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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 707 629 717
Rank change year-on-year -78 +88 -9
Permanent jobs citing Batch Processing 101 51 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.086% 0.10% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.12% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 71 45 33
10th Percentile £40,000 £28,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £51,250 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £72,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% -12.12% +32.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £97,500
90th Percentile - £100,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £29,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +103.39% -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 86,265 44,296 59,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 89.00% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59,107 24,598 32,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -87 97 £68,500 -5.52% 107
UK excluding London -88 66 £60,000 +103.39% 45
London -64 30 £68,500 -5.52% 70
Work from Home -9 29 £68,500 -21.71% 45
Midlands -33 19 £38,600 +30.85% 4
West Midlands -24 18 - - 2
South West -60 18 £100,000 +86.92% 4
North of England - 17 £57,500 - 14
South East -42 11 £48,000 -16.52% 8
Yorkshire - 11 £50,000 - 4
North West - 5 £57,500 - 7
East Midlands -39 1 £38,600 +30.85% 2
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 (12.87%) Anypoint
1 13 (12.87%) Mule
2 8 (7.92%) CICS
3 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.98%) Apache
4 2 (1.98%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.99%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 53 (52.48%) Azure
2 46 (45.54%) AWS
3 23 (22.77%) GitHub
4 22 (21.78%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (19.80%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (7.92%) SaaS
7 7 (6.93%) Power Platform
8 6 (5.94%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.95%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (4.95%) Serverless
10 4 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (3.96%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.97%) Azure API Management
11 3 (2.97%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.97%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.97%) Azure Storage
11 3 (2.97%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.98%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.87%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.86%) Relational Database
2 8 (7.92%) Db2
3 7 (6.93%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.97%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.97%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.97%) Power BI
5 3 (2.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.98%) Flink
6 2 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.99%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.99%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.99%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.99%) DuckDB
7 1 (0.99%) Metadata
7 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.99%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 19 (18.81%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.99%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.99%) dotTrace
2 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (34.65%) Social Skills
2 32 (31.68%) Finance
3 31 (30.69%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (16.83%) Law
5 15 (14.85%) Retail
6 13 (12.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (10.89%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.97%) Back Office
10 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.97%) Police
11 2 (1.98%) Publishing
12 1 (0.99%) Banking
12 1 (0.99%) Billing
12 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.99%) Front Office
12 1 (0.99%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.99%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 18 (17.82%) Applications Consultant
1 18 (17.82%) Consultant
1 18 (17.82%) Developer
1 18 (17.82%) Lead
1 18 (17.82%) Mainframe Consultant
2 16 (15.84%) Analyst
2 16 (15.84%) Senior
3 14 (13.86%) AWS Data Engineer
3 14 (13.86%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (13.86%) Data Engineer
4 13 (12.87%) Lead Developer
4 13 (12.87%) MuleSoft Developer
5 12 (11.88%) OAT Tester
5 12 (11.88%) Tester
6 9 (8.91%) Security Engineer
7 7 (6.93%) Automation Analyst
7 7 (6.93%) COBOL Consultant
7 7 (6.93%) Java Consultant
7 7 (6.93%) Senior Tester
8 5 (4.95%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.75%) ISPF
2 22 (21.78%) .NET
3 19 (18.81%) Spring
4 18 (17.82%) Spring Boot
5 17 (16.83%) OAuth
5 17 (16.83%) OAuth2
6 16 (15.84%) JWT
7 13 (12.87%) MUnit
7 13 (12.87%) RAML
8 5 (4.95%) REST
8 5 (4.95%) Terraform
9 4 (3.96%) OpenID
9 4 (3.96%) Web Services
10 3 (2.97%) EDI
10 3 (2.97%) Kafka
11 2 (1.98%) OpenAPI
11 2 (1.98%) Playwright
11 2 (1.98%) Swagger
11 2 (1.98%) Vitest
11 2 (1.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (28.71%) Mainframe
2 24 (23.76%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (17.82%) Legacy Applications
4 14 (13.86%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (7.92%) Cloud Native
5 8 (7.92%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.96%) BBC
7 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.99%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.99%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.99%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.91%) Windows
2 7 (6.93%) zOS
3 4 (3.96%) Linux
4 3 (2.97%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.98%) Unix
6 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (50.50%) CI/CD
2 38 (37.62%) DevOps
3 35 (34.65%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (32.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (26.73%) Mentoring
6 24 (23.76%) Root Cause Analysis
7 22 (21.78%) Collaborative Culture
7 22 (21.78%) Event-Driven
8 20 (19.80%) Agile
9 19 (18.81%) ITIL
9 19 (18.81%) Test Automation
10 18 (17.82%) Re-Platforming
10 18 (17.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (15.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 16 (15.84%) Validation
12 15 (14.85%) Release Management
13 14 (13.86%) AI
14 13 (12.87%) Defect Management
14 13 (12.87%) User Acceptance Testing
15 12 (11.88%) Operational Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (24.75%) JCL
2 20 (19.80%) Java
3 19 (18.81%) COBOL
4 14 (13.86%) SQL
5 13 (12.87%) DataWeave
6 7 (6.93%) C#
6 7 (6.93%) CLIST
6 7 (6.93%) REXX
7 4 (3.96%) Bicep
7 4 (3.96%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.96%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.96%) Python
8 2 (1.98%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.98%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.99%) Groovy
9 1 (0.99%) Micro Focus COBOL
9 1 (0.99%) Ruby
9 1 (0.99%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (28.71%) Security Cleared
2 28 (27.72%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.94%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.98%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.98%) Degree
4 2 (1.98%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.92%) QA
2 4 (3.96%) SLA
3 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.99%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (6.93%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (1.98%) Docker
3 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (12.87%) CloudHub
2 3 (2.97%) Grafana
3 2 (1.98%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.99%) Ansible
4 1 (0.99%) Packer
4 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (16.83%) ServiceNow
2 14 (13.86%) SAP
3 13 (12.87%) MuleSoft
3 13 (12.87%) Salesforce
4 11 (10.89%) Broadcom
4 11 (10.89%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.93%) IBM
6 4 (3.96%) Oracle
7 3 (2.97%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.99%) Aderant
8 1 (0.99%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.99%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.99%) Confluent
8 1 (0.99%) Databricks
8 1 (0.99%) Micro Focus
8 1 (0.99%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.99%) UiPath
8 1 (0.99%) Unisys
8 1 (0.99%) Workday
8 1 (0.99%) YouTube