Event-Driven Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Event-Driven
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Event-Driven skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 114 138
Rank change year-on-year +42 +24 -4
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 49 15 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.78% 0.72% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 0.78% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 5 14
10th Percentile £493 £625 £431
25th Percentile £618 £663 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +20.83% -16.38%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £688
90th Percentile £805 £798 £825
Central London median daily rate £675 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -6.90% +20.83% -15.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,661 1,913 2,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.27% 92.02% 90.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,212 1,878
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £705
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven in the City of London

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Event-Driven.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Event-Driven

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven in the City of London

Event-Driven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (6.12%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) NServiceBus
3 1 (2.04%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) AWS
1 16 (32.65%) Azure
2 11 (22.45%) Serverless
3 10 (20.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 10 (20.41%) Amazon S3
3 10 (20.41%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (10.20%) Amazon Cognito
4 5 (10.20%) Amazon EventBridge
4 5 (10.20%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (10.20%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (10.20%) Datadog
5 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.12%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (6.12%) Snowflake
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.08%) GCP
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 5 (10.20%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.08%) Big Data
3 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.08%) Event Store
3 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (2.04%) KDB
4 1 (2.04%) Metadata
4 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.16%) Git
3 3 (6.12%) JIRA
4 1 (2.04%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.04%) Gradle
4 1 (2.04%) JUnit
4 1 (2.04%) Maven
4 1 (2.04%) Mockito
4 1 (2.04%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (40.82%) Social Skills
2 19 (38.78%) Finance
3 15 (30.61%) Banking
4 7 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Billing
6 2 (4.08%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.08%) Front Office
7 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Publishing
7 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) Architect
2 10 (20.41%) Developer
2 10 (20.41%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (14.29%) Lead
4 6 (12.24%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.16%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Data Architect
5 4 (8.16%) Senior
5 4 (8.16%) Software Design Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Angular Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Billing Architect
7 2 (4.08%) C++ Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Payments Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.41%) Spring
2 9 (18.37%) AngularJS
3 8 (16.33%) .NET
3 8 (16.33%) Kafka
4 7 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 6 (12.24%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (10.20%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (10.20%) GraphQL
6 5 (10.20%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (10.20%) RESTful
6 5 (10.20%) WebSockets
7 4 (8.16%) Hibernate
7 4 (8.16%) Node.js
7 4 (8.16%) React
7 4 (8.16%) REST
8 2 (4.08%) JPA
8 2 (4.08%) Web Services
8 2 (4.08%) ZK
9 1 (2.04%) ActiveMQ
9 1 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (32.65%) Cloud Native
2 12 (24.49%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.20%) Fixed Income
3 5 (10.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.08%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.04%) Derivative
5 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.04%) NHS
5 1 (2.04%) Pricing Data
5 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Linux
2 2 (4.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (71.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 15 (30.61%) Microservices
2 15 (30.61%) Software Engineering
3 14 (28.57%) Agile
3 14 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 14 (28.57%) DevOps
4 13 (26.53%) Mentoring
5 11 (22.45%) Observability
6 10 (20.41%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (20.41%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (20.41%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (18.37%) Machine Learning
7 9 (18.37%) Performance Optimisation
8 8 (16.33%) Architectural Patterns
8 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
9 7 (14.29%) Fintech
10 6 (12.24%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 21 (42.86%) Python
2 15 (30.61%) Java
3 9 (18.37%) SQL
4 8 (16.33%) C#
5 6 (12.24%) JavaScript
6 5 (10.20%) PowerShell
7 4 (8.16%) TypeScript
8 3 (6.12%) C++
9 1 (2.04%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (4.08%) Degree
2 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.08%) GDPR
1 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (20.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (24.49%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.20%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (10.20%) Kibana
2 5 (10.20%) logstash
2 5 (10.20%) Prometheus
3 4 (8.16%) Terraform
4 2 (4.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) Oracle
2 5 (10.20%) Solace
3 1 (2.04%) Databricks
3 1 (2.04%) IBM
3 1 (2.04%) Salesforce