3 3 (23.08%) Problem Management
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Release Management
4 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) SDLC
5 1 (7.69%) Configuration Management
5 1 (7.69%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (7.69%) Data Collection
5 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (7.69%) High Availability
5 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
5 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (7.69%) Security Management
5 1 (7.69%) Software Deployment
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) REXX
2 11 (84.62%) JCL
3 7 (53.85%) Assembly Language
4 1 (7.69%) COBOL
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (7.69%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (7.69%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) OMEGAMON
2 2 (15.38%) CA Endevor
2 2 (15.38%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft