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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 111 130
Rank change year-on-year +23 +19 +12
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 34 15 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.87% 0.70% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 0.77% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 9 23
10th Percentile £503 £489 £438
25th Percentile £615 £520 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £625 £750
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -16.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £800 £738 £1,063
90th Percentile £813 £740 -
Central London median daily rate £681 £625 £750
% change year-on-year +9.00% -16.67% +2.74%
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 1,706 1,950 3,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.84% 91.42% 91.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,094 1,346 2,165
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £551 £554 £600
% change year-on-year -0.45% -7.75% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -23.93% -18.83%
75th Percentile £56.75 £40.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -18.13%

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 6 July 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 1 (2.94%) Apache
1 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.94%) Camunda
1 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Fidessa
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) AWS
1 9 (26.47%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) Serverless
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon Cognito
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon EventBridge
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon S3
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (14.71%) AWS Step Functions
3 5 (14.71%) Datadog
4 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.88%) GCP
4 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.94%) Slack
5 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) DynamoDB
2 4 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (8.82%) Big Data
4 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.94%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.94%) KDB
5 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Power BI
5 1 (2.94%) Redis
5 1 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.88%) JIRA
4 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.94%) Gradle
4 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (44.12%) Finance
2 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 9 (26.47%) Banking
4 5 (14.71%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.94%) Back Office
6 1 (2.94%) Front Office
6 1 (2.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Architect
1 9 (26.47%) Developer
2 6 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (14.71%) Java Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Software Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Lead
4 4 (11.76%) Software Design Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Architect
6 2 (5.88%) C++ Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (5.88%) GCP Data Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Senior
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Leader
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) Spring
2 6 (17.65%) GraphQL
2 6 (17.65%) Kafka
3 5 (14.71%) AngularJS
3 5 (14.71%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (14.71%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (14.71%) REST
3 5 (14.71%) Spring Boot
3 5 (14.71%) WebSockets
4 4 (11.76%) .NET
4 4 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (8.82%) React
6 2 (5.88%) Hibernate
6 2 (5.88%) RESTful
6 2 (5.88%) Web Services
6 2 (5.88%) ZK
7 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (2.94%) JPA
7 1 (2.94%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (32.35%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (29.41%) Cloud Native
3 5 (14.71%) Fixed Income
3 5 (14.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (5.88%) Derivative
5 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.94%) Equities
5 1 (2.94%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.94%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (67.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 15 (44.12%) Software Engineering
3 14 (41.18%) DevOps
4 13 (38.24%) CI/CD
5 12 (35.29%) Mentoring
6 11 (32.35%) Agile
6 11 (32.35%) Technical Leadership
7 10 (29.41%) Microservices
7 10 (29.41%) Performance Optimisation
8 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (26.47%) Observability
9 7 (20.59%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (17.65%) Algorithmic Trading
10 6 (17.65%) Architectural Patterns
10 6 (17.65%) Clean Code
10 6 (17.65%) Machine Learning
11 5 (14.71%) Data Pipeline
11 5 (14.71%) Deployment Automation
11 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (64.71%) Python
2 8 (23.53%) Java
2 8 (23.53%) SQL
3 5 (14.71%) C#
3 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
4 4 (11.76%) C++
5 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.94%) C
7 1 (2.94%) Ruby
7 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.94%) EMIR
1 1 (2.94%) MiFID
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.71%) Prometheus
3 4 (11.76%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (11.76%) Kibana
3 4 (11.76%) logstash
3 4 (11.76%) Terraform
4 2 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Solace
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle
3 2 (5.88%) Databricks
4 1 (2.94%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.94%) CQG
4 1 (2.94%) ION Trading
4 1 (2.94%) Reuters