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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 676 707
Rank change year-on-year +71 +31 +235
Permanent jobs citing Batch Processing 44 36 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.070% 0.069% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.075% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 39 17 27
10th Percentile £51,250 £61,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £55,897
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +33.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £105,000 £75,625
90th Percentile £78,000 £115,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,250
% change year-on-year -8.00% +3.73% +15.87%

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 50,778 48,019 60,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.25% 91.58% 88.81%
Number of salaries quoted 30,009 23,112 46,660
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,444
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.45% -8.09%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +64 40 £72,500 -9.38% 23
London +61 27 £72,500 -9.38% 11
UK excluding London +22 15 £57,500 -8.00% 21
Work from Home +56 12 £73,750 +1.72% 13
Scotland - 4 - - 2
South East +18 3 £57,500 - 8
East of England - 3 £100,000 - 3
Midlands +8 2 £43,500 - 1
South West +6 2 £53,500 -17.69% 1
East Midlands -12 2 £43,500 -
North West +17 1 £52,500 -
North of England +3 1 £52,500 -16.00% 3

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 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 4 (9.09%) Apache
2 4 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Qpid
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Markit EDM
2 2 (4.55%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (2.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 16 (36.36%) Azure
2 9 (20.45%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (18.18%) Serverless
4 7 (15.91%) AWS
5 6 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (11.36%) Amazon S3
7 4 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (9.09%) dbt
7 4 (9.09%) GitHub
7 4 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (9.09%) Snowflake
8 3 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
9 2 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (4.55%) Azure Functions
9 2 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) LTE
1 1 (2.27%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (2.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 7 (15.91%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.09%) Apache Iceberg
3 4 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.55%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.55%) MariaDB
4 2 (4.55%) MySQL
4 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.27%) Apache Hudi
5 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.27%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.27%) Power BI
5 1 (2.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Eclipse
1 7 (15.91%) Selenium
2 4 (9.09%) Cucumber
2 4 (9.09%) Postman
2 4 (9.09%) SoapUI
3 3 (6.82%) Appium
4 2 (4.55%) Deequ
4 2 (4.55%) GitLab
4 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.55%) MLflow
General
1 15 (34.09%) Finance
2 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Applications Support
2 11 (25.00%) Analyst
3 10 (22.73%) Lead
3 10 (22.73%) Support Analyst
4 9 (20.45%) Applications Support Analyst
5 6 (13.64%) Applications Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) Data Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Applications Support Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) QA Automation Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) QA Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Support Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Data Scientist
7 3 (6.82%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Test Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Development Manager
8 2 (4.55%) Head of Development
8 2 (4.55%) Head of Software Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (25.00%) pytest
2 5 (11.36%) Kafka
3 4 (9.09%) Node.js
3 4 (9.09%) SOAP
4 3 (6.82%) .NET
4 3 (6.82%) PyTorch
5 2 (4.55%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.55%) CSS
5 2 (4.55%) Great Expectations
5 2 (4.55%) HTML
5 2 (4.55%) Hugging Face
5 2 (4.55%) JSON
5 2 (4.55%) LangChain
5 2 (4.55%) Middleware
5 2 (4.55%) Nuxt
5 2 (4.55%) pydantic
5 2 (4.55%) REST
5 2 (4.55%) RESTful
5 2 (4.55%) Smarty
5 2 (4.55%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 7 (15.91%) Data Structures
2 7 (15.91%) Reinsurance
3 4 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.27%) FPGA
4 1 (2.27%) iSeries
4 1 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (38.64%) ITIL
2 16 (36.36%) Service Management
3 13 (29.55%) CI/CD
3 13 (29.55%) DevOps
3 13 (29.55%) Root Cause Analysis
3 13 (29.55%) Test Automation
4 12 (27.27%) Incident Management
5 11 (25.00%) Validation
6 10 (22.73%) Agile
6 10 (22.73%) ETL
7 8 (18.18%) Observability
7 8 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 7 (15.91%) Analytics
8 7 (15.91%) Containerisation
8 7 (15.91%) Data Validation
8 7 (15.91%) Fintech
8 7 (15.91%) ITSM
8 7 (15.91%) Release Management
9 6 (13.64%) Data Modelling
9 6 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 30 (68.18%) SQL
2 17 (38.64%) Python
3 6 (13.64%) PHP
3 6 (13.64%) PowerShell
4 4 (9.09%) Go
4 4 (9.09%) Java
5 2 (4.55%) C#
5 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.27%) C++
6 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
1 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.55%) Degree
1 2 (4.55%) Master's Degree
1 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (11.36%) GDPR
3 4 (9.09%) QA
4 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (43.18%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.45%) Guidewire
3 7 (15.91%) ServiceNow
4 4 (9.09%) Ab Initio
4 4 (9.09%) IBM
5 2 (4.55%) Databricks
5 2 (4.55%) DocuSign
5 2 (4.55%) OpenAI
5 2 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.55%) Workday
6 1 (2.27%) OpenLink