Batch Processing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Batch Processing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 329 384 454
Rank change year-on-year +55 +70 +33
Contract jobs citing Batch Processing 7 15 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.072% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.085% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 3
10th Percentile £392 - £413
25th Percentile £398 £500 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -26.64% +15.79% +25.00%
75th Percentile £459 - £538
90th Percentile £544 - £568
UK median daily rate £570 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +14.00% +5.26% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £31.00 - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Batch Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Batch Processing in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Batch Processing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Batch Processing in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Batch Processing in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Batch Processing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Batch Processing in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
Midlands - 3 - - 6
West Midlands - 3 - - 4
North of England +20 2 £404 - 5
North West +18 2 £404 - 2
South West - 1 £400 - 2
Scotland - 1 £600 - 1
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (28.57%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) FTP
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Easytrieve
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Ant
1 2 (28.57%) Mockito
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Gradle
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) Toad
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Billing
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Mainframe Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) REST
2 3 (42.86%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (28.57%) Spring
3 2 (28.57%) Web Services
4 1 (14.29%) Apache Camel
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) J2EE
4 1 (14.29%) JWT
4 1 (14.29%) OAuth
4 1 (14.29%) OpenID
4 1 (14.29%) RESTful
4 1 (14.29%) SAML
4 1 (14.29%) SOAP
4 1 (14.29%) Spring Batch
4 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Mainframe
1 2 (28.57%) VSAM
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) zOS
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) API Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Application Security
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) SDLC
2 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Workflow
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (14.29%) Data Encryption
3 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Secrets Management
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Apex Code
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) COBOL
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JCL
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 1 (14.29%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 1 (14.29%) Okta
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Pardot
2 1 (14.29%) Sybase
2 1 (14.29%) Talend