Event-Driven Architecture Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Event-Driven Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 77 97
Rank change year-on-year +8 +20 +32
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture 22 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.94% 0.52% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 0.59% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 7
10th Percentile £460 - £425
25th Percentile £509 £405 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £493 £618
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -20.24% -2.06%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £643
90th Percentile £625 - £675
North West median daily rate £552 £575 £618
% change year-on-year -4.00% -6.88% -7.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,015 1,014 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.66% 88.71% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 597 1,026
10th Percentile £300 £294 £285
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £661 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 41 48
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.00 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £22.00 £17.37
Median hourly rate £22.32 £32.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.34% +64.56% -43.57%
75th Percentile £31.40 £45.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £74.28
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%

Event-Driven Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Event-Driven Architecture job vacancy trend in Manchester

Event-Driven Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Event-Driven Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven Architecture in Manchester

Event-Driven Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 21 (95.45%) AWS
2 12 (54.55%) Amazon SQS
2 12 (54.55%) GCP
3 11 (50.00%) Serverless
4 10 (45.45%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (45.45%) Azure
5 9 (40.91%) Amazon EventBridge
5 9 (40.91%) GitHub
6 6 (27.27%) Apigee
6 6 (27.27%) Datadog
7 5 (22.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (22.73%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (22.73%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (22.73%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (22.73%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (22.73%) Loggly
7 5 (22.73%) Route 53
8 4 (18.18%) PaaS
8 4 (18.18%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 10 (45.45%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (45.45%) NoSQL
3 7 (31.82%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (22.73%) BigQuery
4 5 (22.73%) MongoDB
4 5 (22.73%) MySQL
4 5 (22.73%) RDBMS
4 5 (22.73%) Redis
4 5 (22.73%) Relational Database
5 4 (18.18%) DocumentDB
6 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.55%) Big Data
6 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
6 1 (4.55%) Metadata
6 1 (4.55%) Power BI
6 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Git
2 7 (31.82%) Jenkins
3 6 (27.27%) SonarQube
4 5 (22.73%) Gradle
4 5 (22.73%) Maven
4 5 (22.73%) SonarLint
General
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (40.91%) Finance
3 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
4 4 (18.18%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Architect
1 7 (31.82%) Java Architect
1 7 (31.82%) Java Technical Architect
1 7 (31.82%) Technical Architect
2 5 (22.73%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Backend Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Mobile Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Java Mobile Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (59.09%) Spring Boot
2 9 (40.91%) Kafka
3 7 (31.82%) RESTful
3 7 (31.82%) Spring
4 6 (27.27%) Dropwizard
4 6 (27.27%) J2EE
4 6 (27.27%) Micronaut
5 5 (22.73%) Celery
5 5 (22.73%) JWT
5 5 (22.73%) OAuth
5 5 (22.73%) OAuth2
6 4 (18.18%) .NET
7 3 (13.64%) GraphQL
8 1 (4.55%) PySpark
8 1 (4.55%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Cloud Native
2 6 (27.27%) N-Tier
3 5 (22.73%) Mobile App
3 5 (22.73%) Product Ownership
4 2 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 16 (72.73%) Microservices
3 14 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (63.64%) TDD
4 13 (59.09%) Containerisation
5 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
6 11 (50.00%) API Design
6 11 (50.00%) Design Patterns
7 10 (45.45%) Agile
7 10 (45.45%) BDD
7 10 (45.45%) Mentoring
7 10 (45.45%) SDLC
8 9 (40.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (36.36%) Clean Code
10 7 (31.82%) TOGAF
11 6 (27.27%) AI
11 6 (27.27%) CQRS
11 6 (27.27%) Domain-Driven Design
11 6 (27.27%) OOP
11 6 (27.27%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) Java
2 11 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (22.73%) Kotlin
3 5 (22.73%) SQL
4 1 (4.55%) Scala
4 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (72.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (59.09%) Kubernetes
2 12 (54.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Gigya
2 4 (18.18%) Confluent
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks