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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 108 126
Rank change year-on-year +31 +18 0
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 47 13 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.56% 0.64% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 0.70% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 5 8
10th Percentile £436 £555 £514
25th Percentile £509 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £673 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% +7.60% -5.66%
75th Percentile £688 £684 £678
90th Percentile £788 £776 £703
Central London median daily rate £650 £673 £625
% change year-on-year -3.35% +7.60% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.18 - -
Median hourly rate £20.36 - -
75th Percentile £20.53 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £20.36 - -

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 1,656 1,860 2,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.20% 92.17% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,128 1,572
10th Percentile £343 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £546 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -5.00% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.35 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.18 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +54.29% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.47 £107.13 £44.56
90th Percentile £51.88 £129.85 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%

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 1 January 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 3 (6.38%) CMS
2 2 (4.26%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) NServiceBus
3 1 (2.13%) Apache
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (40.43%) Azure
2 18 (38.30%) AWS
3 10 (21.28%) Amazon S3
3 10 (21.28%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (21.28%) Serverless
4 6 (12.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (8.51%) GCP
6 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (6.38%) GitHub
6 3 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.38%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (4.26%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.26%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.26%) SaaS
7 2 (4.26%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) SMS
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) DynamoDB
1 4 (8.51%) Metadata
1 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (6.38%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.38%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.38%) MySQL
3 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.26%) CockroachDB
3 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.26%) Event Store
3 2 (4.26%) Hazelcast
3 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.26%) Redis
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.51%) Git
3 2 (4.26%) Gatling
3 2 (4.26%) JIRA
4 1 (2.13%) JUnit
4 1 (2.13%) Maven
4 1 (2.13%) Mockito
4 1 (2.13%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (38.30%) Banking
2 16 (34.04%) Finance
3 12 (25.53%) Social Skills
4 8 (17.02%) Investment Banking
5 5 (10.64%) Front Office
6 4 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (6.38%) Billing
7 3 (6.38%) Legal
8 2 (4.26%) Retail
8 2 (4.26%) Retail Banking
9 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.13%) Marketing
9 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (27.66%) Architect
2 11 (23.40%) Developer
3 9 (19.15%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (17.02%) Senior
5 6 (12.77%) Lead
6 5 (10.64%) Java Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Data Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Payments Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Angular Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Azure Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Billing Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Front Office Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.13%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) .NET
2 8 (17.02%) Kafka
3 6 (12.77%) Node.js
3 6 (12.77%) Spring
4 5 (10.64%) AngularJS
4 5 (10.64%) React
4 5 (10.64%) Spring Boot
5 4 (8.51%) REST
5 4 (8.51%) RESTful
6 3 (6.38%) Hibernate
6 3 (6.38%) JSON
6 3 (6.38%) OAuth
6 3 (6.38%) OAuth2
7 2 (4.26%) Apache Avro
7 2 (4.26%) boto
7 2 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (4.26%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (4.26%) NumPy
7 2 (4.26%) OpenID
7 2 (4.26%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.40%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.26%) Credit Risk
2 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.26%) Fixed Income
2 2 (4.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (4.26%) Low-Code
2 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.13%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) FMCG
3 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.13%) NHS
3 1 (2.13%) Pricing Data
3 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Taxonomies
3 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (59.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 15 (31.91%) Microservices
3 10 (21.28%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (19.15%) Analytics
4 9 (19.15%) Fintech
5 8 (17.02%) Agile
5 8 (17.02%) CI/CD
5 8 (17.02%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (14.89%) Containerisation
6 7 (14.89%) Data Modelling
6 7 (14.89%) Integration Patterns
6 7 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (12.77%) Observability
7 6 (12.77%) Wealth Management
8 5 (10.64%) ETL
8 5 (10.64%) Machine Learning
8 5 (10.64%) Software Engineering
9 4 (8.51%) DevOps
9 4 (8.51%) Low Latency
9 4 (8.51%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.91%) Java
2 12 (25.53%) SQL
3 10 (21.28%) Python
4 9 (19.15%) C#
5 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.38%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.26%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.13%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (2.13%) Degree
1 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) Data Quality
2 5 (10.64%) GDPR
3 4 (8.51%) PSD2
4 2 (4.26%) ISO 20022
4 2 (4.26%) ISO 8583
4 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.26%) QA
4 2 (4.26%) SEPA
5 1 (2.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (19.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.51%) Terraform
3 3 (6.38%) Ansible
4 2 (4.26%) Argo
4 2 (4.26%) Grafana
4 2 (4.26%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (4.26%) Kibana
4 2 (4.26%) logstash
4 2 (4.26%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.13%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 10 (21.28%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.77%) Oracle
3 4 (8.51%) Databricks
4 3 (6.38%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.38%) SAP
5 2 (4.26%) Confluent
5 2 (4.26%) Solace
5 2 (4.26%) Sparx
6 1 (2.13%) Adobe
6 1 (2.13%) Aruba
6 1 (2.13%) IBM
6 1 (2.13%) Informatica