Batch Scheduling Contracts in the UK excluding London

Batch Scheduling
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Batch Scheduling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Batch Scheduling over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 395 432
Rank change year-on-year +57 +37 +90
Contract jobs citing Batch Scheduling 4 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.024% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.029% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - £350
25th Percentile - - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +46.67%
75th Percentile £375 - £600
90th Percentile £450 - -
UK median daily rate £250 £516 £600
% change year-on-year -51.57% -13.96% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £22.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Batch Scheduling 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 11,769 17,348 20,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.60% 83.29% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,314 10,293 13,934
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 861 2,136 1,244
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.45 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.30 £64.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.70
UK median hourly rate £27.52 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -24.62% +0.69% +41.16%

Batch Scheduling
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Batch Scheduling in the UK excluding London

Batch Scheduling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Batch Scheduling in the UK excluding London

Batch Scheduling
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Batch Scheduling in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Batch Scheduling in the UK excluding London

Batch Scheduling
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Batch Scheduling in the UK excluding London

Batch Scheduling
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 Scheduling within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
South West - 3 £250 - 2
North of England - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Batch Scheduling
UK

Batch Scheduling
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) NEC Housing
General
1 3 (75.00%) Local Government
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Support Officer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Document Management
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Case Management
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JCL
1 1 (25.00%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) NEC
2 1 (25.00%) IBM