Event-Driven Programming Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Event-Driven Programming
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Event-Driven Programming skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 74 -
Rank change year-on-year -49 - -
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Programming 4 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.20% 0.61% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.70% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £599 - -
25th Percentile £638 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.20% - -
75th Percentile £761 £563 -
90th Percentile £767 - -
North West median daily rate £738 £550 -
% change year-on-year +34.20% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Event-Driven Programming 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 1,638 856 1,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 83.66% 87.62% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 992 570 799
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £586 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
North West median daily rate £478 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +6.17% -8.72% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 40 81
10th Percentile £22.63 £14.20 £12.50
25th Percentile £30.00 £19.35 £15.92
Median hourly rate £59.00 £33.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.12% +24.07% +35.00%
75th Percentile £77.00 £70.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £87.25 £79.33 £74.50
North West median hourly rate £50.50 £29.90 £27.50
% change year-on-year +68.90% +8.73% -6.14%

Event-Driven Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Event-Driven Programming job vacancy trend in Manchester

Event-Driven Programming
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Event-Driven Programming
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven Programming in Manchester over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven Programming in Manchester

Event-Driven Programming
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Event-Driven Programming within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
Bury - 3 £744 - 1
Event-Driven Programming
North West

Event-Driven Programming
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 3 (75.00%) Google Gemini
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Claude Code
1 3 (75.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Next.js
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (75.00%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (75.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Monorepo
2 3 (75.00%) Product Thinking
2 3 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana