Batch Processing Contract Job Trends

Batch Processing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Batch Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 502 570
Rank change year-on-year +20 +68 +154
Contract jobs citing Batch Processing 100 41 38
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.11% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.13% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 28 31
10th Percentile £404 £410 £230
25th Percentile £450 £467 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% -24.60%
75th Percentile £638 £565 £500
90th Percentile £748 £591 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £480
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.17% -23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - £25.13 -
25th Percentile £68.25 £25.31 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £26.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +223.81% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 £27.81 -
90th Percentile - £28.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £26.25 -

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 32,247 31,236 40,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.88% 87.47% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,285 18,990 26,947
10th Percentile £300 £308 £310
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,084 1,559
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.25 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.19 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%

Batch Processing
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Batch Processing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Batch Processing job vacancy trend in the UK

Batch Processing
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Batch Processing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Batch Processing

Batch Processing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Batch Processing over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Batch Processing in the UK

Batch Processing
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Batch Processing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Batch Processing

Batch Processing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Batch Processing over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Batch Processing in the UK

Batch Processing
Top 14 Contract Job 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 13 December 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 +17 87 £550 +4.76% 23
London +40 54 £601 +30.00% 11
UK excluding London -30 30 £550 +10.00% 19
Work from Home -3 22 £525 +5.00% 13
Midlands -28 15 £550 -
West Midlands - 15 £550 -
South West - 11 £550 -
North of England -38 6 £750 - 8
North West -11 5 £750 - 8
Wales - 3 £265 -
South East - 3 £450 - 4
Scotland +2 2 - - 4
East of England -13 1 £600 +20.00% 3
Yorkshire -42 1 - -

Batch Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (13.00%) Apache Spark
2 11 (11.00%) Apache
3 4 (4.00%) CICS
4 3 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.00%) IIS
5 2 (2.00%) SAS
6 1 (1.00%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.00%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 12 (12.00%) iTrent
2 3 (3.00%) Endur
2 3 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.00%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 29 (29.00%) Azure
2 25 (25.00%) AWS
3 19 (19.00%) Power Platform
4 13 (13.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 10 (10.00%) GitHub
6 8 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (7.00%) Collibra
8 6 (6.00%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (6.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (6.00%) GCP
9 5 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.00%) OpenShift
10 3 (3.00%) PaaS
10 3 (3.00%) SaaS
10 3 (3.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.00%) DHCP
1 1 (1.00%) DNS
1 1 (1.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.00%) Power BI
2 14 (14.00%) Data Lake
3 13 (13.00%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (13.00%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (9.00%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (9.00%) Hadoop
4 9 (9.00%) Metadata
5 8 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (8.00%) OLTP
6 6 (6.00%) MySQL
7 5 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (5.00%) BigQuery
7 5 (5.00%) Mixpanel
7 5 (5.00%) OLAP
7 5 (5.00%) Power Query
8 4 (4.00%) Big Data
8 4 (4.00%) DB2
8 4 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (4.00%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) IBM UrbanCode
1 3 (3.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (2.00%) Git
2 2 (2.00%) GitLab
General
1 30 (30.00%) Finance
1 30 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.00%) Banking
3 17 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (14.00%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.00%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.00%) Front Office
7 3 (3.00%) Automotive
7 3 (3.00%) Back Office
7 3 (3.00%) General Ledger
7 3 (3.00%) Military
7 3 (3.00%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.00%) Billing
8 2 (2.00%) Health Technology
8 2 (2.00%) Legal
8 2 (2.00%) Retail
8 2 (2.00%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 23 (23.00%) Data Engineer
2 18 (18.00%) Senior
3 17 (17.00%) Developer
4 16 (16.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 14 (14.00%) Architect
6 8 (8.00%) Lead
6 8 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 5 (5.00%) Consultant
8 5 (5.00%) Power BI Developer
8 5 (5.00%) Principal Data Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Business Architect
9 4 (4.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Java Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Principal Software Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.00%) CICS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.00%) Kafka
2 11 (11.00%) Keycloak
3 5 (5.00%) Great Expectations
4 4 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (4.00%) Web Services
5 3 (3.00%) JSON
5 3 (3.00%) React
5 3 (3.00%) Swagger
6 2 (2.00%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.00%) PySpark
6 2 (2.00%) SOAP
6 2 (2.00%) Spark Streaming
6 2 (2.00%) XML
7 1 (1.00%) .NET
7 1 (1.00%) ISPF
7 1 (1.00%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (1.00%) RAML
7 1 (1.00%) REST
7 1 (1.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.00%) Product Ownership
2 10 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.00%) Derivative
3 6 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.00%) Virtual Team
4 5 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.00%) Mainframe
4 5 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.00%) Reference Data
5 4 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.00%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.00%) Grid Computing
6 3 (3.00%) IoT
6 3 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.00%) VSAM
7 2 (2.00%) Digital Media
7 2 (2.00%) Equities
7 2 (2.00%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 2 (2.00%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.00%) Linux
2 5 (5.00%) Unix
3 4 (4.00%) zOS
4 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.00%) Windows
5 1 (1.00%) VME
5 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.00%) Data Pipeline
2 30 (30.00%) DevOps
3 28 (28.00%) ETL
4 27 (27.00%) Analytics
4 27 (27.00%) Data Engineering
5 26 (26.00%) Data Architecture
5 26 (26.00%) Data Modelling
6 22 (22.00%) CI/CD
7 19 (19.00%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (19.00%) Containerisation
8 15 (15.00%) Data Cleansing
8 15 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 14 (14.00%) Agile
9 14 (14.00%) Data Governance
10 13 (13.00%) Software Engineering
11 12 (12.00%) Microservices
12 11 (11.00%) DataOps
12 11 (11.00%) ITIL
13 10 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 35 (35.00%) Python
2 24 (24.00%) SQL
3 16 (16.00%) Java
4 11 (11.00%) Go
5 10 (10.00%) C#
6 7 (7.00%) JCL
7 5 (5.00%) COBOL
8 3 (3.00%) Assembly Language
8 3 (3.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (3.00%) HLASM
8 3 (3.00%) Korn
8 3 (3.00%) REXX
8 3 (3.00%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.00%) X++
9 2 (2.00%) VBA
10 1 (1.00%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (19.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.00%) Azure Certification
4 5 (5.00%) Degree
5 3 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.00%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.00%) GDPR
3 8 (8.00%) SLA
4 3 (3.00%) IFRS
4 3 (3.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.00%) CRD IV
5 2 (2.00%) FINREP
6 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.00%) QA
6 1 (1.00%) Solvency II
System Software
1 15 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (1.00%) RACF
2 1 (1.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (1.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (13.00%) Terraform
3 10 (10.00%) Ansible
4 4 (4.00%) Argo
4 4 (4.00%) Grafana
5 3 (3.00%) Control-M
5 3 (3.00%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 10 (10.00%) Databricks
2 8 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.00%) Google
3 7 (7.00%) Oracle
4 5 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.00%) IBM
5 4 (4.00%) SAP
5 4 (4.00%) Temenos
6 3 (3.00%) BMC
6 3 (3.00%) Hitachi
7 2 (2.00%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.00%) Cognos
7 2 (2.00%) Informatica
7 2 (2.00%) Micro Focus
7 2 (2.00%) Reuters
8 1 (1.00%) BT
8 1 (1.00%) Dell
8 1 (1.00%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.00%) ICL
8 1 (1.00%) VMware