Batch Scripting Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Batch Scripting
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Batch Scripting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Batch Scripting 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.036% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.042% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £463 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £450 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Batch Scripting 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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,353 1,402 2,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 83.56% 93.03% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,550 855 1,427
10th Percentile £285 £300 £213
25th Percentile £401 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +0.80% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £510 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +0.99% +1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 51 180
10th Percentile £15.92 £14.20 £15.30
25th Percentile £19.52 £18.00 £19.81
Median hourly rate £74.30 £46.30 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.48% +8.94% -12.19%
75th Percentile £85.50 £62.24 £63.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.50 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +23.08% -23.53% -5.56%

Batch Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Batch Scripting relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Batch Scripting job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Batch Scripting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Batch Scripting

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Batch Scripting.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Batch Scripting

Batch Scripting
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Batch Scripting within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 April 2026. 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
Berkshire - 1 £450 - 1
Batch Scripting
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Patching
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform