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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 61 65
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 0
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 22 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.64% 0.99% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 1.15% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 7 2
10th Percentile £400 £312 £369
25th Percentile £402 £358 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £420 £423
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% -0.71% -15.40%
75th Percentile £500 £495 £457
90th Percentile £638 £537 £477
England median daily rate £563 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -0.83%

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 1,005 693 664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.89% 85.98% 83.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 481 410
10th Percentile £230 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £345 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -8.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £630 £625
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 63 32
10th Percentile £12.76 £15.43 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.51 £17.87 £15.08
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -5.22% -13.43%
75th Percentile £26.20 £25.15 £44.19
90th Percentile £36.99 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven in the East Midlands

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 24 September 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 +21 12 £447 +4.56% 6
Nottinghamshire -11 4 £557 - 11
Leicestershire - 3 £500 - 4
Lincolnshire - 3 £435 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) Azure
3 6 (27.27%) GCP
4 5 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (22.73%) Serverless
5 4 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
5 4 (18.18%) Azure AKS
5 4 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (18.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (13.64%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (13.64%) Power Automate
7 2 (9.09%) SaaS
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.55%) CloudFront
8 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
8 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) DynamoDB
2 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
3 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Power BI
4 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) GitLab
1 1 (4.55%) Gradle
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.55%) Maven
1 1 (4.55%) Selenium
1 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (18.18%) Publishing
1 4 (18.18%) Retail
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.55%) Aviation
4 1 (4.55%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 3 (13.64%) .NET Developer
4 3 (13.64%) .NET Software Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) Lead
4 3 (13.64%) Lead Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Telephony Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Salesforce Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Digital Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Integration Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) Kafka
2 6 (27.27%) RESTful
3 4 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (18.18%) REST
4 3 (13.64%) .NET
4 3 (13.64%) OAuth
4 3 (13.64%) OAuth2
4 3 (13.64%) Spring
4 3 (13.64%) Spring Boot
5 2 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (9.09%) Middleware
5 2 (9.09%) OpenID
5 2 (9.09%) SAML
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
6 1 (4.55%) CSS3
6 1 (4.55%) HTML5
6 1 (4.55%) JWT
6 1 (4.55%) MACH
6 1 (4.55%) Node.js
6 1 (4.55%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Cloud Native
1 8 (36.36%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (18.18%) Reference Data
3 3 (13.64%) IVR
4 2 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (4.55%) Chip and PIN
5 1 (4.55%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 14 (63.64%) Microservices
3 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
4 9 (40.91%) DevOps
5 8 (36.36%) Performance Optimisation
6 7 (31.82%) Containerisation
6 7 (31.82%) Integration Patterns
7 6 (27.27%) API Development
8 5 (22.73%) Agile
9 4 (18.18%) Code Quality
9 4 (18.18%) Data Integration
9 4 (18.18%) Data Protection
9 4 (18.18%) Service Design
10 3 (13.64%) Customer Service
10 3 (13.64%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 3 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
10 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
10 3 (13.64%) Speech Recognition
10 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
10 3 (13.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) C#
3 2 (9.09%) Apex Code
3 2 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) Rust
4 1 (4.55%) SOQL
4 1 (4.55%) SOSL
4 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) SAP