Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring EDI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 617 544 567
Rank change year-on-year -73 +23 +132
Permanent jobs citing EDI 131 138 350
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.28% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.29% 1.54% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 100 58 244
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,218 £41,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £44,991
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.13% -9.97%
75th Percentile £63,563 £59,010 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,250 £72,763 £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,250 £45,647
% change year-on-year +18.92% +1.32% -7.71%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,189 8,956 20,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.36% 18.27% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,627 5,918 15,290
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.77%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

EDI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

EDI job vacancy trend in the UK

EDI
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing EDI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing EDI

EDI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing EDI over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for EDI in the UK

EDI
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing EDI within the UK over the 6 months to 11 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -51 118 £55,000 +10.00% 52
UK excluding London -30 90 £55,000 +18.92% 48
Work from Home -12 51 £41,250 -22.90% 25
North of England -9 35 £61,418 +46.23% 11
North West +21 31 £61,418 +16.99% 4
South East -17 26 £34,358 -19.16% 17
London -37 24 £48,000 -17.24% 7
Midlands -37 21 £55,000 - 9
West Midlands -16 19 £55,000 - 8
South West -64 5 £55,000 +10.00% 6
East of England -14 3 £55,000 +69.23% 2
Yorkshire -30 3 £30,000 -28.57% 4
East Midlands -37 1 £70,000 +75.00% 1
North East - 1 £87,500 - 3

EDI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 11 (8.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.87%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.29%) Confluence
4 2 (1.53%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.53%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.53%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.53%) Gentran
5 1 (0.76%) CMS
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.76%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (8.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (5.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.82%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (3.05%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (3.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.53%) Magento
4 2 (1.53%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.76%) Infor CloudSuite
5 1 (0.76%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.76%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.76%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.76%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.76%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.76%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.76%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.76%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.76%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.76%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.76%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.76%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.76%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.66%) Azure
2 26 (19.85%) Power Platform
3 21 (16.03%) Dynamics 365
4 16 (12.21%) GitHub
5 14 (10.69%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (9.16%) Boomi
7 10 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (6.87%) AWS
9 8 (6.11%) PowerApps
10 7 (5.34%) OneDrive
11 6 (4.58%) Power Automate
12 5 (3.82%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (3.82%) SaaS
13 3 (2.29%) Copilot Studio
13 3 (2.29%) Google Sheets
13 3 (2.29%) Lucidchart
14 2 (1.53%) Amazon EventBridge
14 2 (1.53%) GCP
14 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
14 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) Firewall
1 1 (0.76%) LAN
1 1 (0.76%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.76%) WAN
1 1 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (0.76%) Wireless
1 1 (0.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.50%) Power BI
2 17 (12.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.82%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.29%) MySQL
4 3 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.76%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (16.79%) JIRA
2 7 (5.34%) Git
3 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.76%) SpecFlow
General
1 59 (45.04%) Social Skills
2 42 (32.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 33 (25.19%) Retail
4 31 (23.66%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (23.66%) Finance
5 26 (19.85%) Manufacturing
6 17 (12.98%) Marketing
7 10 (7.63%) Public Sector
8 7 (5.34%) Law
8 7 (5.34%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.05%) Legal
9 4 (3.05%) Local Government
10 3 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.29%) Publishing
11 2 (1.53%) Police
11 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.76%) Esports
12 1 (0.76%) Games
12 1 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (22.90%) Senior
2 26 (19.85%) Analyst
2 26 (19.85%) Developer
3 14 (10.69%) Senior Developer
4 12 (9.16%) Business Systems Analyst
5 11 (8.40%) Integration Analyst
6 10 (7.63%) Business Integration Analyst
6 10 (7.63%) Systems Analyst
7 8 (6.11%) IT Support
7 8 (6.11%) Systems Integration Analyst
8 7 (5.34%) EDI Specialist
9 6 (4.58%) Architect
9 6 (4.58%) Consultant
9 6 (4.58%) Lead
9 6 (4.58%) RPG Developer
10 5 (3.82%) Business Analyst
10 5 (3.82%) Coordinator
10 5 (3.82%) Development Manager
10 5 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (3.82%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.74%) Middleware
2 16 (12.21%) JSON
2 16 (12.21%) XML
3 15 (11.45%) REST
4 12 (9.16%) SOAP
5 7 (5.34%) Web Services
6 5 (3.82%) .NET
6 5 (3.82%) IDoc
6 5 (3.82%) OAuth
7 4 (3.05%) CSS
7 4 (3.05%) HTML
7 4 (3.05%) JWT
8 3 (2.29%) Kafka
8 3 (2.29%) OAuth2
8 3 (2.29%) RESTful
9 2 (1.53%) EDIFACT
9 2 (1.53%) SAML
9 2 (1.53%) SAP XI
10 1 (0.76%) BAPI
10 1 (0.76%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.87%) Enterprise Cloud
2 8 (6.11%) AS400
2 8 (6.11%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (5.34%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.58%) iSeries
4 6 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.82%) CCTV
5 5 (3.82%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.82%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.05%) Blog
6 4 (3.05%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.05%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.05%) Life Science
7 3 (2.29%) FMCG
8 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.53%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.53%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.76%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.63%) Windows
2 6 (4.58%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.29%) Linux
4 1 (0.76%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (42.75%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (32.06%) ERP
3 29 (22.14%) CRM
4 26 (19.85%) Roadmaps
5 20 (15.27%) Agile
5 20 (15.27%) Logistics
6 19 (14.50%) DevOps
7 17 (12.98%) B2B
7 17 (12.98%) Collaborative Working
7 17 (12.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (12.21%) Customer Service
8 16 (12.21%) Project Management
9 15 (11.45%) AI
9 15 (11.45%) Migration
10 14 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (10.69%) Issue Tracking
11 13 (9.92%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (9.16%) API Integration
12 12 (9.16%) Customer Insight
12 12 (9.16%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (21.37%) SQL
2 13 (9.92%) Python
3 9 (6.87%) C#
3 9 (6.87%) JavaScript
4 8 (6.11%) RPG
5 4 (3.05%) RPG IV
5 4 (3.05%) RPG/400
6 3 (2.29%) Perl
7 2 (1.53%) DataWeave
7 2 (1.53%) R
8 1 (0.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (7.63%) Degree
2 5 (3.82%) DBS Check
3 3 (2.29%) AAT
3 3 (2.29%) CCAB
3 3 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (2.29%) CITP
3 3 (2.29%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (2.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.29%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (1.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.53%) CBAP
4 2 (1.53%) CCSP
4 2 (1.53%) CISSP
4 2 (1.53%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.53%) PhD
4 2 (1.53%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.53%) PMP
4 2 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.76%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.16%) TickIT
2 7 (5.34%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.82%) GDPR
4 4 (3.05%) SLA
5 2 (1.53%) GAAP
5 2 (1.53%) IFRS
5 2 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.76%) GRC
6 1 (0.76%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.76%) NIST
6 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (1.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 48 (36.64%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.45%) Salesforce
3 10 (7.63%) IBM
3 10 (7.63%) SAP
4 5 (3.82%) Apple
4 5 (3.82%) Google
4 5 (3.82%) JD Edwards
4 5 (3.82%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.05%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.29%) Ariba
6 3 (2.29%) Infor
6 3 (2.29%) Planon
6 3 (2.29%) webMethods
7 2 (1.53%) Adyen
7 2 (1.53%) Concur
7 2 (1.53%) IFS
7 2 (1.53%) Workday
8 1 (0.76%) Adobe
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle
8 1 (0.76%) Sage