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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 525 560 687
Rank change year-on-year +35 +127 +149
Contract jobs citing CLIST 14 20 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.046% 0.007%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.14% 0.15% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 3
10th Percentile £307 £340 -
25th Percentile £338 £358 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £360 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -24.21% -16.52%
75th Percentile £435 £439 £488
90th Percentile £513 £479 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £357 £358 £475
% change year-on-year -0.42% -24.63% -

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 10,153 13,202 18,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.82% 30.26% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,888 9,262 13,464
10th Percentile £350 £350 £378
25th Percentile £413 £425 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £676
90th Percentile £750 £775 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 554 446
10th Percentile £25.65 £31.25 £28.55
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £83.27 £75.00 £79.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £64.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.88% +3.20% +19.05%

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 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CLIST in the UK

CLIST
Top 7 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 23 June 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 +69 13 £400 +11.73% 7
UK excluding London +32 6 £357 -0.42% 2
North of England +20 6 £357 -28.70% 2
London - 6 £410 - 5
Yorkshire +5 4 £475 -5.00%
Work from Home +21 3 £313 -13.06% 2
North West - 2 £306 - 2

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 7 (50.00%) SAS
2 5 (35.71%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) DB2
2 1 (7.14%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) GCC
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Programmer
2 7 (50.00%) Systems Programmer
2 7 (50.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 2 (14.29%) Mainframe Programmer
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) z/OS Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) CICS Programmer
4 1 (7.14%) DB2 Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) DB2 Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (78.57%) ISPF
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (21.43%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (14.29%) Replication
3 2 (14.29%) VSAM
4 1 (7.14%) LPAR
4 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) zOS
2 1 (7.14%) OS/2
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 5 (35.71%) Risk Management
3 3 (21.43%) Problem Management
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Data Sharing
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) High Availability
4 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Release Management
4 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) SDLC
5 1 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (7.14%) Change Data Capture
5 1 (7.14%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (7.14%) Data Collection
5 1 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Management
5 1 (7.14%) Software Deployment
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) REXX
2 12 (85.71%) JCL
3 8 (57.14%) Assembly Language
4 2 (14.29%) COBOL
5 1 (7.14%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) PL/1
5 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.14%) Python
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (14.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (7.14%) Microcode
3 1 (7.14%) RACF
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (21.43%) Tivoli NetView
3 2 (14.29%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft