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 citing Event-Driven skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 74 113
Rank change year-on-year 0 +39 +20
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 73 47 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.43% 2.79% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 2.95% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 37 4
10th Percentile £416 £513 £634
25th Percentile £506 £613 £684
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% -6.90% +20.83%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £763
90th Percentile £763 £815 £808
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 citing process or methodology skills in the City of London.

6 months to
23 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing process or methodology skills 1,956 1,594 1,943
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 91.83% 94.54% 91.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,359 1,099 1,192
10th Percentile £375 £325 £363
25th Percentile £456 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £773 £783
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 17
10th Percentile - £16.85 £16.70
25th Percentile £17.60 £20.18 £23.13
Median hourly rate £21.00 £26.57 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.96% -37.48% +54.55%
75th Percentile £28.57 £36.00 £112.00
90th Percentile £46.70 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £26.57 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.79% -24.09% +30.84%

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 23 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 table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Event-Driven Architecture67.1%49
2CI/CD64.4%47
3DevOps43.8%32
4Microservices41.1%30
5Infrastructure as Code35.6%26
6Data Modelling28.8%21
6Integration Patterns28.8%21
8Stakeholder Management23.3%17
9Roadmaps21.9%16
10Analytics19.2%14
10Migration19.2%14
12Containerisation17.8%13
12Data Pipeline17.8%13
12Platform Engineering17.8%13
15Architectural Patterns16.4%12
16Agile15.1%11
16Data Integration15.1%11
16Mentoring15.1%11
16Technical Leadership15.1%11
16Test Automation15.1%11
49 Event-Driven jobs in the City of London