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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 600 691 694
Rank change year-on-year +91 +3 +285
Permanent jobs citing Batch Processing 50 47 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.094% 0.070% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.083% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 45 28 23
10th Percentile £28,750 £65,000 £44,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £73,438 £57,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +37.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £100,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £90,500 £113,250 £73,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +8.33% +15.38%

All Process and 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 45,329 56,886 48,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.95% 84.65% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,632 29,709 37,183
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.75% +3.69% -

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 25 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Batch Processing in the UK

Batch Processing
Top 12 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 25 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +109 50 £65,000 -21.21% 33
London +65 30 £72,500 -12.12% 20
UK excluding London +90 18 £48,750 -25.00% 25
Work from Home +93 9 £65,000 -18.75% 31
Midlands +62 7 £29,500 - 1
East Midlands +34 6 £29,500 -
East of England - 5 £29,500 -
South East +45 3 £57,500 - 7
South West +33 2 £53,500 -17.69% 3
North West +46 1 £52,500 - 3
North of England +37 1 £52,500 - 5
West Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 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 7 (14.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.00%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (4.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.00%) AWS
2 7 (14.00%) Serverless
3 6 (12.00%) Azure
4 5 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.00%) GitHub
5 3 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (4.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Functions
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.00%) PaaS
6 2 (4.00%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (18.00%) Relational Database
3 5 (10.00%) Apache Iceberg
4 3 (6.00%) Big Data
4 3 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.00%) Spark SQL
5 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.00%) MariaDB
5 2 (4.00%) MySQL
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.00%) Apache Hudi
6 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.00%) Power BI
6 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Selenium
2 5 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 5 (10.00%) Postman
2 5 (10.00%) SoapUI
3 3 (6.00%) Appium
4 2 (4.00%) MLflow
5 1 (2.00%) Deequ
5 1 (2.00%) Git
5 1 (2.00%) GitLab
5 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (28.00%) Finance
3 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (8.00%) Law
4 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Games
5 1 (2.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (44.00%) Analyst
2 21 (42.00%) Support Analyst
3 13 (26.00%) Applications Support
3 13 (26.00%) Applications Support Analyst
4 8 (16.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 8 (16.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 7 (14.00%) Lead
6 5 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Developer
6 5 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) QA Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) AWS Software Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Java Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.00%) pytest
2 5 (10.00%) Kafka
2 5 (10.00%) SOAP
3 4 (8.00%) .NET
3 4 (8.00%) Node.js
4 3 (6.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.00%) scikit-learn
4 3 (6.00%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (4.00%) .NET Core
5 2 (4.00%) CSS
5 2 (4.00%) Hugging Face
5 2 (4.00%) LangChain
5 2 (4.00%) Nuxt
5 2 (4.00%) pydantic
5 2 (4.00%) PyTorch
5 2 (4.00%) React
5 2 (4.00%) REST
5 2 (4.00%) TensorFlow
5 2 (4.00%) Vue
5 2 (4.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) iSeries
2 7 (14.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.00%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.00%) ITIL
2 14 (28.00%) Test Automation
3 13 (26.00%) Service Management
4 10 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (16.00%) Data Modelling
5 8 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (16.00%) ETL
5 8 (16.00%) Fintech
5 8 (16.00%) Problem Management
5 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (16.00%) Tech Ops
6 6 (12.00%) Analytics
6 6 (12.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (12.00%) Observability
7 5 (10.00%) Data Engineering
7 5 (10.00%) Data Science
7 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 5 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (10.00%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 39 (78.00%) SQL
2 20 (40.00%) Python
3 8 (16.00%) Java
4 7 (14.00%) PHP
5 5 (10.00%) Go
6 3 (6.00%) C#
7 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.00%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.00%) Bash
8 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.00%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (10.00%) GDPR
2 5 (10.00%) QA
3 3 (6.00%) SLA
4 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.00%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (46.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (26.00%) Guidewire
3 3 (6.00%) Databricks
3 3 (6.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.00%) DocuSign
4 2 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.00%) OpenLink
4 2 (4.00%) Workday
5 1 (2.00%) Facebook
5 1 (2.00%) Google
5 1 (2.00%) Sybase