CLIST Contracts in the UK excluding London

CLIST
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 378 459
Rank change year-on-year +46 +81 -
Contract jobs citing CLIST 4 21 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.10% 0.012%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.11% 0.43% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 2
10th Percentile £410 £343 -
25th Percentile £425 £358 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £421 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.84% -11.38% -
75th Percentile £550 £430 £488
90th Percentile £580 £538 -
UK median daily rate £410 £412 £475
% change year-on-year -0.47% -13.28% -16.52%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

CLIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CLIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CLIST in the UK excluding London

CLIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CLIST in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CLIST in the UK excluding London

CLIST
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CLIST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CLIST in the UK excluding London

CLIST
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +13 4 £475 +10.47% 1
Yorkshire +2 4 £475 +10.47% 1
CLIST
UK

CLIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (75.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
1 1 (25.00%) Easytrieve
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Programmer
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Programmer
1 2 (50.00%) z/OS Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Hardware Maintenance
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JCL
1 4 (100.00%) REXX
2 2 (50.00%) Assembly Language
3 1 (25.00%) COBOL
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (25.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (25.00%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft