Event-Driven Contracts in Central London

Event-Driven
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Event-Driven skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Event-Driven over the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 130 144
Rank change year-on-year +34 +14 -2
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 39 13 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.90% 0.57% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 0.62% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 6 19
10th Percentile £545 £556 £431
25th Percentile £623 £603 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -10.34% -
75th Percentile £800 £725 £1,063
90th Percentile £826 £738 -
London median daily rate £625 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
London median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% -53.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Event-Driven falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,924 2,100 3,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.67% 91.42% 90.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,262 1,448 2,237
10th Percentile £331 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £825
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 18
10th Percentile £22.15 £20.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.63 £15.59
Median hourly rate £31.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -14.29% -17.65%
75th Percentile £50.75 £65.63 £49.96
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £58.25
London median hourly rate £29.50 £34.00 £41.27
% change year-on-year -13.24% -17.62% +17.91%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven in Central London

Event-Driven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Event-Driven in Central London

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven in Central London over the 6 months to 30 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven in Central London

Event-Driven
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 30 July 2025. 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
City of London +26 39 £675 +3.85% 3
Event-Driven
London

Event-Driven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (2.56%) Camunda
1 1 (2.56%) Confluence
1 1 (2.56%) NServiceBus
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Fidessa
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) Azure
2 11 (28.21%) AWS
3 6 (15.38%) Serverless
4 5 (12.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (12.82%) Amazon Cognito
4 5 (12.82%) Amazon EventBridge
4 5 (12.82%) Amazon S3
4 5 (12.82%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (12.82%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (12.82%) Datadog
5 2 (5.13%) GCP
5 2 (5.13%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.56%) iPaaS
6 1 (2.56%) SaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) DynamoDB
1 5 (12.82%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.13%) Big Data
2 2 (5.13%) Event Store
2 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.56%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (2.56%) KDB
3 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Git
1 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.13%) JIRA
3 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.56%) Gradle
3 1 (2.56%) JUnit
3 1 (2.56%) Maven
3 1 (2.56%) Mockito
3 1 (2.56%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (48.72%) Finance
2 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
3 13 (33.33%) Banking
4 6 (15.38%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.56%) Back Office
6 1 (2.56%) Billing
6 1 (2.56%) Front Office
6 1 (2.56%) Publishing
6 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Architect
1 10 (25.64%) Developer
2 6 (15.38%) Java Developer
2 6 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (12.82%) Lead
3 5 (12.82%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Software Design Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Architect
6 2 (5.13%) C++ Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (5.13%) GCP Architect
6 2 (5.13%) GCP Data Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Senior
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.64%) Spring
2 8 (20.51%) Kafka
3 7 (17.95%) Spring Boot
4 6 (15.38%) AngularJS
4 6 (15.38%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (12.82%) .NET
5 5 (12.82%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (12.82%) GraphQL
5 5 (12.82%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (12.82%) REST
5 5 (12.82%) WebSockets
6 4 (10.26%) Hibernate
7 3 (7.69%) RESTful
8 2 (5.13%) JPA
8 2 (5.13%) Web Services
8 2 (5.13%) ZK
9 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET
9 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (2.56%) Node.js
9 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.77%) Cloud Native
1 12 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (15.38%) Fixed Income
2 6 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.13%) Derivative
4 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.56%) Equities
4 1 (2.56%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.51%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (71.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 14 (35.90%) DevOps
2 14 (35.90%) Software Engineering
3 13 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 12 (30.77%) Agile
4 12 (30.77%) Mentoring
4 12 (30.77%) Microservices
5 10 (25.64%) Observability
5 10 (25.64%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
7 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (20.51%) Machine Learning
8 7 (17.95%) Algorithmic Trading
8 7 (17.95%) Architectural Patterns
8 7 (17.95%) Clean Code
8 7 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (15.38%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 21 (53.85%) Python
2 12 (30.77%) Java
3 8 (20.51%) SQL
4 7 (17.95%) C#
5 6 (15.38%) PowerShell
6 4 (10.26%) C++
6 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.56%) C
8 1 (2.56%) Ruby
8 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.13%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) EMIR
1 1 (2.56%) GDPR
1 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.56%) MiFID
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.82%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (12.82%) Kibana
2 5 (12.82%) logstash
2 5 (12.82%) Prometheus
3 3 (7.69%) Terraform
4 2 (5.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Solace
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle
3 1 (2.56%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.56%) CQG
3 1 (2.56%) IBM
3 1 (2.56%) ION Trading
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.56%) Reuters
3 1 (2.56%) Salesforce