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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 101 119
Rank change year-on-year +18 +18 +13
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 42 15 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.08% 0.83% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 0.91% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 6 9
10th Percentile £403 £563 £469
25th Percentile £453 £603 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £649 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +17.95% -46.34%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £675
90th Percentile £788 £689 £740
Central London median daily rate £550 £649 £550
% change year-on-year -15.22% +17.95% -46.34%
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 & 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 1,795 1,655 2,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.77% 91.64% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 1,039 1,497
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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 9 March 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 3 (7.14%) CMS
2 2 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.38%) Apache
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (4.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.38%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (52.38%) AWS
2 19 (45.24%) Azure
3 10 (23.81%) GCP
4 7 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 7 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (16.67%) Serverless
5 5 (11.90%) SaaS
6 4 (9.52%) GitHub
6 4 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (9.52%) iPaaS
7 3 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (7.14%) AWS Control Tower
7 3 (7.14%) Boomi
7 3 (7.14%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.76%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.76%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) SMS
2 1 (2.38%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.52%) Data Lake
2 4 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (9.52%) Metadata
2 4 (9.52%) MySQL
2 4 (9.52%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.76%) CockroachDB
4 2 (4.76%) Hazelcast
4 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.76%) Redis
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.38%) DB2
5 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Git
1 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.76%) Gatling
3 1 (2.38%) JUnit
General
1 15 (35.71%) Banking
1 15 (35.71%) Finance
2 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Investment Banking
4 4 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.14%) Front Office
5 3 (7.14%) Legal
6 2 (4.76%) Billing
6 2 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.38%) Law
7 1 (2.38%) Marketing
7 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Architect
2 10 (23.81%) Developer
2 10 (23.81%) Senior
3 5 (11.90%) Enterprise Architect
3 5 (11.90%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (9.52%) Data Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Java Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Lead
4 4 (9.52%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Data Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Data Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Front Office Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Payments Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Technical Leader
7 1 (2.38%) Kafka Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.19%) Kafka
2 8 (19.05%) .NET
3 6 (14.29%) REST
4 4 (9.52%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (9.52%) Spring
4 4 (9.52%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.14%) JSON
5 3 (7.14%) Node.js
5 3 (7.14%) OAuth
5 3 (7.14%) OAuth2
5 3 (7.14%) React
5 3 (7.14%) RESTful
5 3 (7.14%) Vert.x
6 2 (4.76%) Apache Avro
6 2 (4.76%) boto
6 2 (4.76%) NumPy
6 2 (4.76%) OpenID
6 2 (4.76%) Pandas
6 2 (4.76%) Quarkus
6 2 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.76%) Credit Risk
4 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.38%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) FMCG
5 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 13 (30.95%) Microservices
3 11 (26.19%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (23.81%) Analytics
4 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
5 9 (21.43%) AI
5 9 (21.43%) Data Integration
5 9 (21.43%) Integration Patterns
6 8 (19.05%) Agile
6 8 (19.05%) Containerisation
6 8 (19.05%) Data Modelling
6 8 (19.05%) Roadmaps
7 7 (16.67%) Machine Learning
7 7 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (14.29%) ETL
8 6 (14.29%) Generative AI
8 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (14.29%) Observability
9 5 (11.90%) Customer Experience
9 5 (11.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) SQL
2 12 (28.57%) Java
3 11 (26.19%) Python
4 7 (16.67%) C#
5 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.76%) Kotlin
6 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.38%) C++
7 1 (2.38%) Elixir
7 1 (2.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.38%) Degree
2 1 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.52%) GDPR
2 4 (9.52%) PSD2
3 2 (4.76%) ISO 20022
3 2 (4.76%) ISO 8583
3 2 (4.76%) QA
3 2 (4.76%) SEPA
4 1 (2.38%) GRC
4 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.38%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.14%) Terraform
3 2 (4.76%) Ansible
3 2 (4.76%) Argo
3 2 (4.76%) Grafana
3 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.38%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) Oracle
2 4 (9.52%) Salesforce
2 4 (9.52%) SAP
3 3 (7.14%) Databricks
3 3 (7.14%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.76%) Confluent
4 2 (4.76%) Sitecore
4 2 (4.76%) Sparx
5 1 (2.38%) Adobe
5 1 (2.38%) Aruba
5 1 (2.38%) Google
5 1 (2.38%) Informatica
5 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.38%) Sybase