Event-Driven Architecture Contract Job Trends in England

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Event-Driven Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 406 448
Rank change year-on-year +63 +42 +55
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture 214 107 109
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.36% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.41% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 69 86
10th Percentile £410 £404 £413
25th Percentile £456 £438 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £638
90th Percentile £704 £800 £700
UK median daily rate £544 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -9.38% +9.09% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £47.68 - -
25th Percentile £55.44 £82.50 -
Median hourly rate £63.50 £85.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% +37.10% -
75th Percentile £69.44 £87.50 -
90th Percentile £69.78 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £85.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +37.10% -

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 27,668 25,905 33,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.00% 88.32% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,615 15,999 22,793
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,810 882 1,400
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.54 £14.74
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.26 £74.99 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%

Event-Driven Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Event-Driven Architecture job vacancy trend in England

Event-Driven Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Event-Driven Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture in England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven Architecture in England

Event-Driven Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Event-Driven Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Event-Driven Architecture

Event-Driven Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture in England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 14 December 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 +70 135 £578 -11.15% 48
North of England -9 41 £537 -6.61% 53
North West -5 27 £552 -4.00% 32
Yorkshire -30 15 £513 -6.58% 17
South East -6 13 £538 +30.86% 43
Midlands -34 7 £420 - 34
East Midlands - 4 £349 - 13
East of England -21 3 £750 - 27
West Midlands -36 3 £525 - 19
South West -11 2 £900 +50.00% 27
North East - 1 - - 4
Event-Driven Architecture
UK

Event-Driven Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 7 (3.27%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.34%) Confluence
3 4 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.40%) Apache
4 3 (1.40%) NServiceBus
4 3 (1.40%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.93%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.93%) Mule
5 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.47%) Camunda
6 1 (0.47%) Documentum
6 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.93%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.47%) Actimize
3 1 (0.47%) Cerner Millennium
3 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.47%) SAP MRS
3 1 (0.47%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.47%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 126 (58.88%) AWS
2 118 (55.14%) Azure
3 56 (26.17%) Serverless
4 50 (23.36%) GCP
5 34 (15.89%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (14.95%) GitHub
7 30 (14.02%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (10.75%) Amazon ECS
9 22 (10.28%) Amazon S3
10 21 (9.81%) Azure Service Bus
11 20 (9.35%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (8.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (8.41%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (7.01%) Amazon EventBridge
13 15 (7.01%) SaaS
14 12 (5.61%) AWS Step Functions
15 11 (5.14%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (5.14%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (5.14%) AWS Fargate
15 11 (5.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.87%) DNS
1 4 (1.87%) HTTP
2 2 (0.93%) AMQP
2 2 (0.93%) DSL
2 2 (0.93%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.47%) MQTT
3 1 (0.47%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (19.63%) NoSQL
2 24 (11.21%) MongoDB
3 21 (9.81%) DynamoDB
4 20 (9.35%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (6.07%) Relational Database
7 12 (5.61%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (5.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (5.14%) SQL Server
9 10 (4.67%) Metadata
10 9 (4.21%) BigQuery
10 9 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (4.21%) MySQL
11 8 (3.74%) Redis
12 7 (3.27%) Data Lake
13 6 (2.80%) Big Data
13 6 (2.80%) RDBMS
14 5 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (2.34%) Power BI
15 4 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 41 (19.16%) Git
2 33 (15.42%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.01%) GitLab
4 8 (3.74%) Gradle
4 8 (3.74%) JIRA
4 8 (3.74%) SonarQube
5 7 (3.27%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.80%) JUnit
6 6 (2.80%) Maven
7 5 (2.34%) SonarLint
8 4 (1.87%) Mockito
8 4 (1.87%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.93%) git-flow
9 2 (0.93%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.93%) Postman
9 2 (0.93%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.47%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.47%) Poetry
10 1 (0.47%) Pylint
General
1 85 (39.72%) Social Skills
2 70 (32.71%) Finance
3 37 (17.29%) Banking
4 24 (11.21%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.54%) Investment Banking
6 13 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.27%) Front Office
9 4 (1.87%) Billing
9 4 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.87%) Military
9 4 (1.87%) Retail
9 4 (1.87%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.93%) Law
11 2 (0.93%) Legal
11 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.93%) Marketing
11 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 66 (30.84%) Developer
2 54 (25.23%) Senior
3 51 (23.83%) Architect
4 28 (13.08%) Lead
5 27 (12.62%) Senior Developer
6 25 (11.68%) Java Developer
7 20 (9.35%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (8.88%) Software Engineer
9 13 (6.07%) Technical Architect
10 11 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.21%) Senior Java Developer
12 8 (3.74%) Backend Developer
12 8 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.74%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
13 7 (3.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.27%) Java Architect
13 7 (3.27%) Java Technical Architect
14 6 (2.80%) .NET Developer
14 6 (2.80%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (28.50%) Kafka
2 53 (24.77%) RESTful
3 41 (19.16%) Spring
3 41 (19.16%) Spring Boot
4 40 (18.69%) .NET
5 32 (14.95%) REST
6 21 (9.81%) Node.js
7 18 (8.41%) OAuth
7 18 (8.41%) React
8 16 (7.48%) RabbitMQ
9 14 (6.54%) AngularJS
10 13 (6.07%) JSON
10 13 (6.07%) SOAP
11 12 (5.61%) OAuth2
12 11 (5.14%) GraphQL
12 11 (5.14%) XML
13 10 (4.67%) .NET Core
14 8 (3.74%) AWS CDK
14 8 (3.74%) FIX Protocol
14 8 (3.74%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 60 (28.04%) Cloud Native
2 40 (18.69%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.01%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.21%) Data Fabric
4 9 (4.21%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.80%) Low-Code
6 6 (2.80%) N-Tier
6 6 (2.80%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.80%) Replication
7 5 (2.34%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.34%) Hedge funds
7 5 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.87%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.87%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.87%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.87%) NHS
8 4 (1.87%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.81%) Linux
2 7 (3.27%) Unix
3 4 (1.87%) CentOS
3 4 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.93%) AIX
4 2 (0.93%) Windows
5 1 (0.47%) Android
5 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 108 (50.47%) Microservices
3 107 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 88 (41.12%) DevOps
5 74 (34.58%) Agile
6 58 (27.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 56 (26.17%) Containerisation
8 51 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (17.29%) API Design
10 36 (16.82%) Software Engineering
11 33 (15.42%) Observability
11 33 (15.42%) Test Automation
12 30 (14.02%) Analytics
13 29 (13.55%) Roadmaps
14 26 (12.15%) Code Quality
14 26 (12.15%) TDD
15 25 (11.68%) AI
15 25 (11.68%) Data Pipeline
15 25 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (11.68%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 80 (37.38%) Java
2 75 (35.05%) Python
3 52 (24.30%) SQL
4 37 (17.29%) C#
5 28 (13.08%) TypeScript
6 23 (10.75%) JavaScript
7 11 (5.14%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.74%) Bicep
9 7 (3.27%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.80%) Go
11 5 (2.34%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.87%) Bash
13 3 (1.40%) Scala
14 2 (0.93%) DataWeave
14 2 (0.93%) Korn
14 2 (0.93%) Perl
14 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.93%) R
14 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.47%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 40 (18.69%) Security Cleared
2 26 (12.15%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (6.54%) Degree
4 8 (3.74%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.74%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.40%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.47%) MCP
7 1 (0.47%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (0.47%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.47%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.07%) QA
2 11 (5.14%) GDPR
3 7 (3.27%) NCSC
4 6 (2.80%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.34%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.40%) HL7
7 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.93%) SEPA
8 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.47%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.47%) MiFID
System Software
1 81 (37.85%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 90 (42.06%) Kubernetes
2 63 (29.44%) Terraform
3 13 (6.07%) Ansible
4 8 (3.74%) ITRS Geneos
4 8 (3.74%) Kibana
4 8 (3.74%) logstash
5 5 (2.34%) Grafana
5 5 (2.34%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.87%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (1.87%) Packer
7 3 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (15.42%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.48%) Databricks
3 11 (5.14%) Salesforce
4 10 (4.67%) Solace
5 8 (3.74%) SAP
6 7 (3.27%) Confluent
6 7 (3.27%) Oracle
7 5 (2.34%) Gigya
7 5 (2.34%) Google
7 5 (2.34%) Splunk
8 4 (1.87%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.87%) Okta
8 4 (1.87%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.40%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.40%) ForgeRock
9 3 (1.40%) IBM
9 3 (1.40%) Refinitiv
9 3 (1.40%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.93%) Calypso
10 2 (0.93%) Informatica