Event-Driven Contracts in London

Event-Driven
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 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 195 298 233
Rank change year-on-year +103 -65 -18
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 162 93 301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.29% 0.52% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 0.59% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 75 249
10th Percentile £409 £400 £513
25th Percentile £515 £513 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.11% -6.90%
75th Percentile £788 £700 £769
90th Percentile £832 £830 £875
England median daily rate £600 £550 £670
% change year-on-year +9.09% -17.91% -4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +57.14% -53.95%
England median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% +57.14% -53.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven in London

Event-Driven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Event-Driven in London

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven in London

Event-Driven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Event-Driven in London

Event-Driven
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 within the London 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
Central London +12 19 £673 +22.27% 21
South London - 2 - -
West London - 2 £409 - 19
Event-Driven
England

Event-Driven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.09%) Apache
3 3 (1.85%) JBoss
4 2 (1.23%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.23%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.23%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 56 (34.57%) Azure
2 50 (30.86%) AWS
3 29 (17.90%) Serverless
4 18 (11.11%) GitHub
5 15 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (9.26%) GCP
6 14 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (8.02%) Azure AKS
8 12 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
8 12 (7.41%) npm
8 12 (7.41%) Yarn
9 10 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (6.17%) Azure Functions
10 8 (4.94%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.32%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.85%) Firewall
2 2 (1.23%) Network Security
2 2 (1.23%) VPN
3 1 (0.62%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.62%) DNS
3 1 (0.62%) HTTP
3 1 (0.62%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.62%) IPsec
3 1 (0.62%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.62%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.62%) SSL
3 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.62%) WAN
3 1 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.58%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 9 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.56%) Redis
3 9 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.94%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.32%) Power BI
6 5 (3.09%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.09%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.09%) MySQL
7 4 (2.47%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.85%) Big Data
8 3 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (1.85%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.23%) DB2
9 2 (1.23%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.23%) IMS/DB
9 2 (1.23%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 30 (18.52%) Git
2 23 (14.20%) Jenkins
3 17 (10.49%) GitLab
4 12 (7.41%) webpack
5 11 (6.79%) JUnit
5 11 (6.79%) Mockito
6 9 (5.56%) Gradle
7 8 (4.94%) Maven
8 6 (3.70%) Liquibase
9 5 (3.09%) Cypress.io
10 4 (2.47%) Postman
10 4 (2.47%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.85%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.85%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.85%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.85%) TestNG
12 2 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (1.23%) PHPUnit
13 1 (0.62%) JIRA
13 1 (0.62%) Mocha
General
1 51 (31.48%) Finance
2 39 (24.07%) Social Skills
3 29 (17.90%) Banking
4 19 (11.73%) Investment Banking
5 14 (8.64%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.94%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.70%) Electronics
8 6 (3.70%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.70%) Marketing
8 6 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.47%) Publishing
10 3 (1.85%) Front Office
10 3 (1.85%) Law
11 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.62%) Back Office
12 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 58 (35.80%) Developer
2 51 (31.48%) Architect
3 28 (17.28%) Senior
4 24 (14.81%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 15 (9.26%) Java Developer
7 14 (8.64%) Enterprise Architect
7 14 (8.64%) Software Engineer
8 13 (8.02%) Python Developer
9 12 (7.41%) UI Developer
10 11 (6.79%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
10 11 (6.79%) Senior UI Developer
11 10 (6.17%) Lead
11 10 (6.17%) Technical Architect
12 8 (4.94%) Python Engineer
13 7 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (4.32%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (4.32%) React Developer
14 6 (3.70%) Backend Developer
14 6 (3.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (27.16%) Kafka
2 31 (19.14%) React
3 24 (14.81%) Spring
4 21 (12.96%) RESTful
5 20 (12.35%) REST
5 20 (12.35%) Spring Boot
6 18 (11.11%) .NET
7 13 (8.02%) CSS
8 11 (6.79%) GraphQL
8 11 (6.79%) Node.js
8 11 (6.79%) OAuth
9 9 (5.56%) AngularJS
9 9 (5.56%) OpenAPI
9 9 (5.56%) Swagger
10 7 (4.32%) .NET Core
10 7 (4.32%) Hibernate
10 7 (4.32%) NumPy
10 7 (4.32%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (4.32%) Pandas
11 6 (3.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.11%) Derivative
2 16 (9.88%) Cloud Native
3 13 (8.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (6.17%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.94%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.09%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.47%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.47%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.85%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.85%) Educational Technology
8 3 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.23%) Solar Panel
10 1 (0.62%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.62%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.62%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.32%) Linux
2 3 (1.85%) Windows
3 2 (1.23%) Unix
4 1 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.62%) VMS
4 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (56.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 77 (47.53%) CI/CD
3 76 (46.91%) Agile
4 62 (38.27%) Microservices
5 58 (35.80%) DevOps
6 45 (27.78%) Containerisation
7 36 (22.22%) Software Engineering
8 34 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (20.37%) Full-Stack Development
10 31 (19.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (15.43%) Event-Driven Programming
12 24 (14.81%) Test Automation
13 21 (12.96%) Mentoring
14 20 (12.35%) Technical Leadership
15 18 (11.11%) Design Patterns
16 17 (10.49%) Electronic Trading
16 17 (10.49%) TDD
17 15 (9.26%) Customer Requirements
18 14 (8.64%) API Development
18 14 (8.64%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 60 (37.04%) Java
2 59 (36.42%) Python
3 47 (29.01%) SQL
4 34 (20.99%) TypeScript
5 28 (17.28%) JavaScript
6 23 (14.20%) C#
7 9 (5.56%) C++
8 7 (4.32%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.70%) Scala
10 4 (2.47%) C
10 4 (2.47%) Go
11 3 (1.85%) Ruby
12 2 (1.23%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.23%) Bicep
12 2 (1.23%) Groovy
12 2 (1.23%) PHP
12 2 (1.23%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.23%) REXX
12 2 (1.23%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.62%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 19 (11.73%) SC Cleared
1 19 (11.73%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.32%) AWS Certification
3 6 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (1.85%) Degree
5 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.23%) OCP
5 2 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.62%) CEH
6 1 (0.62%) CISSP
6 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.62%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.32%) QA
2 4 (2.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.23%) GDPR
4 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.62%) EMIR
5 1 (0.62%) HL7
5 1 (0.62%) MiFID
System Software
1 52 (32.10%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.62%) RACF
3 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (32.72%) Kubernetes
2 37 (22.84%) Terraform
3 13 (8.02%) Prometheus
4 11 (6.79%) Grafana
5 8 (4.94%) Ansible
6 2 (1.23%) Argo
6 2 (1.23%) Istio
6 2 (1.23%) MOM
6 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.62%) Kibana
7 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.62%) Packer
7 1 (0.62%) vRealize
7 1 (0.62%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (7.41%) Atlassian
1 12 (7.41%) Databricks
2 8 (4.94%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.32%) Google
4 6 (3.70%) Oracle
4 6 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.70%) SAP
5 5 (3.09%) Splunk
6 4 (2.47%) Bloomberg
6 4 (2.47%) DocuSign
6 4 (2.47%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.47%) Reuters
7 3 (1.85%) IBM
7 3 (1.85%) Refinitiv
8 2 (1.23%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.23%) Cisco
9 1 (0.62%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.62%) Dell KACE
9 1 (0.62%) Meraki
9 1 (0.62%) ServiceNow