Batch Processing Contract Job Trends in Reading

Batch Processing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Batch Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 64 -
Rank change year-on-year -28 - -
Contract jobs citing Batch Processing 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.27% 0.18% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.19% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £472 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £497 - -
90th Percentile £499 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £488 £500 -
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 911 524 926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 82.29% 91.77% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 327 499
10th Percentile £375 £350 £350
25th Percentile £457 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £525 £580
Median % change year-on-year +5.24% -9.48% +5.45%
75th Percentile £644 £609 £650
90th Percentile £738 £650 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £501 £550
% change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 21 27
10th Percentile £35.22 - £14.50
25th Percentile £71.00 £14.75 £50.95
Median hourly rate £85.00 £27.50 £61.06
Median % change year-on-year +209.09% -54.96% -7.48%
75th Percentile £101.30 £55.00 £72.28
90th Percentile £105.30 £58.00 £87.46
Berkshire median hourly rate £80.00 £32.31 £61.28
% change year-on-year +147.60% -47.27% +2.13%

Batch Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Batch Processing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Batch Processing job vacancy trend in Reading

Batch Processing
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Batch Processing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Batch Processing

Batch Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Billing
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Compliance Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) COBOL
1 1 (33.33%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) RACF
1 1 (33.33%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Broadcom
1 1 (33.33%) IBM