The first table below looks at the demand for EDI skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EDI over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the East of England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
Rank 111 125 121
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -4
Contract jobs citing EDI 3 7 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.140% 0.237% 0.227%
As % of the Application Development category 0.491% 0.829% 0.775%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
Average daily rate £400 £300 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% +3.44%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £335
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +11.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £22.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year
- +25.00%
All Application Development
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
611 844 774
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 28.56% 28.56% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 436 355
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 59 60
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £27.50 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.40 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
EDI
England

EDI
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing EDI across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

East of England EDI Jobs Demand Trend

EDI
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing EDI across the East of England region.

East of England EDI Daily Rate Trend

EDI
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing EDI across the East of England region.

East of England EDI Hourly Rate Trend

EDI
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EDI within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bedfordshire - 2 £400 -
Hertfordshire +6 1 £400 -
EDI
England

EDI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing EDI also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited EDI.

1 7 (50.00%) Oracle
2 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 5 (35.71%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (28.57%) QAD
4 4 (28.57%) MFGPRO
4 4 (28.57%) Service Management
4 4 (28.57%) GIS
4 4 (28.57%) ITSM
4 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
4 4 (28.57%) Time Management
4 4 (28.57%) E-Commerce
4 4 (28.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (21.43%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (21.43%) Oracle 11i
5 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
5 3 (21.43%) SAP
5 3 (21.43%) ITIL
5 3 (21.43%) Oracle Discoverer
5 3 (21.43%) Pegasus
5 3 (21.43%) Six Sigma
5 3 (21.43%) SAP PI
5 3 (21.43%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (21.43%) Oracle iProcurement
5 3 (21.43%) Finance
6 2 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (14.29%) Test Strategy
6 2 (14.29%) TestNG
6 2 (14.29%) Computer Science

EDI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing EDI also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited EDI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (21.43%) SAP PI
2 2 (14.29%) GWT
2 2 (14.29%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
2 2 (14.29%) Tomcat
3 1 (7.143%) Gentran
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Visio
1 1 (7.143%) MS Project
1 1 (7.143%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (28.57%) MFGPRO
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle 11i
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle iProcurement
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle ERP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) GIS
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) TestNG
General
1 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Business Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Support Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle Support Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Process Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Business Systems Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Business Process Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Test Manager
5 1 (7.143%) EDI Business Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) EDI Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Test Leader
5 1 (7.143%) EDI Consultant
5 1 (7.143%) Functional Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (28.57%) Service Management
2 4 (28.57%) ITSM
2 4 (28.57%) Time Management
2 4 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 3 (21.43%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) Six Sigma
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Test Strategy
4 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Multithreading
4 2 (14.29%) ERP
5 1 (7.143%) EAI
5 1 (7.143%) Project Management
5 1 (7.143%) Business Transformation
5 1 (7.143%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) ISEB
1 1 (7.143%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (7.143%) SLA
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (28.57%) QAD
3 3 (21.43%) SAP
3 3 (21.43%) Pegasus
4 2 (14.29%) webMethods