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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 92 109
Rank change year-on-year +16 +17 +14
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 58 25 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.46% 1.48% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 1.58% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 17 10
10th Percentile £446 £489 £478
25th Percentile £513 £613 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% +17.39% -22.03%
75th Percentile £675 £800 £675
90th Percentile £738 £810 £739
Central London median daily rate £604 £675 £575
% change year-on-year -10.54% +17.39% -22.03%

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 2,015 1,582 1,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.56% 93.66% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,371 998 1,364
10th Percentile £358 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 13
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.15 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.33 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +7.90% -25.00%
75th Percentile £52.16 £41.48 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £59.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.85% -20.54%

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 5 June 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 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.72%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.72%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.45%) Aladdin
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (3.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.72%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (63.79%) AWS
2 29 (50.00%) Azure
3 14 (24.14%) GitHub
4 10 (17.24%) GCP
4 10 (17.24%) Serverless
5 9 (15.52%) Amazon S3
5 9 (15.52%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (13.79%) Power Platform
7 6 (10.34%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (10.34%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (6.90%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (6.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (6.90%) iPaaS
8 4 (6.90%) PaaS
8 4 (6.90%) SaaS
9 3 (5.17%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) Multicast
2 1 (1.72%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) NoSQL
2 6 (10.34%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (10.34%) DynamoDB
2 6 (10.34%) Metadata
3 5 (8.62%) Power BI
4 4 (6.90%) Data Lake
4 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (5.17%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.45%) Big Data
6 2 (3.45%) CockroachDB
6 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
6 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.45%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (3.45%) Hazelcast
6 2 (3.45%) Redis
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Git
2 5 (8.62%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.90%) Maven
4 3 (5.17%) Gradle
5 2 (3.45%) Gatling
5 2 (3.45%) GitLab
6 1 (1.72%) JUnit
6 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (32.76%) Banking
1 19 (32.76%) Finance
2 18 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.62%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (6.90%) Front Office
6 4 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.90%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.45%) Legal
8 1 (1.72%) Billing
8 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.72%) Law
8 1 (1.72%) Marketing
8 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (39.66%) Architect
2 16 (27.59%) Developer
3 15 (25.86%) Senior
4 11 (18.97%) Senior Developer
5 9 (15.52%) Java Developer
5 9 (15.52%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (12.07%) Data Architect
6 7 (12.07%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (8.62%) Data Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (6.90%) Lead
9 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Software Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Technical Architect
9 3 (5.17%) Technical Leader
10 2 (3.45%) Platform Architect
10 2 (3.45%) Python Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (32.76%) Kafka
2 11 (18.97%) REST
3 10 (17.24%) Spring
3 10 (17.24%) Spring Boot
4 8 (13.79%) RESTful
5 7 (12.07%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (10.34%) .NET
7 5 (8.62%) PySpark
8 4 (6.90%) JSON
8 4 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (6.90%) React
9 3 (5.17%) OAuth
9 3 (5.17%) OAuth2
9 3 (5.17%) Vert.x
10 2 (3.45%) .NET Core
10 2 (3.45%) Django
10 2 (3.45%) Micronaut
10 2 (3.45%) Quarkus
10 2 (3.45%) Redux
10 2 (3.45%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 25 (43.10%) Cloud Native
2 17 (29.31%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.17%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.17%) Equities
3 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.17%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.45%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.45%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.45%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.45%) IoT
4 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.72%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.72%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
1 2 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (51.72%) CI/CD
2 28 (48.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 24 (41.38%) Microservices
4 19 (32.76%) Containerisation
4 19 (32.76%) DevOps
5 18 (31.03%) Observability
6 17 (29.31%) Data Modelling
7 15 (25.86%) Integration Patterns
8 14 (24.14%) AI
8 14 (24.14%) Data Pipeline
8 14 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (22.41%) Roadmaps
10 12 (20.69%) Performance Tuning
11 11 (18.97%) Data Integration
11 11 (18.97%) Machine Learning
12 10 (17.24%) Generative AI
12 10 (17.24%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (17.24%) Test Automation
13 9 (15.52%) Agile
13 9 (15.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (37.93%) Java
2 18 (31.03%) Python
3 16 (27.59%) SQL
4 5 (8.62%) C#
4 5 (8.62%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.90%) Ruby
6 2 (3.45%) Bicep
6 2 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.72%) C++
7 1 (1.72%) Elixir
7 1 (1.72%) Go
7 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) Degree
4 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.45%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.72%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) Data Quality
1 6 (10.34%) QA
2 4 (6.90%) PSD2
3 3 (5.17%) GDPR
4 2 (3.45%) ISO 20022
4 2 (3.45%) ISO 8583
4 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.45%) NIST
4 2 (3.45%) SEPA
5 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.72%) GRC
5 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 15 (25.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 11 (18.97%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.62%) Grafana
2 5 (8.62%) Prometheus
2 5 (8.62%) Terraform
3 2 (3.45%) Ansible
3 2 (3.45%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.07%) Databricks
2 7 (12.07%) Oracle
3 6 (10.34%) SAP
4 5 (8.62%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.45%) Confluent
5 2 (3.45%) Google
5 2 (3.45%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.45%) Sitecore
5 2 (3.45%) Sparx
5 2 (3.45%) Sybase
6 1 (1.72%) IBM
6 1 (1.72%) Informatica
6 1 (1.72%) Pega
6 1 (1.72%) Planon
6 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.72%) Solace