CLIST Contract Job Trends in the North West

CLIST
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring CLIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CLIST 14 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.57% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.11% - -
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 - -
England median daily rate £325 - £430
% change year-on-year - - -12.91%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 664 484 700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.82% 22.68% 26.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 310 521
10th Percentile £313 £356 £325
25th Percentile £360 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -7.22% -5.37%
75th Percentile £519 £547 £575
90th Percentile £601 £614 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 16 43
10th Percentile £41.22 £43.84 £45.88
25th Percentile £53.44 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £65.57 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +40.75% +20.26%
75th Percentile £74.26 £79.63 £50.88
90th Percentile £76.43 £86.75 £72.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

CLIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

CLIST job vacancy trend in the North West

CLIST
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

CLIST
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CLIST in the North West over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CLIST in the North West

CLIST
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Manchester - 14 £325 -
CLIST
England

CLIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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