Batch Scripting Contracts in England

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UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Batch Scripting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Batch Scripting over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 626 761
Rank change year-on-year +89 +135 -122
Contract jobs citing Batch Scripting 14 11 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.038% 0.023% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.026% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 10
10th Percentile - £394 £318
25th Percentile £385 £411 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £525 £638 £606
90th Percentile £600 £675 £660
UK median daily rate £475 £428 £525
% change year-on-year +10.98% -18.48% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £25.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Batch Scripting is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Batch Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Batch Scripting in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Batch Scripting in England.

Daily rate trend for Batch Scripting in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Batch Scripting in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Batch Scripting in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Batch Scripting in England.

Hourly rate trend for Batch Scripting in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Batch Scripting within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +100 9 £385 -40.77% 5
South East - 3 £500 - 1
North of England +22 2 £400 -3.38% 2
North West +20 2 £400 -3.38% 1
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) DHCP
1 6 (42.86%) DNS
2 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 3 (21.43%) IPv4
2 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) AdminStudio
1 2 (14.29%) InstallShield
1 2 (14.29%) MSI
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (21.43%) Front Office
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Systems Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Data Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Market Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Market Data Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Packager
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
2 5 (35.71%) Windows
3 3 (21.43%) Ubuntu
3 3 (21.43%) Unix
4 2 (14.29%) CentOS
4 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) ITIL
2 4 (28.57%) Application Packaging
2 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Application Security
3 3 (21.43%) Application Virtualisation
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Line Management
3 3 (21.43%) Patch Management
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
3 3 (21.43%) RBAC
3 3 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) Security Hardening
3 3 (21.43%) Security Patching
3 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery Management
3 3 (21.43%) Software Delivery
3 3 (21.43%) Software Deployment
3 3 (21.43%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) PowerShell
2 5 (35.71%) VB.NET
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 3 (21.43%) C#
4 3 (21.43%) C++
4 3 (21.43%) VBScript
5 2 (14.29%) PHP
5 2 (14.29%) VB
6 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
1 3 (21.43%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) ISO 9001
1 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (21.43%) SLA
2 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
1 3 (21.43%) Hyper-V
1 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (21.43%) vSphere
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) WSUS
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.14%) Qualys