EDI Contract Job Trends in England

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring EDI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 466 493
Rank change year-on-year -125 +27 +53
Contract jobs citing EDI 54 57 35
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 0.79% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 16 16
10th Percentile £223 £415 £400
25th Percentile £350 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £553 £624 £588
90th Percentile £638 £700 £628
UK median daily rate £460 £475 £535
% change year-on-year -3.16% -11.21% +7.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £43.29
25th Percentile - £20.25 £46.36
Median hourly rate - £26.41 £52.93
Median % change year-on-year - -50.11% -40.19%
75th Percentile - £40.17 £59.71
90th Percentile - £54.32 £62.90
UK median hourly rate - £28.91 £52.93
% change year-on-year - -45.39% -40.19%

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 9,971 7,176 7,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.29% 25.51% 24.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,559 4,849 5,151
10th Percentile £381 £356 £360
25th Percentile £447 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 171 157
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £54.37 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.00 £73.85
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%

EDI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing EDI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

EDI job vacancy trend in England

EDI
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EDI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EDI

EDI
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EDI in England over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for EDI in England

EDI
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EDI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EDI

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 14 October 2026. 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
South East -46 19 £460 -8.00% 16
London -120 16 £575 +23.66% 31
South West -31 6 £350 -
Midlands -51 5 £538 - 15
North of England -68 5 £475 -25.49% 12
North West - 3 £475 - 7
East Midlands -16 2 £538 - 4
East of England -31 2 - - 5
Yorkshire -32 2 - - 3
West Midlands -47 2 - - 11
EDI
UK

EDI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.56%) Apache
2 2 (3.70%) Confluence
3 1 (1.85%) JBoss
3 1 (1.85%) Mendix
3 1 (1.85%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (14.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.70%) Infor LN
2 2 (3.70%) Maximo
2 2 (3.70%) SAP VC
3 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.85%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.85%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (1.85%) Infor M3
3 1 (1.85%) SAP AFS
3 1 (1.85%) SAP CAR
3 1 (1.85%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.85%) SAP POS DM
3 1 (1.85%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (24.07%) Boomi
2 12 (22.22%) Azure
3 11 (20.37%) AWS
3 11 (20.37%) Azure Service Bus
4 10 (18.52%) iPaaS
4 10 (18.52%) Power Platform
5 9 (16.67%) GCP
6 3 (5.56%) Serverless
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.70%) AtomSphere
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (3.70%) Lucidchart
7 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.85%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.85%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.67%) HTTP
2 3 (5.56%) SSL
3 2 (3.70%) FTP
3 2 (3.70%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) Power BI
2 5 (9.26%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.41%) Tableau
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.70%) DataStage
4 2 (3.70%) Flink
4 2 (3.70%) Metadata
4 2 (3.70%) MySQL
4 2 (3.70%) Pentaho
4 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.85%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) JIRA
2 2 (3.70%) Git
2 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.85%) Maven
3 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 16 (29.63%) Finance
3 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.96%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.41%) Billing
5 4 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.41%) Retail
6 3 (5.56%) Banking
7 2 (3.70%) Back Office
7 2 (3.70%) Law
7 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.70%) Publishing
8 1 (1.85%) Automotive
8 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Legal
8 1 (1.85%) Marketing
8 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Analyst
2 13 (24.07%) Architect
3 10 (18.52%) Systems Analyst
4 9 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (14.81%) Consultant
6 7 (12.96%) Developer
6 7 (12.96%) Lead
7 5 (9.26%) Data Analyst
7 5 (9.26%) SAP Consultant
8 4 (7.41%) Business Analyst
8 4 (7.41%) webMethods Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Lead Architect
10 2 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (3.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 2 (3.70%) Java Developer
10 2 (3.70%) Procurement Consultant
10 2 (3.70%) Security Architect
10 2 (3.70%) Senior
10 2 (3.70%) Solutions Consultant
10 2 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (38.89%) JSON
1 21 (38.89%) XML
2 18 (33.33%) REST
3 16 (29.63%) Middleware
3 16 (29.63%) SOAP
4 12 (22.22%) OAuth
5 10 (18.52%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
6 9 (16.67%) GraphQL
6 9 (16.67%) JWT
6 9 (16.67%) Kafka
6 9 (16.67%) OpenAPI
6 9 (16.67%) SAML
6 9 (16.67%) Swagger
7 5 (9.26%) EDIFACT
8 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.70%) OAuth2
8 2 (3.70%) React
8 2 (3.70%) Web Services
8 2 (3.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 9 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (12.96%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (11.11%) Onboarding
5 4 (7.41%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.70%) Reinsurance
6 2 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.85%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.85%) FMCG
7 1 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Linux
1 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (31.48%) Logistics
2 15 (27.78%) API Management
2 15 (27.78%) ERP
3 12 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
4 11 (20.37%) Integration Patterns
4 11 (20.37%) Migration
4 11 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (20.37%) Webhook
5 10 (18.52%) Event-Driven
5 10 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (16.67%) Analytics
6 9 (16.67%) API Design
6 9 (16.67%) Batch Processing
6 9 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 8 (14.81%) B2B
8 7 (12.96%) Data Mapping
8 7 (12.96%) Data Migration
8 7 (12.96%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.33%) SQL
2 6 (11.11%) ActionScript
2 6 (11.11%) ActionScript 2.0
3 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.70%) Groovy
5 2 (3.70%) Java
5 2 (3.70%) PHP
5 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.70%) Python
6 1 (1.85%) ABAP
6 1 (1.85%) Bicep
6 1 (1.85%) C#
6 1 (1.85%) Perl
6 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
1 2 (3.70%) Degree
1 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.85%) CIPD
2 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.85%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.85%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.41%) QA
3 2 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.70%) NCSC
4 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (33.33%) Oracle
2 17 (31.48%) SAP
3 12 (22.22%) IBM
4 10 (18.52%) Baan
5 9 (16.67%) Google
5 9 (16.67%) Informatica
5 9 (16.67%) MuleSoft
5 9 (16.67%) TIBCO
5 9 (16.67%) WSO2
6 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
7 4 (7.41%) webMethods
8 3 (5.56%) Ariba
8 3 (5.56%) Infor
9 2 (3.70%) Axway
9 2 (3.70%) ION Trading
9 2 (3.70%) Palantir
9 2 (3.70%) Software AG
10 1 (1.85%) Cisco
10 1 (1.85%) Civica
10 1 (1.85%) Sybase