Event-Driven Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Event-Driven
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Event-Driven skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 48 46
Rank change year-on-year -21 -2 -
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 4 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.65% 1.23% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.43% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £337 £454 -
25th Percentile £339 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £489 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% - -
75th Percentile £537 £656 -
90th Percentile - £726 -
North West median daily rate £530 £538 £626
% change year-on-year -1.40% -14.17% +13.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 566 420 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 91.44% 86.42% 88.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 274 189
10th Percentile £305 £329 £306
25th Percentile £358 £392 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.93% -3.45% +11.11%
75th Percentile £502 £575 £593
90th Percentile £638 £674 £650
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 30
10th Percentile £12.80 £16.00 £16.93
25th Percentile £12.82 £30.31 £22.44
Median hourly rate £18.31 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -47.69% +14.60% +45.43%
75th Percentile £33.38 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £48.18 £47.50 £36.18
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £34.00
% change year-on-year -37.63% +18.60% +55.32%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven in Cheshire

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven in Cheshire over the 6 months to 4 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven in Cheshire

Event-Driven
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 within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 4 September 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
Knutsford -25 4 £444 -9.30%
Event-Driven
North West

Event-Driven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon Glacier
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Java Solutions Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
3 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) RAML
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Swagger
3 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) API Development
3 2 (50.00%) Budget Control
3 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (50.00%) Contingency Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) Project Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle