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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 687 638 739
Rank change year-on-year -49 +101 +149
Permanent jobs citing Batch Processing 45 24 149
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.049% 0.055% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.059% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 39 16 50
10th Percentile £46,889 £49,375 £55,545
25th Percentile £47,500 £59,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £71,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -16.18% +36.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,313 £92,000
90th Percentile £101,000 £80,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year -13.04% -2.13% -6.00%

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 67,989 40,970 82,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 93.29% 84.80%
Number of salaries quoted 43,964 22,120 59,644
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,887 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.18% +3.77% -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 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Batch Processing in the UK

Batch Processing
Top 10 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 21 May 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 -41 39 £67,500 -6.90% 19
UK excluding London -46 22 £50,000 -13.04% 10
London -23 16 £72,500 - 12
Work from Home +34 15 £67,500 +8.00% 6
South East -17 9 £50,000 - 3
North of England -31 7 £50,974 -18.44% 2
North West +9 4 £57,500 +4.55% 1
Scotland 0 4 - - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £44,447 - 1
East of England -11 2 £60,675 +105.68% 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 3 (6.67%) Apache
1 3 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) Anypoint
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Qpid
3 1 (2.22%) CICS
3 1 (2.22%) Mule
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Markit EDM
2 3 (6.67%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (66.67%) Azure
2 20 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (24.44%) GitHub
3 11 (24.44%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (17.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (17.78%) Datadog
4 8 (17.78%) OpenShift
5 7 (15.56%) AWS
6 6 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (13.33%) Power Platform
7 5 (11.11%) dbt
7 5 (11.11%) Power Automate
7 5 (11.11%) PowerApps
8 4 (8.89%) Serverless
8 4 (8.89%) Snowflake
9 3 (6.67%) Amazon S3
9 3 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (4.44%) Azure Functions
10 2 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) LTE
1 1 (2.22%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (2.22%) SSL
1 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (2.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (4.44%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (4.44%) MariaDB
4 2 (4.44%) MySQL
5 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.22%) ClickHouse
5 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.22%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.22%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.22%) Flink
5 1 (2.22%) Metadata
5 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.22%) OLAP
5 1 (2.22%) Power BI
5 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.22%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Eclipse
1 9 (20.00%) Git
1 9 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (2.22%) Deequ
2 1 (2.22%) dotTrace
2 1 (2.22%) ERwin
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (26.67%) Finance
3 5 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Law
4 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.89%) Retail
5 3 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Lead
2 8 (17.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Analyst
4 4 (8.89%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Applications Support
4 4 (8.89%) Applications Support Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Senior
4 4 (8.89%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) QA Tester
5 3 (6.67%) Support Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Tester
6 2 (4.44%) Development Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Head of Development
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Software Development Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.00%) OAuth
2 8 (17.78%) RabbitMQ
2 8 (17.78%) SAML
3 6 (13.33%) .NET
4 5 (11.11%) Web Services
5 3 (6.67%) EDI
5 3 (6.67%) JSON
6 2 (4.44%) .NET Core
6 2 (4.44%) CSS
6 2 (4.44%) HTML
6 2 (4.44%) Kafka
6 2 (4.44%) Middleware
6 2 (4.44%) Node.js
6 2 (4.44%) pytest
6 2 (4.44%) REST
6 2 (4.44%) RESTful
6 2 (4.44%) Smarty
6 2 (4.44%) Symfony
7 1 (2.22%) Apache Avro
7 1 (2.22%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 9 (20.00%) Reinsurance
2 8 (17.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (13.33%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.89%) Mainframe
5 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (4.44%) BBC
7 1 (2.22%) FPGA
7 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.22%) Reference Data
7 1 (2.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.56%) Windows
2 3 (6.67%) Linux
2 3 (6.67%) VME
3 1 (2.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (57.78%) DevOps
2 21 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 21 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (35.56%) Incident Management
4 14 (31.11%) Observability
4 14 (31.11%) Root Cause Analysis
5 13 (28.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (28.89%) ITIL
5 13 (28.89%) Validation
6 12 (26.67%) Containerisation
7 11 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (22.22%) Agile
8 10 (22.22%) Release Management
9 9 (20.00%) Data Validation
9 9 (20.00%) ETL
9 9 (20.00%) ITSM
9 9 (20.00%) Service Management
10 8 (17.78%) Data Modelling
10 8 (17.78%) Mentoring
11 7 (15.56%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 19 (42.22%) SQL
2 14 (31.11%) PowerShell
3 9 (20.00%) C#
4 8 (17.78%) Bash
5 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 5 (11.11%) Python
6 3 (6.67%) COBOL
7 2 (4.44%) Java
7 2 (4.44%) PHP
8 1 (2.22%) Bicep
8 1 (2.22%) C++
8 1 (2.22%) CLIST
8 1 (2.22%) DataWeave
8 1 (2.22%) JCL
8 1 (2.22%) REXX
8 1 (2.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.44%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
2 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) SLA
2 3 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.67%) QA
3 2 (4.44%) GDPR
3 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (24.44%) Docker
2 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.22%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 10 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 9 (20.00%) Terraform
3 8 (17.78%) Grafana
3 8 (17.78%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.22%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) ServiceNow
2 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
3 8 (17.78%) Dynatrace
3 8 (17.78%) Red Hat
4 4 (8.89%) Ab Initio
4 4 (8.89%) IBM
5 3 (6.67%) Databricks
5 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
6 2 (4.44%) JDA
6 2 (4.44%) Oracle
7 1 (2.22%) Bloomberg
7 1 (2.22%) Confluent
7 1 (2.22%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.22%) Refinitiv
7 1 (2.22%) SAP