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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 97 116
Rank change year-on-year +14 +19 +15
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 43 15 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.28% 0.81% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 0.88% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 5 10
10th Percentile £436 £555 £478
25th Percentile £491 £600 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £673 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.78% +16.96% -17.86%
75th Percentile £688 £684 £684
90th Percentile £783 £690 £739
Central London median daily rate £625 £673 £575
% change year-on-year -7.06% +16.96% -17.86%
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 1,679 1,706 2,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.98% 91.67% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,021 1,526
10th Percentile £351 £363 £350
25th Percentile £426 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +1.05% -4.77%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £780 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -6.09% +2.22% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 14
10th Percentile £20.02 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £28.94 £19.18
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.86% +28.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £42.65 £64.56 £45.06
90th Percentile £49.36 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -14.43%

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 February 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 (6.98%) CMS
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.65%) Confluence
3 1 (2.33%) Apache
3 1 (2.33%) NServiceBus
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.33%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (48.84%) AWS
2 18 (41.86%) Azure
3 10 (23.26%) Amazon S3
3 10 (23.26%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (23.26%) Serverless
4 7 (16.28%) GCP
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (9.30%) SaaS
6 4 (9.30%) Snowflake
7 3 (6.98%) iPaaS
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (4.65%) Boomi
8 2 (4.65%) GitHub
8 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.65%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.65%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) SMS
2 1 (2.33%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (9.30%) Metadata
2 3 (6.98%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (6.98%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.98%) DynamoDB
2 3 (6.98%) MySQL
2 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.98%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.65%) CockroachDB
3 2 (4.65%) Hazelcast
3 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.65%) Redis
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.33%) Power BI
4 1 (2.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Git
1 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.65%) Gatling
2 2 (4.65%) JIRA
General
1 17 (39.53%) Banking
2 15 (34.88%) Finance
3 9 (20.93%) Social Skills
4 7 (16.28%) Investment Banking
5 5 (11.63%) Front Office
6 4 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (6.98%) Legal
8 2 (4.65%) Billing
8 2 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (4.65%) Retail Banking
9 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.33%) Marketing
9 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (32.56%) Architect
2 8 (18.60%) Developer
2 8 (18.60%) Senior
2 8 (18.60%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (13.95%) Lead
4 4 (9.30%) Data Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Data Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Payments Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Data Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Front Office Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Technical Leader
7 1 (2.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Kafka Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.26%) .NET
2 8 (18.60%) Kafka
3 4 (9.30%) Node.js
3 4 (9.30%) React
3 4 (9.30%) REST
4 3 (6.98%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.98%) JSON
4 3 (6.98%) OAuth
4 3 (6.98%) OAuth2
4 3 (6.98%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (6.98%) Spring
4 3 (6.98%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.65%) Apache Avro
5 2 (4.65%) boto
5 2 (4.65%) Micronaut
5 2 (4.65%) NumPy
5 2 (4.65%) Pandas
5 2 (4.65%) Quarkus
5 2 (4.65%) RESTful
5 2 (4.65%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.65%) Credit Risk
2 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.33%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) FMCG
3 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.33%) NHS
3 1 (2.33%) Pricing Data
3 1 (2.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
1 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (53.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 13 (30.23%) Data Pipeline
3 12 (27.91%) Microservices
4 9 (20.93%) Analytics
4 9 (20.93%) Integration Patterns
5 8 (18.60%) Roadmaps
6 7 (16.28%) Agile
6 7 (16.28%) AI
6 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
6 7 (16.28%) Data Integration
6 7 (16.28%) Data Modelling
7 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
7 6 (13.95%) ETL
7 6 (13.95%) Fintech
7 6 (13.95%) Machine Learning
7 6 (13.95%) Wealth Management
8 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (11.63%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (11.63%) Regulatory Compliance
8 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.23%) Java
1 13 (30.23%) SQL
2 11 (25.58%) Python
3 7 (16.28%) C#
4 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.65%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (2.33%) Degree
1 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.30%) GDPR
2 4 (9.30%) PSD2
3 2 (4.65%) ISO 20022
3 2 (4.65%) ISO 8583
3 2 (4.65%) QA
3 2 (4.65%) SEPA
4 1 (2.33%) GRC
4 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.98%) Terraform
3 2 (4.65%) Ansible
3 2 (4.65%) Argo
3 2 (4.65%) Grafana
3 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.33%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) Databricks
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle
2 4 (9.30%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.98%) SAP
4 2 (4.65%) Confluent
4 2 (4.65%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.65%) Sitecore
4 2 (4.65%) Sparx
5 1 (2.33%) Adobe
5 1 (2.33%) Aruba
5 1 (2.33%) Informatica