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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 103 114
Rank change year-on-year +22 +11 +20
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 54 18 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.46% 1.03% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 1.12% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 10 11
10th Percentile £383 £516 £488
25th Percentile £453 £603 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £673 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.99% +22.27% -46.34%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £681
90th Percentile £754 £707 £738
Central London median daily rate £553 £673 £550
% change year-on-year -17.77% +22.27% -46.34%

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 1,908 1,606 2,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.04% 92.30% 89.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,035 1,437
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £670 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £771 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 11
10th Percentile - £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £30.03 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +24.00% -38.27%
75th Percentile £48.67 £48.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £57.93 £71.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -15.77% +11.47% -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 6 April 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 (5.56%) CMS
2 2 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.85%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.85%) Apache
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.85%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Aladdin
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (3.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (59.26%) AWS
2 26 (48.15%) Azure
3 11 (20.37%) GCP
3 11 (20.37%) GitHub
4 8 (14.81%) Serverless
5 7 (12.96%) Amazon S3
5 7 (12.96%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (9.26%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (9.26%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (9.26%) SaaS
8 4 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (7.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (7.41%) iPaaS
9 3 (5.56%) AWS Control Tower
9 3 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) SMS
2 1 (1.85%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (1.85%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) NoSQL
2 6 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 6 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.26%) Data Lake
3 5 (9.26%) Metadata
4 4 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (7.41%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.56%) MySQL
5 3 (5.56%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.70%) CockroachDB
6 2 (3.70%) Hazelcast
6 2 (3.70%) Redis
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.85%) Big Data
7 1 (1.85%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 7 (12.96%) Git
2 5 (9.26%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.41%) Maven
4 3 (5.56%) Gradle
5 2 (3.70%) Gatling
6 1 (1.85%) JUnit
6 1 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (33.33%) Finance
2 17 (31.48%) Social Skills
3 16 (29.63%) Banking
4 5 (9.26%) Investment Banking
5 4 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.56%) Front Office
6 3 (5.56%) Legal
7 2 (3.70%) Marketing
7 2 (3.70%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.85%) Billing
8 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.85%) Law
8 1 (1.85%) Retail
8 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (31.48%) Architect
2 14 (25.93%) Senior
3 13 (24.07%) Developer
4 7 (12.96%) Java Developer
4 7 (12.96%) Senior Developer
5 6 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (9.26%) Data Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Lead
6 5 (9.26%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (9.26%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Technical Leader
8 2 (3.70%) Payments Architect
8 2 (3.70%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.70%) Python Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Technical Architect
9 1 (1.85%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (29.63%) Kafka
2 10 (18.52%) Spring
2 10 (18.52%) Spring Boot
3 9 (16.67%) REST
4 7 (12.96%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (12.96%) RESTful
5 6 (11.11%) .NET
6 4 (7.41%) JSON
6 4 (7.41%) OAuth
6 4 (7.41%) OAuth2
6 4 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (5.56%) Node.js
7 3 (5.56%) Vert.x
8 2 (3.70%) Apache Avro
8 2 (3.70%) JWT
8 2 (3.70%) Micronaut
8 2 (3.70%) NumPy
8 2 (3.70%) OpenID
8 2 (3.70%) Quarkus
8 2 (3.70%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 19 (35.19%) Cloud Native
2 12 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.56%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.70%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.70%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.85%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.85%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (1.85%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.85%) Equities
5 1 (1.85%) FMCG
5 1 (1.85%) IoT
5 1 (1.85%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.85%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Linux
1 2 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (48.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 22 (40.74%) Microservices
3 20 (37.04%) CI/CD
4 17 (31.48%) Containerisation
5 15 (27.78%) Observability
6 13 (24.07%) Data Modelling
6 13 (24.07%) Integration Patterns
7 12 (22.22%) AI
7 12 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
7 12 (22.22%) DevOps
8 10 (18.52%) Analytics
8 10 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (18.52%) Machine Learning
8 10 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (16.67%) Agile
9 9 (16.67%) Generative AI
9 9 (16.67%) Roadmaps
10 8 (14.81%) Data Integration
10 8 (14.81%) Enterprise Architecture
10 8 (14.81%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.04%) Java
2 15 (27.78%) Python
2 15 (27.78%) SQL
3 5 (9.26%) C#
4 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.56%) Ruby
4 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.85%) Bicep
5 1 (1.85%) C++
5 1 (1.85%) Elixir
5 1 (1.85%) Go
5 1 (1.85%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) Degree
4 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.85%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) Data Quality
2 6 (11.11%) QA
3 4 (7.41%) GDPR
3 4 (7.41%) PSD2
4 2 (3.70%) ISO 20022
4 2 (3.70%) ISO 8583
4 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.70%) NIST
4 2 (3.70%) SEPA
5 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.85%) GRC
5 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 15 (27.78%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.85%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 12 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.26%) Grafana
2 5 (9.26%) Prometheus
2 5 (9.26%) Terraform
3 2 (3.70%) Ansible
3 2 (3.70%) Argo
4 1 (1.85%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
1 7 (12.96%) Oracle
2 6 (11.11%) SAP
3 5 (9.26%) MuleSoft
4 4 (7.41%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.56%) Databricks
6 2 (3.70%) Confluent
6 2 (3.70%) Google
6 2 (3.70%) Sitecore
6 2 (3.70%) Sparx
6 2 (3.70%) Sybase
7 1 (1.85%) Adobe
7 1 (1.85%) IBM
7 1 (1.85%) Informatica
7 1 (1.85%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.85%) Pega
7 1 (1.85%) Planon
7 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.85%) Solace