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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 445 469 578
Rank change year-on-year +24 +109 +135
Contract jobs citing Batch Processing 67 56 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.17% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.19% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 43 24
10th Percentile £400 £411 £200
25th Percentile £500 £463 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £363
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +34.48% -40.82%
75th Percentile £630 £531 £438
90th Percentile £763 £550 £502
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £375
% change year-on-year +10.00% +33.33% -34.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £36.15 £25.13 -
25th Percentile £43.88 £25.31 -
Median hourly rate £58.00 £26.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +120.95% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £73.38 £27.81 -
90th Percentile £81.85 £28.38 -
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £26.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year +120.95% -25.00% +94.44%

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 25,027 28,787 40,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.71% 85.92% 89.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,013 18,800 28,287
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £420 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £666
90th Percentile £738 £758 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,396 1,684 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.15 £18.90
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% - +61.35%
75th Percentile £51.10 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.08 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%

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

Batch Processing
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 4 August 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Batch Processing in England over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 4 August 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 +8 39 £575 +21.05% 30
Midlands -2 8 £400 -17.95% 6
West Midlands - 8 £400 - 5
North of England -11 3 £404 -47.94%
South West - 3 £400 - 3
South East +17 2 £500 - 5
North West -2 2 £404 -47.94%
East of England - 2 £500 - 2
Yorkshire -6 1 - -
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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 (25.37%) Apache Spark
2 8 (11.94%) Apache
3 3 (4.48%) Anypoint
3 3 (4.48%) CICS
4 2 (2.99%) IIS
4 2 (2.99%) Mule
5 1 (1.49%) JBoss
5 1 (1.49%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.49%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.48%) Endur
3 2 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.99%) Magento
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (2.99%) SAP CX
3 2 (2.99%) SAP PM
3 2 (2.99%) Shopify
4 1 (1.49%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.90%) Azure
2 11 (16.42%) AWS
3 8 (11.94%) Power Platform
4 7 (10.45%) Azure Service Bus
4 7 (10.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (8.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (7.46%) Amazon S3
6 5 (7.46%) GCP
6 5 (7.46%) Serverless
7 4 (5.97%) Collibra
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Functions
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Storage
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (4.48%) GitHub
8 3 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.48%) PaaS
8 3 (4.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.88%) Hadoop
2 15 (22.39%) Big Data
3 10 (14.93%) Data Lake
4 9 (13.43%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (11.94%) Power BI
6 7 (10.45%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (10.45%) SQL Server
7 5 (7.46%) Metadata
8 4 (5.97%) Power Query
8 4 (5.97%) Relational Database
9 3 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (4.48%) Delta Lake
9 3 (4.48%) MongoDB
9 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
9 3 (4.48%) OLTP
9 3 (4.48%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (2.99%) DB2
10 2 (2.99%) Easytrieve
10 2 (2.99%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 10 (14.93%) Jenkins
2 9 (13.43%) Git
3 3 (4.48%) JIRA
4 2 (2.99%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.99%) GitLab
5 1 (1.49%) Ant
5 1 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 29 (43.28%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (37.31%) Finance
3 21 (31.34%) Social Skills
4 15 (22.39%) Banking
5 4 (5.97%) Back Office
5 4 (5.97%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.48%) Automotive
6 3 (4.48%) Billing
6 3 (4.48%) Local Government
6 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.48%) Retail
6 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.99%) Front Office
8 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 18 (26.87%) Developer
2 12 (17.91%) Architect
3 10 (14.93%) Senior
4 8 (11.94%) Apache Spark Developer
4 8 (11.94%) Java Developer
4 8 (11.94%) Lead
5 7 (10.45%) Data Architect
6 6 (8.96%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Senior Developer
7 5 (7.46%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Power BI Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.48%) Applications Support
9 3 (4.48%) Business Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) Consultant
9 3 (4.48%) Team Leader
9 3 (4.48%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.40%) Web Services
2 12 (17.91%) REST
3 9 (13.43%) Kafka
4 8 (11.94%) Spark Streaming
5 7 (10.45%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (10.45%) SOAP
6 4 (5.97%) .NET
6 4 (5.97%) .NET Core
6 4 (5.97%) .NET Framework
6 4 (5.97%) ASP.NET
6 4 (5.97%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (5.97%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (5.97%) Autofac
6 4 (5.97%) Dapper ORM
6 4 (5.97%) Entity Framework
6 4 (5.97%) StructureMap
6 4 (5.97%) WCF
7 3 (4.48%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (4.48%) React
7 3 (4.48%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.42%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (11.94%) Distributed Computing
2 8 (11.94%) Market Risk
3 5 (7.46%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.97%) Derivative
4 4 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.97%) N-Tier
4 4 (5.97%) Reference Data
5 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.48%) Grid Computing
5 3 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.48%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.99%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.99%) Equities
6 2 (2.99%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.99%) IoT
6 2 (2.99%) OTC Derivatives
6 2 (2.99%) SCADA
6 2 (2.99%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.45%) Linux
1 7 (10.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (4.48%) zOS
3 2 (2.99%) Windows
4 1 (1.49%) Unix
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.30%) Analytics
2 25 (37.31%) CI/CD
3 24 (35.82%) Agile
3 24 (35.82%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (32.84%) Data Modelling
5 17 (25.37%) Data Pipeline
6 16 (23.88%) Migration
6 16 (23.88%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (19.40%) Data Architecture
7 13 (19.40%) Microservices
8 12 (17.91%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (16.42%) Risk Management
10 10 (14.93%) Containerisation
10 10 (14.93%) Data Governance
11 9 (13.43%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (13.43%) Observability
11 9 (13.43%) Regulatory Compliance
11 9 (13.43%) Test Automation
12 8 (11.94%) CRM
12 8 (11.94%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 22 (32.84%) SQL
2 20 (29.85%) Python
3 19 (28.36%) Java
4 9 (13.43%) C#
5 4 (5.97%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.48%) Apex Code
6 3 (4.48%) Bicep
6 3 (4.48%) COBOL
6 3 (4.48%) JCL
6 3 (4.48%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.99%) DataWeave
7 2 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.49%) REXX
Qualifications
1 8 (11.94%) Degree
2 5 (7.46%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.97%) MCPD
3 4 (5.97%) MCSD
3 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.48%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.94%) Data Quality
2 7 (10.45%) SLA
3 5 (7.46%) GDPR
4 3 (4.48%) HL7
4 3 (4.48%) QA
5 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (4.48%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (1.49%) RACF
2 1 (1.49%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 13 (19.40%) Terraform
2 10 (14.93%) Ansible
2 10 (14.93%) Kubernetes
3 7 (10.45%) Argo
3 7 (10.45%) Grafana
4 2 (2.99%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 13 (19.40%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.93%) Oracle
3 7 (10.45%) Salesforce
4 6 (8.96%) MuleSoft
4 6 (8.96%) SAP
5 4 (5.97%) Databricks
6 3 (4.48%) Hitachi
7 2 (2.99%) Adobe
7 2 (2.99%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.99%) Dell
7 2 (2.99%) Google
7 2 (2.99%) Informatica
7 2 (2.99%) NCR
7 2 (2.99%) NEC
7 2 (2.99%) Reuters
7 2 (2.99%) VeriFone
8 1 (1.49%) Civica
8 1 (1.49%) IBM
8 1 (1.49%) Northgate
8 1 (1.49%) Pardot