Event-Driven Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Event-Driven
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Event-Driven skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 49 -
Rank change year-on-year -31 - -
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 4 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.42% 0.71% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.82% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £338 - -
25th Percentile £362 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - -
75th Percentile £409 £456 -
90th Percentile £435 £476 -
England median daily rate £525 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -18.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 815 489 644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.90% 86.55% 83.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 291 450
10th Percentile £185 £250 £197
25th Percentile £351 £341 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.06% -5.50% -1.69%
75th Percentile £536 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £625 £664
England median daily rate £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.53% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 21 56
10th Percentile £14.63 - £11.05
25th Percentile £16.28 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +26.99% +5.27%
75th Percentile £23.75 £30.00 £36.88
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.68 £52.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Event-Driven relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Event-Driven job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Event-Driven.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Event-Driven

Event-Driven
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Event-Driven.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Event-Driven

Event-Driven
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Event-Driven within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire -23 3 £375 -6.25% 5
Nottinghamshire - 1 £395 - 7
Event-Driven
England

Event-Driven
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Glacier
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Gen AI Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Architect
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) FastAPI
2 2 (50.00%) Flask
3 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Logistics
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Debt
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) SAP