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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 661 680
Rank change year-on-year +53 +19 +264
Permanent jobs citing Batch Processing 45 38 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.075% 0.071% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 0.078% 0.082%
Number of salaries quoted 40 18 18
10th Percentile £51,250 £61,250 £40,875
25th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £55,545
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 £103,750 £63,625
90th Percentile £76,500 £115,000 £72,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,250
% change year-on-year -8.00% +3.73% +11.57%

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 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 14 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 14 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 +66 41 £72,500 -9.38% 15
London +65 27 £72,500 -9.38% 7
UK excluding London +53 17 £57,500 -8.00% 13
Work from Home +63 11 £80,000 +10.34% 9
Midlands +24 4 £29,500 -
East Midlands -5 4 £29,500 -
Scotland - 4 - - 1
South East +34 3 £57,500 - 7
East of England - 3 £100,000 - 1
South West +10 2 £53,500 -17.69%
North West +12 1 £52,500 - 1
North of England -1 1 £52,500 -16.00% 2

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 5 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.67%) Apache
2 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Markit EDM
2 2 (4.44%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (2.22%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.11%) Azure
2 7 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (13.33%) Serverless
4 5 (11.11%) AWS
4 5 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (8.89%) dbt
5 4 (8.89%) Snowflake
6 3 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (4.44%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.44%) GitHub
7 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
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 13 (28.89%) SQL Server
2 8 (17.78%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.89%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.67%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (4.44%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.22%) Apache Hudi
6 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.22%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.22%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.22%) MySQL
6 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) Selenium
2 6 (13.33%) Eclipse
3 5 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 5 (11.11%) Postman
3 5 (11.11%) SoapUI
4 3 (6.67%) Appium
5 2 (4.44%) MLflow
6 1 (2.22%) Deequ
6 1 (2.22%) GitLab
6 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (33.33%) Finance
3 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) Analyst
1 15 (33.33%) Applications Support
2 14 (31.11%) Support Analyst
3 11 (24.44%) Applications Support Analyst
4 9 (20.00%) Lead
5 6 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) QA Automation Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) QA Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Data Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Support Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
8 3 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 3 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Data Scientist
8 3 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Test Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Principal Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) pytest
2 5 (11.11%) SOAP
3 4 (8.89%) Kafka
4 3 (6.67%) Node.js
4 3 (6.67%) PyTorch
5 2 (4.44%) .NET
5 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.44%) Hugging Face
5 2 (4.44%) LangChain
5 2 (4.44%) Nuxt
5 2 (4.44%) pydantic
5 2 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (4.44%) React
5 2 (4.44%) scikit-learn
5 2 (4.44%) TensorFlow
5 2 (4.44%) Vue
5 2 (4.44%) XGBoost
6 1 (2.22%) CSS
6 1 (2.22%) HTML
6 1 (2.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.33%) Data Structures
2 6 (13.33%) Reinsurance
3 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.67%) iSeries
4 1 (2.22%) FPGA
4 1 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (44.44%) ITIL
2 17 (37.78%) Service Management
3 13 (28.89%) Incident Management
4 12 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 12 (26.67%) Test Automation
5 11 (24.44%) DevOps
6 10 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 10 (22.22%) Validation
7 8 (17.78%) Agile
7 8 (17.78%) ETL
7 8 (17.78%) Fintech
7 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (13.33%) Asset Management
8 6 (13.33%) Data Validation
8 6 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (13.33%) ITSM
8 6 (13.33%) Observability
8 6 (13.33%) Release Management
8 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
9 5 (11.11%) AI
Programming Languages
1 34 (75.56%) SQL
2 16 (35.56%) Python
3 6 (13.33%) PHP
4 5 (11.11%) Go
4 5 (11.11%) Java
4 5 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.22%) C#
5 1 (2.22%) C++
5 1 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 4 (8.89%) GDPR
3 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.44%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (48.89%) Microsoft
2 11 (24.44%) Guidewire
3 6 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 4 (8.89%) Ab Initio
4 4 (8.89%) IBM
5 2 (4.44%) Databricks
5 2 (4.44%) DocuSign
5 2 (4.44%) OpenAI
5 2 (4.44%) Workday
6 1 (2.22%) OpenLink
6 1 (2.22%) Salesforce