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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 112 141
Rank change year-on-year +21 +29 -11
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 41 16 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.20% 0.77% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 0.84% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 7 15
10th Percentile £555 £565 £431
25th Percentile £623 £606 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -11.86%
75th Percentile £800 £738 £963
90th Percentile £825 £778 £1,063
Central London median daily rate £675 £675 £650
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -13.33%

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 1,754 1,902 2,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.25% 91.71% 90.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,270 2,023
10th Percentile £325 £375 £359
25th Percentile £425 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £721
90th Percentile £773 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 15
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £19.79 £14.75
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -3.18% -36.40%
75th Percentile £53.50 £82.19 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £26.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +8.55% -23.49% -17.65%

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 15 August 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 (2.44%) Camunda
1 1 (2.44%) Confluence
1 1 (2.44%) NServiceBus
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Fidessa
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 12 (29.27%) AWS
1 12 (29.27%) Azure
2 7 (17.07%) Serverless
3 6 (14.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (14.63%) Amazon S3
3 6 (14.63%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (12.20%) Amazon Cognito
4 5 (12.20%) Amazon EventBridge
4 5 (12.20%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (12.20%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (12.20%) Datadog
5 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.88%) GCP
5 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.44%) iPaaS
6 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) DynamoDB
2 5 (12.20%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.88%) Big Data
3 2 (4.88%) Event Store
3 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (2.44%) KDB
4 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Git
2 5 (12.20%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.88%) JIRA
4 1 (2.44%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.44%) Gradle
4 1 (2.44%) JUnit
4 1 (2.44%) Maven
4 1 (2.44%) Mockito
4 1 (2.44%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (46.34%) Finance
2 17 (41.46%) Social Skills
3 14 (34.15%) Banking
4 6 (14.63%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.44%) Back Office
6 1 (2.44%) Billing
6 1 (2.44%) Front Office
6 1 (2.44%) Publishing
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Architect
1 11 (26.83%) Developer
2 7 (17.07%) Java Developer
2 7 (17.07%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (12.20%) Lead
4 4 (9.76%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Software Design Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Angular Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (4.88%) GCP Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Payments Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Senior
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) Spring
2 8 (19.51%) Kafka
3 7 (17.07%) AngularJS
3 7 (17.07%) Spring Boot
4 6 (14.63%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (14.63%) REST
5 5 (12.20%) .NET
5 5 (12.20%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (12.20%) GraphQL
5 5 (12.20%) Hibernate
5 5 (12.20%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (12.20%) WebSockets
6 4 (9.76%) RESTful
7 3 (7.32%) Web Services
7 3 (7.32%) ZK
8 2 (4.88%) JPA
8 2 (4.88%) Node.js
8 2 (4.88%) React
9 1 (2.44%) AWS CDK
9 1 (2.44%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 13 (31.71%) Cloud Native
2 12 (29.27%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (14.63%) Fixed Income
3 6 (14.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.88%) Derivative
5 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.44%) Equities
5 1 (2.44%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.44%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.44%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.51%) Linux
2 2 (4.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (70.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 15 (36.59%) DevOps
3 14 (34.15%) Agile
3 14 (34.15%) CI/CD
3 14 (34.15%) Software Engineering
4 13 (31.71%) Mentoring
4 13 (31.71%) Microservices
5 11 (26.83%) Observability
6 10 (24.39%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (21.95%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (21.95%) Performance Optimisation
8 8 (19.51%) Architectural Patterns
8 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (19.51%) Machine Learning
8 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (17.07%) Algorithmic Trading
9 7 (17.07%) Clean Code
9 7 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (14.63%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (14.63%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 21 (51.22%) Python
2 13 (31.71%) Java
3 9 (21.95%) SQL
4 7 (17.07%) C#
5 6 (14.63%) PowerShell
6 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
6 4 (9.76%) TypeScript
7 3 (7.32%) C++
8 1 (2.44%) C
8 1 (2.44%) Ruby
8 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.88%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) EMIR
1 1 (2.44%) GDPR
1 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.44%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (31.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.20%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (12.20%) Kibana
2 5 (12.20%) logstash
2 5 (12.20%) Prometheus
3 4 (9.76%) Terraform
4 3 (7.32%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Oracle
1 5 (12.20%) Solace
2 1 (2.44%) Bloomberg
2 1 (2.44%) CQG
2 1 (2.44%) IBM
2 1 (2.44%) ION Trading
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.44%) Reuters
2 1 (2.44%) Salesforce