Batch Processing Contracts in England

Batch Processing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Batch Processing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Batch Processing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 492 615
Rank change year-on-year +50 +123 +85
Contract jobs citing Batch Processing 43 50 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.13% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.16% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 42 27
10th Percentile £404 £411 £320
25th Percentile £503 £463 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +5.26% -12.64%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £650
90th Percentile £634 £619 £790
UK median daily rate £570 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +14.00% +5.26% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £31.00 - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £31.00 - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Batch Processing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Batch Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Batch Processing in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Batch Processing in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Batch Processing in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Batch Processing in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Batch Processing in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +29 26 £575 +21.05% 23
Midlands - 3 - - 22
West Midlands - 3 - - 12
North of England +20 2 £404 - 20
North West +18 2 £404 - 8
South West - 1 £400 - 11
Batch Processing
UK

Batch Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 17 (39.53%) Apache Spark
2 8 (18.60%) Apache
3 2 (4.65%) CICS
3 2 (4.65%) JBoss
3 2 (4.65%) WebSphere
3 2 (4.65%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (4.65%) Magento
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle Retail
1 2 (4.65%) SAP CX
1 2 (4.65%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (4.65%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.93%) Azure
2 7 (16.28%) Azure Service Bus
2 7 (16.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (9.30%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.98%) AWS
4 3 (6.98%) Azure Functions
4 3 (6.98%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (6.98%) Azure Storage
4 3 (6.98%) Serverless
5 2 (4.65%) Boomi
5 2 (4.65%) GCP
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle CX
5 2 (4.65%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (2.33%) Azure App Service
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (39.53%) Hadoop
2 15 (34.88%) Big Data
3 7 (16.28%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (16.28%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (13.95%) Data Lake
4 6 (13.95%) Relational Database
5 5 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.65%) DB2
7 2 (4.65%) Easytrieve
7 2 (4.65%) IMS/DB
8 1 (2.33%) Delta Lake
8 1 (2.33%) Metadata
8 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.33%) Power BI
8 1 (2.33%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (2.33%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Git
2 8 (18.60%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.98%) JIRA
4 2 (4.65%) Ant
5 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.33%) Gradle
5 1 (2.33%) JUnit
5 1 (2.33%) Maven
5 1 (2.33%) Mockito
General
1 21 (48.84%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (34.88%) Finance
3 13 (30.23%) Banking
3 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.65%) Retail
6 1 (2.33%) Billing
6 1 (2.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Developer
2 9 (20.93%) Java Developer
3 8 (18.60%) Apache Spark Developer
4 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 6 (13.95%) Senior
6 5 (11.63%) Architect
6 5 (11.63%) Data Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Data Architect
7 4 (9.30%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.98%) Administrator
8 3 (6.98%) Analyst
8 3 (6.98%) Business Analyst
8 3 (6.98%) Lead
9 2 (4.65%) Azure Architect
9 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Senior Systems Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Support Specialist
9 2 (4.65%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.26%) REST
1 10 (23.26%) Web Services
2 8 (18.60%) Spark Streaming
3 7 (16.28%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (11.63%) SOAP
5 4 (9.30%) .NET
5 4 (9.30%) .NET Core
5 4 (9.30%) .NET Framework
5 4 (9.30%) ASP.NET
5 4 (9.30%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (9.30%) ASP.NET Web API
5 4 (9.30%) Autofac
5 4 (9.30%) Dapper ORM
5 4 (9.30%) Entity Framework
5 4 (9.30%) Kafka
5 4 (9.30%) Middleware
5 4 (9.30%) StructureMap
5 4 (9.30%) WCF
6 3 (6.98%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (6.98%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Analytical Mindset
1 8 (18.60%) Distributed Computing
1 8 (18.60%) Market Risk
2 4 (9.30%) Data Structures
2 4 (9.30%) N-Tier
3 3 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.65%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.65%) VSAM
5 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.26%) Linux
2 9 (20.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.65%) Unix
3 2 (4.65%) Windows
3 2 (4.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (46.51%) Analytics
1 20 (46.51%) CI/CD
2 17 (39.53%) Agile
3 14 (32.56%) Migration
4 13 (30.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (25.58%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (25.58%) Microservices
5 11 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (20.93%) Observability
6 9 (20.93%) Regulatory Compliance
6 9 (20.93%) Risk Management
7 8 (18.60%) Code Quality
7 8 (18.60%) Data Architecture
7 8 (18.60%) Data Modelling
7 8 (18.60%) Memory Management
7 8 (18.60%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (18.60%) Risk Analytics
8 7 (16.28%) Containerisation
8 7 (16.28%) Greeks
8 7 (16.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.91%) SQL
2 11 (25.58%) Java
3 10 (23.26%) Python
4 4 (9.30%) C#
4 4 (9.30%) PL/SQL
4 4 (9.30%) T-SQL
5 3 (6.98%) Apex Code
6 2 (4.65%) COBOL
6 2 (4.65%) JCL
6 2 (4.65%) REXX
7 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) Degree
2 4 (9.30%) MCPD
2 4 (9.30%) MCSD
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) HL7
3 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (20.93%) Ansible
1 9 (20.93%) Kubernetes
1 9 (20.93%) Terraform
2 7 (16.28%) Argo
2 7 (16.28%) Grafana
3 1 (2.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
1 6 (13.95%) Oracle
2 5 (11.63%) Salesforce
3 4 (9.30%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.65%) Adobe
4 2 (4.65%) Dell
4 2 (4.65%) IBM
4 2 (4.65%) NCR
4 2 (4.65%) SAP
4 2 (4.65%) VeriFone
5 1 (2.33%) Civica
5 1 (2.33%) Confluent
5 1 (2.33%) Databricks
5 1 (2.33%) Pardot
5 1 (2.33%) Sybase