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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 649 621 728
Rank change year-on-year -28 +107 +218
Permanent jobs citing Batch Processing 47 24 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.063% 0.055% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.059% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 42 13 42
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £42,375
25th Percentile £49,375 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -14.75% +27.08%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £111,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% +6.48%

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 57,986 41,016 73,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.95% 93.54% 87.33%
Number of salaries quoted 35,213 22,402 55,977
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £44,967 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,997 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Batch Processing in the UK

Batch Processing
Top 13 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 15 March 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 -6 42 £67,500 -6.90% 54
London +23 22 £72,500 -9.38% 13
UK excluding London -14 21 £50,000 -20.00% 50
Work from Home +45 12 £60,000 -7.69% 10
South East -1 10 £50,000 - 13
Scotland -14 4 - - 7
North of England -45 3 £44,447 -28.88% 8
North West -5 2 £48,474 - 3
East of England - 2 £60,675 - 7
South West -23 1 £53,500 -17.69% 7
Yorkshire - 1 £44,447 - 4
East Midlands - 1 £57,500 - 5
Midlands - 1 £57,500 - 7

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 5 (10.64%) Apache Spark
2 4 (8.51%) Apache
3 3 (6.38%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.13%) Apache Qpid
Business Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Markit EDM
2 1 (2.13%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 26 (55.32%) Azure
2 19 (40.43%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (23.40%) GitHub
3 11 (23.40%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (14.89%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (14.89%) Datadog
4 7 (14.89%) OpenShift
5 6 (12.77%) AWS
5 6 (12.77%) Serverless
6 5 (10.64%) Amazon S3
7 4 (8.51%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (8.51%) dbt
7 4 (8.51%) Power Platform
7 4 (8.51%) Snowflake
8 3 (6.38%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Functions
9 2 (4.26%) PaaS
9 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
9 2 (4.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) LTE
1 1 (2.13%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (2.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.77%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.51%) Apache Iceberg
3 4 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.26%) MariaDB
4 2 (4.26%) MySQL
4 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.26%) Power BI
5 1 (2.13%) Apache Hudi
5 1 (2.13%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.13%) Metadata
5 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (19.15%) Eclipse
1 9 (19.15%) GitLab
2 8 (17.02%) Git
3 6 (12.77%) Selenium
4 4 (8.51%) Cucumber
4 4 (8.51%) Postman
4 4 (8.51%) SoapUI
5 2 (4.26%) Appium
5 2 (4.26%) Deequ
5 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.13%) ERwin
6 1 (2.13%) MLflow
General
1 16 (34.04%) Finance
2 13 (27.66%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Lead
2 8 (17.02%) Applications Support
3 7 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Data Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Applications Support Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) Applications Support Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) QA Automation Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) QA Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Support Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) Support Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Data Scientist
7 2 (4.26%) QA Tester
7 2 (4.26%) Senior
7 2 (4.26%) Software Manager
7 2 (4.26%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.28%) pytest
2 7 (14.89%) OAuth
2 7 (14.89%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (14.89%) SAML
3 4 (8.51%) .NET
3 4 (8.51%) SOAP
4 3 (6.38%) JSON
5 2 (4.26%) .NET Core
5 2 (4.26%) CSS
5 2 (4.26%) Great Expectations
5 2 (4.26%) HTML
5 2 (4.26%) Kafka
5 2 (4.26%) Middleware
5 2 (4.26%) Node.js
5 2 (4.26%) PyTorch
5 2 (4.26%) REST
5 2 (4.26%) RESTful
5 2 (4.26%) Smarty
5 2 (4.26%) Symfony
6 1 (2.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Data Structures
1 9 (19.15%) Reinsurance
2 7 (14.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (14.89%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (4.26%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.13%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Windows
2 2 (4.26%) VME
3 1 (2.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (48.94%) DevOps
2 20 (42.55%) CI/CD
3 14 (29.79%) ITIL
3 14 (29.79%) Observability
3 14 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (29.79%) Root Cause Analysis
4 13 (27.66%) Incident Management
4 13 (27.66%) Service Management
4 13 (27.66%) Test Automation
4 13 (27.66%) Validation
5 11 (23.40%) Containerisation
6 10 (21.28%) Agile
6 10 (21.28%) ETL
6 10 (21.28%) Release Management
7 9 (19.15%) Data Validation
7 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (19.15%) ITSM
8 8 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (14.89%) Data Engineering
9 7 (14.89%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 26 (55.32%) SQL
2 13 (27.66%) PowerShell
2 13 (27.66%) Python
3 7 (14.89%) Bash
4 6 (12.77%) PHP
5 4 (8.51%) Go
5 4 (8.51%) Java
6 3 (6.38%) C#
7 2 (4.26%) COBOL
7 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.13%) C++
8 1 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.26%) Degree
1 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) QA
2 3 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.38%) GDPR
2 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (21.28%) Docker
2 4 (8.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (19.15%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.89%) Grafana
2 7 (14.89%) Prometheus
2 7 (14.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.15%) ServiceNow
3 7 (14.89%) Dynatrace
3 7 (14.89%) Red Hat
4 4 (8.51%) Ab Initio
4 4 (8.51%) Guidewire
4 4 (8.51%) IBM
5 3 (6.38%) Databricks
6 2 (4.26%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.13%) DocuSign
7 1 (2.13%) Workday