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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 87 115
Rank change year-on-year +21 +28 +25
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 70 39 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.93% 2.08% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 2.22% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 30 7
10th Percentile £446 £545 £565
25th Percentile £491 £623 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% - -8.47%
75th Percentile £716 £800 £738
90th Percentile £763 £826 £778
Central London median daily rate £600 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -8.47%

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 2,085 1,760 1,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.17% 93.97% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,408 1,150 1,285
10th Percentile £364 £331 £365
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
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 £797
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £19.19
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £85.63
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +3.33% -14.29%

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 31 July 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
1 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.43%) Camunda
2 1 (1.43%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.86%) Aladdin
2 2 (2.86%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.43%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 38 (54.29%) AWS
2 29 (41.43%) Azure
3 19 (27.14%) GitHub
4 9 (12.86%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (11.43%) Amazon Kinesis
5 8 (11.43%) Amazon S3
5 8 (11.43%) Serverless
6 7 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (10.00%) GCP
6 7 (10.00%) Power Platform
7 6 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (8.57%) Amazon SageMaker
7 6 (8.57%) PaaS
8 5 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (7.14%) SaaS
9 4 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (5.71%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) Multicast
2 1 (1.43%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.43%) NoSQL
2 5 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.14%) Power BI
3 4 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (5.71%) Data Lake
3 4 (5.71%) DynamoDB
3 4 (5.71%) Metadata
4 3 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.29%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (4.29%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.86%) Big Data
5 2 (2.86%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.86%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.43%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.43%) Redis
6 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Git
2 6 (8.57%) GitLab
3 5 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.71%) JUnit
4 4 (5.71%) Maven
5 3 (4.29%) Gradle
6 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.43%) JIRA
7 1 (1.43%) Mockito
7 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (38.57%) Social Skills
2 25 (35.71%) Finance
3 15 (21.43%) 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 5 (7.14%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.86%) Back Office
8 2 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Billing
9 1 (1.43%) Law
9 1 (1.43%) Marketing
9 1 (1.43%) Military
9 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Retail
9 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (35.71%) Architect
2 20 (28.57%) 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 8 (11.43%) Data Architect
7 7 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (8.57%) Technical Architect
9 5 (7.14%) Data Engineer
10 4 (5.71%) Integration Architect
10 4 (5.71%) Lead
11 3 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (4.29%) Java Engineer
11 3 (4.29%) Technical Leader
12 2 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
12 2 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
12 2 (2.86%) Platform Architect
12 2 (2.86%) Salesforce Architect
12 2 (2.86%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (27.14%) Kafka
2 16 (22.86%) REST
3 12 (17.14%) Spring
3 12 (17.14%) Spring Boot
4 10 (14.29%) RESTful
5 9 (12.86%) .NET
6 7 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (8.57%) Middleware
7 6 (8.57%) SOAP
8 5 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (7.14%) PySpark
9 4 (5.71%) React
10 3 (4.29%) GraphQL
10 3 (4.29%) JSON
10 3 (4.29%) JWT
10 3 (4.29%) OAuth
10 3 (4.29%) OAuth2
10 3 (4.29%) Vert.x
10 3 (4.29%) XML
11 2 (2.86%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 29 (41.43%) Cloud Native
2 24 (34.29%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.71%) AI Agents
3 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.29%) Equities
4 3 (4.29%) Fixed Income
4 3 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (4.29%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.86%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.86%) IoT
5 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.43%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
6 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 43 (61.43%) CI/CD
2 39 (55.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 30 (42.86%) DevOps
3 30 (42.86%) Microservices
4 22 (31.43%) Data Modelling
5 21 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 20 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (27.14%) Observability
8 17 (24.29%) Integration Patterns
9 16 (22.86%) Test Automation
10 15 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (21.43%) Roadmaps
11 14 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (18.57%) Agile
12 13 (18.57%) AI
12 13 (18.57%) Analytics
12 13 (18.57%) ERP
12 13 (18.57%) Migration
13 12 (17.14%) Software Engineering
14 11 (15.71%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 26 (37.14%) Java
2 22 (31.43%) Python
3 16 (22.86%) SQL
4 7 (10.00%) C#
5 6 (8.57%) Ruby
6 5 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.86%) Apex Code
8 2 (2.86%) Bicep
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 7 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.57%) QA
3 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.86%) NIST
4 1 (1.43%) Basel III
4 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.43%) GDPR
4 1 (1.43%) GRC
4 1 (1.43%) IFRS
4 1 (1.43%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 16 (22.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.43%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 13 (18.57%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.43%) Terraform
3 4 (5.71%) Grafana
3 4 (5.71%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.43%) Bosun
Vendors
1 15 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.14%) Oracle
3 9 (12.86%) Databricks
4 6 (8.57%) MuleSoft
4 6 (8.57%) SAP
5 5 (7.14%) Salesforce
6 4 (5.71%) Google
7 3 (4.29%) Workday
8 2 (2.86%) OpenAI
8 2 (2.86%) Sybase
9 1 (1.43%) Bloomberg
9 1 (1.43%) IBM
9 1 (1.43%) Informatica
9 1 (1.43%) New Relic
9 1 (1.43%) Pega
9 1 (1.43%) Planon
9 1 (1.43%) Refinitiv
9 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.43%) Solace