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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 110 137
Rank change year-on-year +30 +27 -5
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 47 14 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.62% 0.64% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 0.70% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 6 6
10th Percentile £447 £631 £563
25th Percentile £548 £661 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £699 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -3.70%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £684
90th Percentile £808 £788 £713
Central London median daily rate £650 £699 £650
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -3.70%
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 and 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 1,664 1,992 2,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.91% 91.50% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,170 1,221 1,697
10th Percentile £338 £375 £363
25th Percentile £418 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £756 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 13
10th Percentile £20.02 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £25.75 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +54.55% -47.12%
75th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.75
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.84% -47.55%

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 28 November 2025.

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
1 3 (6.38%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) NServiceBus
3 1 (2.13%) Apache
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.13%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (40.43%) Azure
2 14 (29.79%) AWS
3 9 (19.15%) Amazon S3
3 9 (19.15%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (19.15%) Serverless
4 8 (17.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.38%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (6.38%) Snowflake
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (4.26%) Datadog
6 2 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.26%) GCP
6 2 (4.26%) SaaS
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.13%) Stripe
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%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.38%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.38%) MySQL
3 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.26%) Event Store
3 2 (4.26%) Metadata
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.13%) Power BI
4 1 (2.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Git
1 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.38%) JIRA
3 1 (2.13%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.13%) Gradle
3 1 (2.13%) JUnit
3 1 (2.13%) Maven
3 1 (2.13%) Mockito
3 1 (2.13%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (40.43%) Finance
2 16 (34.04%) Social Skills
3 15 (31.91%) Banking
4 10 (21.28%) Investment Banking
5 5 (10.64%) Front Office
6 3 (6.38%) Billing
7 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.26%) Retail
7 2 (4.26%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.13%) Legal
8 1 (2.13%) Marketing
8 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (19.15%) Architect
1 9 (19.15%) Developer
1 9 (19.15%) Lead
2 7 (14.89%) Senior
3 5 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Data Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Angular Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Billing Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Front Office Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Software Design Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) .NET Developer
7 1 (2.13%) Engineering Manager
7 1 (2.13%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.13%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.66%) .NET
2 7 (14.89%) AngularJS
3 6 (12.77%) Kafka
3 6 (12.77%) Node.js
4 5 (10.64%) React
4 5 (10.64%) Spring
5 4 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (8.51%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (8.51%) RESTful
6 3 (6.38%) Hibernate
6 3 (6.38%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.26%) GraphQL
7 2 (4.26%) JPA
7 2 (4.26%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (4.26%) REST
7 2 (4.26%) WebSockets
8 1 (2.13%) MACH
8 1 (2.13%) OAuth
8 1 (2.13%) OAuth2
8 1 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) Cloud Native
2 9 (19.15%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.51%) Fixed Income
3 4 (8.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.26%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.13%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.13%) Derivative
5 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) FMCG
5 1 (2.13%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) NHS
5 1 (2.13%) Pricing Data
5 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (68.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 12 (25.53%) Software Engineering
3 11 (23.40%) Agile
3 11 (23.40%) Fintech
4 10 (21.28%) CI/CD
4 10 (21.28%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (19.15%) Analytics
5 9 (19.15%) Microservices
5 9 (19.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (17.02%) DevOps
6 8 (17.02%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (17.02%) Mentoring
7 7 (14.89%) Machine Learning
7 7 (14.89%) Observability
8 6 (12.77%) Code Quality
8 6 (12.77%) Project Management
8 6 (12.77%) Wealth Management
9 5 (10.64%) Algorithmic Trading
9 5 (10.64%) Data Science
9 5 (10.64%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.66%) Java
1 13 (27.66%) Python
2 11 (23.40%) C#
3 7 (14.89%) SQL
4 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.51%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.26%) C++
6 2 (4.26%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.13%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (4.26%) Degree
2 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.38%) GDPR
3 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (17.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.51%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (8.51%) Kibana
2 4 (8.51%) logstash
3 2 (4.26%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.26%) Terraform
4 1 (2.13%) Ansible
4 1 (2.13%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 10 (21.28%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.77%) Oracle
3 4 (8.51%) Databricks
3 4 (8.51%) Solace
4 3 (6.38%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.13%) Adobe
5 1 (2.13%) Aruba
5 1 (2.13%) IBM
5 1 (2.13%) Informatica
5 1 (2.13%) SAP