Batch Processing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Batch Processing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Batch Processing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Batch Processing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 306 467
Rank change year-on-year +21 +161 +97
Contract jobs citing Batch Processing 19 39 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.25% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.29% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 7
10th Percentile £457 £411 £531
25th Percentile £550 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -16.67% +11.63%
75th Percentile £604 £550 £650
90th Percentile £624 - £700
UK median daily rate £570 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +14.00% +5.26% -11.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Batch Processing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Batch Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Batch Processing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Batch Processing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Batch Processing.

Batch Processing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Batch Processing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Batch Processing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Batch Processing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Batch Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (47.37%) Apache Spark
2 2 (10.53%) JBoss
2 2 (10.53%) WebSphere
2 2 (10.53%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (5.26%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon S3
2 6 (31.58%) Serverless
3 4 (21.05%) AWS
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (15.79%) Azure
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Functions
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) IaaS
5 1 (5.26%) PaaS
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) FTP
1 1 (5.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) Hadoop
2 7 (36.84%) Big Data
2 7 (36.84%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (36.84%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (31.58%) Data Lake
4 5 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (15.79%) NoSQL
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (10.53%) DB2
6 2 (10.53%) IMS/DB
7 1 (5.26%) Easytrieve
7 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Mockito
1 1 (5.26%) Toad
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 10 (52.63%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (52.63%) Banking
3 4 (21.05%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Data Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Support Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Integration Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Mainframe Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (15.79%) Web Services
3 2 (10.53%) EJB
3 2 (10.53%) J2EE
3 2 (10.53%) JDBC
3 2 (10.53%) Kafka
3 2 (10.53%) Middleware
3 2 (10.53%) REST
3 2 (10.53%) RESTful
3 2 (10.53%) SOAP
3 2 (10.53%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (10.53%) XML
3 2 (10.53%) XSLT
4 1 (5.26%) Apache Camel
4 1 (5.26%) OAuth
4 1 (5.26%) OpenID
4 1 (5.26%) SAML
4 1 (5.26%) Spring
4 1 (5.26%) Spring Batch
4 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.26%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Linux
1 9 (47.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Unix
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
3 1 (5.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Microservices
2 11 (57.89%) Migration
3 10 (52.63%) Agile
3 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 10 (52.63%) Containerisation
4 9 (47.37%) Analytics
4 9 (47.37%) Observability
4 9 (47.37%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (36.84%) Event-Driven
5 7 (36.84%) Test Automation
6 5 (26.32%) Data Architecture
6 5 (26.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (21.05%) ETL
7 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (21.05%) Integration Patterns
8 3 (15.79%) API Management
8 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
8 3 (15.79%) DevOps
8 3 (15.79%) Process Improvement
9 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) Java
2 3 (15.79%) PL/SQL
3 2 (10.53%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) REXX
4 1 (5.26%) Apex Code
4 1 (5.26%) COBOL
4 1 (5.26%) JCL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) HL7
2 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.26%) QA
3 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
1 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
1 11 (57.89%) Terraform
2 9 (47.37%) Ansible
3 7 (36.84%) Argo
3 7 (36.84%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) MuleSoft
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) IBM
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.26%) Okta
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) Talend