CLIST Contract Job Trends in the North of England

CLIST
England > North of England

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 164 192
Rank change year-on-year -26 +28 +50
Contract jobs citing CLIST 8 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.18% 0.025% 0.021%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.61% 0.10% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £280 - -
25th Percentile £302 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -34.11% - -
75th Percentile £347 £488 £488
90th Percentile £417 - -
England median daily rate £313 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -34.11% - -3.80%

All Programming Languages
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,310 982 1,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.09% 24.57% 24.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 629 875
10th Percentile £315 £325 £325
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £588
90th Percentile £638 £626 £650
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 54
10th Percentile £36.00 £33.88 £32.26
25th Percentile £49.25 £37.52 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% - -12.04%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.00 £50.19
90th Percentile £86.00 £81.50 £65.88
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.53%

CLIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

CLIST job vacancy trend in the North of England

CLIST
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CLIST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CLIST

CLIST
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CLIST in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CLIST in the North of England

CLIST
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 6 November 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 West - 7 £313 - 11
Yorkshire -28 1 - -
CLIST
England

CLIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (75.00%) CICS
2 1 (12.50%) SAS
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Programmer
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Programmer
2 1 (12.50%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 6 (75.00%) VSAM
3 5 (62.50%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
1 6 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
1 6 (75.00%) Problem Management
1 6 (75.00%) SDLC
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (62.50%) Release Management
3 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) JCL
1 8 (100.00%) REXX
2 2 (25.00%) COBOL
3 1 (12.50%) Assembly Language
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (12.50%) ACF2
2 1 (12.50%) RACF
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) OMEGAMON
2 6 (75.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft