Event-Driven Architecture Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Event-Driven Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 52 51
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 -
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture 7 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.04% 1.11% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.15% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 5
10th Percentile £430 £363 £444
25th Percentile £458 £405 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £410 £489
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.16% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 -
90th Percentile £691 - £500
North West median daily rate £537 £530 £489
% change year-on-year +1.32% +8.38% -11.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Event-Driven Architecture 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 591 435 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 87.56% 96.88% 84.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 300 276
10th Percentile £319 £317 £273
25th Percentile £392 £358 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -7.79% +2.74%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £580
90th Percentile £652 £638 £638
North West median daily rate £460 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.09% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 25 30
10th Percentile £13.47 £19.00 £13.70
25th Percentile £21.19 £29.50 £16.61
Median hourly rate £35.41 £47.50 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +78.17% -12.70%
75th Percentile £85.00 £86.00 £42.31
90th Percentile £85.10 - £44.13
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £22.98
% change year-on-year +69.23% +41.46% -37.31%

Event-Driven Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Event-Driven Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Event-Driven Architecture job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Event-Driven Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Event-Driven Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Event-Driven Architecture

Event-Driven Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture in Cheshire over the 6 months to 7 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven Architecture in Cheshire

Event-Driven Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 7 May 2026. 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
Knutsford -12 7 £492 -21.28%
Event-Driven Architecture
North West

Event-Driven Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Serverless
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (42.86%) IaaS
2 3 (42.86%) PaaS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) DocumentDB
1 3 (42.86%) DynamoDB
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Lead Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Junior
4 1 (14.29%) Junior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
2 2 (28.57%) OAuth
2 2 (28.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 7 (100.00%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) Translating Business Requirements
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Observability
4 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
5 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
5 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
5 2 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Atlassian