CLIST Contract Job Trends in Manchester

CLIST
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring CLIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CLIST 14 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.24% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £298 - -
25th Percentile £311 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £354 - -
90th Percentile £375 - -
North West median daily rate £325 - -

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 350 303 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 30.92% 26.51% 30.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 208 398
10th Percentile £313 £362 £325
25th Percentile £361 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £543 £575
90th Percentile £625 £600 £675
North West median daily rate £425 £453 £488
% change year-on-year -6.08% -7.18% -5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - - £60.75
25th Percentile £22.81 £65.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £24.62 £82.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.16% +26.92% +36.84%
75th Percentile £26.43 £100.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £79.50
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +14.25% +40.75% +20.26%

CLIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CLIST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

CLIST job vacancy trend in Manchester

CLIST
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CLIST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CLIST

CLIST
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CLIST in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CLIST in Manchester

CLIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 6 (42.86%) CICS
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Administrator
2 6 (42.86%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 6 (42.86%) VSAM
3 5 (35.71%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Release Management
2 8 (57.14%) Change Management
3 7 (50.00%) Storage Management
4 6 (42.86%) DevOps
4 6 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (42.86%) Problem Management
4 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (42.86%) SDLC
5 5 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
6 4 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (7.14%) Incident Management
7 1 (7.14%) Migration
7 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) JCL
1 14 (100.00%) REXX
2 9 (64.29%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 14 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 8 (57.14%) ACF2
2 8 (57.14%) RACF
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) CA Endevor
2 7 (50.00%) Tivoli
2 7 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 6 (42.86%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) IBM
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft