Batch Scripting
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Batch Scripting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Batch Scripting 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 875 930 1174
Rank change year-on-year +55 +244 -283
Permanent jobs citing Batch Scripting 21 40 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.038% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.040% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 20 29 47
10th Percentile £34,575 £38,100 £38,750
25th Percentile £35,000 - £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -20.93%
75th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £49,500 £55,000 £73,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,500 £40,000 £41,250
% change year-on-year -21.25% -3.03% -23.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Batch Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Batch Scripting in the UK

Batch Scripting
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Batch Scripting.

Salary trend for Batch Scripting in the UK

Batch Scripting
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Batch Scripting over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Batch Scripting in the UK

Batch Scripting
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Batch Scripting 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +106 21 £42,500 +6.25% 3
London +146 17 £45,000 -28.00% 2
UK excluding London -19 4 £31,500 -21.25% 1
Work from Home +89 3 £31,500 -33.68%
South West 0 2 £31,500 +5.00%
South East - 2 £69,000 -

Batch Scripting
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 18 (85.71%) SharePoint
2 17 (80.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (9.52%) Apache
4 1 (4.76%) IIS
4 1 (4.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (76.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) AutoCAD
2 1 (4.76%) PTC Creo
2 1 (4.76%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.52%) WhatsApp
3 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) IaaS
3 1 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (85.71%) DNS
2 16 (76.19%) DHCP
2 16 (76.19%) TCP/IP
3 2 (9.52%) Firewall
3 2 (9.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.76%) SAP HANA
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) Chocolatey
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Legal
2 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) IT Support
2 8 (38.10%) Analyst
2 8 (38.10%) Support Analyst
2 8 (38.10%) Technology Support Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior
4 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.76%) Kafka
1 1 (4.76%) XML
1 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (76.19%) Replication
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (95.24%) Windows
2 19 (90.48%) Windows Server
3 16 (76.19%) Windows 10
3 16 (76.19%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (9.52%) Linux
5 1 (4.76%) CentOS
5 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) ITIL
1 18 (85.71%) ITSM
2 16 (76.19%) Cryptography
2 16 (76.19%) Cybersecurity
2 16 (76.19%) Data Loss Prevention
2 16 (76.19%) Kalman Filter
3 8 (38.10%) Investment Management
4 3 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.52%) Customer Service
5 2 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (9.52%) Migration
5 2 (9.52%) Service Management
5 2 (9.52%) Task Automation
5 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (4.76%) PLM
6 1 (4.76%) Software Engineering
6 1 (4.76%) Time Management
6 1 (4.76%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 19 (90.48%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) Bash
2 1 (4.76%) MATLAB
2 1 (4.76%) PHP
2 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (90.48%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (85.71%) Degree
3 17 (80.95%) MCSA
4 16 (76.19%) CREST Certified
5 3 (14.29%) MCSE
6 2 (9.52%) CCNA
6 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (9.52%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
7 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
7 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (80.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) FortiGate
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) SCCM
3 1 (4.76%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (85.71%) VMware
2 16 (76.19%) Bloomberg
2 16 (76.19%) Cisco
2 16 (76.19%) FactSet
2 16 (76.19%) MobileIron
2 16 (76.19%) Refinitiv
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.52%) Acronis
4 2 (9.52%) Datto
4 2 (9.52%) Draytek
5 1 (4.76%) IBM
5 1 (4.76%) MathWorks
5 1 (4.76%) New Relic
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle
5 1 (4.76%) PTC
5 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.76%) SAP
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk
5 1 (4.76%) TOWER Software
5 1 (4.76%) xMatters