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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 717 618 714
Rank change year-on-year -99 +96 -3
Permanent jobs citing Batch Processing 91 50 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.077% 0.10% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.11% 0.100%
Number of salaries quoted 65 44 35
10th Percentile £40,000 £28,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £49,063 £76,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% -14.71% +36.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £98,750
90th Percentile £112,000 £100,000 £119,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £29,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +103.39% -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 85,859 44,048 62,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.76% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,233 24,687 33,999
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,090
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 27 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 27 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 -76 87 £68,500 -5.52% 92
UK excluding London -79 60 £60,000 +103.39% 45
Work from Home -18 27 £68,500 -16.97% 42
London -61 26 £68,500 -5.52% 55
North of England - 17 £57,500 - 15
South West -69 16 £100,000 +86.92%
Midlands -45 15 £38,600 +30.85% 7
West Midlands -28 14 - - 5
South East -38 11 £48,000 -16.52% 4
Yorkshire - 11 £50,000 - 2
North West - 5 £57,500 - 11
East Midlands -43 1 £38,600 +30.85% 2
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 (14.29%) Anypoint
1 13 (14.29%) Mule
2 6 (6.59%) CICS
3 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.20%) Apache
4 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.10%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 45 (49.45%) Azure
2 44 (48.35%) AWS
3 18 (19.78%) GitHub
4 16 (17.58%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (17.58%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (6.59%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.49%) Power Automate
6 5 (5.49%) SaaS
7 4 (4.40%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (4.40%) Serverless
8 3 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.30%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.20%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.20%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.19%) Relational Database
2 7 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.59%) Db2
4 4 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.20%) Flink
6 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.20%) Power BI
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.10%) ClickHouse
7 1 (1.10%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.10%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.10%) Metadata
7 1 (1.10%) OLTP
7 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.10%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (16.48%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.10%) dotTrace
2 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (32.97%) Social Skills
2 26 (28.57%) Finance
3 25 (27.47%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (18.68%) Law
5 13 (14.29%) Retail
6 11 (12.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.30%) Back Office
10 3 (3.30%) Manufacturing
11 2 (2.20%) Police
12 1 (1.10%) Banking
12 1 (1.10%) Billing
12 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.10%) Front Office
12 1 (1.10%) General Ledger
12 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
12 1 (1.10%) Publishing
12 1 (1.10%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 18 (19.78%) Developer
1 18 (19.78%) Lead
2 14 (15.38%) Applications Consultant
2 14 (15.38%) AWS Data Engineer
2 14 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
2 14 (15.38%) Consultant
2 14 (15.38%) Data Engineer
2 14 (15.38%) Mainframe Consultant
3 13 (14.29%) Analyst
3 13 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 13 (14.29%) MuleSoft Developer
3 13 (14.29%) Senior
4 10 (10.99%) OAT Tester
4 10 (10.99%) Tester
5 9 (9.89%) Security Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) Automation Analyst
7 5 (5.49%) COBOL Consultant
7 5 (5.49%) Java Consultant
7 5 (5.49%) Senior Tester
8 4 (4.40%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.08%) ISPF
2 18 (19.78%) .NET
3 16 (17.58%) OAuth
3 16 (17.58%) OAuth2
4 15 (16.48%) JWT
4 15 (16.48%) Spring
5 14 (15.38%) Spring Boot
6 13 (14.29%) MUnit
6 13 (14.29%) RAML
7 4 (4.40%) REST
7 4 (4.40%) Terraform
7 4 (4.40%) Web Services
8 3 (3.30%) EDI
8 3 (3.30%) Kafka
8 3 (3.30%) OpenID
9 2 (2.20%) Playwright
9 2 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (2.20%) Vitest
10 1 (1.10%) Fastify
10 1 (1.10%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (27.47%) Mainframe
2 18 (19.78%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (15.38%) Legacy Applications
3 14 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (7.69%) Management Information System
5 6 (6.59%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.40%) BBC
7 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.10%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.10%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.89%) Windows
2 7 (7.69%) zOS
3 4 (4.40%) Linux
4 3 (3.30%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.20%) Unix
6 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (48.35%) CI/CD
2 30 (32.97%) DevOps
3 28 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 28 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (27.47%) Mentoring
5 22 (24.18%) Root Cause Analysis
6 21 (23.08%) Event-Driven
7 18 (19.78%) Collaborative Culture
7 18 (19.78%) Test Automation
8 17 (18.68%) Agile
8 17 (18.68%) ITIL
9 16 (17.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 15 (16.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 14 (15.38%) AI
11 14 (15.38%) Re-Platforming
12 12 (13.19%) Release Management
12 12 (13.19%) Validation
13 11 (12.09%) Analytics
14 10 (10.99%) Performance Tuning
14 10 (10.99%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.08%) JCL
2 16 (17.58%) Java
3 15 (16.48%) COBOL
4 13 (14.29%) DataWeave
5 11 (12.09%) SQL
6 7 (7.69%) C#
6 7 (7.69%) CLIST
6 7 (7.69%) REXX
7 4 (4.40%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.40%) Python
8 3 (3.30%) Bicep
9 2 (2.20%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.20%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.10%) Groovy
10 1 (1.10%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 1 (1.10%) Ruby
10 1 (1.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 27 (29.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.59%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.20%) Degree
4 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.79%) QA
2 4 (4.40%) SLA
3 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.10%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (7.69%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (2.20%) Docker
3 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (14.29%) CloudHub
2 2 (2.20%) Grafana
2 2 (2.20%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.10%) Ansible
3 1 (1.10%) Packer
3 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (18.68%) ServiceNow
2 14 (15.38%) SAP
3 13 (14.29%) MuleSoft
3 13 (14.29%) Salesforce
4 9 (9.89%) Broadcom
4 9 (9.89%) Microsoft
5 7 (7.69%) IBM
6 4 (4.40%) Oracle
7 2 (2.20%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.10%) Aderant
8 1 (1.10%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (1.10%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.10%) Confluent
8 1 (1.10%) Databricks
8 1 (1.10%) Micro Focus
8 1 (1.10%) Refinitiv
8 1 (1.10%) UiPath
8 1 (1.10%) Unisys
8 1 (1.10%) Workday
8 1 (1.10%) YouTube