EDI Contracts in the UK excluding London

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 381 414
Rank change year-on-year +63 +33 +79
Contract jobs citing EDI 21 18 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.087% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.88% 0.55% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 28
10th Percentile £450 £421 £425
25th Percentile £453 £453 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £495 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% -23.85% +44.44%
75th Percentile £504 £528 £680
90th Percentile £550 £538 £685
UK median daily rate £466 £450 £586
% change year-on-year +3.56% -23.21% +14.90%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,391 3,290 4,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.69% 15.85% 18.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,652 2,153 3,284
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 199 91
10th Percentile £31.71 £21.63 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -24.00% +27.55%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.80 £75.00 £78.00
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing EDI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for EDI in the UK excluding London

EDI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing EDI in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for EDI in the UK excluding London

EDI
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EDI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for EDI in the UK excluding London

EDI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing EDI in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for EDI in the UK excluding London

EDI
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EDI within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +47 7 £500 -4.76% 32
North of England +25 5 £455 +1.11% 11
Midlands +22 5 - - 14
North West - 5 £455 - 9
West Midlands +18 4 - - 7
Wales - 2 £460 -
South West - 1 £625 - 9
Scotland - 1 £520 - 3
EDI
UK

EDI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (28.57%) NetWeaver
2 1 (4.76%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (4.76%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) SAP MM
1 2 (9.52%) SAP PP
1 2 (9.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.76%) iPaaS
3 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) HTTP
2 2 (9.52%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Automotive
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) General Ledger
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Developer
2 9 (42.86%) Integration Developer
3 8 (38.10%) SAP Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) SAP MM Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) SAP PP Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) BizTalk Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Integration Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) SAP Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (52.38%) IDoc
1 11 (52.38%) REST
1 11 (52.38%) SOAP
1 11 (52.38%) XSLT
2 9 (42.86%) JDBC
3 8 (38.10%) XML
4 7 (33.33%) Middleware
5 6 (28.57%) JMS
5 6 (28.57%) SAP PI
6 3 (14.29%) J2EE
7 1 (4.76%) .NET
7 1 (4.76%) JSON
7 1 (4.76%) MSMQ
7 1 (4.76%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Legacy Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Virtual Team
2 5 (23.81%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) Performance Testing
2 6 (28.57%) Scrum
2 6 (28.57%) SDLC
2 6 (28.57%) System Integration Testing
2 6 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (23.81%) B2B
4 4 (19.05%) API Management
4 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) Project Management
5 3 (14.29%) BPMN
5 3 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (14.29%) Requirements Workshops
6 2 (9.52%) Change Management
6 2 (9.52%) DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (9.52%) Inventory Management
6 2 (9.52%) Logistics
6 2 (9.52%) Migration
6 2 (9.52%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) ABAP
1 9 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (14.29%) Groovy
2 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.52%) ActionScript
3 2 (9.52%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (4.76%) COBOL
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
1 5 (23.81%) Postgraduate
2 3 (14.29%) SAP Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) SAP
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.76%) Epicor
3 1 (4.76%) IBM
3 1 (4.76%) JD Edwards
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.76%) SEEBURGER
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow