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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 73 107
Rank change year-on-year +1 +34 +26
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 72 50 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.22% 2.87% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 3.04% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 41 5
10th Percentile £447 £500 £625
25th Percentile £513 £613 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% -6.90% +16.00%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £738
90th Percentile £763 £800 £798
Central London median daily rate £600 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -11.11% -6.90% +16.00%

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 1,996 1,644 1,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.31% 94.21% 91.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,376 1,101 1,226
10th Percentile £368 £325 £365
25th Percentile £456 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -26.88% +40.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £50.25 £102.25
90th Percentile £50.59 £68.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +30.84%

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 25 September 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 (2.78%) CMS
1 2 (2.78%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.39%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.39%) Camunda
2 1 (1.39%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.78%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.78%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.39%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.39%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 38 (52.78%) AWS
2 31 (43.06%) Azure
3 20 (27.78%) GitHub
4 18 (25.00%) Serverless
5 12 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 12 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (15.28%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (13.89%) Amazon Kinesis
7 10 (13.89%) GCP
8 9 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
8 9 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (9.72%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (8.33%) Azure Functions
10 6 (8.33%) Power Platform
11 5 (6.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (6.94%) PaaS
11 5 (6.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) Multicast
1 2 (2.78%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (9.72%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (9.72%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.94%) Data Lake
3 5 (6.94%) Power BI
4 4 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (5.56%) Metadata
4 4 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.78%) Big Data
5 2 (2.78%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.78%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.78%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.78%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.39%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (15.28%) GitLab
2 6 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 6 (8.33%) Git
3 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.17%) JUnit
4 2 (2.78%) Gradle
4 2 (2.78%) Maven
5 1 (1.39%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.39%) JIRA
5 1 (1.39%) Mockito
General
1 30 (41.67%) Finance
2 25 (34.72%) Social Skills
3 18 (25.00%) Banking
4 11 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (13.89%) Front Office
6 9 (12.50%) Public Sector
7 7 (9.72%) Back Office
8 6 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (5.56%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.78%) Marketing
10 2 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.39%) Billing
11 1 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (1.39%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.39%) Military
11 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.39%) Retail
11 1 (1.39%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (36.11%) Architect
2 20 (27.78%) Senior
3 16 (22.22%) Developer
4 10 (13.89%) Data Engineer
5 9 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 8 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (9.72%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Data Architect
8 6 (8.33%) Java Developer
8 6 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (8.33%) Technical Architect
9 5 (6.94%) AWS Data Engineer
10 4 (5.56%) Integration Architect
11 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
11 3 (4.17%) Java Architect
11 3 (4.17%) Java Engineer
11 3 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
12 2 (2.78%) .NET Developer
12 2 (2.78%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.39%) REST
2 16 (22.22%) Terraform
3 15 (20.83%) Kafka
4 13 (18.06%) Spring
5 12 (16.67%) Spring Boot
6 10 (13.89%) .NET
7 8 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (11.11%) RESTful
8 7 (9.72%) Middleware
8 7 (9.72%) SOAP
9 6 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
10 5 (6.94%) PySpark
11 4 (5.56%) React
12 3 (4.17%) .NET Core
12 3 (4.17%) GraphQL
12 3 (4.17%) JSON
12 3 (4.17%) Node.js
12 3 (4.17%) XML
13 2 (2.78%) JMS
13 2 (2.78%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 37 (51.39%) Cloud Native
2 21 (29.17%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.94%) AI Agents
4 5 (6.94%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (6.94%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (4.17%) Data Structures
6 3 (4.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (2.78%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.78%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.78%) Derivative
7 2 (2.78%) Equities
7 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.78%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (2.78%) PropTech
8 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.39%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.39%) Market Risk
8 1 (1.39%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 45 (62.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 32 (44.44%) DevOps
4 30 (41.67%) Microservices
5 27 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (30.56%) Data Modelling
6 22 (30.56%) Integration Patterns
7 18 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 16 (22.22%) Roadmaps
9 15 (20.83%) Analytics
9 15 (20.83%) Migration
10 14 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
10 14 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (18.06%) Data Engineering
11 13 (18.06%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (16.67%) Observability
12 12 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (16.67%) Test Automation
13 11 (15.28%) Data Integration
13 11 (15.28%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (33.33%) Python
2 21 (29.17%) Java
3 17 (23.61%) SQL
4 9 (12.50%) C#
5 4 (5.56%) Bicep
5 4 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.17%) Ruby
7 2 (2.78%) Apex Code
7 2 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.78%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.39%) DataWeave
8 1 (1.39%) SOQL
8 1 (1.39%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 15 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 14 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.78%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.39%) CSPO
5 1 (1.39%) Degree
5 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.56%) QA
3 2 (2.78%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.78%) SEPA
4 1 (1.39%) Basel III
4 1 (1.39%) GRC
4 1 (1.39%) IFRS
4 1 (1.39%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 13 (18.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.17%) Grafana
2 3 (4.17%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.39%) Bosun
Vendors
1 19 (26.39%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.89%) Databricks
3 8 (11.11%) Oracle
4 6 (8.33%) Google
5 5 (6.94%) MuleSoft
5 5 (6.94%) Salesforce
5 5 (6.94%) SAP
6 3 (4.17%) OpenAI
6 3 (4.17%) Workday
7 2 (2.78%) Adyen
7 2 (2.78%) IBM
8 1 (1.39%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.39%) Foundry
8 1 (1.39%) Murex
8 1 (1.39%) New Relic
8 1 (1.39%) Pega
8 1 (1.39%) Refinitiv
8 1 (1.39%) Temenos
8 1 (1.39%) TIBCO
8 1 (1.39%) UiPath