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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 714 623 715
Rank change year-on-year -91 +92 +26
Permanent jobs citing Batch Processing 84 47 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.075% 0.095% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 64 40 36
10th Percentile £40,000 £28,750 £71,875
25th Percentile £48,000 £39,063 £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 £75,313 £100,000
90th Percentile £103,500 £100,250 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £29,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +69.49% -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 82,210 43,908 63,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.10% 88.55% 80.74%
Number of salaries quoted 57,176 24,796 36,704
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,875
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% -2.78%

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 9 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 9 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 -87 81 £68,500 -5.52% 82
UK excluding London -74 57 £50,000 +69.49% 37
Work from Home -26 25 £68,500 -14.38% 34
London -68 22 £68,500 -5.52% 56
North of England -44 17 £44,447 -19.19% 6
South East -18 14 £48,000 -16.52% 8
Midlands -43 13 £38,600 +30.85% 7
West Midlands -23 12 - - 4
South West - 12 £100,000 - 3
Yorkshire - 12 £44,447 - 2
North West -11 4 £57,500 +4.55% 2
East Midlands -38 1 £38,600 +30.85% 3
North East - 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 £70,000 -

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 (15.48%) Anypoint
1 13 (15.48%) Mule
2 5 (5.95%) CICS
3 2 (2.38%) Apache
3 2 (2.38%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.19%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 45 (53.57%) Azure
2 40 (47.62%) AWS
3 18 (21.43%) GitHub
3 18 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
4 16 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.95%) Power Automate
7 4 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (4.76%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.57%) Datadog
8 3 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.57%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.57%) Serverless
9 2 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.38%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.19%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.90%) Relational Database
2 8 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.95%) Db2
4 3 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.38%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.38%) Flink
5 2 (2.38%) Power BI
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.19%) ClickHouse
6 1 (1.19%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.19%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.19%) DuckDB
6 1 (1.19%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.19%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 13 (15.48%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.57%) Git
2 3 (3.57%) GitLab
3 1 (1.19%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.19%) dotTrace
3 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 25 (29.76%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (22.62%) Finance
4 17 (20.24%) Law
5 11 (13.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (11.90%) Retail
7 7 (8.33%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.95%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.19%) Banking
10 1 (1.19%) Billing
10 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.19%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.19%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 18 (21.43%) Developer
2 14 (16.67%) Lead
3 13 (15.48%) Lead Developer
3 13 (15.48%) MuleSoft Developer
3 13 (15.48%) Tester
4 12 (14.29%) Applications Consultant
4 12 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
4 12 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (14.29%) Consultant
4 12 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 12 (14.29%) Mainframe Consultant
4 12 (14.29%) Senior
5 10 (11.90%) Analyst
5 10 (11.90%) OAT Tester
6 9 (10.71%) Security Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Automation Analyst
8 5 (5.95%) Senior Tester
9 4 (4.76%) COBOL Consultant
9 4 (4.76%) Mainframe Analyst
9 4 (4.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.43%) ISPF
1 18 (21.43%) OAuth
2 17 (20.24%) .NET
3 15 (17.86%) OAuth2
4 14 (16.67%) JWT
5 13 (15.48%) MUnit
5 13 (15.48%) RAML
5 13 (15.48%) Spring
6 12 (14.29%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.95%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (5.95%) Terraform
7 5 (5.95%) Web Services
8 3 (3.57%) EDI
8 3 (3.57%) Kafka
8 3 (3.57%) REST
8 3 (3.57%) SAML
9 2 (2.38%) .NET Core
9 2 (2.38%) Node.js
9 2 (2.38%) OpenID
9 2 (2.38%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 25 (29.76%) Mainframe
2 15 (17.86%) Legacy Applications
3 13 (15.48%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (15.48%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.57%) BBC
5 3 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.57%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.19%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.19%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.52%) Windows
2 6 (7.14%) zOS
3 4 (4.76%) Linux
4 3 (3.57%) Mac OS
4 3 (3.57%) VME
5 1 (1.19%) Unix
5 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (53.57%) CI/CD
2 31 (36.90%) DevOps
2 31 (36.90%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 25 (29.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (22.62%) Root Cause Analysis
5 19 (22.62%) Test Automation
6 18 (21.43%) Event-Driven
7 16 (19.05%) Agile
8 14 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
8 14 (16.67%) ITIL
9 13 (15.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 13 (15.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (14.29%) Re-Platforming
11 11 (13.10%) AI
12 10 (11.90%) Defect Management
12 10 (11.90%) Operational Acceptance Testing
12 10 (11.90%) Software Testing
12 10 (11.90%) System Integration Testing
12 10 (11.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.43%) JCL
2 16 (19.05%) COBOL
3 15 (17.86%) Java
4 13 (15.48%) DataWeave
5 8 (9.52%) C#
6 7 (8.33%) SQL
7 6 (7.14%) CLIST
7 6 (7.14%) REXX
8 5 (5.95%) JavaScript
9 4 (4.76%) PowerShell
10 3 (3.57%) Bash
10 3 (3.57%) Python
11 2 (2.38%) TypeScript
12 1 (1.19%) Bicep
12 1 (1.19%) Groovy
12 1 (1.19%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 1 (1.19%) PHP
12 1 (1.19%) Ruby
12 1 (1.19%) Scala
12 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 25 (29.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.57%) Degree
3 3 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.10%) QA
2 5 (5.95%) SLA
3 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.38%) GDPR
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (7.14%) Time Sharing Option
2 5 (5.95%) Docker
3 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (15.48%) CloudHub
2 5 (5.95%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.57%) Grafana
5 1 (1.19%) Ansible
5 1 (1.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 18 (21.43%) ServiceNow
2 14 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 14 (16.67%) SAP
3 13 (15.48%) MuleSoft
4 9 (10.71%) Microsoft
5 8 (9.52%) Broadcom
6 6 (7.14%) IBM
7 4 (4.76%) Oracle
8 3 (3.57%) Dynatrace
8 3 (3.57%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.38%) Databricks
9 2 (2.38%) JDA
10 1 (1.19%) Aderant
10 1 (1.19%) Bloomberg
10 1 (1.19%) Confluent
10 1 (1.19%) Micro Focus
10 1 (1.19%) Refinitiv
10 1 (1.19%) Unisys
10 1 (1.19%) Workday