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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 671 626 721
Rank change year-on-year -45 +95 +199
Permanent jobs citing Batch Processing 45 21 144
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.052% 0.050% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.054% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 40 12 47
10th Percentile £47,195 £52,625 £48,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £59,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £67,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -20.59% +38.78%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £91,000
90th Percentile £100,500 - £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% -8.00%

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 65,473 38,805 81,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.33% 92.93% 85.93%
Number of salaries quoted 40,444 22,598 59,573
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.90%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -46 39 £72,500 +1.75% 23
UK excluding London -50 20 £50,000 -16.67% 18
London +5 18 £72,500 -4.92% 12
Work from Home +1 15 £65,000 +4.00% 9
South East -47 9 £50,000 - 7
North of England -59 5 £44,447 -28.88% 2
Scotland -26 4 - - 3
North West -19 3 £52,500 -4.55% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £44,447 -
East of England - 2 £60,675 - 4

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 4 (8.89%) Apache
1 4 (8.89%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Qpid
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Markit EDM
2 1 (2.22%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (60.00%) 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 5 (11.11%) dbt
6 5 (11.11%) Serverless
7 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
7 4 (8.89%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (8.89%) Power Platform
7 4 (8.89%) Snowflake
8 3 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.67%) Power Automate
8 3 (6.67%) PowerApps
9 2 (4.44%) Azure Functions
9 2 (4.44%) PaaS
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 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.67%) Apache Iceberg
3 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
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%) Flink
5 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.22%) OLAP
5 1 (2.22%) OLTP
5 1 (2.22%) Power BI
5 1 (2.22%) Redis
5 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.22%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Eclipse
1 9 (20.00%) Git
1 9 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (4.44%) Cucumber
2 2 (4.44%) Postman
2 2 (4.44%) Selenium
2 2 (4.44%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.22%) Deequ
3 1 (2.22%) dotTrace
3 1 (2.22%) ERwin
3 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (28.89%) Finance
3 7 (15.56%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Law
6 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Lead
2 8 (17.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Applications Support
4 5 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) QA Tester
6 3 (6.67%) Senior
6 3 (6.67%) Support Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Tester
7 2 (4.44%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Head of Architecture
7 2 (4.44%) Head of Engineering
7 2 (4.44%) Head of Software Development
7 2 (4.44%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) OAuth
1 8 (17.78%) RabbitMQ
1 8 (17.78%) SAML
2 5 (11.11%) .NET
2 5 (11.11%) pytest
3 3 (6.67%) JSON
4 2 (4.44%) .NET Core
4 2 (4.44%) CSS
4 2 (4.44%) HTML
4 2 (4.44%) Kafka
4 2 (4.44%) Middleware
4 2 (4.44%) Node.js
4 2 (4.44%) REST
4 2 (4.44%) RESTful
4 2 (4.44%) Smarty
4 2 (4.44%) SOAP
4 2 (4.44%) Symfony
4 2 (4.44%) Web Services
5 1 (2.22%) PySpark
5 1 (2.22%) PyTorch
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 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (6.67%) Mainframe
5 2 (4.44%) BBC
6 1 (2.22%) FPGA
6 1 (2.22%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Windows
2 3 (6.67%) VME
3 2 (4.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (55.56%) DevOps
2 21 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 18 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (33.33%) Observability
5 14 (31.11%) Incident Management
6 13 (28.89%) ITIL
6 13 (28.89%) Root Cause Analysis
6 13 (28.89%) Validation
7 12 (26.67%) Containerisation
8 11 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (24.44%) Service Management
9 10 (22.22%) Agile
9 10 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (22.22%) ETL
9 10 (22.22%) Release Management
10 9 (20.00%) Data Validation
10 9 (20.00%) ITSM
10 9 (20.00%) Test Automation
11 8 (17.78%) Data Modelling
12 7 (15.56%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) SQL
2 14 (31.11%) PowerShell
3 8 (17.78%) Bash
3 8 (17.78%) Python
4 6 (13.33%) C#
5 4 (8.89%) PHP
6 3 (6.67%) COBOL
6 3 (6.67%) Java
6 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.44%) Go
8 1 (2.22%) Bicep
8 1 (2.22%) C++
8 1 (2.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.44%) Degree
1 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 3 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.67%) SLA
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
Systems Management
1 10 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 9 (20.00%) Terraform
3 8 (17.78%) Grafana
3 8 (17.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 10 (22.22%) ServiceNow
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
6 2 (4.44%) Guidewire
6 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.22%) Bloomberg
7 1 (2.22%) Confluent
7 1 (2.22%) JDA
7 1 (2.22%) Oracle
7 1 (2.22%) Refinitiv