Event-Driven Architecture Contract Job Trends in London

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Event-Driven Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 236 323
Rank change year-on-year +91 +87 +45
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture 410 139 67
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.03% 1.04% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 1.12% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 105 47
10th Percentile £448 £429 £505
25th Percentile £513 £469 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £719
90th Percentile £788 £823 £810
England median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £35.75 -
25th Percentile - £36.88 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -27.27% -
75th Percentile - £44.38 £57.50
90th Percentile - £46.25 -
England median hourly rate £75.50 £45.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +67.78% -35.71% +12.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,901 12,416 14,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.82% 92.61% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,708 8,188 9,440
10th Percentile £358 £332 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £664 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 243 183
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.48% -2.52%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £78.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

Event-Driven Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Event-Driven Architecture job vacancy trend in London

Event-Driven Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Event-Driven Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture in London over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven Architecture in London

Event-Driven Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Event-Driven Architecture
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 5 October 2026. 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
Central London -5 52 £613 -9.26% 52
West London -7 15 £725 +41.60% 8
South London -6 3 £750 - 2
North London - 2 - - 1
East London - 1 £500 - 6
Event-Driven Architecture
England

Event-Driven Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 17 (4.15%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.93%) Apache
3 6 (1.46%) Camunda
3 6 (1.46%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.22%) Confluence
5 4 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.98%) CMS
6 3 (0.73%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.49%) Mendix
7 2 (0.49%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.49%) Solana
7 2 (0.49%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.24%) Drupal
8 1 (0.24%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.24%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.24%) Mule
8 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Mingle
2 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.24%) Gliffy
2 1 (0.24%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.49%) Endur
4 1 (0.24%) Actimize
4 1 (0.24%) Maximo
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.24%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 242 (59.02%) AWS
2 177 (43.17%) Azure
3 99 (24.15%) GCP
4 88 (21.46%) GitHub
5 82 (20.00%) Serverless
6 56 (13.66%) GitHub Actions
7 48 (11.71%) AWS Lambda
8 42 (10.24%) Amazon EKS
9 40 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (9.27%) Amazon S3
10 38 (9.27%) Amazon SQS
11 28 (6.83%) Amazon EventBridge
12 27 (6.59%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (5.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (5.12%) Power Platform
15 18 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (4.15%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (3.90%) Azure Functions
18 15 (3.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 14 (3.41%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.73%) DNS
1 3 (0.73%) HTTP
2 2 (0.49%) 4G
2 2 (0.49%) 5G
2 2 (0.49%) Internet
2 2 (0.49%) Multicast
2 2 (0.49%) SSH
2 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.24%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (14.88%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (12.68%) NoSQL
3 34 (8.29%) MongoDB
3 34 (8.29%) SQL Server
4 25 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (5.61%) Metadata
6 20 (4.88%) Relational Database
7 19 (4.63%) MySQL
8 18 (4.39%) Data Lake
8 18 (4.39%) Power BI
9 17 (4.15%) DynamoDB
10 16 (3.90%) Redis
11 15 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (2.68%) Flink
14 9 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.95%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.95%) Data Hub
15 8 (1.95%) SAP HANA
15 8 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 58 (14.15%) GitLab
2 51 (12.44%) Jenkins
3 43 (10.49%) Git
4 15 (3.66%) Maven
5 14 (3.41%) JUnit
6 11 (2.68%) Cypress.io
7 10 (2.44%) Gradle
7 10 (2.44%) Mockito
8 9 (2.20%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.20%) JIRA
9 8 (1.95%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.95%) SonarQube
10 7 (1.71%) Claude Code
10 7 (1.71%) SpecFlow
10 7 (1.71%) Storybook
11 6 (1.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (1.46%) Selenium
12 5 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.98%) Postman
14 3 (0.73%) REST Assured
General
1 139 (33.90%) Finance
2 105 (25.61%) Social Skills
3 74 (18.05%) Banking
4 51 (12.44%) Public Sector
5 41 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (7.56%) Front Office
7 24 (5.85%) Investment Banking
8 14 (3.41%) Retail
9 12 (2.93%) Billing
10 10 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.20%) Back Office
11 9 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.95%) Marketing
12 8 (1.95%) Police
13 7 (1.71%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.22%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.98%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 118 (28.78%) Architect
2 113 (27.56%) Developer
3 86 (20.98%) Senior
4 45 (10.98%) Solutions Architect
5 40 (9.76%) Java Developer
6 36 (8.78%) Lead
7 29 (7.07%) Senior Developer
8 27 (6.59%) Full-Stack Developer
9 24 (5.85%) Software Engineer
10 20 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
11 19 (4.63%) Technical Architect
12 18 (4.39%) Backend Developer
13 16 (3.90%) Technical Leader
14 15 (3.66%) Java Engineer
14 15 (3.66%) Python Developer
15 14 (3.41%) .NET Developer
15 14 (3.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 14 (3.41%) Senior Java Developer
16 13 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 13 (3.17%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (38.54%) Kafka
2 126 (30.73%) REST
3 83 (20.24%) Terraform
4 70 (17.07%) Spring
5 69 (16.83%) Spring Boot
6 66 (16.10%) React
7 57 (13.90%) .NET
8 54 (13.17%) RESTful
9 39 (9.51%) Node.js
10 38 (9.27%) RabbitMQ
11 34 (8.29%) OAuth
12 29 (7.07%) OAuth2
13 27 (6.59%) AngularJS
14 26 (6.34%) CSS
15 25 (6.10%) GraphQL
16 24 (5.85%) FastAPI
16 24 (5.85%) HTML
17 22 (5.37%) CSS3
17 22 (5.37%) HTML5
18 20 (4.88%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 175 (42.68%) Cloud Native
2 108 (26.34%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (11.71%) Product Ownership
4 27 (6.59%) AI Agents
5 25 (6.10%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (5.61%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (3.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (2.93%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 10 (2.44%) Algorithms
10 10 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.95%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.95%) Derivative
11 8 (1.95%) Fixed Income
11 8 (1.95%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.95%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.46%) Blockchain
13 5 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.22%) Equities
13 5 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.37%) Linux
2 10 (2.44%) Windows
3 7 (1.71%) Unix
4 2 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.24%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 236 (57.56%) CI/CD
3 210 (51.22%) Microservices
4 171 (41.71%) DevOps
5 149 (36.34%) Agile
6 110 (26.83%) Containerisation
7 105 (25.61%) AI
8 95 (23.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 91 (22.20%) Observability
10 90 (21.95%) Stakeholder Management
11 87 (21.22%) Software Engineering
12 82 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
13 76 (18.54%) Data Modelling
14 74 (18.05%) Technical Leadership
15 72 (17.56%) Roadmaps
16 71 (17.32%) Test Automation
17 56 (13.66%) Architectural Patterns
18 54 (13.17%) Mentoring
19 52 (12.68%) Full-Stack Development
20 51 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 144 (35.12%) Python
2 143 (34.88%) Java
3 115 (28.05%) SQL
4 69 (16.83%) TypeScript
5 62 (15.12%) JavaScript
6 57 (13.90%) C#
7 15 (3.66%) Go
8 13 (3.17%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.93%) Bash
9 12 (2.93%) Scala
10 9 (2.20%) Bicep
11 8 (1.95%) PHP
12 7 (1.71%) C++
13 6 (1.46%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.22%) ABAP
15 4 (0.98%) C
15 4 (0.98%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.49%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.24%) DAML
Qualifications
1 72 (17.56%) Security Cleared
2 64 (15.61%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.10%) Degree
4 23 (5.61%) DV Cleared
5 17 (4.15%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.95%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 7 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.98%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.73%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.49%) ISEB
13 2 (0.49%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.24%) CSPO
14 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.32%) QA
2 26 (6.34%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.68%) ISO 20022
4 7 (1.71%) SEPA
5 6 (1.46%) GDPR
6 5 (1.22%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.73%) EMIR
7 3 (0.73%) MiFID
8 2 (0.49%) GRC
8 2 (0.49%) PSD2
9 1 (0.24%) Basel III
9 1 (0.24%) IFRS
9 1 (0.24%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.24%) NIST
9 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.24%) Solvency II
System Software
1 123 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 152 (37.07%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.37%) Grafana
3 19 (4.63%) Prometheus
4 13 (3.17%) Ansible
5 6 (1.46%) Istio
6 3 (0.73%) Bosun
6 3 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.49%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.49%) systemd
8 1 (0.24%) Argo
Vendors
1 53 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.54%) Google
3 23 (5.61%) Databricks
4 20 (4.88%) Oracle
5 19 (4.63%) SAP
6 13 (3.17%) OpenAI
7 11 (2.68%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.95%) Confluent
9 7 (1.71%) TikTok
10 6 (1.46%) IBM
10 6 (1.46%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.22%) Foundry
11 5 (1.22%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.22%) Solace
12 4 (0.98%) UiPath
12 4 (0.98%) Workday
13 3 (0.73%) CA Agile Central
13 3 (0.73%) New Relic
13 3 (0.73%) Okta
13 3 (0.73%) OutSystems