Batch Processing Contracts

Batch Processing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Batch Processing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Batch Processing over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 640 754
Rank change year-on-year +117 +114 -148
Contract jobs citing Batch Processing 53 44 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.077% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.086% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 26 63
10th Percentile £411 £320 £361
25th Percentile £463 £344 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £655
90th Percentile £619 £650 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £405
% change year-on-year +15.79% +17.43% -18.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Batch Processing 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

Batch Processing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Batch Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Batch Processing in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Batch Processing in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Batch Processing over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Batch Processing in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Batch Processing in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Batch Processing within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +128 50 £500 +11.11% 21
Work from Home +152 40 £500 -16.67% 11
London +111 33 £475 +11.76% 10
UK excluding London +57 16 £550 +15.79% 15
South East +26 14 £525 - 2
North of England +26 2 £775 +82.35% 1
North West +19 2 £775 +82.35% 1

Batch Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (5.66%) Apache Spark
1 3 (5.66%) WebLogic
1 3 (5.66%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (13.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (15.09%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.89%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.09%) AWS
2 7 (13.21%) Amazon S3
2 7 (13.21%) SaaS
3 3 (5.66%) Azure
4 2 (3.77%) GCP
4 2 (3.77%) PaaS
4 2 (3.77%) Serverless
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.89%) GitHub
5 1 (1.89%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.98%) Oracle Database
1 9 (16.98%) Relational Database
2 7 (13.21%) MySQL
3 4 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.55%) NonStop SQL
4 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.77%) Data Mart
5 2 (3.77%) Data Mining
5 2 (3.77%) GIS
5 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.77%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.89%) Big Data
6 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.89%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) HP UFT
1 3 (5.66%) Katalon Studio
1 3 (5.66%) Selenium
2 2 (3.77%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (1.89%) GitLab
3 1 (1.89%) JUnit
General
1 14 (26.42%) Billing
2 12 (22.64%) Banking
3 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
4 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.43%) Finance
6 4 (7.55%) Back Office
7 3 (5.66%) Local Government
7 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.77%) Czech Language
9 1 (1.89%) Automotive
9 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (33.96%) Developer
2 16 (30.19%) Lead
3 11 (20.75%) Analyst
4 7 (13.21%) Administrator
4 7 (13.21%) Billing Developer
4 7 (13.21%) Integration Developer
4 7 (13.21%) Lead Developer
4 7 (13.21%) Senior
4 7 (13.21%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (11.32%) Technical Leader
6 4 (7.55%) Support Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) GCP Data Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Murex Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Software Engineer
9 1 (1.89%) Consultant
9 1 (1.89%) Oracle Developer
9 1 (1.89%) Server Support
9 1 (1.89%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (26.42%) Web Services
2 7 (13.21%) AngularJS
2 7 (13.21%) jQuery
2 7 (13.21%) Kafka
2 7 (13.21%) RESTful
2 7 (13.21%) SOAP
2 7 (13.21%) Spring
2 7 (13.21%) Spring Boot
2 7 (13.21%) Struts
2 7 (13.21%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 2 (3.77%) Middleware
3 2 (3.77%) Murex MxML
3 2 (3.77%) REST
4 1 (1.89%) .NET
4 1 (1.89%) ADO
4 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (3.77%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (3.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.89%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.89%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Linux
1 2 (3.77%) Unix
1 2 (3.77%) Windows
1 2 (3.77%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (16.98%) Change Management
1 9 (16.98%) Data Modelling
1 9 (16.98%) ITIL
1 9 (16.98%) Problem Management
2 8 (15.09%) Customer Requirements
3 7 (13.21%) Agile
3 7 (13.21%) Data Mapping
3 7 (13.21%) Impact Analysis
3 7 (13.21%) SDLC
3 7 (13.21%) Sequence Diagram
3 7 (13.21%) Test Automation
3 7 (13.21%) UML
3 7 (13.21%) Unit Testing
4 6 (11.32%) ETL
4 6 (11.32%) Insurtech
4 6 (11.32%) Software Testing
5 4 (7.55%) Analytics
5 4 (7.55%) Anti-Money Laundering
5 4 (7.55%) Data Engineering
6 3 (5.66%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 14 (26.42%) SQL
2 13 (24.53%) Java
3 5 (9.43%) Python
4 4 (7.55%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.77%) Perl
5 2 (3.77%) Scala
6 1 (1.89%) C
6 1 (1.89%) C#
6 1 (1.89%) C++
6 1 (1.89%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.55%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.66%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (22.64%) Control-M
2 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (35.85%) Oracle
2 14 (26.42%) Guidewire
3 8 (15.09%) NEC
3 8 (15.09%) Northgate
4 5 (9.43%) IBM
5 4 (7.55%) HP
6 3 (5.66%) Micro Focus
7 2 (3.77%) F5
7 2 (3.77%) Murex
8 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.89%) SAP