Batch Scripting Contracts in the UK excluding London

Batch Scripting
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 394 431 505
Rank change year-on-year +37 +74 -63
Contract jobs citing Batch Scripting 5 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.031% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.034% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £423 £404 £316
25th Percentile £456 £411 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £432 £323
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% +33.95% -2.86%
75th Percentile £525 £494 £331
90th Percentile - £573 £333
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,325 20,337 27,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.38% 89.23% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,289 13,953 19,001
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,130 1,241 1,347
10th Percentile £12.42 £10.63 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Batch Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Batch Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Batch Scripting in the UK excluding London

Batch Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Batch Scripting in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Batch Scripting in the UK excluding London

Batch Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Batch Scripting in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Batch Scripting in the UK excluding London

Batch Scripting
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
South East - 3 £500 - 1
North of England +25 2 £400 -3.38% 2
North West +18 2 £400 -3.38% 1
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Batch Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) AdminStudio
1 2 (40.00%) InstallShield
1 2 (40.00%) MSI
General
1 3 (60.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Packager
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (60.00%) Unix
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) Customer Experience
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Line Management
1 3 (60.00%) Patch Management
1 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) RBAC
1 3 (60.00%) Release Management
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (60.00%) Security Hardening
1 3 (60.00%) Security Patching
1 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery Management
1 3 (60.00%) Software Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) Software Deployment
1 3 (60.00%) Software Distribution
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) VB.NET
3 2 (40.00%) C++
3 2 (40.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO 9001
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
2 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (60.00%) vSphere
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) WSUS
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Qualys