Batch Scripting Contracts

Batch Scripting
UK

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 676 821
Rank change year-on-year +105 +145 -140
Contract jobs citing Batch Scripting 12 29 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.049% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.054% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 15
10th Percentile - £426 -
25th Percentile £385 £428 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £428 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.98% -4.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £481 £559
90th Percentile £600 £650 £640
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £426 £323
% change year-on-year +17.37% +32.09% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £25.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Batch Scripting 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 37,484 53,362 80,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.34% 89.87% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,149 37,016 56,462
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,744 1,921
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.34 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +6.69% +75.00% -8.00%

Batch Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Batch Scripting in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Batch Scripting in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Batch Scripting over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Batch Scripting in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Batch Scripting in the UK

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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 Scripting within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +115 11 £475 +5.56% 2
London +111 8 £385 -40.77% 1
UK excluding London +51 4 £500 +17.37% 1
South East - 3 £500 -
Work from Home +107 2 £500 +16.82%
Scotland - 1 - -

Batch Scripting
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 1 (8.33%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) DHCP
1 7 (58.33%) DNS
2 4 (33.33%) Firewall
2 4 (33.33%) IPv4
3 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Hive
2 1 (8.33%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) DB2
2 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (8.33%) HBase
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (25.00%) Front Office
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Systems Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Market Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Market Data Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Developer
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (25.00%) Unix
2 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 4 (33.33%) Application Security
2 4 (33.33%) Application Virtualisation
2 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (25.00%) RBAC
3 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) Security Hardening
3 3 (25.00%) Security Patching
3 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery Management
3 3 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) PowerShell
2 5 (41.67%) VB.NET
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) VBScript
4 3 (25.00%) C#
4 3 (25.00%) C++
5 1 (8.33%) Groovy
5 1 (8.33%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Python
5 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
1 3 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) ISO 9001
1 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (8.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (8.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) WSUS
2 1 (8.33%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (8.33%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) Qualys
4 1 (8.33%) Splunk