Event-Driven Contracts in the North West

Event-Driven
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Event-Driven skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Event-Driven over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 122 150
Rank change year-on-year +38 +28 +5
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 36 15 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.83% 0.54% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 0.63% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 10 5
10th Percentile £405 £476 £408
25th Percentile £478 £489 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.97% -2.90% -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £615 £585 £695
England median daily rate £600 £550 £670
% change year-on-year +9.09% -17.91% -4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% +57.14% -53.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Event-Driven as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven in the North West

Event-Driven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Event-Driven in the North West

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven in the North West

Event-Driven
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Manchester +32 23 £530 -3.64% 53
Cheshire +2 9 £410 -16.16% 5
Lancashire - 4 £600 - 20
Event-Driven
England

Event-Driven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (5.56%) Camunda
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) Azure
2 11 (30.56%) Serverless
3 9 (25.00%) AWS
4 6 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon Glacier
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.33%) GCP
6 3 (8.33%) GitHub
6 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (5.56%) Apigee
7 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (2.78%) Datadog
8 1 (2.78%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (38.89%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (30.56%) Relational Database
3 7 (19.44%) MongoDB
4 6 (16.67%) DynamoDB
4 6 (16.67%) NoSQL
5 3 (8.33%) MySQL
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.78%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 15 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 11 (30.56%) GitLab
3 6 (16.67%) Gradle
3 6 (16.67%) JUnit
3 6 (16.67%) Mockito
4 5 (13.89%) Liquibase
5 3 (8.33%) Git
5 3 (8.33%) JIRA
6 2 (5.56%) CircleCI
6 2 (5.56%) Maven
7 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.78%) gulp
7 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (30.56%) Public Sector
2 6 (16.67%) Finance
2 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Electronics
3 5 (13.89%) Manufacturing
3 5 (13.89%) Marketing
3 5 (13.89%) Telecoms
4 4 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (47.22%) Developer
2 13 (36.11%) Architect
3 9 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 8 (22.22%) Java Architect
5 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (16.67%) Java Technical Architect
5 6 (16.67%) Technical Architect
6 5 (13.89%) React Developer
6 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 5 (13.89%) Senior
6 5 (13.89%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (11.11%) .NET Architect
7 4 (11.11%) .NET Technical Architect
7 4 (11.11%) Applications Architect
7 4 (11.11%) Azure Developer
7 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (11.11%) Java Applications Architect
7 4 (11.11%) Node.js Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Architect
8 2 (5.56%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (47.22%) Kafka
2 9 (25.00%) Node.js
2 9 (25.00%) React
3 7 (19.44%) .NET
3 7 (19.44%) OpenAPI
3 7 (19.44%) RESTful
3 7 (19.44%) Spring Boot
3 7 (19.44%) Swagger
4 6 (16.67%) Spring
5 5 (13.89%) Express.js
6 4 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (11.11%) OAuth
7 3 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
8 2 (5.56%) Keycloak
8 2 (5.56%) OAuth2
9 1 (2.78%) MEAN Stack
9 1 (2.78%) Mongoose
9 1 (2.78%) Next.js
9 1 (2.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Digital Wallet
3 2 (5.56%) EMV
3 2 (5.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (94.44%) Microservices
2 25 (69.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 22 (61.11%) CI/CD
4 17 (47.22%) Containerisation
5 14 (38.89%) Agile
5 14 (38.89%) DevOps
6 8 (22.22%) Event-Driven Programming
6 8 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 7 (19.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (19.44%) Migration
7 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (19.44%) TDD
8 5 (13.89%) Build Automation
8 5 (13.89%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (13.89%) Clean Code
8 5 (13.89%) Design Patterns
8 5 (13.89%) Digital Marketing
8 5 (13.89%) Programme Management
8 5 (13.89%) SDLC
9 4 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 26 (72.22%) Java
2 10 (27.78%) SQL
3 7 (19.44%) TypeScript
4 4 (11.11%) C#
4 4 (11.11%) Python
5 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) ISO 20022
1 2 (5.56%) ISO 8583
1 2 (5.56%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.56%) PSD2
1 2 (5.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 23 (63.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) Ansible
3 2 (5.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Virgin Media
2 5 (13.89%) SAP
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.56%) Google
5 1 (2.78%) Confluent
5 1 (2.78%) New Relic
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle