Event-Driven Programming Contract Job Trends in England

Event-Driven Programming
UK > England

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 508 559
Rank change year-on-year +3 +51 +39
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Programming 14 11 22
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.048% 0.035% 0.056%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.041% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 18
10th Percentile £460 - £470
25th Percentile £491 £535 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £679 £763 £975
90th Percentile £788 £834 £1,000
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% -13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Event-Driven Programming 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 26,674 26,919 35,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.55% 86.57% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,953 16,411 24,057
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,726 969 1,471
10th Percentile £14.72 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.81 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.45 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +26.43%

Event-Driven Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Event-Driven Programming job vacancy trend in England

Event-Driven Programming
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Event-Driven Programming
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven Programming in England over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven Programming in England

Event-Driven Programming
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Event-Driven Programming
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 Programming within the England region over the 6 months to 6 November 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 -1 11 £550 -26.67% 18
South East +1 1 £635 +15.45% 13
West Midlands - 1 - - 2
Midlands - 1 - - 2
Event-Driven Programming
UK

Event-Driven Programming
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 1 (7.14%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) GCP
2 4 (28.57%) Serverless
3 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) npm
3 3 (21.43%) Yarn
4 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) Apigee
5 1 (7.14%) Azure App Service
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) BigQuery
2 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI
3 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) webpack
3 2 (14.29%) JUnit
3 2 (14.29%) Mockito
4 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.14%) EasyMock
4 1 (7.14%) Gradle
4 1 (7.14%) JBehave
4 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.14%) Maven
4 1 (7.14%) VisualVM
4 1 (7.14%) YourKit
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Senior
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior UI Developer
4 3 (21.43%) UI Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Backend Developer
5 2 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Lead
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Leader
6 1 (7.14%) Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) GCP Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Integration Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Lead Python Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) CSS
1 4 (28.57%) RESTful
2 3 (21.43%) OAuth
2 3 (21.43%) OAuth2
2 3 (21.43%) React
2 3 (21.43%) Spring
3 2 (14.29%) GraphQL
3 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 2 (14.29%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (7.14%) LangChain
4 1 (7.14%) LangGraph
4 1 (7.14%) Middleware
4 1 (7.14%) OpenID
4 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (7.14%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) WireMock
4 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Derivative
2 3 (21.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
4 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) IoT
4 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 1 (7.14%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 7 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 6 (42.86%) Microservices
5 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 4 (28.57%) Design Patterns
5 4 (28.57%) Scrum
6 3 (21.43%) API Integration
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (21.43%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (21.43%) DevOps
6 3 (21.43%) Electronic Trading
6 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
6 3 (21.43%) Web Development
7 2 (14.29%) API Design
7 2 (14.29%) BDD
7 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Java
2 7 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 5 (35.71%) Python
4 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 2 (14.29%) Go
6 1 (7.14%) Bicep
6 1 (7.14%) C#
6 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) MCP
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Grafana
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Atlassian
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
3 1 (7.14%) OpenAI
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk