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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 722 629 728
Rank change year-on-year -93 +99 -9
Permanent jobs citing Batch Processing 81 51 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.071% 0.10% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.097% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 60 45 33
10th Percentile £40,000 £28,750 £66,250
25th Percentile £48,000 £51,250 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% -17.65% +36.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £102,000 £100,000 £121,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £29,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +99.15% -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 83,236 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57,755 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £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 16 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 16 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 -84 78 £68,500 -2.14% 119
UK excluding London -86 54 £58,750 +99.15% 60
Work from Home -14 23 £68,500 -14.38% 53
London -60 23 £68,500 -5.52% 68
North of England -51 16 £57,500 +4.55% 19
Midlands -26 13 £38,600 +30.85% 10
South West -60 13 £100,000 +86.92% 4
West Midlands -29 12 - - 7
Yorkshire - 12 £44,447 - 7
South East -43 11 £48,000 -16.52% 8
North West -16 3 £57,500 +4.55% 9
East Midlands -37 1 £38,600 +30.85% 3
North East - 1 - - 3
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 (16.05%) Anypoint
1 13 (16.05%) Mule
2 5 (6.17%) CICS
3 2 (2.47%) Apache
3 2 (2.47%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.23%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 41 (50.62%) AWS
2 40 (49.38%) Azure
3 14 (17.28%) GitHub
3 14 (17.28%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.94%) Power Automate
5 4 (4.94%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.70%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.47%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.47%) Serverless
8 1 (1.23%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (1.23%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.23%) Prefect
8 1 (1.23%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.05%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.35%) Relational Database
2 7 (8.64%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.17%) Db2
4 3 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.47%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.47%) Flink
5 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.23%) ClickHouse
6 1 (1.23%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.23%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.23%) DuckDB
6 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.23%) OLTP
6 1 (1.23%) Power BI
6 1 (1.23%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 13 (16.05%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.23%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.23%) dotTrace
2 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (30.86%) Social Skills
2 21 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (24.69%) Finance
4 17 (20.99%) Law
5 11 (13.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (13.58%) Retail
6 5 (6.17%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.70%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.23%) Back Office
8 1 (1.23%) Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Billing
8 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.23%) Front Office
8 1 (1.23%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 19 (23.46%) Developer
2 15 (18.52%) Lead
3 13 (16.05%) AWS Data Engineer
3 13 (16.05%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (16.05%) Data Engineer
3 13 (16.05%) Lead Developer
3 13 (16.05%) MuleSoft Developer
4 12 (14.81%) Applications Consultant
4 12 (14.81%) Consultant
4 12 (14.81%) Mainframe Consultant
4 12 (14.81%) Senior
5 11 (13.58%) Analyst
5 11 (13.58%) Tester
6 10 (12.35%) OAT Tester
7 9 (11.11%) Security Engineer
8 7 (8.64%) Automation Analyst
9 5 (6.17%) Senior Tester
10 4 (4.94%) COBOL Consultant
10 4 (4.94%) Java Consultant
10 4 (4.94%) Mainframe Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.46%) ISPF
2 17 (20.99%) .NET
3 15 (18.52%) OAuth
3 15 (18.52%) OAuth2
4 14 (17.28%) JWT
5 13 (16.05%) MUnit
5 13 (16.05%) RAML
5 13 (16.05%) Spring
6 12 (14.81%) Spring Boot
7 5 (6.17%) Web Services
8 3 (3.70%) EDI
8 3 (3.70%) Kafka
9 2 (2.47%) OpenID
9 2 (2.47%) Playwright
9 2 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (2.47%) REST
9 2 (2.47%) Terraform
9 2 (2.47%) Vitest
10 1 (1.23%) Fastify
10 1 (1.23%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 24 (29.63%) Mainframe
2 13 (16.05%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (16.05%) Legacy Applications
2 13 (16.05%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (6.17%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.70%) BBC
4 3 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.23%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.23%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.88%) Windows
2 7 (8.64%) zOS
3 4 (4.94%) Linux
4 3 (3.70%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.23%) Unix
5 1 (1.23%) VME
5 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (49.38%) CI/CD
2 27 (33.33%) DevOps
3 26 (32.10%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (30.86%) Mentoring
5 23 (28.40%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (24.69%) Root Cause Analysis
7 18 (22.22%) Event-Driven
8 17 (20.99%) Test Automation
9 16 (19.75%) Agile
10 15 (18.52%) ITIL
11 14 (17.28%) Collaborative Culture
12 13 (16.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 13 (16.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (14.81%) Re-Platforming
14 11 (13.58%) AI
15 10 (12.35%) Operational Acceptance Testing
15 10 (12.35%) Scenario Testing
15 10 (12.35%) Software Testing
15 10 (12.35%) System Integration Testing
15 10 (12.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.46%) JCL
2 15 (18.52%) Java
3 14 (17.28%) COBOL
4 13 (16.05%) DataWeave
5 8 (9.88%) C#
6 7 (8.64%) CLIST
6 7 (8.64%) REXX
6 7 (8.64%) SQL
7 4 (4.94%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.94%) Python
8 2 (2.47%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.23%) Bicep
9 1 (1.23%) Groovy
9 1 (1.23%) Micro Focus COBOL
9 1 (1.23%) Ruby
9 1 (1.23%) Scala
9 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (32.10%) Security Cleared
2 25 (30.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.94%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.47%) Degree
4 2 (2.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.11%) QA
2 4 (4.94%) SLA
3 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (8.64%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (2.47%) Docker
3 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (16.05%) CloudHub
2 2 (2.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.23%) Ansible
3 1 (1.23%) Packer
3 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 14 (17.28%) SAP
3 13 (16.05%) MuleSoft
3 13 (16.05%) Salesforce
4 8 (9.88%) Broadcom
5 7 (8.64%) IBM
5 7 (8.64%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.94%) Oracle
7 2 (2.47%) JDA
8 1 (1.23%) Aderant
8 1 (1.23%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.23%) Confluent
8 1 (1.23%) Databricks
8 1 (1.23%) Micro Focus
8 1 (1.23%) Refinitiv
8 1 (1.23%) Unisys
8 1 (1.23%) Workday