Event-Driven Contracts

Event-Driven
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Event-Driven skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Event-Driven over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 351 292
Rank change year-on-year -79 -59 +36
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 168 420 844
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.70% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.78% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 329 635
10th Percentile £406 £500 £475
25th Percentile £477 £563 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £775
90th Percentile £775 £863 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 4
10th Percentile - - £58.69
25th Percentile - - £67.99
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £76.00
Median % change year-on-year - -53.95% -
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - £45.58 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Event-Driven 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 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven in the UK

Event-Driven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Event-Driven in the UK

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven in the UK

Event-Driven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Event-Driven in the UK

Event-Driven
Top 15 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -50 148 £550 -16.98% 110
London -72 92 £600 -11.11% 62
Work from Home +9 63 £550 -21.43% 64
UK excluding London +56 53 £550 - 55
North of England +41 21 £550 +1.15% 23
South West +26 18 £550 -15.38% 2
North West +24 15 £510 -2.90% 19
South East +28 9 £475 -9.52% 7
Yorkshire +21 7 £593 -3.27% 2
Scotland +30 5 £550 +2.14% 6
North East - 3 £650 - 3
East of England +8 2 £575 +9.00% 3
West Midlands +29 1 £300 -53.85% 5
Midlands +18 1 £300 -40.00% 11
Wales +16 1 - - 2

Event-Driven
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 6 (3.57%) Confluence
2 5 (2.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.19%) CMS
5 1 (0.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.98%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.60%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 63 (37.50%) AWS
1 63 (37.50%) Azure
2 36 (21.43%) Serverless
3 28 (16.67%) GCP
4 25 (14.88%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (10.71%) Amazon S3
6 16 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
6 16 (9.52%) Azure Stack
7 14 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (6.55%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (6.55%) GitHub
9 8 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (4.17%) Azure AKS
10 7 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
10 7 (4.17%) OpenShift
10 7 (4.17%) PaaS
11 6 (3.57%) Azure App Service
11 6 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.57%) Network Security
2 5 (2.98%) AMQP
3 2 (1.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (19.64%) NoSQL
2 22 (13.10%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (10.12%) MongoDB
3 17 (10.12%) Relational Database
4 16 (9.52%) Snowflake Schema
5 9 (5.36%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (4.17%) BigQuery
6 7 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (4.17%) Redis
7 6 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.57%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.57%) InfluxDB
7 6 (3.57%) Power BI
8 5 (2.98%) Looker
8 5 (2.98%) MySQL
8 5 (2.98%) OLAP
8 5 (2.98%) OLTP
8 5 (2.98%) Oracle Database
8 5 (2.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (12.50%) Git
2 18 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 12 (7.14%) JIRA
4 11 (6.55%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.98%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.98%) Postman
6 4 (2.38%) GitLab
6 4 (2.38%) JUnit
6 4 (2.38%) Selenium
7 3 (1.79%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.79%) Hamcrest
7 3 (1.79%) webpack
8 2 (1.19%) Gradle
8 2 (1.19%) Jaeger
8 2 (1.19%) Maven
8 2 (1.19%) Mockito
8 2 (1.19%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.60%) Travis CI
General
1 45 (26.79%) Finance
2 28 (16.67%) Banking
3 20 (11.90%) Public Sector
3 20 (11.90%) Social Skills
4 15 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.74%) Retail
6 10 (5.95%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.76%) Marketing
8 6 (3.57%) Advertising
9 4 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.19%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.19%) Law
10 2 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.19%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.60%) Back Office
11 1 (0.60%) Electronics
11 1 (0.60%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (36.31%) Architect
2 50 (29.76%) Developer
3 20 (11.90%) Data Architect
4 17 (10.12%) Java Developer
5 16 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (7.74%) Senior
7 11 (6.55%) Data Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) Lead
9 9 (5.36%) .NET Developer
9 9 (5.36%) AWS Architect
9 9 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.36%) GCP Architect
10 7 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (4.17%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 6 (3.57%) Azure Architect
11 6 (3.57%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.57%) UI Developer
12 5 (2.98%) Java Engineer
12 5 (2.98%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (27.38%) REST
2 41 (24.40%) Kafka
3 31 (18.45%) .NET
4 26 (15.48%) JSON
5 23 (13.69%) React
5 23 (13.69%) Spring
6 22 (13.10%) Node.js
7 20 (11.90%) CSS
7 20 (11.90%) Spring Boot
8 19 (11.31%) XML
9 18 (10.71%) .NET Core
10 16 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
11 13 (7.74%) HTML
12 12 (7.14%) SOAP
13 11 (6.55%) GraphQL
14 9 (5.36%) jQuery
14 9 (5.36%) Web Services
15 8 (4.76%) Jest
16 7 (4.17%) HTML5
16 7 (4.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.90%) Data Structures
2 17 (10.12%) Product Ownership
3 16 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (8.33%) Reference Data
5 10 (5.95%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (3.57%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.98%) DataPower
9 5 (2.98%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (2.38%) Blockchain
10 4 (2.38%) Derivative
10 4 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (2.38%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.79%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.79%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.79%) N-Tier
11 3 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.74%) Linux
2 6 (3.57%) Unix
3 3 (1.79%) Windows
4 2 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.60%) Android
5 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (57.74%) Microservices
2 87 (51.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 77 (45.83%) Agile
4 42 (25.00%) DevOps
5 40 (23.81%) CI/CD
6 32 (19.05%) TDD
7 31 (18.45%) Analytics
8 23 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (13.10%) Data Modelling
10 21 (12.50%) Data Protection
10 21 (12.50%) Test Automation
11 18 (10.71%) Data Architecture
11 18 (10.71%) Software Engineering
12 17 (10.12%) Event-Driven Programming
12 17 (10.12%) Machine Learning
13 15 (8.93%) Data Governance
13 15 (8.93%) Design Patterns
13 15 (8.93%) Full Stack Development
14 14 (8.33%) GAP Analysis
15 13 (7.74%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 57 (33.93%) Java
2 41 (24.40%) Python
3 38 (22.62%) SQL
4 30 (17.86%) JavaScript
5 29 (17.26%) C#
6 20 (11.90%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.74%) Go
7 13 (7.74%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.17%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.57%) PHP
10 5 (2.98%) Bicep
11 4 (2.38%) C
11 4 (2.38%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.19%) Groovy
12 2 (1.19%) R
13 1 (0.60%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.60%) Scala
13 1 (0.60%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.36%) Degree
3 7 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.57%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.79%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.19%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.60%) CISSP
7 1 (0.60%) GIAC
7 1 (0.60%) ISEB
7 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.60%) COREP
3 1 (0.60%) IFRS
3 1 (0.60%) IFRS 17
3 1 (0.60%) IFRS 9
3 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 38 (22.62%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.90%) Terraform
3 10 (5.95%) Prometheus
4 9 (5.36%) Grafana
5 6 (3.57%) Ansible
5 6 (3.57%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.98%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.19%) Istio
9 1 (0.60%) Ganglia
9 1 (0.60%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (13.69%) Oracle
2 22 (13.10%) Google
3 20 (11.90%) Microsoft
4 13 (7.74%) IBM
5 7 (4.17%) Adobe
6 6 (3.57%) Ensighten
6 6 (3.57%) Omniture
6 6 (3.57%) SAP
6 6 (3.57%) Tealium
7 5 (2.98%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.98%) Monetate
7 5 (2.98%) Optimizely
7 5 (2.98%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.98%) TSYS
8 4 (2.38%) Solace
9 3 (1.79%) Confluent
10 2 (1.19%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.19%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.19%) Splunk
11 1 (0.60%) ForgeRock