Event-Driven Contracts in the City of London

Event-Driven
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Event-Driven skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Event-Driven over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 116 136
Rank change year-on-year +15 +20 +2
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 18 11 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.03% 0.50% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.55% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 30
10th Percentile £444 £469 £515
25th Percentile £581 £513 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £673 £550 £1,025
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% -46.34% +42.36%
75th Percentile £689 £638 £1,063
90th Percentile £789 £700 -
Central London median daily rate £673 £550 £1,025
% change year-on-year +22.27% -46.34% +42.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £35.00

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 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Event-Driven as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven in the City of London

Event-Driven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Event-Driven in the City of London

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven in the City of London

Event-Driven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Apache
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Boomi
4 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (5.56%) Datadog
5 1 (5.56%) Slack
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Big Data
1 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 2 (11.11%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
1 2 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
1 2 (11.11%) Star Schema
2 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Redis
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Publishing
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Back Office
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Front Office
3 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Architect
2 6 (33.33%) Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Data Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Data Integration Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Integration Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Lead
5 2 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Leader
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Kafka
1 5 (27.78%) REST
2 4 (22.22%) Spring
3 3 (16.67%) .NET
4 2 (11.11%) GraphQL
4 2 (11.11%) Hibernate
4 2 (11.11%) Middleware
4 2 (11.11%) React
4 2 (11.11%) RESTful
4 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 2 (11.11%) Web Services
4 2 (11.11%) ZK
5 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
5 1 (5.56%) Celery
5 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
5 1 (5.56%) Node.js
5 1 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (5.56%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Derivative
3 1 (5.56%) Equities
3 1 (5.56%) Fixed Income
3 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
1 11 (61.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 8 (44.44%) Agile
2 8 (44.44%) DevOps
3 7 (38.89%) Microservices
4 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 5 (27.78%) Data Modelling
5 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven Programming
5 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
6 4 (22.22%) API Integration
6 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 4 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
7 3 (16.67%) Data Integration
7 3 (16.67%) SOA
7 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) C++
5 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.56%) Ruby
5 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) EMIR
2 1 (5.56%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
3 2 (11.11%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) MOM
4 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Databricks
2 2 (11.11%) MuleSoft
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Bloomberg
3 1 (5.56%) CQG
3 1 (5.56%) ION Trading
3 1 (5.56%) Reuters