Batch Processing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Batch Processing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Batch Processing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Batch Processing over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 297 392 548
Rank change year-on-year +95 +156 +10
Contract jobs citing Batch Processing 25 7 40
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.037% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.042% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 5 30
10th Percentile £375 £333 £361
25th Percentile £466 £363 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £638
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -25.49% +30.10%
75th Percentile £550 £601 £775
90th Percentile £564 £691 £778
UK median daily rate £500 £400 £630
% change year-on-year +25.00% -36.51% +26.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Batch Processing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,687 16,696 35,240
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.04% 88.78% 91.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,714 11,676 25,347
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% -4.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £748 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 402 535
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.49 £16.07
25th Percentile £23.92 £26.06 £26.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -2.78% +125.00%
75th Percentile £66.53 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £86.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Batch Processing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Batch Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Batch Processing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Batch Processing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Batch Processing.

Batch Processing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Batch Processing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Batch Processing over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Batch Processing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Batch Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (12.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) Apache
2 2 (8.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.00%) StreamWeaver
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.00%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (8.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (8.00%) dbt
2 2 (8.00%) GCP
2 2 (8.00%) PaaS
2 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (8.00%) Serverless
2 2 (8.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (4.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) SMS
1 2 (8.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (8.00%) Big Data
2 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (8.00%) Data Mining
2 2 (8.00%) Power BI
2 2 (8.00%) Tableau
3 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) ChangeMan
2 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Retail
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Billing
3 2 (8.00%) Czech Language
4 1 (4.00%) Back Office
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Data Engineer
1 4 (16.00%) Developer
2 3 (12.00%) Lead
2 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 2 (8.00%) Administrator
3 2 (8.00%) Billing Developer
3 2 (8.00%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Lead Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.00%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (4.00%) Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Applications Support
4 1 (4.00%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Implementation Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) ISPF
1 3 (12.00%) Kafka
1 3 (12.00%) SAP Basis
1 3 (12.00%) XML
2 2 (8.00%) Apache Beam
2 2 (8.00%) HTML
2 2 (8.00%) Web Services
3 1 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Camel
3 1 (4.00%) JSON
3 1 (4.00%) Middleware
3 1 (4.00%) REST
3 1 (4.00%) SOAP
3 1 (4.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (8.00%) Replication
3 1 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) zOS
2 3 (12.00%) Windows
3 2 (8.00%) Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Agile
2 5 (20.00%) Resource Management
3 4 (16.00%) ETL
3 4 (16.00%) Migration
4 3 (12.00%) Batch Management
4 3 (12.00%) Batch Scheduling
4 3 (12.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (12.00%) ITIL
4 3 (12.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (12.00%) Workload Management
5 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (8.00%) Data Munging
5 2 (8.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (8.00%) Data Science
5 2 (8.00%) DataOps
5 2 (8.00%) Impact Analysis
5 2 (8.00%) Insurtech
5 2 (8.00%) Sequence Diagram
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) JCL
2 5 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (12.00%) Perl
4 2 (8.00%) Java
4 2 (8.00%) Scala
5 1 (4.00%) Bash
5 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 2 (8.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) CyberArk
1 3 (12.00%) SAP
1 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow
1 3 (12.00%) Splunk
2 2 (8.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (8.00%) Google
2 2 (8.00%) Guidewire
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.00%) Confluent
3 1 (4.00%) F5
3 1 (4.00%) IBM