Event-Driven Architecture Contracts

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Event-Driven Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Event-Driven Architecture over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 480 474
Rank change year-on-year -23 -6 -20
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture 87 225 420
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.39% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.43% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 175 324
10th Percentile £430 £488 £463
25th Percentile £495 £516 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +6.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £714
90th Percentile £738 £750 £818
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £523
% change year-on-year - +5.14% -0.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - - £54.56
25th Percentile £52.50 - £57.66
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £64.75
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -45.94% -
75th Percentile £57.50 - £71.26
90th Percentile - £49.11 £74.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Event-Driven Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Event-Driven Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Event-Driven Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven Architecture in the UK

Event-Driven Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture.

Daily rate trend for Event-Driven Architecture in the UK

Event-Driven Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven Architecture in the UK

Event-Driven Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture.

Hourly rate trend for Event-Driven Architecture in the UK

Event-Driven Architecture
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 Event-Driven Architecture within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 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 +8 85 £550 -14.56% 58
London +26 59 £600 -7.69% 31
Work from Home +46 27 £550 -12.00% 35
UK excluding London +28 24 £550 - 27
North of England +40 12 £495 -9.06% 14
North West +19 7 £489 -11.09% 11
South West +5 7 £600 -11.11% 1
Yorkshire +20 4 £550 +2.33% 3
Scotland +40 2 £600 +2.61%
South East +14 2 £475 -11.63% 4
East of England +4 1 £600 +14.72% 1
North East - 1 £650 -

Event-Driven Architecture
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 5 (5.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (4.60%) Confluence
3 2 (2.30%) CMS
3 2 (2.30%) nginx
4 1 (1.15%) Apache
4 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.15%) JBoss
4 1 (1.15%) MQSeries
Applications
1 5 (5.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.15%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (44.83%) AWS
2 38 (43.68%) Azure
3 27 (31.03%) Serverless
4 25 (28.74%) GCP
5 16 (18.39%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (16.09%) Azure Service Bus
7 8 (9.20%) Azure Event Grid
8 7 (8.05%) Azure AKS
8 7 (8.05%) Azure App Service
8 7 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (6.90%) Amazon S3
9 6 (6.90%) Apigee
9 6 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (6.90%) NuGet
10 5 (5.75%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (5.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (5.75%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (5.75%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (5.75%) GitHub
10 5 (5.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) AMQP
2 1 (1.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (27.59%) NoSQL
2 12 (13.79%) Relational Database
3 11 (12.64%) MongoDB
4 7 (8.05%) DynamoDB
4 7 (8.05%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.75%) OLAP
5 5 (5.75%) OLTP
5 5 (5.75%) Oracle OLAP
6 4 (4.60%) Bigtable
6 4 (4.60%) Cloud Spanner
6 4 (4.60%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.60%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.30%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.30%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.15%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (13.79%) Git
2 10 (11.49%) JIRA
3 6 (6.90%) Cucumber
4 4 (4.60%) Cypress.io
4 4 (4.60%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.30%) Mocha
5 2 (2.30%) Selenium
6 1 (1.15%) GitLab
6 1 (1.15%) Gradle
6 1 (1.15%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.15%) JMeter
6 1 (1.15%) JUnit
6 1 (1.15%) Maven
6 1 (1.15%) Mockito
6 1 (1.15%) Moq
6 1 (1.15%) NUnit
6 1 (1.15%) Serilog
6 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (33.33%) Finance
2 15 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 12 (13.79%) Banking
4 7 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.60%) Retail
7 3 (3.45%) Marketing
8 2 (2.30%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.15%) Advertising
9 1 (1.15%) Electronics
9 1 (1.15%) Front Office
9 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Law
9 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.15%) Retail Finance
9 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (40.23%) Architect
2 19 (21.84%) Developer
3 14 (16.09%) Solutions Architect
4 12 (13.79%) Data Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) AWS Architect
5 9 (10.34%) GCP Architect
6 8 (9.20%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) Senior
7 5 (5.75%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (5.75%) Java Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Lead
8 4 (4.60%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.60%) QA Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) QA Test Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) C# Software Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (31.03%) Kafka
2 22 (25.29%) .NET
3 15 (17.24%) Node.js
4 14 (16.09%) .NET Core
5 11 (12.64%) React
5 11 (12.64%) SOAP
6 9 (10.34%) Jest
6 9 (10.34%) Spring
7 8 (9.20%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (9.20%) REST
7 8 (9.20%) Spring Boot
7 8 (9.20%) Web Services
8 7 (8.05%) GraphQL
9 6 (6.90%) YAML
10 5 (5.75%) AngularJS
10 5 (5.75%) Gherkin
10 5 (5.75%) IBM Integration Bus
10 5 (5.75%) J2EE
10 5 (5.75%) Middleware
10 5 (5.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.39%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.75%) DataPower
3 5 (5.75%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (4.60%) Blockchain
5 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.30%) Wiki
7 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.15%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.60%) Unix
2 2 (2.30%) Linux
3 1 (1.15%) Android
3 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 41 (47.13%) Microservices
3 37 (42.53%) Agile
4 22 (25.29%) DevOps
5 17 (19.54%) TDD
6 16 (18.39%) Software Engineering
7 15 (17.24%) CI/CD
8 12 (13.79%) Test Automation
9 11 (12.64%) API Management
9 11 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (11.49%) Design Patterns
10 10 (11.49%) OO
11 9 (10.34%) Machine Learning
11 9 (10.34%) SOA
12 8 (9.20%) Artificial Intelligence
12 8 (9.20%) BDD
12 8 (9.20%) Containerisation
12 8 (9.20%) Enterprise Architecture
12 8 (9.20%) Event-Driven Programming
12 8 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (34.48%) Java
2 21 (24.14%) C#
2 21 (24.14%) Python
3 16 (18.39%) TypeScript
4 15 (17.24%) SQL
5 10 (11.49%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.90%) Go
7 5 (5.75%) Bicep
8 4 (4.60%) Kotlin
8 4 (4.60%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.45%) Ruby
10 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.15%) Gremlin
11 1 (1.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (4.60%) Degree
1 4 (4.60%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.30%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.15%) CISSP
4 1 (1.15%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) QA
2 4 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.15%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (9.20%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 21 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.34%) Terraform
3 4 (4.60%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.45%) Grafana
5 2 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.15%) Ganglia
6 1 (1.15%) Istio
6 1 (1.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.94%) Google
3 12 (13.79%) IBM
3 12 (13.79%) Oracle
4 5 (5.75%) TSYS
5 4 (4.60%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.30%) Confluent
6 2 (2.30%) Informatica
7 1 (1.15%) Adobe
7 1 (1.15%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.15%) Databricks
7 1 (1.15%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.15%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.15%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) SAP
7 1 (1.15%) Solace
7 1 (1.15%) Splunk
7 1 (1.15%) Teradata