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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 82 107
Rank change year-on-year +12 +25 +32
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 74 42 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.18% 2.32% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 2.47% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 33 6
10th Percentile £414 £511 £606
25th Percentile £469 £623 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% -3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £716 £800 £738
90th Percentile £763 £820 £788
Central London median daily rate £600 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +16.67%

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 2,044 1,703 1,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.80% 94.24% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 1,120 1,252
10th Percentile £383 £325 £375
25th Percentile £463 £422 £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 £775 £790
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £31.52 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £49.64 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +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 28 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 (2.70%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.35%) Camunda
2 1 (1.35%) CMS
2 1 (1.35%) Confluence
2 1 (1.35%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.70%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 38 (51.35%) AWS
2 31 (41.89%) Azure
3 18 (24.32%) GitHub
4 13 (17.57%) Serverless
5 9 (12.16%) Amazon S3
5 9 (12.16%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (10.81%) Amazon Kinesis
6 8 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (9.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (9.46%) PaaS
7 7 (9.46%) Power Platform
8 6 (8.11%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (8.11%) GCP
8 6 (8.11%) SaaS
9 5 (6.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (6.76%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.05%) Multicast
1 3 (4.05%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.11%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (6.76%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.76%) Power BI
4 4 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (5.41%) Data Lake
4 4 (5.41%) Metadata
4 4 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.05%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (4.05%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.05%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.70%) Data Mining
6 2 (2.70%) Delta Lake
6 2 (2.70%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.35%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.35%) Big Data
7 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (12.16%) Git
2 8 (10.81%) GitLab
3 4 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.41%) Maven
4 3 (4.05%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.05%) Gradle
4 3 (4.05%) JUnit
5 1 (1.35%) JIRA
5 1 (1.35%) Mockito
5 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 25 (33.78%) Finance
3 14 (18.92%) Banking
4 12 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (14.86%) Public Sector
6 8 (10.81%) Front Office
7 7 (9.46%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (5.41%) Back Office
8 4 (5.41%) Investment Banking
9 3 (4.05%) Marketing
10 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.35%) Billing
11 1 (1.35%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.35%) Law
11 1 (1.35%) Military
11 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.35%) Retail
11 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (39.19%) Architect
2 21 (28.38%) Senior
3 15 (20.27%) Developer
4 11 (14.86%) Senior Developer
5 8 (10.81%) Java Developer
5 8 (10.81%) Senior Java Developer
5 8 (10.81%) Technical Architect
6 7 (9.46%) Data Architect
6 7 (9.46%) Data Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (6.76%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (5.41%) Integration Architect
8 4 (5.41%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Lead
10 2 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (2.70%) Principal Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.62%) REST
2 15 (20.27%) Kafka
3 12 (16.22%) Terraform
4 11 (14.86%) Spring
4 11 (14.86%) Spring Boot
5 9 (12.16%) .NET
6 8 (10.81%) RESTful
7 7 (9.46%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (8.11%) Middleware
8 6 (8.11%) SOAP
9 5 (6.76%) PySpark
10 4 (5.41%) JSON
10 4 (5.41%) XML
11 3 (4.05%) ActiveMQ
11 3 (4.05%) JWT
11 3 (4.05%) OAuth
11 3 (4.05%) OAuth2
11 3 (4.05%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (4.05%) React
12 2 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 36 (48.65%) Cloud Native
2 24 (32.43%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.76%) AI Agents
3 5 (6.76%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.76%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.05%) Equities
5 3 (4.05%) Fixed Income
5 3 (4.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.05%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (2.70%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.70%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.70%) IoT
6 2 (2.70%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.35%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.35%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.35%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.35%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (1.35%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.35%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) Linux
1 1 (1.35%) Unix
1 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (62.16%) CI/CD
2 40 (54.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 33 (44.59%) DevOps
4 30 (40.54%) Microservices
5 24 (32.43%) Data Modelling
5 24 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (27.03%) Containerisation
7 19 (25.68%) Integration Patterns
8 17 (22.97%) Observability
9 16 (21.62%) Migration
10 15 (20.27%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (20.27%) Test Automation
11 14 (18.92%) Analytics
11 14 (18.92%) ERP
11 14 (18.92%) Roadmaps
12 13 (17.57%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (17.57%) Software Engineering
13 12 (16.22%) Agile
13 12 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (14.86%) AI
Programming Languages
1 25 (33.78%) Python
2 22 (29.73%) Java
3 13 (17.57%) SQL
4 8 (10.81%) C#
5 5 (6.76%) Ruby
5 5 (6.76%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.41%) Bicep
6 4 (5.41%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.70%) Apex Code
7 2 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.35%) DataWeave
8 1 (1.35%) Go
8 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.35%) SOQL
8 1 (1.35%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 18 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.70%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.70%) Degree
4 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.35%) CSPO
4 1 (1.35%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.11%) QA
3 1 (1.35%) Basel III
3 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.35%) GRC
3 1 (1.35%) IFRS
3 1 (1.35%) IFRS 9
3 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (1.35%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (20.27%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.35%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 14 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.41%) Grafana
2 4 (5.41%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.35%) Bosun
Vendors
1 17 (22.97%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.22%) Oracle
3 10 (13.51%) Databricks
4 7 (9.46%) SAP
5 6 (8.11%) MuleSoft
6 5 (6.76%) Salesforce
7 3 (4.05%) Google
7 3 (4.05%) Workday
8 2 (2.70%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.35%) Adyen
9 1 (1.35%) Bloomberg
9 1 (1.35%) IBM
9 1 (1.35%) Informatica
9 1 (1.35%) New Relic
9 1 (1.35%) Pega
9 1 (1.35%) Planon
9 1 (1.35%) Refinitiv
9 1 (1.35%) Solace
9 1 (1.35%) Sybase