Event-Driven Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Event-Driven
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Event-Driven 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 65 73 97
Rank change year-on-year +8 +24 +31
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 26 10 9
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.30% 0.87% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 0.99% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 7
10th Percentile £396 £405 £425
25th Percentile £492 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £618
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -10.93% -1.98%
75th Percentile £578 £582 £643
90th Percentile £600 £588 £675
North West median daily rate £537 £550 £618
% change year-on-year -2.36% -10.93% -2.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 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
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Event-Driven job vacancy trend in Manchester

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven in Manchester

Event-Driven
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 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (96.15%) AWS
2 14 (53.85%) Amazon SQS
2 14 (53.85%) Serverless
3 13 (50.00%) GCP
4 12 (46.15%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (46.15%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (42.31%) Amazon EventBridge
6 10 (38.46%) Azure
7 9 (34.62%) GitHub
8 6 (23.08%) Apigee
8 6 (23.08%) AWS Fargate
8 6 (23.08%) Datadog
9 5 (19.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (19.23%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (19.23%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (19.23%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (19.23%) Loggly
9 5 (19.23%) Route 53
9 5 (19.23%) SaaS
10 4 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 12 (46.15%) NoSQL
3 10 (38.46%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (19.23%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (19.23%) BigQuery
5 5 (19.23%) MongoDB
5 5 (19.23%) MySQL
5 5 (19.23%) RDBMS
5 5 (19.23%) Redis
5 5 (19.23%) Relational Database
6 4 (15.38%) DocumentDB
7 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (3.85%) Big Data
7 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
7 1 (3.85%) Metadata
7 1 (3.85%) Power BI
7 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Git
2 8 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 6 (23.08%) SonarQube
4 5 (19.23%) Gradle
4 5 (19.23%) Maven
4 5 (19.23%) SonarLint
5 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 10 (38.46%) Finance
3 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
4 4 (15.38%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Architect
1 8 (30.77%) Java Architect
1 8 (30.77%) Java Technical Architect
1 8 (30.77%) Technical Architect
2 6 (23.08%) Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Software Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Backend Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Mobile Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior
6 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Java Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Java Mobile Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (53.85%) Spring Boot
2 10 (38.46%) Kafka
3 8 (30.77%) RESTful
3 8 (30.77%) Spring
4 6 (23.08%) Dropwizard
4 6 (23.08%) J2EE
4 6 (23.08%) JWT
4 6 (23.08%) Micronaut
4 6 (23.08%) OAuth
4 6 (23.08%) OAuth2
5 5 (19.23%) Celery
6 4 (15.38%) .NET
6 4 (15.38%) GraphQL
7 2 (7.69%) Node.js
7 2 (7.69%) React
8 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
8 1 (3.85%) Hibernate
8 1 (3.85%) JPA
8 1 (3.85%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (3.85%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 6 (23.08%) N-Tier
3 5 (19.23%) Mobile App
3 5 (19.23%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.85%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 20 (76.92%) Microservices
3 15 (57.69%) Containerisation
3 15 (57.69%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (53.85%) CI/CD
4 14 (53.85%) TDD
5 13 (50.00%) Design Patterns
6 12 (46.15%) API Design
7 11 (42.31%) Agile
7 11 (42.31%) Mentoring
7 11 (42.31%) SDLC
8 10 (38.46%) BDD
8 10 (38.46%) Clean Code
9 9 (34.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (30.77%) OOP
10 8 (30.77%) TOGAF
11 7 (26.92%) Asynchronous Programming
11 7 (26.92%) DevOps
12 6 (23.08%) CQRS
12 6 (23.08%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 19 (73.08%) Java
2 12 (46.15%) Python
3 6 (23.08%) SQL
4 5 (19.23%) Kotlin
5 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.85%) Go
6 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Tableau Certification
3 1 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.85%) NIST
1 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (69.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (57.69%) Kubernetes
2 14 (53.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Gigya
2 4 (15.38%) Confluent
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks