Batch Processing Contract Job Trends in Wales

Batch Processing
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Batch Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 47 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Batch Processing 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.44% 0.44% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £262 - -
25th Percentile £268 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £283 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.64% - -
75th Percentile £293 - -
90th Percentile £297 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% -32.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 376 356 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 83.37% 78.07% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 202 322
10th Percentile £185 £141 £175
25th Percentile £266 £211 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £489 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 48 25
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.48 £15.71
25th Percentile £16.89 £20.12 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.50 £25.09 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% -3.50% +44.44%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
90th Percentile - £49.13 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.08% +25.12%

Batch Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Batch Processing job vacancy trend in Wales

Batch Processing
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Batch Processing

Batch Processing
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Batch Processing

Batch Processing
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
South Wales 0 2 £283 -48.64% 14
Batch Processing
UK

Batch Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operator
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Scheduling
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Break/Fix
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
1 2 (100.00%) Korn
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) BMC
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) BT
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Focus
2 1 (50.00%) Xerox