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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 81 100
Rank change year-on-year +15 +19 +39
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture 20 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.99% 0.17% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 0.20% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 8
10th Percentile £477 £535 £425
25th Percentile £500 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £626
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% -4.19% +13.86%
75th Percentile £553 £650 £666
90th Percentile £581 £665 £731
North West median daily rate £530 £489 £626
% change year-on-year +8.38% -21.92% +13.86%

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 897 1,022 1,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.08% 87.35% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 628 1,098
10th Percentile £306 £347 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% - -
75th Percentile £579 £600 £599
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 38 55
10th Percentile £14.78 £15.98 £15.08
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.44 £16.15
Median hourly rate £22.63 £32.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.28% +64.10% -2.50%
75th Percentile £51.63 £61.38 £41.05
90th Percentile £74.75 £80.05 £68.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.63% +15.21% +57.30%

Event-Driven Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven Architecture 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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) GCP
3 9 (45.00%) Amazon SQS
3 9 (45.00%) Serverless
4 8 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (40.00%) Apigee
4 8 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (35.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 7 (35.00%) GitHub
6 6 (30.00%) Azure
6 6 (30.00%) Datadog
7 5 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (25.00%) Loggly
7 5 (25.00%) Route 53
8 4 (20.00%) PaaS
8 4 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (65.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (55.00%) NoSQL
3 10 (50.00%) Relational Database
4 9 (45.00%) DynamoDB
5 8 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (30.00%) MySQL
7 5 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (25.00%) BigQuery
7 5 (25.00%) MongoDB
7 5 (25.00%) RDBMS
7 5 (25.00%) Redis
8 2 (10.00%) DocumentDB
9 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (5.00%) Big Data
9 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
9 1 (5.00%) Metadata
9 1 (5.00%) Power BI
9 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (50.00%) Gradle
3 9 (45.00%) Git
4 8 (40.00%) GitLab
5 7 (35.00%) SonarQube
6 6 (30.00%) Maven
7 5 (25.00%) JUnit
7 5 (25.00%) Liquibase
7 5 (25.00%) Mockito
7 5 (25.00%) SonarLint
8 2 (10.00%) CircleCI
8 2 (10.00%) JIRA
9 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
9 1 (5.00%) gulp
9 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (45.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (25.00%) Electronics
3 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 5 (25.00%) Marketing
3 5 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Architect
2 7 (35.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Java Architect
2 7 (35.00%) Java Technical Architect
2 7 (35.00%) Technical Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Kafka Developer
3 5 (25.00%) React Developer
3 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead .NET Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Payments Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (65.00%) Spring Boot
2 11 (55.00%) Kafka
3 9 (45.00%) RESTful
4 7 (35.00%) Dropwizard
4 7 (35.00%) OpenAPI
4 7 (35.00%) Spring
4 7 (35.00%) Swagger
5 6 (30.00%) J2EE
5 6 (30.00%) Micronaut
5 6 (30.00%) React
6 5 (25.00%) Celery
6 5 (25.00%) JWT
7 3 (15.00%) .NET
7 3 (15.00%) GraphQL
7 3 (15.00%) OAuth
7 3 (15.00%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 1 (5.00%) Apache CXF
8 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
8 1 (5.00%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (30.00%) N-Tier
3 5 (25.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) Digital Wallet
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (5.00%) EMV
4 1 (5.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 18 (90.00%) Microservices
3 17 (85.00%) CI/CD
4 16 (80.00%) Containerisation
5 14 (70.00%) Agile
5 14 (70.00%) TDD
6 12 (60.00%) Clean Code
7 11 (55.00%) DevOps
8 9 (45.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (40.00%) Software Engineering
10 7 (35.00%) Design Patterns
10 7 (35.00%) Mentoring
10 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (35.00%) TOGAF
11 6 (30.00%) Asynchronous Programming
11 6 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (30.00%) Domain-Driven Design
11 6 (30.00%) Migration
11 6 (30.00%) OOP
11 6 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) Java
2 11 (55.00%) SQL
3 7 (35.00%) Python
3 7 (35.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (5.00%) ISO 8583
1 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.00%) PSD2
1 1 (5.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 17 (85.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) Terraform
2 10 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Gigya
1 5 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Databricks