EDI Contracts

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for EDI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited EDI over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 612 775
Rank change year-on-year +84 +163 -170
Contract jobs citing EDI 62 76 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.080%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.68% 0.60% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 37 49
10th Percentile £410 £374 £350
25th Percentile £427 £460 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +27.50%
75th Percentile £509 £625 £550
90th Percentile £588 £688 £605
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -5.71% +13.51% +32.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £42.25 - -
25th Percentile £43.75 - £70.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £70.50
75th Percentile £56.89 - £70.75
90th Percentile £61.78 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

EDI is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,170 12,773 23,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.91% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,339 9,318 17,450
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 150 223
10th Percentile £22.05 £30.68 £23.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.67% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £67.43
90th Percentile £74.49 £80.33 £76.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 7 June 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing EDI over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for EDI in the UK

EDI
Top 11 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 7 June 2024. 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 +90 49 £485 -7.62% 109
Work from Home +109 36 £450 -9.09% 31
London +99 32 £433 -23.02% 26
UK excluding London +48 16 £495 -5.71% 79
East of England +14 7 £495 -5.71% 7
North of England +20 4 £450 +20.00% 13
South East +4 4 £800 +68.42% 33
Yorkshire +14 2 £450 +20.00% 3
North West - 2 £500 - 10
Midlands +18 1 - - 15
West Midlands +13 1 - - 8

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 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.61%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (17.74%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 11 (17.74%) SAP FI-AP
1 11 (17.74%) SAP SD
2 7 (11.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (8.06%) SAP FI
4 4 (6.45%) SAP CO
4 4 (6.45%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (4.84%) SAP MM
6 1 (1.61%) SAP FSCM
6 1 (1.61%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (4.84%) GCP
2 2 (3.23%) IaaS
2 2 (3.23%) PaaS
2 2 (3.23%) SaaS
3 1 (1.61%) AWS
3 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (1.61%) Azure
3 1 (1.61%) Boomi
3 1 (1.61%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (1.61%) dbt
3 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.61%) GitHub
3 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
3 1 (1.61%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) Firewall
2 4 (6.45%) WAN
3 3 (4.84%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (4.84%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (4.84%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.61%) FTP
4 1 (1.61%) HTTP
4 1 (1.61%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.61%) LAN
4 1 (1.61%) MPLS
4 1 (1.61%) SAN
4 1 (1.61%) VPN
4 1 (1.61%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) Big Data
1 3 (4.84%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.61%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 1 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Manufacturing
4 8 (12.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (9.68%) Finance
5 6 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.68%) Retail
6 3 (4.84%) Advertising
6 3 (4.84%) Banking
6 3 (4.84%) Legal
7 1 (1.61%) Billing
7 1 (1.61%) French Language
7 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (33.87%) Consultant
2 14 (22.58%) SAP Consultant
3 11 (17.74%) Developer
4 9 (14.52%) SAP SD Consultant
5 6 (9.68%) Architect
5 6 (9.68%) Lead
6 4 (6.45%) Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Coordinator
7 3 (4.84%) EDI Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) HR Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) Information Assurance Leader
7 3 (4.84%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.84%) SAP CO Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) SAP FI Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) Senior
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) Senior SAP Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) Senior SAP SD Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.35%) IDoc
2 8 (12.90%) SAP Business Workflow
3 4 (6.45%) XML
4 2 (3.23%) SAP ALE
4 2 (3.23%) Spring
5 1 (1.61%) Middleware
5 1 (1.61%) RESTful
5 1 (1.61%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.61%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.84%) CCTV
2 3 (4.84%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.84%) Operational Technology
2 3 (4.84%) SCADA
3 1 (1.61%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.61%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) Unix
2 1 (1.61%) Linux
2 1 (1.61%) Windows
2 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (20.97%) Analytics
1 13 (20.97%) Workflow
2 12 (19.35%) Project Management
3 11 (17.74%) Accounts Payable
4 10 (16.13%) Invoice Processing
4 10 (16.13%) OCR
4 10 (16.13%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (14.52%) Logistics
6 7 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (9.68%) Information Security
8 5 (8.06%) Order Management
8 5 (8.06%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (8.06%) Test Scripting
9 4 (6.45%) Agile
9 4 (6.45%) Change Management
9 4 (6.45%) Data Management
9 4 (6.45%) Performance Management
9 4 (6.45%) Revenue Recognition
9 4 (6.45%) Risk Management
10 3 (4.84%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) ABAP
2 4 (6.45%) SQL
3 3 (4.84%) Java
3 3 (4.84%) Python
4 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.61%) ActionScript
5 1 (1.61%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (1.61%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (8.06%) SAP Certification
2 4 (6.45%) Degree
3 3 (4.84%) CCNA
3 3 (4.84%) CCNP
3 3 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (4.84%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) GAAP
2 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.23%) NIST
3 2 (3.23%) QA
4 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.61%) GxP
4 1 (1.61%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.84%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) SCCM
2 1 (1.61%) Grafana
2 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (54.84%) SAP
2 13 (20.97%) Microsoft
3 11 (17.74%) OpenText
4 4 (6.45%) Apple
4 4 (6.45%) VMware
5 3 (4.84%) CheckPoint
5 3 (4.84%) Cisco
5 3 (4.84%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.84%) Phenom
6 2 (3.23%) Google
6 2 (3.23%) Oracle
6 2 (3.23%) SEEBURGER
7 1 (1.61%) Ariba
7 1 (1.61%) Axway
7 1 (1.61%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.61%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.61%) Qualys
7 1 (1.61%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce