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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 104 112
Rank change year-on-year +25 +8 +19
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 53 19 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.30% 1.08% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 1.16% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 13 9
10th Percentile £387 £453 £469
25th Percentile £513 £600 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £673 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.50% +22.27% -40.54%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £638
90th Percentile £757 £800 £700
Central London median daily rate £592 £673 £550
% change year-on-year -11.93% +22.27% -40.54%

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 1,955 1,639 1,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.00% 93.28% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,329 1,040 1,396
10th Percentile £363 £356 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.10% -5.21%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

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 6 May 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 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.89%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.89%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Aladdin
1 2 (3.77%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (3.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (3.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.89%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (66.04%) AWS
2 29 (54.72%) Azure
3 13 (24.53%) GitHub
4 11 (20.75%) GCP
5 9 (16.98%) Serverless
6 8 (15.09%) Amazon S3
6 8 (15.09%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (15.09%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (11.32%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (11.32%) Amazon SageMaker
7 6 (11.32%) Power Platform
8 4 (7.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (7.55%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (7.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (7.55%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (7.55%) iPaaS
8 4 (7.55%) SaaS
9 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.66%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (1.89%) Multicast
1 1 (1.89%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) NoSQL
2 7 (13.21%) Metadata
3 6 (11.32%) DynamoDB
4 5 (9.43%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (9.43%) Data Lake
4 5 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (7.55%) MongoDB
6 3 (5.66%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (5.66%) Power BI
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (3.77%) CockroachDB
7 2 (3.77%) Data Mining
7 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.77%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (3.77%) Hazelcast
7 2 (3.77%) MySQL
7 2 (3.77%) Redis
7 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.89%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Git
2 5 (9.43%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.55%) Maven
4 3 (5.66%) Gradle
5 2 (3.77%) Gatling
5 2 (3.77%) GitLab
6 1 (1.89%) JUnit
6 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (37.74%) Finance
2 18 (33.96%) Social Skills
3 15 (28.30%) Banking
4 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.55%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.66%) Front Office
6 3 (5.66%) Legal
7 2 (3.77%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.89%) Billing
8 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.89%) Law
8 1 (1.89%) Marketing
8 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (35.85%) Architect
2 15 (28.30%) Developer
3 14 (26.42%) Senior
4 9 (16.98%) Senior Developer
5 7 (13.21%) Java Developer
6 6 (11.32%) Enterprise Architect
7 5 (9.43%) Data Architect
7 5 (9.43%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (9.43%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (7.55%) Data Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Lead
9 3 (5.66%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (5.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Software Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Technical Leader
10 2 (3.77%) Payments Architect
10 2 (3.77%) Payments Solutions Architect
10 2 (3.77%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (35.85%) Kafka
2 11 (20.75%) REST
3 10 (18.87%) Spring
3 10 (18.87%) Spring Boot
4 8 (15.09%) .NET
4 8 (15.09%) RESTful
5 7 (13.21%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (7.55%) JSON
6 4 (7.55%) PySpark
6 4 (7.55%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (7.55%) React
7 3 (5.66%) OAuth
7 3 (5.66%) OAuth2
7 3 (5.66%) Vert.x
8 2 (3.77%) .NET Core
8 2 (3.77%) Apache Avro
8 2 (3.77%) boto
8 2 (3.77%) Pandas
8 2 (3.77%) Redux
8 2 (3.77%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 22 (41.51%) Cloud Native
2 14 (26.42%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.66%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.66%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.77%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.77%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.77%) IoT
4 2 (3.77%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.89%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.89%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (1.89%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.89%) Equities
5 1 (1.89%) FMCG
5 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Linux
1 2 (3.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (52.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 24 (45.28%) CI/CD
2 24 (45.28%) Microservices
3 19 (35.85%) Containerisation
4 17 (32.08%) Observability
5 16 (30.19%) Data Modelling
5 16 (30.19%) DevOps
6 13 (24.53%) AI
6 13 (24.53%) Data Pipeline
7 12 (22.64%) Integration Patterns
7 12 (22.64%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (20.75%) Machine Learning
9 10 (18.87%) Agile
9 10 (18.87%) Generative AI
9 10 (18.87%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (18.87%) Roadmaps
10 9 (16.98%) Test Automation
11 8 (15.09%) Analytics
11 8 (15.09%) API Design
11 8 (15.09%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.74%) Java
2 16 (30.19%) Python
3 15 (28.30%) SQL
4 7 (13.21%) C#
5 5 (9.43%) TypeScript
6 4 (7.55%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.66%) Ruby
8 2 (3.77%) Bicep
8 2 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.89%) C++
9 1 (1.89%) Elixir
9 1 (1.89%) Go
9 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) Degree
4 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.89%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) Data Quality
2 6 (11.32%) QA
3 4 (7.55%) GDPR
3 4 (7.55%) PSD2
4 2 (3.77%) ISO 20022
4 2 (3.77%) ISO 8583
4 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.77%) NIST
4 2 (3.77%) SEPA
5 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.89%) GRC
5 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 16 (30.19%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.89%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 12 (22.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.43%) Grafana
2 5 (9.43%) Prometheus
2 5 (9.43%) Terraform
3 2 (3.77%) Ansible
3 2 (3.77%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) Oracle
1 7 (13.21%) SAP
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.43%) Databricks
3 5 (9.43%) MuleSoft
4 3 (5.66%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.77%) Confluent
5 2 (3.77%) Google
5 2 (3.77%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.77%) Sitecore
5 2 (3.77%) Sparx
5 2 (3.77%) Sybase
6 1 (1.89%) IBM
6 1 (1.89%) Informatica
6 1 (1.89%) Pega
6 1 (1.89%) Planon
6 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.89%) Solace