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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 710 626 720
Rank change year-on-year -84 +94 +26
Permanent jobs citing Batch Processing 82 45 83
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.075% 0.090% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.10% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 63 38 37
10th Percentile £40,000 £28,750 £72,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £32,188 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £71,250 £88,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% -19.03% +40.80%
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £100,000
90th Percentile - £100,750 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £29,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +69.49% -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 80,408 44,155 65,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.60% 80.85%
Number of salaries quoted 55,868 25,145 40,215
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,075
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.92% -6.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -6.58%

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 2 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 2 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 -68 80 £68,500 -3.86% 79
UK excluding London -60 55 £50,000 +69.49% 37
Work from Home -15 24 £68,500 -5.52% 30
London -63 22 £68,500 -5.52% 53
North of England -36 16 £44,447 -19.19% 6
South East -24 14 £48,000 -16.52% 9
Midlands -36 12 £38,600 +30.85% 6
South West - 12 £100,000 - 3
West Midlands -17 11 - - 3
Yorkshire - 11 £42,224 - 1
North West -11 4 £57,500 +4.55% 3
East Midlands -33 1 £38,600 +30.85% 3
North East - 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 £70,000 -

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 (15.85%) Anypoint
1 13 (15.85%) Mule
2 5 (6.10%) CICS
3 2 (2.44%) Apache
3 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (3.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.22%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 45 (54.88%) Azure
2 39 (47.56%) AWS
3 17 (20.73%) GitHub
3 17 (20.73%) GitHub Actions
4 16 (19.51%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.32%) Power Platform
6 5 (6.10%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (6.10%) Power Automate
7 4 (4.88%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.66%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.66%) Datadog
8 3 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.66%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.66%) Serverless
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.98%) Relational Database
2 8 (9.76%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.10%) Db2
4 3 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.66%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.44%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.44%) Flink
5 2 (2.44%) Power BI
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.22%) ClickHouse
6 1 (1.22%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.22%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.22%) DuckDB
6 1 (1.22%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.22%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 12 (14.63%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.88%) Git
3 3 (3.66%) GitLab
4 1 (1.22%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.22%) dotTrace
4 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (30.49%) Social Skills
2 24 (29.27%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (23.17%) Finance
4 17 (20.73%) Law
5 11 (13.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (10.98%) Retail
7 7 (8.54%) Public Sector
8 5 (6.10%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.66%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.22%) Banking
11 1 (1.22%) Billing
11 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.22%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.22%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 18 (21.95%) Developer
2 14 (17.07%) Lead
3 13 (15.85%) Lead Developer
3 13 (15.85%) MuleSoft Developer
3 13 (15.85%) Tester
4 12 (14.63%) AWS Data Engineer
4 12 (14.63%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (14.63%) Data Engineer
4 12 (14.63%) Senior
5 11 (13.41%) Applications Consultant
5 11 (13.41%) Consultant
5 11 (13.41%) Mainframe Consultant
6 10 (12.20%) OAT Tester
7 9 (10.98%) Analyst
7 9 (10.98%) Security Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Automation Analyst
8 5 (6.10%) Senior Tester
9 4 (4.88%) COBOL Consultant
9 4 (4.88%) Java Consultant
9 4 (4.88%) Mainframe Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.95%) OAuth
2 17 (20.73%) .NET
3 16 (19.51%) ISPF
4 15 (18.29%) OAuth2
5 14 (17.07%) JWT
6 13 (15.85%) MUnit
6 13 (15.85%) RAML
7 12 (14.63%) Spring
8 11 (13.41%) Spring Boot
9 5 (6.10%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (6.10%) Terraform
9 5 (6.10%) Web Services
10 3 (3.66%) EDI
10 3 (3.66%) Kafka
10 3 (3.66%) REST
10 3 (3.66%) SAML
11 2 (2.44%) .NET Core
11 2 (2.44%) OpenID
11 2 (2.44%) Playwright
11 2 (2.44%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 23 (28.05%) Mainframe
2 14 (17.07%) Legacy Applications
3 13 (15.85%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (14.63%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (7.32%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.66%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.44%) BBC
9 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.22%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.76%) Windows
2 5 (6.10%) zOS
3 4 (4.88%) Linux
4 3 (3.66%) Mac OS
4 3 (3.66%) VME
5 1 (1.22%) Unix
5 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (54.88%) CI/CD
2 31 (37.80%) DevOps
3 30 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (34.15%) Mentoring
5 26 (31.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (23.17%) Root Cause Analysis
6 19 (23.17%) Test Automation
7 18 (21.95%) Event-Driven
8 16 (19.51%) Agile
9 14 (17.07%) ITIL
10 13 (15.85%) Collaborative Culture
10 13 (15.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 12 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (13.41%) Re-Platforming
13 10 (12.20%) AI
13 10 (12.20%) Defect Management
13 10 (12.20%) Operational Acceptance Testing
13 10 (12.20%) System Integration Testing
13 10 (12.20%) User Acceptance Testing
13 10 (12.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.51%) JCL
2 15 (18.29%) COBOL
3 14 (17.07%) Java
4 13 (15.85%) DataWeave
5 9 (10.98%) C#
6 7 (8.54%) SQL
7 5 (6.10%) CLIST
7 5 (6.10%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.10%) REXX
8 4 (4.88%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.66%) Bash
9 3 (3.66%) Python
10 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.22%) Bicep
11 1 (1.22%) Groovy
11 1 (1.22%) Micro Focus COBOL
11 1 (1.22%) PHP
11 1 (1.22%) Ruby
11 1 (1.22%) Scala
11 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 25 (30.49%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.66%) Degree
3 3 (3.66%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.41%) QA
2 5 (6.10%) SLA
3 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.44%) GDPR
4 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (7.32%) Docker
2 5 (6.10%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (15.85%) CloudHub
2 5 (6.10%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.88%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.66%) Grafana
5 1 (1.22%) Ansible
5 1 (1.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 18 (21.95%) ServiceNow
2 14 (17.07%) Salesforce
2 14 (17.07%) SAP
3 13 (15.85%) MuleSoft
4 9 (10.98%) Microsoft
5 7 (8.54%) Broadcom
6 5 (6.10%) IBM
7 4 (4.88%) Oracle
8 3 (3.66%) Dynatrace
8 3 (3.66%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.44%) Databricks
9 2 (2.44%) JDA
10 1 (1.22%) Aderant
10 1 (1.22%) Bloomberg
10 1 (1.22%) Confluent
10 1 (1.22%) Micro Focus
10 1 (1.22%) Refinitiv
10 1 (1.22%) Unisys
10 1 (1.22%) Workday