Batch Processing Contracts

Batch Processing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Batch Processing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Batch Processing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 678 741
Rank change year-on-year +134 +63 -115
Contract jobs citing Batch Processing 54 41 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.069% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.076% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 27 75
10th Percentile £411 £320 £319
25th Percentile £463 £363 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% +3.37%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £664
90th Percentile £619 £790 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £380
% change year-on-year +15.79% +25.00% -15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Batch Processing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Batch Processing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Batch Processing in the UK

Batch Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Batch Processing in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Batch Processing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Batch Processing in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Batch Processing.

Hourly rate trend for Batch Processing in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Batch Processing within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +140 50 £500 +5.26% 13
Work from Home +159 39 £500 -16.67% 7
London +108 35 £475 +5.56% 5
UK excluding London +72 15 £550 +15.79% 6
South East +38 13 £550 - 1
North of England +33 1 - -
North West +16 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 -

Batch Processing
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 3 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 3 (5.56%) CICS
1 3 (5.56%) WebLogic
1 3 (5.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (12.96%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (14.81%) NEC Housing
2 2 (3.70%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.81%) AWS
2 7 (12.96%) Amazon S3
2 7 (12.96%) SaaS
3 6 (11.11%) Azure
4 2 (3.70%) GCP
4 2 (3.70%) OCI
4 2 (3.70%) PaaS
4 2 (3.70%) Serverless
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 9 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 7 (12.96%) MySQL
3 4 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.56%) DB2
4 3 (5.56%) IDMS
4 3 (5.56%) NonStop SQL
5 2 (3.70%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.70%) Data Mart
5 2 (3.70%) Data Mining
5 2 (3.70%) GIS
5 2 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.70%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.85%) Big Data
6 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.85%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) HP UFT
1 3 (5.56%) Katalon Studio
1 3 (5.56%) Selenium
2 2 (3.70%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (1.85%) GitLab
3 1 (1.85%) JUnit
General
1 13 (24.07%) Banking
2 12 (22.22%) Billing
3 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Finance
5 3 (5.56%) Back Office
5 3 (5.56%) Local Government
5 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.70%) Czech Language
7 1 (1.85%) Automotive
7 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (29.63%) Developer
2 14 (25.93%) Lead
3 12 (22.22%) Analyst
4 8 (14.81%) Senior
4 8 (14.81%) Senior Analyst
5 7 (12.96%) Administrator
5 7 (12.96%) Integration Developer
6 6 (11.11%) Technical Leader
7 5 (9.26%) Billing Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Lead Developer
8 4 (7.41%) Data Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Support Analyst
9 3 (5.56%) Architect
9 3 (5.56%) Mainframe Architect
9 3 (5.56%) Test Architect
10 2 (3.70%) Banking Analyst
10 2 (3.70%) GCP Data Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) GCP Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Murex Developer
10 2 (3.70%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.22%) Web Services
2 7 (12.96%) AngularJS
2 7 (12.96%) jQuery
2 7 (12.96%) RESTful
2 7 (12.96%) SOAP
2 7 (12.96%) Spring
2 7 (12.96%) Spring Boot
2 7 (12.96%) Struts
2 7 (12.96%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 6 (11.11%) Kafka
4 2 (3.70%) Murex MxML
4 2 (3.70%) REST
5 1 (1.85%) .NET
5 1 (1.85%) ADO
5 1 (1.85%) Middleware
5 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.56%) Data Structures
1 3 (5.56%) Mainframe
1 3 (5.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
1 3 (5.56%) VSAM
2 2 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.85%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.85%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Unix
2 1 (1.85%) Linux
2 1 (1.85%) Windows
2 1 (1.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (18.52%) Change Management
1 10 (18.52%) Test Automation
2 9 (16.67%) ITIL
2 9 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 8 (14.81%) Customer Requirements
4 7 (12.96%) Agile
4 7 (12.96%) Data Modelling
4 7 (12.96%) SDLC
4 7 (12.96%) Unit Testing
5 6 (11.11%) Software Testing
6 5 (9.26%) Data Engineering
6 5 (9.26%) Data Mapping
6 5 (9.26%) ETL
6 5 (9.26%) Impact Analysis
6 5 (9.26%) Sequence Diagram
6 5 (9.26%) UML
7 4 (7.41%) Analytics
7 4 (7.41%) Insurtech
8 3 (5.56%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 3 (5.56%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.93%) SQL
2 13 (24.07%) Java
3 5 (9.26%) Python
4 3 (5.56%) Assembly Language
4 3 (5.56%) COBOL
4 3 (5.56%) JCL
4 3 (5.56%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.70%) Perl
5 2 (3.70%) Scala
6 1 (1.85%) C
6 1 (1.85%) C#
6 1 (1.85%) C++
6 1 (1.85%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (20.37%) Control-M
2 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (37.04%) Oracle
2 12 (22.22%) Guidewire
3 8 (14.81%) NEC
3 8 (14.81%) Northgate
4 7 (12.96%) IBM
5 3 (5.56%) HP
5 3 (5.56%) Micro Focus
5 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.70%) Murex
7 1 (1.85%) F5
7 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.85%) SAP