Batch Scripting Contracts with Work from Home Options

Batch Scripting
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Batch Scripting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Batch Scripting over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 442 608
Rank change year-on-year +100 +166 -118
Contract jobs citing Batch Scripting 2 21 8
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.014% 0.086% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.096% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 6
10th Percentile - - £317
25th Percentile £475 - £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £428 £329
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% +30.19% -30.79%
75th Percentile £525 £481 £547
90th Percentile - £665 £621
UK median daily rate £475 £428 £500
% change year-on-year +10.98% -14.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £25.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Batch Scripting 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,938 40,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.66% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,680 15,535 29,175
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £634
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 510 537
10th Percentile £14.66 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.44 £27.48 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.27 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +7.00%

Batch Scripting
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Batch Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Batch Scripting trend for jobs with a WFH option

Batch Scripting
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Batch Scripting.

Batch Scripting daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Batch Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Line Management
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 2 (100.00%) Security Patching
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery Management
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Software Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Software Distribution
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO 9001
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Qualys