CLIST Contracts

CLIST
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 572 710
Rank change year-on-year +62 +138 +122
Contract jobs citing CLIST 9 28 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.064% 0.005%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.091% 0.22% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 21 2
10th Percentile £372 £351 -
25th Percentile £385 £360 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £412 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -13.28% -16.52%
75th Percentile £455 £430 £488
90th Percentile £542 £488 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £421 £475
% change year-on-year +12.84% -11.38% -

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,942 12,854 20,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.01% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,743 9,130 15,092
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £769 £760 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 485 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.25 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% - +26.21%

CLIST
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CLIST in the UK

CLIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CLIST in the UK

CLIST
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CLIST over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CLIST in the UK

CLIST
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +50 9 £410 -2.60% 2
UK excluding London +37 4 £475 +12.84% 1
North of England +22 4 £475 +10.47% 1
Yorkshire +9 4 £475 +10.47% 1
London - 4 £410 - 1
Work from Home +32 1 - -

CLIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (66.67%) SAS
2 1 (11.11%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) DB2
1 1 (11.11%) Easytrieve
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Programmer
1 7 (77.78%) Systems Programmer
1 7 (77.78%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 2 (22.22%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (11.11%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (11.11%) LPAR
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Performance Monitoring
2 5 (55.56%) Risk Management
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Hardware Maintenance
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (11.11%) Security Management
4 1 (11.11%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) JCL
1 9 (100.00%) REXX
2 7 (77.78%) Assembly Language
3 1 (11.11%) COBOL
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (11.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (11.11%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft