Event-Driven Contracts in England

Event-Driven
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Event-Driven skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Event-Driven over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 370 344
Rank change year-on-year +130 -26 -58
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 260 173 317
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.08% 0.47% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.55% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 127 261
10th Percentile £397 £416 £475
25th Percentile £485 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £719 £681 £743
90th Percentile £800 £775 £863
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +57.14% -53.02%
75th Percentile - £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - £52.63
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 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 21,947 31,578 42,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.31% 85.86% 89.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,275 20,635 30,003
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 956 2,303 1,521
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.81
Median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £59.93 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven in England

Event-Driven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Event-Driven in England

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven in England

Event-Driven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Event-Driven in England

Event-Driven
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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 +107 172 £650 +8.33% 131
North of England +41 55 £530 -3.64% 78
North West +27 33 £530 -1.40% 62
Yorkshire +26 18 £550 +4.07% 16
Midlands +28 13 £537 +79.00% 19
South East +54 9 £390 -25.71% 22
East Midlands - 7 £447 - 7
West Midlands +19 5 £600 +100.00% 12
North East +1 4 £465 -28.46%
East of England +34 3 £525 -8.70% 5
South West +29 3 £594 +7.95% 13
Event-Driven
UK

Event-Driven
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 18 (6.92%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.46%) Apache
3 4 (1.54%) JBoss
3 4 (1.54%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.77%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.77%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.38%) Camunda
5 1 (0.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.38%) Mule
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.77%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.38%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 100 (38.46%) AWS
2 82 (31.54%) Azure
3 65 (25.00%) Serverless
4 39 (15.00%) GCP
5 36 (13.85%) GitHub
6 27 (10.38%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (8.46%) Amazon S3
9 19 (7.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (6.54%) Azure Service Bus
11 14 (5.38%) Azure AKS
12 13 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
12 13 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (5.00%) Azure Functions
12 13 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (3.85%) PaaS
15 9 (3.46%) Datadog
15 9 (3.46%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.31%) Firewall
2 3 (1.15%) Network Security
2 3 (1.15%) VPN
3 2 (0.77%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.77%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.77%) IPsec
3 2 (0.77%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.77%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.77%) SSL
3 2 (0.77%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.77%) WAN
3 2 (0.77%) Wireless
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (17.31%) NoSQL
2 44 (16.92%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (10.38%) MongoDB
4 18 (6.92%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.92%) Relational Database
5 15 (5.77%) Flink
6 12 (4.62%) MySQL
7 10 (3.85%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.08%) Big Data
8 8 (3.08%) Power BI
8 8 (3.08%) Redis
9 7 (2.69%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.92%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.92%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.54%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (1.54%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.54%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (1.15%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 48 (18.46%) Jenkins
2 37 (14.23%) Git
3 32 (12.31%) GitLab
4 18 (6.92%) JUnit
5 17 (6.54%) Mockito
6 14 (5.38%) Gradle
7 12 (4.62%) Maven
8 11 (4.23%) CircleCI
8 11 (4.23%) Liquibase
9 9 (3.46%) webpack
10 6 (2.31%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.92%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.92%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.92%) gulp
11 5 (1.92%) JIRA
11 5 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.54%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.54%) Postman
12 4 (1.54%) REST Assured
General
1 64 (24.62%) Finance
2 62 (23.85%) Social Skills
3 39 (15.00%) Banking
4 31 (11.92%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.15%) Investment Banking
5 16 (6.15%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.62%) Marketing
7 11 (4.23%) Electronics
7 11 (4.23%) Manufacturing
7 11 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.54%) Publishing
10 3 (1.15%) Front Office
10 3 (1.15%) Retail
11 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Law
11 2 (0.77%) Military
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (38.08%) Architect
2 90 (34.62%) Developer
3 41 (15.77%) Senior
4 40 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
5 26 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 25 (9.62%) Technical Architect
7 20 (7.69%) Senior Developer
8 19 (7.31%) Full-Stack Developer
8 19 (7.31%) Software Engineer
9 14 (5.38%) Lead
9 14 (5.38%) Python Developer
10 13 (5.00%) React Developer
11 12 (4.62%) Senior Architect
12 11 (4.23%) AWS Architect
12 11 (4.23%) Data Architect
12 11 (4.23%) Java Architect
12 11 (4.23%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 10 (3.85%) Enterprise Architect
13 10 (3.85%) GCP Architect
13 10 (3.85%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (31.15%) Kafka
2 44 (16.92%) React
3 39 (15.00%) Spring
4 35 (13.46%) RESTful
4 35 (13.46%) Spring Boot
5 28 (10.77%) Node.js
6 27 (10.38%) .NET
7 26 (10.00%) REST
8 21 (8.08%) OAuth
9 19 (7.31%) AngularJS
10 17 (6.54%) Swagger
11 16 (6.15%) GraphQL
11 16 (6.15%) OpenAPI
12 12 (4.62%) CSS
12 12 (4.62%) Hibernate
12 12 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (4.23%) Express.js
13 11 (4.23%) OpenTelemetry
13 11 (4.23%) Web Services
14 10 (3.85%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.23%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.46%) Public Cloud
3 17 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.38%) Derivative
5 13 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 11 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (3.46%) Product Ownership
8 8 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.54%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.15%) Educational Technology
11 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.15%) Hedge funds
12 2 (0.77%) Digital Wallet
12 2 (0.77%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.23%) Linux
2 4 (1.54%) Unix
2 4 (1.54%) Windows
3 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (55.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 127 (48.85%) Microservices
3 124 (47.69%) CI/CD
4 109 (41.92%) Agile
5 94 (36.15%) DevOps
6 69 (26.54%) Containerisation
7 53 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (18.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 47 (18.08%) Software Engineering
10 41 (15.77%) Full-Stack Development
11 32 (12.31%) TDD
12 31 (11.92%) Technical Leadership
12 31 (11.92%) Test Automation
13 29 (11.15%) Mentoring
14 28 (10.77%) Event-Driven Programming
14 28 (10.77%) Observability
15 27 (10.38%) API Development
15 27 (10.38%) Architectural Patterns
15 27 (10.38%) Integration Patterns
16 26 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 105 (40.38%) Java
2 81 (31.15%) Python
3 79 (30.38%) SQL
4 48 (18.46%) TypeScript
5 38 (14.62%) JavaScript
6 29 (11.15%) C#
7 15 (5.77%) Kotlin
8 10 (3.85%) C++
8 10 (3.85%) Go
9 8 (3.08%) Scala
10 7 (2.69%) Bicep
11 4 (1.54%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.54%) Ruby
12 3 (1.15%) C
12 3 (1.15%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.77%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.77%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.77%) Bash
13 2 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (14.23%) Security Cleared
2 35 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.08%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.92%) Degree
6 4 (1.54%) OCP
6 4 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.77%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.38%) CEH
9 1 (0.38%) CISSP
9 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.85%) QA
2 7 (2.69%) GDPR
3 6 (2.31%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.15%) HL7
5 3 (1.15%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.77%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.77%) PSD2
6 2 (0.77%) SEPA
7 1 (0.38%) EMIR
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.38%) MiFID
System Software
1 86 (33.08%) Docker
2 3 (1.15%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.77%) RACF
4 1 (0.38%) HDFS
4 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 91 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 63 (24.23%) Terraform
3 25 (9.62%) Prometheus
4 22 (8.46%) Grafana
5 16 (6.15%) Ansible
6 6 (2.31%) Kibana
7 3 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.77%) Packer
9 1 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.38%) logstash
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.38%) vRealize
9 1 (0.38%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (8.46%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.15%) Databricks
3 13 (5.00%) SAP
4 11 (4.23%) Google
4 11 (4.23%) Splunk
5 9 (3.46%) Atlassian
5 9 (3.46%) Oracle
5 9 (3.46%) Virgin Media
6 6 (2.31%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.92%) IBM
8 4 (1.54%) DocuSign
9 3 (1.15%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.15%) Cisco
9 3 (1.15%) Reuters
10 2 (0.77%) Dell KACE
10 2 (0.77%) Informatica
10 2 (0.77%) Meraki
10 2 (0.77%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.77%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.77%) SolarWinds