The first table below looks at the demand for Event-Driven Architecture skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Event-Driven Architecture over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
Rank 528 535 572
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +37
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture 4 10 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.009% 0.019% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.027% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 8
Average daily rate £625 £375 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+66.66% -31.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £616 £318 £495
10% offered a daily rate of more than £643 £450 £565
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
30962 36467 38788
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.55% 68.86% 67.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 18973 21328 22498
Average daily rate £420 £408 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.06% -7.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 918 1180 1380
Average hourly rate £31.00 £25.74 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.43% -9.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.84 £47.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Event-Driven Architecture
UK

Event-Driven Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

England Event-Driven Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Event-Driven Architecture
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture across the England region.

England Event-Driven Architecture Daily Rate Trend

Event-Driven Architecture
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +22 4 £625 +66.66%
South East - - - -
East of England - - - - 1
Event-Driven Architecture
UK

Event-Driven Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Event-Driven Architecture also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Event-Driven Architecture.

1 7 (77.78%) Middleware
1 7 (77.78%) Technical Architecture
2 6 (66.67%) Open Source
2 6 (66.67%) Java
3 4 (44.44%) XML
3 4 (44.44%) Apache
3 4 (44.44%) SOA
3 4 (44.44%) VPN
3 4 (44.44%) SSL
3 4 (44.44%) Apple
3 4 (44.44%) HTML5
3 4 (44.44%) Apple iOS
3 4 (44.44%) JSON
3 4 (44.44%) Back Office
3 4 (44.44%) Google
3 4 (44.44%) Android
4 3 (33.33%) Process Management
4 3 (33.33%) Complex Event Processing
4 3 (33.33%) Pattern Recognition
4 3 (33.33%) StreamBase
4 3 (33.33%) Esper
4 3 (33.33%) Extreme Programming
5 2 (22.22%) JMS
5 2 (22.22%) Linux
5 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
6 1 (11.11%) Xen
6 1 (11.11%) Selenium
6 1 (11.11%) GlassFish

Event-Driven Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Event-Driven Architecture also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Event-Driven Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (77.78%) Middleware
2 4 (44.44%) XML
2 4 (44.44%) HTML5
2 4 (44.44%) JSON
3 3 (33.33%) Esper
4 2 (22.22%) JMS
5 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
5 1 (11.11%) REST
5 1 (11.11%) Kafka
5 1 (11.11%) J2EE
5 1 (11.11%) Servlets
5 1 (11.11%) Web Services
5 1 (11.11%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) GlassFish
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) VPN
1 4 (44.44%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
1 1 (11.11%) Git (software)
1 1 (11.11%) JUnit
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
General
1 4 (44.44%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Lead Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Server Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Apple iOS
1 4 (44.44%) Android
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) UNIX
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Technical Architecture
2 4 (44.44%) SOA
3 3 (33.33%) Process Management
3 3 (33.33%) Complex Event Processing
3 3 (33.33%) Pattern Recognition
3 3 (33.33%) Extreme Programming
4 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (11.11%) Multithreading
5 1 (11.11%) OO
5 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
5 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Erlang
2 1 (11.11%) Scala
2 1 (11.11%) C++
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Xen
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Apple
1 4 (44.44%) Google
2 3 (33.33%) StreamBase
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle