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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 713 624 720
Rank change year-on-year -89 +96 +8
Permanent jobs citing Batch Processing 88 49 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.076% 0.10% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.11% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 64 43 34
10th Percentile £40,000 £28,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,875 £80,000
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 £99,375
90th Percentile £114,000 £100,000 £120,250
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 84,843 43,391 61,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.66% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58,659 24,441 34,825
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £41,969 £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 £77,500
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 22 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 22 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 -93 84 £68,500 -5.52% 111
UK excluding London -100 57 £60,000 +103.39% 55
Work from Home -23 27 £68,500 -16.97% 45
London -71 26 £68,500 -5.52% 65
North of England - 17 £57,500 - 18
South West -64 15 £100,000 +86.92% 5
Midlands -40 13 £38,600 +30.85% 6
West Midlands -38 12 - - 3
South East -34 11 £48,000 -16.52% 8
Yorkshire - 11 £50,000 - 5
North West - 5 £57,500 - 9
East Midlands -34 1 £38,600 +30.85% 3
North East - 1 - - 4
Wales - 1 £70,000 - 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 13 (14.77%) Anypoint
1 13 (14.77%) Mule
2 5 (5.68%) CICS
3 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.27%) Apache
4 2 (2.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (3.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.14%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 43 (48.86%) AWS
1 43 (48.86%) Azure
2 16 (18.18%) GitHub
3 14 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (15.91%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (6.82%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.68%) Power Automate
5 5 (5.68%) SaaS
6 4 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (4.55%) Serverless
7 3 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.41%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.27%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.27%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 8 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.68%) Db2
4 4 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.41%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.27%) Flink
6 2 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.27%) Power BI
7 1 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.14%) MySQL
7 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.14%) OLAP
7 1 (1.14%) OLTP
7 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.14%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 13 (14.77%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.14%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.14%) dotTrace
2 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 24 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (26.14%) Finance
4 17 (19.32%) Law
5 13 (14.77%) Retail
6 11 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (7.95%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.68%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.41%) Manufacturing
11 2 (2.27%) Back Office
11 2 (2.27%) Police
12 1 (1.14%) Banking
12 1 (1.14%) Billing
12 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.14%) Front Office
12 1 (1.14%) General Ledger
12 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
12 1 (1.14%) Publishing
12 1 (1.14%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 19 (21.59%) Developer
2 17 (19.32%) Lead
3 14 (15.91%) Senior
4 13 (14.77%) Analyst
4 13 (14.77%) AWS Data Engineer
4 13 (14.77%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (14.77%) Data Engineer
4 13 (14.77%) Lead Developer
4 13 (14.77%) MuleSoft Developer
5 12 (13.64%) Applications Consultant
5 12 (13.64%) Consultant
5 12 (13.64%) Mainframe Consultant
6 10 (11.36%) OAT Tester
6 10 (11.36%) Tester
7 9 (10.23%) Security Engineer
8 7 (7.95%) Automation Analyst
9 5 (5.68%) Senior Tester
10 4 (4.55%) Architect
10 4 (4.55%) Java Consultant
10 4 (4.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.59%) ISPF
2 17 (19.32%) .NET
3 16 (18.18%) OAuth
3 16 (18.18%) OAuth2
4 15 (17.05%) JWT
5 13 (14.77%) MUnit
5 13 (14.77%) RAML
5 13 (14.77%) Spring
6 12 (13.64%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.68%) Web Services
8 4 (4.55%) REST
8 4 (4.55%) Terraform
9 3 (3.41%) EDI
9 3 (3.41%) Kafka
9 3 (3.41%) OpenID
10 2 (2.27%) Playwright
10 2 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (2.27%) Vitest
11 1 (1.14%) Fastify
11 1 (1.14%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (26.14%) Mainframe
2 16 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (15.91%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (13.64%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (7.95%) Management Information System
6 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
7 4 (4.55%) BBC
8 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.14%) Grid Computing
9 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.14%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.23%) Windows
2 7 (7.95%) zOS
3 5 (5.68%) Linux
4 3 (3.41%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.27%) Unix
6 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (47.73%) CI/CD
2 29 (32.95%) DevOps
3 27 (30.68%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (29.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 26 (29.55%) Mentoring
5 21 (23.86%) Event-Driven
5 21 (23.86%) Root Cause Analysis
6 18 (20.45%) Agile
6 18 (20.45%) Test Automation
7 16 (18.18%) ITIL
8 15 (17.05%) Collaborative Culture
8 15 (17.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 14 (15.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (14.77%) AI
11 12 (13.64%) Re-Platforming
11 12 (13.64%) Validation
12 11 (12.50%) Release Management
13 10 (11.36%) Analytics
13 10 (11.36%) Software Testing
13 10 (11.36%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (21.59%) JCL
2 15 (17.05%) Java
3 13 (14.77%) COBOL
3 13 (14.77%) DataWeave
4 11 (12.50%) SQL
5 8 (9.09%) C#
6 7 (7.95%) CLIST
6 7 (7.95%) REXX
7 4 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.55%) Python
8 3 (3.41%) Bicep
9 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.14%) Groovy
10 1 (1.14%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 1 (1.14%) Ruby
10 1 (1.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 27 (30.68%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.68%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.27%) Degree
4 2 (2.27%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) SLA
3 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (7.95%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (2.27%) Docker
3 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (14.77%) CloudHub
2 2 (2.27%) Grafana
2 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.14%) Ansible
3 1 (1.14%) Packer
3 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (20.45%) ServiceNow
2 14 (15.91%) SAP
3 13 (14.77%) MuleSoft
3 13 (14.77%) Salesforce
4 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
5 8 (9.09%) Broadcom
6 7 (7.95%) IBM
7 5 (5.68%) Oracle
8 2 (2.27%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.27%) JDA
9 1 (1.14%) Aderant
9 1 (1.14%) Adobe
9 1 (1.14%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (1.14%) Confluent
9 1 (1.14%) Databricks
9 1 (1.14%) Refinitiv
9 1 (1.14%) UiPath
9 1 (1.14%) Unisys
9 1 (1.14%) Workday
9 1 (1.14%) YouTube