Event-Driven Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Event-Driven
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Event-Driven skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 116 130
Rank change year-on-year -30 +14 +57
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 14 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.45% 0.26% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.30% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 2
10th Percentile £324 £374 £505
25th Percentile £350 £400 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £444 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% -15.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £467 £538
90th Percentile £575 £481 £545
England median daily rate £550 £620 £575
% change year-on-year -11.29% +7.83% -14.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,694 2,005 2,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.57% 85.87% 84.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 1,258 1,523
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 72 97
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.15
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.05 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% +0.22% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Event-Driven job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven in the Midlands

Event-Driven
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Event-Driven.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Event-Driven

Event-Driven
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
West Midlands -30 9 £525 - 28
East Midlands -17 5 £375 -15.54% 19
Event-Driven
England

Event-Driven
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Camunda
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Serverless
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon S3
3 5 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (35.71%) Azure
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (21.43%) GCP
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (14.29%) Apigee
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub
6 1 (7.14%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) SSL
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (21.43%) DynamoDB
2 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
3 2 (14.29%) InfluxDB
3 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
4 1 (7.14%) DocumentDB
4 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 1 (7.14%) OLTP
4 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Calypso Developer
2 2 (14.29%) GCP Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Gen AI Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Integration Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Site Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Integration Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Kafka
1 5 (35.71%) RESTful
1 5 (35.71%) Spring
2 4 (28.57%) REST
3 3 (21.43%) Middleware
3 3 (21.43%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (21.43%) Spring Boot
4 2 (14.29%) FastAPI
4 2 (14.29%) Flask
4 2 (14.29%) OAuth
4 2 (14.29%) OAuth2
5 1 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (7.14%) RAML
5 1 (7.14%) SignalR
5 1 (7.14%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (7.14%) Spring WebFlux
5 1 (7.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Derivative
1 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 7 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Microservices
5 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
5 3 (21.43%) Observability
5 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
5 3 (21.43%) Workflow
6 2 (14.29%) AI
6 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (14.29%) Domain-Driven Design
6 2 (14.29%) Generative AI
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (14.29%) LLM
6 2 (14.29%) Prompt Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Go
3 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (14.29%) Grafana
2 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
2 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
2 2 (14.29%) Puppet
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Google
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Calypso
2 2 (14.29%) MuleSoft
3 1 (7.14%) AVEVA
3 1 (7.14%) Checkmarx
3 1 (7.14%) Solace