The first table below looks at the demand for Event-Driven Architecture skills in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 24 May 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 London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
Rank 375 406 436
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +30
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture 2 9 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.009% 0.033% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.012% 0.047% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 6
Average daily rate £550 £413 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -25.00%
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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16194 19350 22109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.77% 71.83% 71.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11076 12690 14542
Average daily rate £450 £450 £480
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 340 350
Average hourly rate £30.00 £26.23 £27.23
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.39% -3.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £102.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Event-Driven Architecture
England

Event-Driven Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Event-Driven Architecture Daily Rate Trend

Event-Driven Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 3 (60.00%) Middleware
1 3 (60.00%) Process Management
1 3 (60.00%) Extreme Programming
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Complex Event Processing
1 3 (60.00%) Pattern Recognition
1 3 (60.00%) StreamBase
1 3 (60.00%) Esper
2 2 (40.00%) Open Source
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) JMS
2 2 (40.00%) SOA
2 2 (40.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) ActionScript
3 1 (20.00%) J2EE
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Servlets
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Xen
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development

Event-Driven Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 3 (60.00%) Middleware
1 3 (60.00%) Esper
2 2 (40.00%) JMS
3 1 (20.00%) J2EE
3 1 (20.00%) Servlets
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) GlassFish
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Process Management
1 3 (60.00%) Extreme Programming
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Complex Event Processing
1 3 (60.00%) Pattern Recognition
2 2 (40.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Erlang
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Xen
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) StreamBase
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle