Event-Driven Architecture Contracts in England

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Event-Driven Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Event-Driven Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 456 462
Rank change year-on-year +123 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture 152 86 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.23% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.27% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 71 161
10th Percentile £409 £400 £500
25th Percentile £500 £485 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% -15.38% +7.53%
75th Percentile £687 £650 £700
90th Percentile £800 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £638
% change year-on-year - -13.73% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +57.14% -45.94%
75th Percentile - £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - £56.16
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% +57.14% -45.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Event-Driven Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Event-Driven Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven Architecture in England

Event-Driven Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture in England.

Daily rate trend for Event-Driven Architecture in England

Event-Driven Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven Architecture in England

Event-Driven Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture in England.

Hourly rate trend for Event-Driven Architecture in England

Event-Driven Architecture
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +72 93 £625 +13.64% 135
North of England +37 31 £500 +1.11% 40
North West +34 25 £530 +8.38% 29
South East +55 11 £455 -5.21% 56
North East +3 4 £465 -28.46% 3
East Midlands - 3 - - 2
Midlands - 3 - - 11
South West +41 2 £700 +16.67% 12
East of England +31 2 - - 6
Yorkshire +6 2 £475 -13.64% 8
Event-Driven Architecture
UK

Event-Driven Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.32%) Apache
2 2 (1.32%) Camunda
2 2 (1.32%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.66%) Confluence
3 1 (0.66%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 56 (36.84%) Azure
2 52 (34.21%) AWS
3 28 (18.42%) Serverless
4 26 (17.11%) GCP
5 18 (11.84%) Azure AKS
6 16 (10.53%) GitHub
7 12 (7.89%) Azure Functions
7 12 (7.89%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (5.92%) Amazon EventBridge
10 8 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (3.95%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (3.95%) PaaS
11 6 (3.95%) SaaS
12 5 (3.29%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) HTTPS
1 2 (1.32%) IPsec
1 2 (1.32%) Kerberos
1 2 (1.32%) SSL
2 1 (0.66%) HTTP
2 1 (0.66%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (24.34%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (17.76%) Relational Database
3 22 (14.47%) NoSQL
4 16 (10.53%) MongoDB
5 10 (6.58%) Redis
6 9 (5.92%) MySQL
7 8 (5.26%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.29%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.63%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (2.63%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.97%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.97%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.32%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.32%) Big Data
11 2 (1.32%) Flink
11 2 (1.32%) OLTP
11 2 (1.32%) Parquet
11 2 (1.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 33 (21.71%) GitLab
2 32 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 15 (9.87%) Git
3 15 (9.87%) Gradle
3 15 (9.87%) JUnit
3 15 (9.87%) Mockito
4 13 (8.55%) Maven
5 11 (7.24%) Liquibase
6 5 (3.29%) Artifactory
6 5 (3.29%) Cypress.io
6 5 (3.29%) gulp
6 5 (3.29%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.63%) Postman
7 4 (2.63%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.97%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.97%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.97%) JIRA
8 3 (1.97%) TestNG
9 2 (1.32%) Cucumber
General
1 33 (21.71%) Social Skills
2 30 (19.74%) Finance
3 27 (17.76%) Public Sector
4 15 (9.87%) Telecoms
5 12 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (7.24%) Banking
6 11 (7.24%) Electronics
6 11 (7.24%) Manufacturing
6 11 (7.24%) Marketing
7 6 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.63%) Publishing
9 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Front Office
10 1 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (36.84%) Architect
2 48 (31.58%) Developer
3 27 (17.76%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (13.16%) Java Developer
5 16 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 15 (9.87%) Senior
7 14 (9.21%) Enterprise Architect
8 13 (8.55%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (7.24%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
9 11 (7.24%) React Developer
9 11 (7.24%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 10 (6.58%) Python Engineer
10 10 (6.58%) Technical Architect
11 9 (5.92%) Lead
12 7 (4.61%) AWS Architect
12 7 (4.61%) Azure Developer
12 7 (4.61%) Data Architect
12 7 (4.61%) Senior Developer
13 6 (3.95%) C# Software Engineer
13 6 (3.95%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (35.53%) Kafka
2 29 (19.08%) Spring Boot
3 27 (17.76%) Spring
4 26 (17.11%) Node.js
4 26 (17.11%) RESTful
5 25 (16.45%) React
6 18 (11.84%) .NET
6 18 (11.84%) REST
7 16 (10.53%) OAuth
7 16 (10.53%) OpenAPI
7 16 (10.53%) Swagger
8 13 (8.55%) GraphQL
9 12 (7.89%) AngularJS
10 10 (6.58%) Express.js
11 9 (5.92%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (5.26%) Hibernate
12 8 (5.26%) OAuth2
13 7 (4.61%) OpenID
13 7 (4.61%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (4.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.18%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.29%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.97%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (1.97%) Educational Technology
5 3 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.97%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.97%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.32%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.32%) EMV
6 2 (1.32%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.32%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.66%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.66%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.66%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.66%) PKI
7 1 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (0.66%) Unix
2 1 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (94.74%) Event-Driven
2 93 (61.18%) Microservices
3 85 (55.92%) CI/CD
4 68 (44.74%) Agile
5 52 (34.21%) Containerisation
5 52 (34.21%) DevOps
6 43 (28.29%) Software Engineering
7 30 (19.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (19.74%) Test Automation
8 25 (16.45%) Full-Stack Development
9 22 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (13.82%) Design Patterns
10 21 (13.82%) Mentoring
11 20 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
12 18 (11.84%) Migration
13 17 (11.18%) TDD
14 15 (9.87%) Observability
15 14 (9.21%) Integration Patterns
16 13 (8.55%) Clean Code
16 13 (8.55%) Event-Driven Programming
Programming Languages
1 57 (37.50%) Java
2 45 (29.61%) Python
2 45 (29.61%) SQL
3 32 (21.05%) C#
4 30 (19.74%) JavaScript
5 23 (15.13%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.26%) Scala
7 4 (2.63%) Go
7 4 (2.63%) Ruby
8 3 (1.97%) Bicep
8 3 (1.97%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.97%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.32%) ActionScript
9 2 (1.32%) ActionScript 2.0
9 2 (1.32%) C++
10 1 (0.66%) Bash
10 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (23.03%) Security Cleared
2 34 (22.37%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.63%) Degree
5 4 (2.63%) OCP
5 4 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.32%) IBM Certification
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.95%) QA
2 4 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.97%) HL7
4 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.32%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.32%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.32%) PSD2
4 2 (1.32%) SEPA
5 1 (0.66%) GDPR
5 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 69 (45.39%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) RACF
3 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (42.76%) Kubernetes
2 45 (29.61%) Terraform
3 11 (7.24%) Ansible
4 9 (5.92%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.95%) Grafana
6 3 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.32%) Argo
7 2 (1.32%) Istio
7 2 (1.32%) MOM
7 2 (1.32%) Packer
7 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.66%) Kibana
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.66%) vRealize
8 1 (0.66%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (9.21%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.24%) Google
2 11 (7.24%) SAP
3 9 (5.92%) Databricks
4 6 (3.95%) Virgin Media
5 2 (1.32%) Confluent
5 2 (1.32%) IBM
5 2 (1.32%) IBM Sterling
5 2 (1.32%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.32%) Oracle
5 2 (1.32%) Splunk
6 1 (0.66%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.66%) Cisco
6 1 (0.66%) EMC
6 1 (0.66%) F5
6 1 (0.66%) New Relic
6 1 (0.66%) ScienceLogic
6 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.66%) VMware