Batch Scripting Contracts

Batch Scripting
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Batch Scripting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Batch Scripting over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 676 831
Rank change year-on-year +105 +155 -114
Contract jobs citing Batch Scripting 13 21 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.038% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.042% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 9
10th Percentile £394 £398 £467
25th Percentile £431 £418 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £439 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.90% -20.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £525 £613 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £432 £335
% change year-on-year +15.74% +28.96% +0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £25.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Batch Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Batch Scripting in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Batch Scripting in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Batch Scripting over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Batch Scripting in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Batch Scripting 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 Scripting within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +88 13 £500 - 8
London +87 8 £475 -26.92% 4
UK excluding London +27 5 £500 +15.74% 6
South East - 3 £500 - 1
Work from Home +101 2 £500 +13.90% 3
North of England +16 2 £400 -3.38% 2
North West +14 2 £400 -3.38% 1

Batch Scripting
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 (23.08%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DHCP
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
3 2 (15.38%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (7.69%) Firewall
4 1 (7.69%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) AdminStudio
1 2 (15.38%) InstallShield
1 2 (15.38%) MSI
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (23.08%) Front Office
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Applications Packager
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Market Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Market Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Windows
3 3 (23.08%) CentOS
3 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (23.08%) Ubuntu
3 3 (23.08%) Unix
4 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps
1 5 (38.46%) ITIL
2 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Line Management
3 3 (23.08%) Patch Management
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Release Management
3 3 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Security Hardening
3 3 (23.08%) Security Patching
3 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery Management
3 3 (23.08%) Software Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Software Deployment
3 3 (23.08%) Software Distribution
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) PowerShell
2 5 (38.46%) VB.NET
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 3 (23.08%) C#
4 3 (23.08%) C++
4 3 (23.08%) PHP
5 2 (15.38%) VB
6 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
6 1 (7.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
1 3 (23.08%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) ISO 9001
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (23.08%) SLA
2 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
1 3 (23.08%) Hyper-V
1 3 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (23.08%) vSphere
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ansible
1 3 (23.08%) WSUS
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (15.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.69%) Qualys