EDI Contracts

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 530 621
Rank change year-on-year +52 +91 +151
Contract jobs citing EDI 48 60 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.72% 0.67% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 34 44
10th Percentile £415 £409 £394
25th Percentile £450 £427 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% -11.90% +2.94%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £658
90th Percentile £630 £546 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £495 £650
% change year-on-year -5.86% -23.85% +44.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £55.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,621 8,922 13,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.63% 20.75% 23.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,555 6,182 9,788
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 244 156
10th Percentile £29.45 £21.25 £30.38
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.79 £74.85 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +24.27%

EDI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for EDI in the UK

EDI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for EDI in the UK

EDI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EDI over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for EDI in the UK

EDI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for EDI in the UK

EDI
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 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
England +59 37 £465 -4.12% 98
UK excluding London +54 21 £466 -5.86% 68
Work from Home +33 20 £466 +3.56% 51
London +23 17 £443 +3.02% 40
South East +45 7 £500 -4.76% 24
North of England +22 5 £455 +1.11% 8
Midlands +20 5 - - 14
North West - 5 £455 - 5
West Midlands +24 4 - - 10
Wales - 2 £460 -
South West - 1 £625 - 8
Scotland - 1 £520 - 5

EDI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (14.58%) NetWeaver
2 2 (4.17%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (4.17%) CMS
3 1 (2.08%) IIS
3 1 (2.08%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (2.08%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (22.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (12.50%) SAP MM
3 2 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (4.17%) Magento
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (4.17%) SAP CX
3 2 (4.17%) SAP PP
3 2 (4.17%) Shopify
4 1 (2.08%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (2.08%) NetSuite
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (2.08%) SAP EWM
4 1 (2.08%) SAP GTS
4 1 (2.08%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.83%) Azure
2 8 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (8.33%) Azure API Management
3 4 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.17%) Boomi
5 2 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.17%) Oracle CX
5 2 (4.17%) SaaS
5 2 (4.17%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Apigee
6 1 (2.08%) AWS
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.08%) GCP
6 1 (2.08%) IaaS
6 1 (2.08%) iPaaS
6 1 (2.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (31.25%) HTTP
2 2 (4.17%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.08%) Power BI
3 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Ant
1 3 (6.25%) SoapUI
1 3 (6.25%) Toad
2 2 (4.17%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) JUnit
3 1 (2.08%) Postman
General
1 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (12.50%) Finance
4 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.42%) Retail
5 4 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (6.25%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.17%) Automotive
7 2 (4.17%) Billing
8 1 (2.08%) Banking
8 1 (2.08%) Digital Health
8 1 (2.08%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Legal
8 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Developer
2 14 (29.17%) Integration Developer
3 10 (20.83%) SAP Developer
4 7 (14.58%) Consultant
4 7 (14.58%) SAP Consultant
5 4 (8.33%) Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Integration Consultant
5 4 (8.33%) Integration Specialist
5 4 (8.33%) SAP Integration Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.17%) Lead
6 2 (4.17%) Product Owner
6 2 (4.17%) SAP MM Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) SAP PP Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) Senior
7 1 (2.08%) Analyst
7 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (2.08%) Senior Manager
7 1 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.08%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (41.67%) SOAP
2 17 (35.42%) REST
3 15 (31.25%) IDoc
3 15 (31.25%) XML
4 13 (27.08%) Middleware
4 13 (27.08%) XSLT
5 10 (20.83%) JDBC
6 9 (18.75%) SAP PI
7 7 (14.58%) JMS
8 5 (10.42%) Kafka
9 4 (8.33%) JSON
10 3 (6.25%) IBM Integration Bus
10 3 (6.25%) J2EE
11 2 (4.17%) .NET
11 2 (4.17%) EDIFACT
11 2 (4.17%) OAuth
11 2 (4.17%) SAP Fiori
11 2 (4.17%) WCF
11 2 (4.17%) Web Services
12 1 (2.08%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Virtual Team
2 7 (14.58%) Legacy Applications
3 5 (10.42%) Photography
4 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
5 3 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
6 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.08%) IoT
7 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Windows
2 3 (6.25%) AIX
2 3 (6.25%) Linux
2 3 (6.25%) Unix
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (33.33%) Agile
2 13 (27.08%) API Management
3 12 (25.00%) Scrum
4 10 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.58%) Performance Testing
6 7 (14.58%) SDLC
6 7 (14.58%) System Integration Testing
7 6 (12.50%) B2B
7 6 (12.50%) Project Management
8 5 (10.42%) DevOps
9 4 (8.33%) Computer Science
9 4 (8.33%) Data Transformation
9 4 (8.33%) ERP
9 4 (8.33%) Migration
9 4 (8.33%) Roadmaps
10 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Architecture
10 3 (6.25%) Logistics
10 3 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (6.25%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.17%) Java
2 12 (25.00%) ABAP
3 6 (12.50%) SQL
4 5 (10.42%) Groovy
5 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.33%) PL/SQL
6 3 (6.25%) Korn
6 3 (6.25%) Perl
7 2 (4.17%) ActionScript
7 2 (4.17%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (2.08%) Bicep
8 1 (2.08%) C#
8 1 (2.08%) COBOL
8 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.08%) Python
8 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (25.00%) Degree
2 5 (10.42%) Postgraduate
3 3 (6.25%) SAP Certification
3 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) QA
1 3 (6.25%) SEPA
2 2 (4.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) SLA
3 1 (2.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.08%) SCOM
1 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (54.17%) SAP
2 8 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 7 (14.58%) Oracle
4 4 (8.33%) IBM
4 4 (8.33%) MuleSoft
4 4 (8.33%) Salesforce
5 3 (6.25%) Perforce
6 2 (4.17%) Adobe
6 2 (4.17%) Dell
6 2 (4.17%) NCR
6 2 (4.17%) VeriFone
7 1 (2.08%) Apple
7 1 (2.08%) Ariba
7 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.08%) Epicor
7 1 (2.08%) HubSpot
7 1 (2.08%) JD Edwards
7 1 (2.08%) OneTrust
7 1 (2.08%) Samsung
7 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow