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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 637 632 720
Rank change year-on-year -5 +88 +236
Permanent jobs citing Batch Processing 45 24 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.061% 0.055% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.059% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 40 14 37
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £76,500 £110,250 £90,000
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 57,440 40,902 73,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.10% 93.61% 87.44%
Number of salaries quoted 34,676 22,163 55,834
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 12 March 2026.

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 12 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 +2 40 £70,000 +7.69% 21
London +37 23 £72,500 -9.38% 11
UK excluding London -19 19 £50,000 -20.00% 17
South East -13 10 £50,000 - 4
Work from Home +10 9 £67,500 +3.85% 9
Scotland -10 4 - - 8
East of England - 2 £60,675 -
North West -11 1 £52,500 - 2
South West -24 1 £53,500 -17.69% 1
North of England -38 1 £52,500 -16.00% 3
East Midlands - 1 £57,500 -
Midlands - 1 £57,500 - 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 6 (13.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (8.89%) Apache
3 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.22%) Apache Qpid
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Markit EDM
2 1 (2.22%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 26 (57.78%) Azure
2 18 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (22.22%) GitHub
3 10 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (15.56%) Datadog
4 7 (15.56%) OpenShift
5 6 (13.33%) AWS
5 6 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 5 (11.11%) Serverless
7 4 (8.89%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (8.89%) dbt
7 4 (8.89%) Snowflake
8 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
9 2 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (2.22%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.22%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) LTE
1 1 (2.22%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (2.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) Relational Database
1 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.89%) Apache Iceberg
2 4 (8.89%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.44%) Power BI
4 1 (2.22%) Apache Hudi
4 1 (2.22%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.22%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.22%) Metadata
4 1 (2.22%) MySQL
4 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Eclipse
1 9 (20.00%) GitLab
2 8 (17.78%) Git
3 6 (13.33%) Selenium
4 4 (8.89%) Cucumber
4 4 (8.89%) Postman
4 4 (8.89%) SoapUI
5 2 (4.44%) Appium
5 2 (4.44%) Deequ
5 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.44%) MLflow
6 1 (2.22%) ERwin
General
1 16 (35.56%) Finance
2 12 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Lead
2 8 (17.78%) Applications Support
3 7 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Data Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Applications Support Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Applications Support Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) QA Automation Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) QA Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Support Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Support Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Data Scientist
8 2 (4.44%) Senior
8 2 (4.44%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Test Engineer
9 1 (2.22%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.22%) pytest
2 7 (15.56%) OAuth
2 7 (15.56%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (15.56%) SAML
3 4 (8.89%) SOAP
4 3 (6.67%) .NET
4 3 (6.67%) Kafka
4 3 (6.67%) PyTorch
5 2 (4.44%) Great Expectations
5 2 (4.44%) JSON
5 2 (4.44%) LangChain
5 2 (4.44%) pydantic
5 2 (4.44%) scikit-learn
5 2 (4.44%) TensorFlow
5 2 (4.44%) XGBoost
6 1 (2.22%) Node.js
6 1 (2.22%) REST
6 1 (2.22%) RESTful
6 1 (2.22%) Smarty
6 1 (2.22%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 9 (20.00%) Reinsurance
2 7 (15.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (15.56%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) DevOps
2 19 (42.22%) CI/CD
3 14 (31.11%) ITIL
3 14 (31.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 13 (28.89%) Incident Management
4 13 (28.89%) Observability
4 13 (28.89%) Service Management
4 13 (28.89%) Validation
5 12 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (26.67%) Test Automation
6 11 (24.44%) Containerisation
7 10 (22.22%) Agile
7 10 (22.22%) Release Management
8 9 (20.00%) Data Validation
8 9 (20.00%) ETL
8 9 (20.00%) ITSM
9 8 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (13.33%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 26 (57.78%) SQL
2 14 (31.11%) Python
3 12 (26.67%) PowerShell
4 7 (15.56%) Bash
5 5 (11.11%) PHP
6 4 (8.89%) Go
6 4 (8.89%) Java
7 2 (4.44%) C#
8 1 (2.22%) C++
8 1 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.22%) Degree
1 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
1 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) QA
2 3 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.44%) GDPR
4 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (24.44%) Docker
2 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 7 (15.56%) Grafana
2 7 (15.56%) Prometheus
2 7 (15.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 7 (15.56%) Dynatrace
3 7 (15.56%) Red Hat
4 4 (8.89%) Ab Initio
4 4 (8.89%) Databricks
4 4 (8.89%) Guidewire
4 4 (8.89%) IBM
5 1 (2.22%) DocuSign
5 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.22%) Workday