Batch Scheduling Contracts

Batch Scheduling
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Batch Scheduling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Batch Scheduling over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 569 677
Rank change year-on-year +43 +108 +152
Contract jobs citing Batch Scheduling 3 18 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.042% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.049% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 13
10th Percentile £275 £390 £378
25th Percentile £313 £391 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £516 £600
Median % change year-on-year -27.36% -13.96% +26.32%
75th Percentile £438 £638 £688
90th Percentile £475 £800 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +46.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £22.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Batch Scheduling 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 26,331 36,749 50,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.02% 85.64% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,815 23,629 34,859
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,103 2,511 1,675
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%
75th Percentile £56.88 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%

Batch Scheduling
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Batch Scheduling in the UK

Batch Scheduling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Batch Scheduling in the UK

Batch Scheduling
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Batch Scheduling over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Batch Scheduling in the UK

Batch Scheduling
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Batch Scheduling in the UK

Batch Scheduling
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Batch Scheduling within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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 3 £375 -40.00% 6
UK excluding London +49 3 £375 - 4
Work from Home +54 2 £375 -7.98% 6
South West - 2 £375 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

Batch Scheduling
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 1 (33.33%) NEC Housing
General
1 2 (66.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Document Management
1 2 (66.67%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Batch Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JCL
1 1 (33.33%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) NEC
2 1 (33.33%) IBM