EDI Contracts in England

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring EDI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited EDI over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 450 497 592
Rank change year-on-year +47 +95 +145
Contract jobs citing EDI 35 45 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.64% 0.60% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 29 41
10th Percentile £415 £423 £456
25th Percentile £447 £430 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -20.83% +17.65%
75th Percentile £544 £500 £680
90th Percentile £630 £551 £690
UK median daily rate £466 £450 £586
% change year-on-year +3.56% -23.21% +14.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £55.43 -
UK median hourly rate - £55.43 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

EDI falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

EDI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing EDI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for EDI in England

EDI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing EDI in England.

Daily rate trend for EDI in England

EDI
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EDI in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for EDI in England

EDI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing EDI in England.

Hourly rate trend for EDI in England

EDI
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EDI within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +28 16 £454 +5.58% 37
South East +47 7 £500 -4.76% 29
Midlands +25 5 - - 13
North of England +21 5 £455 +1.11% 10
North West - 5 £455 - 9
West Midlands +17 4 - - 7
South West - 1 £625 - 10
EDI
UK

EDI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (14.29%) NetWeaver
2 2 (5.71%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (5.71%) CMS
3 1 (2.86%) IIS
3 1 (2.86%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (2.86%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (5.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (5.71%) Magento
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (5.71%) SAP CX
2 2 (5.71%) SAP MM
2 2 (5.71%) SAP PP
2 2 (5.71%) Shopify
3 1 (2.86%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.57%) Azure API Management
4 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.71%) Boomi
5 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.71%) Oracle CX
5 2 (5.71%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.86%) IaaS
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.86%) Miro
6 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (34.29%) HTTP
2 2 (5.71%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Oracle Database
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (2.86%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Ant
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
1 2 (5.71%) SoapUI
1 2 (5.71%) Toad
2 1 (2.86%) JUnit
General
1 11 (31.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Retail
4 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Finance
4 4 (11.43%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Automotive
5 2 (5.71%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.86%) Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Digital Health
6 1 (2.86%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Developer
2 11 (31.43%) Integration Developer
3 8 (22.86%) SAP Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Integration Specialist
5 3 (8.57%) Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Product Owner
6 2 (5.71%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) SAP MM Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) SAP PP Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) Senior
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
7 1 (2.86%) IT Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Technical Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (45.71%) SOAP
2 14 (40.00%) REST
3 12 (34.29%) IDoc
3 12 (34.29%) XML
4 11 (31.43%) XSLT
5 9 (25.71%) Middleware
6 8 (22.86%) JDBC
7 7 (20.00%) SAP PI
8 5 (14.29%) JMS
9 4 (11.43%) JSON
9 4 (11.43%) Kafka
10 3 (8.57%) J2EE
11 2 (5.71%) .NET
11 2 (5.71%) EDIFACT
11 2 (5.71%) IBM Integration Bus
11 2 (5.71%) SAP Fiori
11 2 (5.71%) WCF
11 2 (5.71%) Web Services
12 1 (2.86%) ADO
12 1 (2.86%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Virtual Team
2 5 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (14.29%) Photography
3 4 (11.43%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (2.86%) IoT
5 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) AIX
2 2 (5.71%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Unix
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) Agile
2 10 (28.57%) API Management
3 9 (25.71%) Scrum
4 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (17.14%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (14.29%) B2B
5 5 (14.29%) Performance Testing
5 5 (14.29%) Project Management
5 5 (14.29%) SDLC
5 5 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
6 4 (11.43%) Data Transformation
6 4 (11.43%) Migration
6 4 (11.43%) Roadmaps
7 3 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (8.57%) DevOps
7 3 (8.57%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (8.57%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (8.57%) Requirements Workshops
7 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (8.57%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) ABAP
1 10 (28.57%) Java
2 5 (14.29%) Groovy
3 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.43%) SQL
4 2 (5.71%) ActionScript
4 2 (5.71%) ActionScript 2.0
4 2 (5.71%) Korn
4 2 (5.71%) Perl
4 2 (5.71%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.86%) Bicep
5 1 (2.86%) C#
5 1 (2.86%) COBOL
5 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Degree
2 5 (14.29%) Postgraduate
3 3 (8.57%) SAP Certification
4 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.71%) QA
1 2 (5.71%) SEPA
2 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.86%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (48.57%) SAP
2 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
3 5 (14.29%) Oracle
4 3 (8.57%) IBM
4 3 (8.57%) MuleSoft
4 3 (8.57%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.71%) Adobe
5 2 (5.71%) Dell
5 2 (5.71%) NCR
5 2 (5.71%) Perforce
5 2 (5.71%) VeriFone
6 1 (2.86%) Apple
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco
6 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.86%) Epicor
6 1 (2.86%) JD Edwards
6 1 (2.86%) SEEBURGER
6 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.86%) Sitecore
6 1 (2.86%) VMware