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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 72 112
Rank change year-on-year 0 +40 +19
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 71 50 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.30% 2.90% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 3.07% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 40 5
10th Percentile £446 £508 -
25th Percentile £513 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% -6.90% +20.83%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £738
90th Percentile £763 £804 £798
Central London median daily rate £600 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -11.11% -6.90% +20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.36 -
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 1,944 1,631 1,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.46% 94.44% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,350 1,107 1,218
10th Percentile £365 £325 £366
25th Percentile £455 £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 £768 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 20
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.96 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £21.63
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% -22.54% +13.60%
75th Percentile £27.35 £39.88 £97.38
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

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 9 October 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 (2.82%) CMS
1 2 (2.82%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.41%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.82%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.82%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.41%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 33 (46.48%) AWS
2 26 (36.62%) Azure
3 18 (25.35%) GitHub
4 17 (23.94%) Serverless
5 11 (15.49%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (15.49%) Amazon S3
5 11 (15.49%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (12.68%) GCP
6 9 (12.68%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (11.27%) AWS Step Functions
8 7 (9.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (9.86%) Amazon EventBridge
8 7 (9.86%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (8.45%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (8.45%) Azure Functions
9 6 (8.45%) Power Platform
10 5 (7.04%) PaaS
10 5 (7.04%) SaaS
11 4 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) SMS
2 2 (2.82%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.68%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (9.86%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.04%) Power BI
4 4 (5.63%) Data Lake
4 4 (5.63%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (4.23%) Metadata
6 2 (2.82%) Big Data
6 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.82%) Delta Lake
6 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.41%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.41%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.41%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.41%) Redis
7 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (15.49%) GitLab
2 6 (8.45%) Bitbucket
3 4 (5.63%) Git
4 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.23%) JUnit
5 1 (1.41%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.41%) JIRA
5 1 (1.41%) Mockito
General
1 30 (42.25%) Finance
2 23 (32.39%) Social Skills
3 20 (28.17%) Banking
4 11 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (15.49%) Front Office
5 7 (9.86%) Back Office
5 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
6 6 (8.45%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (5.63%) Investment Banking
8 3 (4.23%) Marketing
9 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.82%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.41%) Billing
10 1 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.41%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.41%) Military
10 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.41%) Retail
10 1 (1.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (39.44%) Architect
2 18 (25.35%) Senior
3 14 (19.72%) Developer
4 9 (12.68%) Data Engineer
4 9 (12.68%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (9.86%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) Data Architect
5 7 (9.86%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.45%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Technical Architect
7 5 (7.04%) AWS Data Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Integration Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Java Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (4.23%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Java Architect
9 3 (4.23%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Principal Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (23.94%) REST
2 16 (22.54%) Terraform
3 14 (19.72%) Kafka
4 10 (14.08%) .NET
5 9 (12.68%) Spring
6 8 (11.27%) Spring Boot
7 7 (9.86%) Middleware
7 7 (9.86%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (9.86%) SOAP
8 6 (8.45%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (7.04%) PySpark
9 5 (7.04%) RESTful
10 4 (5.63%) React
11 3 (4.23%) .NET Core
11 3 (4.23%) GraphQL
11 3 (4.23%) JSON
11 3 (4.23%) Node.js
11 3 (4.23%) XML
12 2 (2.82%) JWT
12 2 (2.82%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 37 (52.11%) Cloud Native
2 19 (26.76%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.45%) Onboarding
3 6 (8.45%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.04%) AI Agents
4 5 (7.04%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (5.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (4.23%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (4.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (2.82%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.82%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.82%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.82%) Derivative
7 2 (2.82%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.82%) Equities
7 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.82%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.82%) PropTech
8 1 (1.41%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (64.79%) CI/CD
1 46 (64.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 31 (43.66%) DevOps
3 28 (39.44%) Microservices
4 26 (36.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (29.58%) Data Modelling
5 21 (29.58%) Integration Patterns
6 16 (22.54%) Roadmaps
7 15 (21.13%) Analytics
7 15 (21.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (18.31%) Containerisation
8 13 (18.31%) Data Pipeline
8 13 (18.31%) Migration
8 13 (18.31%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (16.90%) Architectural Patterns
10 11 (15.49%) Agile
10 11 (15.49%) Data Engineering
10 11 (15.49%) Data Integration
10 11 (15.49%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (15.49%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (33.80%) Python
2 19 (26.76%) SQL
3 17 (23.94%) Java
4 9 (12.68%) C#
5 4 (5.63%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.23%) Bicep
6 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.23%) Kotlin
6 3 (4.23%) Ruby
7 2 (2.82%) Apex Code
7 2 (2.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.41%) DataWeave
8 1 (1.41%) SOQL
8 1 (1.41%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 14 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.31%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.23%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.82%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.41%) CSPO
5 1 (1.41%) Degree
5 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.82%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.82%) QA
2 2 (2.82%) SEPA
3 1 (1.41%) Basel III
3 1 (1.41%) GRC
3 1 (1.41%) IFRS
3 1 (1.41%) IFRS 9
3 1 (1.41%) PSD2
System Software
1 9 (12.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (14.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.82%) Grafana
2 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.41%) Bosun
Vendors
1 19 (26.76%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.08%) Databricks
3 8 (11.27%) Oracle
4 7 (9.86%) Google
5 5 (7.04%) Salesforce
5 5 (7.04%) SAP
6 4 (5.63%) MuleSoft
7 3 (4.23%) Workday
8 2 (2.82%) Adyen
8 2 (2.82%) Foundry
8 2 (2.82%) OpenAI
8 2 (2.82%) TIBCO
9 1 (1.41%) Bloomberg
9 1 (1.41%) Calypso
9 1 (1.41%) IBM
9 1 (1.41%) Informatica
9 1 (1.41%) Murex
9 1 (1.41%) New Relic
9 1 (1.41%) Refinitiv
9 1 (1.41%) Temenos