Batch Management Contracts

Batch Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Batch Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Batch Management 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 503 571 688
Rank change year-on-year +68 +117 +153
Contract jobs citing Batch Management 17 11 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.025% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.029% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 11
10th Percentile £475 £515 £425
25th Percentile £478 £538 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £680
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -19.12% +0.59%
75th Percentile £738 £588 -
90th Percentile - £655 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -26.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Batch Management 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Batch Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Batch Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Batch Management in the UK

Batch Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Batch Management.

Daily rate trend for Batch Management in the UK

Batch Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Batch Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Batch Management in the UK

Batch Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Batch Management.

Hourly rate trend for Batch Management in the UK

Batch Management
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Batch Management within the UK 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
England +60 12 £725 +31.82% 5
London +44 10 £725 +31.82% 1
Work from Home +43 4 £725 +3.57% 1
UK excluding London +60 2 £500 -16.67% 5
North of England +17 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £500 - 1

Batch Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (35.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (23.53%) SAP MII
2 4 (23.53%) SAP QM
2 4 (23.53%) SAP VC
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (11.76%) SAP EWM
3 2 (11.76%) SAP PP
4 1 (5.88%) SAP APO
4 1 (5.88%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
1 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (17.65%) Kong
1 3 (17.65%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (17.65%) Hazelcast
1 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (17.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
1 3 (17.65%) Maven
General
1 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Manufacturing
3 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
4 6 (35.29%) Banking
5 4 (23.53%) Finance
5 4 (23.53%) Investment Banking
6 3 (17.65%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Consultant
1 5 (29.41%) SAP Consultant
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) SAP Architect
2 4 (23.53%) SAP Solutions Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (17.65%) DevOps Specialist
3 3 (17.65%) Functional Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Lead
3 3 (17.65%) SAP Functional Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) SAP PP Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) SAP PP Functional Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Applications Support
4 2 (11.76%) Applications Support Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) SAP APO Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) SAP EWM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Middleware
2 3 (17.65%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
2 3 (17.65%) J2EE
2 3 (17.65%) Kafka
2 3 (17.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) FMCG
1 4 (23.53%) LIMS
1 4 (23.53%) PACS
1 4 (23.53%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (35.29%) Release Management
3 4 (23.53%) Quality Management
3 4 (23.53%) Validation
4 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
4 3 (17.65%) DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (17.65%) Logistics
4 3 (17.65%) Microservices
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.76%) Design Patterns
5 2 (11.76%) Document Management
5 2 (11.76%) Impact Analysis
5 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
5 2 (11.76%) Problem Management
5 2 (11.76%) RBAC
5 2 (11.76%) Requirements Analysis
5 2 (11.76%) Security Patching
5 2 (11.76%) Software Architecture
5 2 (11.76%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Bash
1 3 (17.65%) Java
1 3 (17.65%) Perl
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (17.65%) DBS Check
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Ansible
1 3 (17.65%) Control-M
1 3 (17.65%) Grafana
1 3 (17.65%) Istio
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
1 3 (17.65%) Progress Chef
1 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
1 3 (17.65%) Puppet
1 3 (17.65%) Rundeck
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) SAP
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle