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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 492 597
Rank change year-on-year +55 +105 +134
Contract jobs citing EDI 38 45 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.70% 0.60% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 26 33
10th Percentile £415 £427 £390
25th Percentile £443 £430 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -13.64% +7.84%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £680
90th Percentile £630 £551 £685
UK median daily rate £466 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +3.56% -14.29% +2.94%
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 7,487 11,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.28% 20.58% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,778 5,310 8,226
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -1.32%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £799 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 231 132
10th Percentile £32.65 £22.50 £26.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £75.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

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 17 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 17 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 +25 18 £443 +3.02% 38
South East +48 7 £500 -37.50% 34
Midlands +22 5 - - 17
North West +21 5 £455 -9.00% 5
North of England +21 5 £455 +1.11% 14
West Midlands +10 4 - - 12
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 (13.16%) NetWeaver
2 2 (5.26%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (5.26%) CMS
3 1 (2.63%) IIS
3 1 (2.63%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (2.63%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (7.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (13.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (5.26%) Magento
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (5.26%) SAP CX
2 2 (5.26%) SAP MM
2 2 (5.26%) SAP PP
2 2 (5.26%) Shopify
3 1 (2.63%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (10.53%) Azure API Management
3 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) Boomi
5 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.26%) Oracle CX
5 2 (5.26%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.63%) IaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.63%) Miro
6 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (34.21%) HTTP
2 2 (5.26%) FTP
3 1 (2.63%) LAN
3 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.63%) Power BI
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Ant
1 3 (7.89%) SoapUI
1 3 (7.89%) Toad
2 2 (5.26%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) JUnit
General
1 12 (31.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Retail
4 5 (13.16%) Finance
5 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (7.89%) Financial Institution
7 2 (5.26%) Automotive
8 1 (2.63%) Banking
8 1 (2.63%) Digital Health
8 1 (2.63%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) Developer
2 12 (31.58%) Integration Developer
3 8 (21.05%) SAP Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Integration Specialist
5 3 (7.89%) Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Lead
6 2 (5.26%) Product Owner
6 2 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) SAP MM Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) SAP PP Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Senior
7 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
7 1 (2.63%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Technical Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 1 (2.63%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (44.74%) SOAP
2 14 (36.84%) REST
3 13 (34.21%) XML
4 12 (31.58%) IDoc
5 11 (28.95%) XSLT
6 10 (26.32%) Middleware
7 8 (21.05%) JDBC
8 7 (18.42%) SAP PI
9 5 (13.16%) JMS
9 5 (13.16%) Kafka
10 4 (10.53%) JSON
11 3 (7.89%) IBM Integration Bus
11 3 (7.89%) J2EE
12 2 (5.26%) .NET
12 2 (5.26%) EDIFACT
12 2 (5.26%) SAP Fiori
12 2 (5.26%) WCF
12 2 (5.26%) Web Services
13 1 (2.63%) MSMQ
13 1 (2.63%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Virtual Team
2 5 (13.16%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (13.16%) Photography
3 4 (10.53%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.63%) IoT
6 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Windows
2 3 (7.89%) AIX
2 3 (7.89%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Unix
3 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) Agile
2 11 (28.95%) API Management
3 9 (23.68%) Scrum
4 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (13.16%) B2B
5 5 (13.16%) Performance Testing
5 5 (13.16%) Project Management
5 5 (13.16%) SDLC
5 5 (13.16%) System Integration Testing
6 4 (10.53%) Computer Science
6 4 (10.53%) Data Transformation
6 4 (10.53%) Migration
6 4 (10.53%) Roadmaps
7 3 (7.89%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (7.89%) DevOps
7 3 (7.89%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (7.89%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (7.89%) Requirements Workshops
7 3 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.95%) Java
2 10 (26.32%) ABAP
3 6 (15.79%) SQL
4 5 (13.16%) Groovy
5 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.53%) PL/SQL
6 3 (7.89%) Korn
6 3 (7.89%) Perl
7 2 (5.26%) ActionScript
7 2 (5.26%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (2.63%) Bicep
8 1 (2.63%) C#
8 1 (2.63%) COBOL
8 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) Degree
2 5 (13.16%) Postgraduate
3 3 (7.89%) SAP Certification
4 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.63%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) SEPA
2 2 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.26%) QA
3 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.63%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (44.74%) SAP
2 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 7 (18.42%) Oracle
4 4 (10.53%) IBM
5 3 (7.89%) MuleSoft
5 3 (7.89%) Perforce
5 3 (7.89%) Salesforce
6 2 (5.26%) Adobe
6 2 (5.26%) Dell
6 2 (5.26%) NCR
6 2 (5.26%) VeriFone
7 1 (2.63%) Apple
7 1 (2.63%) Cisco
7 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.63%) Epicor
7 1 (2.63%) JD Edwards
7 1 (2.63%) SEEBURGER
7 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.63%) Sitecore
7 1 (2.63%) VMware