Batch Scripting Contracts

Batch Scripting
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Batch Scripting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Batch Scripting over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 585 676
Rank change year-on-year +39 +91 +191
Contract jobs citing Batch Scripting 7 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.026% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.031% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 9
10th Percentile £438 - £325
25th Percentile £525 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £414
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% +14.73% -27.69%
75th Percentile - £525 £625
90th Percentile - £750 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £400 £407
% change year-on-year +50.00% -1.72% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £25.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Batch Scripting 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 29,453 35,958 49,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.33% 85.38% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,495 23,012 34,286
10th Percentile £300 £301 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
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% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,557 2,302 1,674
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.71 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -5.29% +52.81%
75th Percentile £51.25 £62.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.48 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £38.20 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.16% -4.51% +86.05%

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 18 July 2025.

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 5 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 18 July 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 +49 7 £600 +26.32% 5
South East +39 6 £600 +20.00% 3
UK excluding London +29 6 £600 +50.00% 3
Work from Home +36 1 £315 -30.00% 4
London +22 1 £315 -54.18% 3

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 6 (85.71%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) MSI
1 4 (57.14%) Robot Framework
1 4 (57.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Integrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) CentOS
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Windows
3 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Web Development
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (57.14%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Prototyping
3 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Workflow
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) PHP
2 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
3 4 (57.14%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
2 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) WMI
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) VMware