Batch Processing Contracts

Batch Processing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Batch Processing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Batch Processing over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 514 643 771
Rank change year-on-year +129 +128 -134
Contract jobs citing Batch Processing 56 47 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.083% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.093% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 28 60
10th Percentile £411 £320 £357
25th Percentile £463 £325 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £563
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -22.22% +8.17%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £653
90th Percentile £619 £650 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £425 £405
% change year-on-year +29.41% +5.07% -18.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +75.00% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +75.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Batch Processing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

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

Batch Processing
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

Batch Processing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Batch Processing over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Batch Processing in the UK

Batch Processing
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 8 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 23 May 2024. 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 +106 51 £500 +14.29% 18
Work from Home +157 42 £500 -16.67% 8
London +103 34 £475 +11.76% 8
UK excluding London +58 18 £550 +29.41% 14
South East +28 14 £525 +44.83% 2
North of England +27 2 £775 +82.35% 2
North West +22 2 £775 +82.35% 2
Wales - 2 £550 -

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 3 (5.36%) Apache Spark
1 3 (5.36%) WebLogic
1 3 (5.36%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.57%) Apache
3 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (14.29%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.79%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.79%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.29%) AWS
2 7 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 7 (12.50%) SaaS
3 4 (7.14%) GCP
4 3 (5.36%) Azure
5 2 (3.57%) GitHub
5 2 (3.57%) PaaS
5 2 (3.57%) Serverless
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.79%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) Internet
2 2 (3.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.07%) Oracle Database
1 9 (16.07%) Relational Database
2 7 (12.50%) MySQL
3 4 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.14%) NonStop SQL
4 3 (5.36%) BigQuery
4 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.57%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.57%) Data Mart
5 2 (3.57%) Data Mining
5 2 (3.57%) GIS
5 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.57%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.79%) Big Data
6 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.79%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) HP UFT
1 3 (5.36%) Katalon Studio
1 3 (5.36%) Selenium
2 2 (3.57%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (1.79%) GitLab
3 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.79%) JUnit
General
1 14 (25.00%) Billing
2 13 (23.21%) Banking
3 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.93%) Finance
6 4 (7.14%) Back Office
7 3 (5.36%) Local Government
7 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.57%) Czech Language
8 2 (3.57%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.79%) Automotive
9 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (32.14%) Developer
2 16 (28.57%) Lead
3 11 (19.64%) Analyst
4 7 (12.50%) Administrator
4 7 (12.50%) Billing Developer
4 7 (12.50%) Integration Developer
4 7 (12.50%) Lead Developer
4 7 (12.50%) Senior
4 7 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) Technical Leader
6 5 (8.93%) Data Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Support Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) GCP Data Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Murex Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Software Engineer
10 1 (1.79%) Consultant
10 1 (1.79%) Database Analyst
10 1 (1.79%) Server Support
10 1 (1.79%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.00%) Web Services
2 9 (16.07%) Kafka
3 7 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 7 (12.50%) jQuery
3 7 (12.50%) RESTful
3 7 (12.50%) SOAP
3 7 (12.50%) Spring
3 7 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 7 (12.50%) Struts
3 7 (12.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (3.57%) Apache Beam
4 2 (3.57%) Middleware
4 2 (3.57%) Murex MxML
4 2 (3.57%) REST
5 1 (1.79%) .NET
5 1 (1.79%) ADO
5 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (3.57%) Replication
3 1 (1.79%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.79%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) Linux
1 2 (3.57%) Unix
1 2 (3.57%) Windows
1 2 (3.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (16.07%) Change Management
1 9 (16.07%) Data Modelling
1 9 (16.07%) ITIL
1 9 (16.07%) Problem Management
2 8 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
3 7 (12.50%) Agile
3 7 (12.50%) Data Mapping
3 7 (12.50%) ETL
3 7 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
3 7 (12.50%) SDLC
3 7 (12.50%) Sequence Diagram
3 7 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 7 (12.50%) UML
3 7 (12.50%) Unit Testing
4 6 (10.71%) Insurtech
4 6 (10.71%) Software Testing
5 5 (8.93%) Data Engineering
6 4 (7.14%) Analytics
6 4 (7.14%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 4 (7.14%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.79%) SQL
2 13 (23.21%) Java
3 7 (12.50%) Python
4 4 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.57%) Perl
5 2 (3.57%) Scala
6 1 (1.79%) C
6 1 (1.79%) C#
6 1 (1.79%) C++
6 1 (1.79%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.36%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (21.43%) Control-M
2 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (33.93%) Oracle
2 14 (25.00%) Guidewire
3 8 (14.29%) NEC
3 8 (14.29%) Northgate
4 5 (8.93%) IBM
5 4 (7.14%) HP
6 3 (5.36%) Micro Focus
7 2 (3.57%) F5
7 2 (3.57%) Google
7 2 (3.57%) Murex
7 2 (3.57%) SAP
8 1 (1.79%) Confluent
8 1 (1.79%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.79%) Salesforce