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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 85 102
Rank change year-on-year +14 +17 +40
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 70 40 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.97% 2.14% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.40% 2.27% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 31 7
10th Percentile £416 £555 £565
25th Percentile £469 £623 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £716 £800 £738
90th Percentile £763 £825 £778
Central London median daily rate £600 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -11.11% - +3.85%

All Process & 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 2,060 1,759 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.51% 94.27% 91.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,407 1,155 1,273
10th Percentile £379 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £770 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.35 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% +4.91% -1.82%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £57.49 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.83 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -21.47% +7.67% -22.86%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Event-Driven job vacancy trend 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 14 August 2026.

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

Event-Driven
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (2.86%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.43%) Camunda
2 1 (1.43%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.86%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.43%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.43%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 36 (51.43%) AWS
2 29 (41.43%) Azure
3 20 (28.57%) GitHub
4 10 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (14.29%) Serverless
5 9 (12.86%) Amazon Kinesis
5 9 (12.86%) Amazon S3
6 8 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (10.00%) GCP
7 7 (10.00%) PaaS
7 7 (10.00%) Power Platform
8 6 (8.57%) SaaS
9 5 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) Multicast
2 2 (2.86%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.14%) Power BI
3 4 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (5.71%) DynamoDB
4 3 (4.29%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (4.29%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.29%) Metadata
4 3 (4.29%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.86%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.86%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.43%) Big Data
6 1 (1.43%) Db2
6 1 (1.43%) MySQL
6 1 (1.43%) Redis
6 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Git
2 8 (11.43%) GitLab
3 5 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.71%) JUnit
4 4 (5.71%) Maven
5 3 (4.29%) Bitbucket
5 3 (4.29%) Gradle
6 1 (1.43%) JIRA
6 1 (1.43%) Mockito
6 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (34.29%) Finance
3 13 (18.57%) Banking
4 11 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 7 (10.00%) Front Office
6 7 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (5.71%) Investment Banking
8 3 (4.29%) Back Office
9 2 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.86%) Marketing
10 1 (1.43%) Billing
10 1 (1.43%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.43%) Law
10 1 (1.43%) Military
10 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.43%) Retail
10 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (37.14%) Architect
2 21 (30.00%) Senior
3 16 (22.86%) Developer
4 13 (18.57%) Senior Developer
5 9 (12.86%) Java Developer
5 9 (12.86%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (10.00%) Data Architect
6 7 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (8.57%) Data Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) Technical Architect
8 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (5.71%) Integration Architect
9 3 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Senior Data Engineer
10 2 (2.86%) Lead
10 2 (2.86%) Platform Architect
10 2 (2.86%) Principal Engineer
10 2 (2.86%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (24.29%) Kafka
2 16 (22.86%) REST
3 12 (17.14%) Spring
3 12 (17.14%) Spring Boot
4 10 (14.29%) RESTful
5 8 (11.43%) .NET
5 8 (11.43%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (8.57%) Middleware
6 6 (8.57%) SOAP
7 5 (7.14%) PySpark
8 4 (5.71%) JSON
8 4 (5.71%) React
8 4 (5.71%) XML
9 3 (4.29%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (4.29%) GraphQL
9 3 (4.29%) JWT
9 3 (4.29%) OAuth
9 3 (4.29%) OAuth2
9 3 (4.29%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (2.86%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 30 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 23 (32.86%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.71%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.71%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.29%) Equities
5 3 (4.29%) Fixed Income
5 3 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.86%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.86%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.86%) IoT
6 2 (2.86%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.43%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (1.43%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.43%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Linux
1 1 (1.43%) Unix
1 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (62.86%) CI/CD
2 37 (52.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 32 (45.71%) DevOps
3 32 (45.71%) Microservices
4 23 (32.86%) Data Modelling
5 22 (31.43%) Containerisation
6 21 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (25.71%) Integration Patterns
7 18 (25.71%) Observability
8 15 (21.43%) Test Automation
9 14 (20.00%) ERP
9 14 (20.00%) Migration
9 14 (20.00%) Roadmaps
10 13 (18.57%) Agile
10 13 (18.57%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (17.14%) Analytics
11 12 (17.14%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (15.71%) API Design
12 11 (15.71%) Software Engineering
12 11 (15.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.86%) Java
2 20 (28.57%) Python
3 13 (18.57%) SQL
4 7 (10.00%) C#
5 6 (8.57%) Ruby
6 5 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.29%) Bicep
7 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.86%) Apex Code
8 2 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.43%) DataWeave
9 1 (1.43%) Elixir
9 1 (1.43%) Go
9 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.43%) SOQL
9 1 (1.43%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 17 (24.29%) Security Cleared
2 15 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.86%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.86%) Degree
4 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.43%) CSPO
4 1 (1.43%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) Data Quality
1 6 (8.57%) QA
2 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.43%) Basel III
3 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.43%) GDPR
3 1 (1.43%) GRC
3 1 (1.43%) IFRS
3 1 (1.43%) IFRS 9
3 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (1.43%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (24.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.43%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 14 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.29%) Terraform
3 4 (5.71%) Grafana
3 4 (5.71%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.43%) Bosun
Vendors
1 14 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.14%) Oracle
3 9 (12.86%) Databricks
4 7 (10.00%) SAP
5 6 (8.57%) MuleSoft
6 5 (7.14%) Salesforce
7 4 (5.71%) Google
8 3 (4.29%) Workday
9 2 (2.86%) OpenAI
9 2 (2.86%) Sybase
10 1 (1.43%) Bloomberg
10 1 (1.43%) IBM
10 1 (1.43%) Informatica
10 1 (1.43%) New Relic
10 1 (1.43%) Pega
10 1 (1.43%) Planon
10 1 (1.43%) Refinitiv
10 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.43%) Solace