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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 110 133
Rank change year-on-year +35 +23 +4
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 48 15 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.84% 0.71% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 0.77% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 4 10
10th Percentile £506 £634 £431
25th Percentile £613 £684 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £738 £763 £669
90th Percentile £811 £808 £688
Central London median daily rate £675 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -6.90% +20.83% -14.29%
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 1,599 1,948 2,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.45% 91.93% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,204 1,777
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +3.48%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £767 £783 £811
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 17
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.57 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.48% +54.55% -36.05%
75th Percentile £36.00 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -22.76% +30.84% -37.06%

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 22 October 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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) CMS
2 2 (4.17%) NServiceBus
3 1 (2.08%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.25%) AWS
1 15 (31.25%) Azure
2 10 (20.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (20.83%) Amazon S3
2 10 (20.83%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (20.83%) Serverless
3 4 (8.33%) Amazon Cognito
3 4 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
3 4 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (8.33%) Datadog
4 3 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (6.25%) GCP
4 3 (6.25%) Snowflake
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) Firewall
1 1 (2.08%) SMS
1 1 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 5 (10.42%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.17%) Big Data
3 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.17%) Event Store
3 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.08%) KDB
4 1 (2.08%) Metadata
4 1 (2.08%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.33%) Git
3 3 (6.25%) JIRA
4 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.08%) Gradle
4 1 (2.08%) JUnit
4 1 (2.08%) Maven
4 1 (2.08%) Mockito
4 1 (2.08%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (41.67%) Finance
2 18 (37.50%) Banking
3 17 (35.42%) Social Skills
4 10 (20.83%) Investment Banking
5 4 (8.33%) Front Office
6 3 (6.25%) Billing
7 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.17%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (25.00%) Architect
2 9 (18.75%) Developer
3 8 (16.67%) Lead
4 7 (14.58%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (10.42%) Java Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Data Architect
6 4 (8.33%) Senior
6 4 (8.33%) Software Design Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Angular Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Billing Architect
7 2 (4.17%) C++ Developer
7 2 (4.17%) GCP Architect
7 2 (4.17%) GCP Data Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Payments Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.08%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.83%) .NET
2 9 (18.75%) AngularJS
3 8 (16.67%) Spring
4 6 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (12.50%) Kafka
4 6 (12.50%) Spring Boot
5 5 (10.42%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (10.42%) Node.js
5 5 (10.42%) React
6 4 (8.33%) GraphQL
6 4 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (8.33%) RESTful
6 4 (8.33%) WebSockets
7 3 (6.25%) Hibernate
8 2 (4.17%) JPA
8 2 (4.17%) REST
9 1 (2.08%) ActiveMQ
9 1 (2.08%) Mongoose
9 1 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (2.08%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 15 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 11 (22.92%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.42%) Fixed Income
3 5 (10.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.17%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.08%) Derivative
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.08%) NHS
5 1 (2.08%) Pricing Data
5 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (68.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 14 (29.17%) Software Engineering
3 13 (27.08%) Microservices
4 12 (25.00%) Agile
4 12 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 11 (22.92%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (22.92%) DevOps
6 10 (20.83%) Mentoring
6 10 (20.83%) Observability
7 9 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (18.75%) Machine Learning
8 8 (16.67%) Fintech
8 8 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (14.58%) Algorithmic Trading
9 7 (14.58%) Architectural Patterns
9 7 (14.58%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (14.58%) Project Management
10 6 (12.50%) Data Science
10 6 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 18 (37.50%) Python
2 15 (31.25%) Java
3 9 (18.75%) SQL
4 8 (16.67%) C#
5 7 (14.58%) JavaScript
6 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
7 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
8 3 (6.25%) C++
9 1 (2.08%) C
9 1 (2.08%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.17%) GDPR
1 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.42%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (10.42%) Kibana
2 5 (10.42%) logstash
3 4 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.17%) Terraform
5 1 (2.08%) Ansible
5 1 (2.08%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.08%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 8 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) Oracle
2 5 (10.42%) Solace
3 2 (4.17%) Databricks
4 1 (2.08%) Aruba
4 1 (2.08%) IBM
4 1 (2.08%) Salesforce