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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 76 110
Rank change year-on-year +11 +34 +31
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 78 48 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.42% 2.68% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 2.84% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 38 6
10th Percentile £434 £489 £606
25th Percentile £500 £623 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% -3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £708 £738 £738
90th Percentile £763 £808 £788
Central London median daily rate £600 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +16.67%

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 2,021 1,690 1,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.52% 94.20% 92.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,115 1,242
10th Percentile £368 £325 £388
25th Percentile £456 £422 £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 £770 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -14.80%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £29.07 £33.00
% change year-on-year -14.00% -11.91% +5.60%

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 11 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 (2.56%) Anypoint
1 2 (2.56%) CMS
1 2 (2.56%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.28%) Camunda
2 1 (1.28%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.56%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.56%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.28%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.28%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 41 (52.56%) AWS
2 33 (42.31%) Azure
3 21 (26.92%) GitHub
4 15 (19.23%) Serverless
5 10 (12.82%) Amazon S3
5 10 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (11.54%) Amazon Kinesis
6 9 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (8.97%) AWS Step Functions
8 7 (8.97%) GCP
8 7 (8.97%) PaaS
9 6 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (7.69%) Power Platform
10 5 (6.41%) Amazon EventBridge
10 5 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (6.41%) Azure Functions
10 5 (6.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) Multicast
1 3 (3.85%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.26%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.97%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (6.41%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.41%) Data Lake
3 5 (6.41%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.41%) Power BI
4 4 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (5.13%) Metadata
5 3 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (3.85%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.56%) Big Data
6 2 (2.56%) Data Mining
6 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.56%) Delta Lake
6 2 (2.56%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (2.56%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.28%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (11.54%) Git
1 9 (11.54%) GitLab
2 5 (6.41%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.13%) Bitbucket
3 4 (5.13%) Maven
4 3 (3.85%) Gradle
4 3 (3.85%) JUnit
5 1 (1.28%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.28%) JIRA
5 1 (1.28%) Mockito
5 1 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 28 (35.90%) Finance
3 18 (23.08%) Banking
4 12 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (14.10%) Public Sector
6 10 (12.82%) Front Office
7 8 (10.26%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (6.41%) Back Office
9 4 (5.13%) Investment Banking
10 3 (3.85%) Marketing
11 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (1.28%) Billing
12 1 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (1.28%) General Ledger
12 1 (1.28%) Military
12 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.28%) Retail
12 1 (1.28%) Retail Banking
12 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (41.03%) Architect
2 23 (29.49%) Senior
3 16 (20.51%) Developer
4 11 (14.10%) Senior Developer
5 9 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (10.26%) Data Engineer
6 8 (10.26%) Java Developer
6 8 (10.26%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (10.26%) Technical Architect
7 7 (8.97%) Data Architect
8 6 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Integration Architect
9 5 (6.41%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (5.13%) AWS Data Engineer
10 4 (5.13%) Enterprise Architect
11 3 (3.85%) Java Architect
11 3 (3.85%) Java Engineer
11 3 (3.85%) Lead
12 2 (2.56%) Principal Engineer
12 2 (2.56%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.08%) REST
2 17 (21.79%) Kafka
3 15 (19.23%) Terraform
4 14 (17.95%) Spring
4 14 (17.95%) Spring Boot
5 11 (14.10%) .NET
6 8 (10.26%) RESTful
7 7 (8.97%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (8.97%) SOAP
8 6 (7.69%) Middleware
9 5 (6.41%) PySpark
10 4 (5.13%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (5.13%) JSON
10 4 (5.13%) XML
11 3 (3.85%) .NET Core
11 3 (3.85%) JWT
11 3 (3.85%) Node.js
11 3 (3.85%) OAuth
11 3 (3.85%) OAuth2
11 3 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 42 (53.85%) Cloud Native
2 25 (32.05%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.41%) AI Agents
5 4 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (3.85%) Equities
6 3 (3.85%) Fixed Income
6 3 (3.85%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (3.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (2.56%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.56%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.56%) IoT
7 2 (2.56%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.28%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.28%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.28%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (1.28%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.28%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.28%) Linux
1 1 (1.28%) Unix
1 1 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (65.38%) CI/CD
2 45 (57.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 36 (46.15%) DevOps
4 34 (43.59%) Microservices
5 27 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (30.77%) Data Modelling
7 23 (29.49%) Integration Patterns
8 21 (26.92%) Containerisation
9 17 (21.79%) Observability
10 16 (20.51%) Roadmaps
11 15 (19.23%) Analytics
11 15 (19.23%) Migration
11 15 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
11 15 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (19.23%) Test Automation
12 13 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (16.67%) ERP
12 13 (16.67%) Software Engineering
13 12 (15.38%) API Design
13 12 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 26 (33.33%) Java
1 26 (33.33%) Python
2 16 (20.51%) SQL
3 9 (11.54%) C#
4 5 (6.41%) Ruby
5 4 (5.13%) Bicep
5 4 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.13%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.56%) Apex Code
6 2 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.56%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.28%) DataWeave
7 1 (1.28%) Go
7 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.28%) SOQL
7 1 (1.28%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 18 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 16 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.85%) Degree
3 3 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.56%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.28%) CSPO
5 1 (1.28%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.26%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.69%) QA
3 2 (2.56%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.56%) SEPA
4 1 (1.28%) Basel III
4 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.28%) GRC
4 1 (1.28%) IFRS
4 1 (1.28%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.28%) NIST
4 1 (1.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 16 (20.51%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.28%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 15 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.13%) Grafana
2 4 (5.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.28%) Bosun
Vendors
1 18 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.38%) Oracle
3 10 (12.82%) Databricks
4 7 (8.97%) SAP
5 6 (7.69%) MuleSoft
6 5 (6.41%) Google
6 5 (6.41%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.85%) Workday
8 2 (2.56%) Adyen
8 2 (2.56%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.28%) Bloomberg
9 1 (1.28%) Calypso
9 1 (1.28%) FIS
9 1 (1.28%) IBM
9 1 (1.28%) Informatica
9 1 (1.28%) Murex
9 1 (1.28%) Planon
9 1 (1.28%) Refinitiv
9 1 (1.28%) Solace
9 1 (1.28%) Sybase