Batch Scripting Contracts in the UK excluding London

Batch Scripting
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Batch Scripting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Batch Scripting 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 334 395 452
Rank change year-on-year +61 +57 +49
Contract jobs citing Batch Scripting 2 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.019% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.023% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £212 - £413
25th Percentile £264 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £500 £426
Median % change year-on-year -26.50% +17.37% +32.09%
75th Percentile £479 £525 £444
90th Percentile £537 - £538
UK median daily rate £368 £430 £428
% change year-on-year -14.53% +0.47% -4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £25.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 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%

Batch Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Batch Scripting in the UK excluding London

Batch Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Batch Scripting in the UK excluding London

Batch Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Batch Scripting in the UK excluding London

Batch Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Batch Scripting in the UK excluding London

Batch Scripting
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 Scripting 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
South East +44 1 £550 +10.00%
West Midlands - 1 £185 -
Midlands - 1 £185 -
Batch Scripting
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Batch Scripting
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 1 (50.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Build Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Integrator
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Build Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft