Batch Processing Job Trends

Batch Processing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Batch Processing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 711 623 714
Rank change year-on-year -88 +91 +16
Permanent jobs citing Batch Processing 82 50 83
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.072% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.099% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 62 43 37
10th Percentile £40,000 £28,750 £68,750
25th Percentile £48,000 £46,875 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £72,500 £88,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% -17.61% +40.80%
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £100,000
90th Percentile - £100,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £29,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +94.92% -52.80% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Batch Processing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 82,691 43,965 63,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.84% 88.66% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 57,506 24,819 36,681
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.23%

Batch Processing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Batch Processing job vacancy trend in the UK

Batch Processing
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Batch Processing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Batch Processing

Batch Processing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Batch Processing over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Batch Processing in the UK

Batch Processing
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Batch Processing within the UK over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -70 79 £68,500 -5.52% 71
UK excluding London -68 57 £57,500 +94.92% 31
Work from Home -26 24 £68,500 -14.38% 39
London -55 21 £68,500 -5.52% 45
North of England -38 18 £50,974 -7.32% 10
Midlands -50 13 £38,600 +30.85% 6
South West -57 13 £100,000 +86.92% 2
Yorkshire - 13 £44,447 - 3
West Midlands -28 12 - - 6
South East -29 12 £48,000 -16.52% 5
North West -11 4 £57,500 +4.55% 4
East Midlands -38 1 £38,600 +30.85%
North East - 1 - - 3
Wales - 1 £70,000 - 1

Batch Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (15.85%) Anypoint
1 13 (15.85%) Mule
2 5 (6.10%) CICS
3 2 (2.44%) Apache
3 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (3.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.22%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 41 (50.00%) AWS
1 41 (50.00%) Azure
2 15 (18.29%) GitHub
2 15 (18.29%) GitHub Actions
3 13 (15.85%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.88%) Power Automate
4 4 (4.88%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.66%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.66%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.44%) Serverless
7 1 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.22%) dbt
7 1 (1.22%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.22%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.20%) Relational Database
2 7 (8.54%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.10%) Db2
4 3 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.66%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.44%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.44%) Flink
5 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.22%) ClickHouse
6 1 (1.22%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.22%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.22%) DuckDB
6 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.22%) OLTP
6 1 (1.22%) Power BI
6 1 (1.22%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 13 (15.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.22%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.22%) dotTrace
2 1 (1.22%) Git
2 1 (1.22%) GitLab
2 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 22 (26.83%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (23.17%) Finance
4 17 (20.73%) Law
5 11 (13.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (13.41%) Retail
6 7 (8.54%) Public Sector
7 5 (6.10%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.66%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.22%) Banking
9 1 (1.22%) Billing
9 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.22%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.22%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 18 (21.95%) Developer
2 14 (17.07%) Lead
3 13 (15.85%) AWS Data Engineer
3 13 (15.85%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (15.85%) Data Engineer
3 13 (15.85%) Lead Developer
3 13 (15.85%) MuleSoft Developer
3 13 (15.85%) Tester
4 12 (14.63%) Applications Consultant
4 12 (14.63%) Consultant
4 12 (14.63%) Mainframe Consultant
4 12 (14.63%) Senior
5 11 (13.41%) Analyst
6 10 (12.20%) OAT Tester
7 9 (10.98%) Security Engineer
8 7 (8.54%) Automation Analyst
9 5 (6.10%) Senior Tester
10 4 (4.88%) COBOL Consultant
10 4 (4.88%) Java Consultant
10 4 (4.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.17%) ISPF
2 16 (19.51%) .NET
2 16 (19.51%) OAuth
3 15 (18.29%) OAuth2
4 14 (17.07%) JWT
5 13 (15.85%) MUnit
5 13 (15.85%) RAML
5 13 (15.85%) Spring
6 12 (14.63%) Spring Boot
7 5 (6.10%) Web Services
8 3 (3.66%) EDI
8 3 (3.66%) Kafka
8 3 (3.66%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (3.66%) Terraform
9 2 (2.44%) OpenID
9 2 (2.44%) Playwright
9 2 (2.44%) REST
9 2 (2.44%) Vitest
10 1 (1.22%) .NET Framework
10 1 (1.22%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (31.71%) Mainframe
2 15 (18.29%) Legacy Applications
3 13 (15.85%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (15.85%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.10%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.66%) BBC
5 3 (3.66%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.22%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.76%) Windows
2 7 (8.54%) zOS
3 4 (4.88%) Linux
4 3 (3.66%) Mac OS
4 3 (3.66%) VME
5 1 (1.22%) Unix
5 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 29 (35.37%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (34.15%) DevOps
4 27 (32.93%) Mentoring
5 23 (28.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (23.17%) Root Cause Analysis
7 18 (21.95%) Event-Driven
8 17 (20.73%) Test Automation
9 16 (19.51%) Agile
10 14 (17.07%) ITIL
11 13 (15.85%) Collaborative Culture
11 13 (15.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 12 (14.63%) Re-Platforming
12 12 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 11 (13.41%) AI
14 10 (12.20%) Operational Acceptance Testing
14 10 (12.20%) Scenario Testing
14 10 (12.20%) Software Testing
14 10 (12.20%) System Integration Testing
14 10 (12.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.17%) JCL
2 16 (19.51%) COBOL
3 15 (18.29%) Java
4 13 (15.85%) DataWeave
5 7 (8.54%) C#
5 7 (8.54%) CLIST
5 7 (8.54%) REXX
6 6 (7.32%) SQL
7 4 (4.88%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.66%) Python
9 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.22%) Bash
10 1 (1.22%) Bicep
10 1 (1.22%) Groovy
10 1 (1.22%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.22%) Ruby
10 1 (1.22%) Scala
10 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 25 (30.49%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.66%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.44%) Degree
4 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.41%) QA
2 4 (4.88%) SLA
3 1 (1.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (8.54%) Time Sharing Option
2 3 (3.66%) Docker
3 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (15.85%) CloudHub
2 3 (3.66%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.44%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.22%) Ansible
4 1 (1.22%) Grafana
4 1 (1.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 18 (21.95%) ServiceNow
2 14 (17.07%) SAP
3 13 (15.85%) MuleSoft
3 13 (15.85%) Salesforce
4 8 (9.76%) Broadcom
5 7 (8.54%) IBM
5 7 (8.54%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.88%) Oracle
7 2 (2.44%) JDA
8 1 (1.22%) Aderant
8 1 (1.22%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.22%) Confluent
8 1 (1.22%) Databricks
8 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.22%) Micro Focus
8 1 (1.22%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.22%) Refinitiv
8 1 (1.22%) Unisys
8 1 (1.22%) Workday