Event-Driven Architecture Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
Scotland > Edinburgh

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 67 79
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 +21
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.88% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £404 - -
25th Percentile £409 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -16.67% +2.61%
75th Percentile £478 - £625
90th Percentile £484 - -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -19.15% -2.08% +2.61%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Event-Driven Architecture 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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 682 621 742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.68% 95.10% 84.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 324 418
10th Percentile £350 £223 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £454
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +2.04% -4.47%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £550
90th Percentile £636 £600 £650
Scotland median daily rate £453 £463 £453
% change year-on-year -2.21% +2.21% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 17 33
10th Percentile £16.67 £17.00 £13.22
25th Percentile £50.00 £17.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £19.37 £19.17
Median % change year-on-year +171.11% +1.02% -40.25%
75th Percentile £75.00 £28.38 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £62.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.93 £20.00 £21.64
% change year-on-year -10.35% -7.58% +49.24%

Event-Driven Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Event-Driven Architecture job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Event-Driven Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Event-Driven Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Event-Driven Architecture

Event-Driven Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) DynamoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Developer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
3 1 (14.29%) J2EE
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) API Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
5 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle