Batch Processing Contracts

Batch Processing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 472 528 678
Rank change year-on-year +56 +150 +69
Contract jobs citing Batch Processing 48 54 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.12% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.14% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 43 27
10th Percentile £405 £411 £320
25th Percentile £513 £463 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +5.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £624 £550 £650
90th Percentile £630 £619 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £404 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -26.64% +15.79% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Median hourly rate £31.00 - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

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 Processing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Batch Processing in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Batch Processing in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Batch Processing in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Batch Processing in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

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 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 +50 43 £570 +14.00% 36
London +29 26 £575 +21.05% 20
Work from Home +21 19 £570 +14.00% 15
UK excluding London +55 7 £404 -26.64% 20
Midlands - 3 - - 6
West Midlands - 3 - - 4
North of England +20 2 £404 - 4
North West +18 2 £404 - 1
Scotland - 1 £600 - 1
South West - 1 £400 - 2

Batch Processing
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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (35.42%) Apache Spark
2 8 (16.67%) Apache
3 2 (4.17%) CICS
3 2 (4.17%) JBoss
3 2 (4.17%) WebSphere
3 2 (4.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (4.17%) Magento
1 2 (4.17%) Oracle Retail
1 2 (4.17%) SAP CX
1 2 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (4.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.75%) Azure
2 8 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 8 (16.67%) AWS
2 8 (16.67%) Serverless
3 7 (14.58%) Azure Service Bus
3 7 (14.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 5 (10.42%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.25%) Azure Functions
6 3 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (6.25%) Azure Storage
7 2 (4.17%) Boomi
7 2 (4.17%) GCP
7 2 (4.17%) Oracle CX
7 2 (4.17%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.08%) IaaS
8 1 (2.08%) PaaS
8 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) FTP
1 1 (2.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (35.42%) Hadoop
2 15 (31.25%) Big Data
3 10 (20.83%) Data Lake
4 9 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (14.58%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (14.58%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (12.50%) Relational Database
7 5 (10.42%) NoSQL
8 4 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (8.33%) SQL Server
9 2 (4.17%) DB2
9 2 (4.17%) Easytrieve
9 2 (4.17%) IMS/DB
9 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
10 1 (2.08%) Delta Lake
10 1 (2.08%) Metadata
10 1 (2.08%) Power BI
10 1 (2.08%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (2.08%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 9 (18.75%) Git
2 8 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.25%) JIRA
4 2 (4.17%) Ant
4 2 (4.17%) Mockito
5 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.08%) Gradle
5 1 (2.08%) JUnit
5 1 (2.08%) Maven
5 1 (2.08%) Toad
General
1 21 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (31.25%) Finance
3 13 (27.08%) Banking
3 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.17%) Retail
6 1 (2.08%) Billing
6 1 (2.08%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) Developer
2 9 (18.75%) Data Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Java Developer
3 8 (16.67%) Apache Spark Developer
4 7 (14.58%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Architect
5 6 (12.50%) Senior
6 4 (8.33%) Data Architect
6 4 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Administrator
7 3 (6.25%) Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) Business Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) Lead
8 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Mainframe Designer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Systems Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Support Specialist
8 2 (4.17%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) REST
2 10 (20.83%) Web Services
3 8 (16.67%) Kafka
3 8 (16.67%) Spark Streaming
4 7 (14.58%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (10.42%) SOAP
6 4 (8.33%) .NET
6 4 (8.33%) .NET Core
6 4 (8.33%) .NET Framework
6 4 (8.33%) ASP.NET
6 4 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (8.33%) Autofac
6 4 (8.33%) Dapper ORM
6 4 (8.33%) Entity Framework
6 4 (8.33%) Middleware
6 4 (8.33%) StructureMap
6 4 (8.33%) WCF
7 3 (6.25%) J2EE
7 3 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 8 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
1 8 (16.67%) Market Risk
2 7 (14.58%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 4 (8.33%) N-Tier
4 3 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.17%) Mainframe
5 2 (4.17%) VSAM
6 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.83%) Linux
2 9 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.17%) Unix
3 2 (4.17%) Windows
3 2 (4.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 20 (41.67%) Analytics
3 18 (37.50%) Agile
4 15 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
4 15 (31.25%) Migration
5 13 (27.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 12 (25.00%) Microservices
7 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (18.75%) Event-Driven
8 9 (18.75%) Observability
8 9 (18.75%) Regulatory Compliance
8 9 (18.75%) Risk Management
9 8 (16.67%) Code Quality
9 8 (16.67%) Data Architecture
9 8 (16.67%) Data Modelling
9 8 (16.67%) Memory Management
9 8 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (16.67%) Risk Analytics
10 7 (14.58%) Greeks
Programming Languages
1 17 (35.42%) SQL
2 14 (29.17%) Python
3 12 (25.00%) Java
4 5 (10.42%) PL/SQL
5 4 (8.33%) C#
5 4 (8.33%) T-SQL
6 3 (6.25%) Apex Code
7 2 (4.17%) COBOL
7 2 (4.17%) JCL
7 2 (4.17%) REXX
8 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) Degree
2 4 (8.33%) MCPD
2 4 (8.33%) MCSD
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.33%) QA
3 3 (6.25%) HL7
3 3 (6.25%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.08%) GDPR
4 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (27.08%) Kubernetes
1 13 (27.08%) Terraform
2 9 (18.75%) Ansible
3 7 (14.58%) Argo
3 7 (14.58%) Grafana
4 1 (2.08%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) Oracle
2 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.42%) MuleSoft
3 5 (10.42%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.17%) Adobe
4 2 (4.17%) Dell
4 2 (4.17%) IBM
4 2 (4.17%) NCR
4 2 (4.17%) SAP
4 2 (4.17%) VeriFone
5 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.08%) Civica
5 1 (2.08%) Confluent
5 1 (2.08%) Databricks
5 1 (2.08%) Okta
5 1 (2.08%) Pardot
5 1 (2.08%) Sybase
5 1 (2.08%) Talend