Event-Driven Contract Job Trends in the North West

Event-Driven
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Event-Driven skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 97 129
Rank change year-on-year -15 +32 +35
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 33 20 10
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.32% 0.93% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.07% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 7
10th Percentile £405 £339 £425
25th Percentile £469 £405 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £618
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -10.93% -7.21%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £643
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
England median daily rate £550 £615 £575
% change year-on-year -10.57% +6.96% -14.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £59.75 £82.50 -
Median hourly rate £64.50 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.12% - -
75th Percentile £69.25 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £85.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -26.47% +37.10% -

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 2,203 1,863 2,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.44% 86.37% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,438 1,054 1,583
10th Percentile £213 £266 £290
25th Percentile £358 £390 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £574 £575 £600
90th Percentile £652 £651 £687
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 108 154
10th Percentile £16.73 £16.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £20.91 £21.20 £17.81
Median hourly rate £32.00 £32.01 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.03% -9.83% +37.54%
75th Percentile £51.76 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.78 £68.65 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Event-Driven job vacancy trend in the North West

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven in the North West

Event-Driven
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 17 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
Manchester +6 26 £537 -2.36% 14
Cheshire -26 4 £455 -17.27% 1
Merseyside -2 2 £673 +124.17% 3
Lancashire - 1 - - 2
Event-Driven
England

Event-Driven
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (3.03%) Apache
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 29 (87.88%) AWS
2 17 (51.52%) Serverless
3 14 (42.42%) Amazon SQS
3 14 (42.42%) GCP
4 13 (39.39%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (36.36%) Azure
6 11 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
6 11 (33.33%) GitHub
7 6 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (18.18%) Apigee
7 6 (18.18%) AWS Fargate
7 6 (18.18%) Datadog
8 5 (15.15%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (15.15%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (15.15%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (15.15%) Loggly
8 5 (15.15%) Route 53
8 5 (15.15%) SaaS
9 4 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (42.42%) DynamoDB
2 13 (39.39%) NoSQL
3 10 (30.30%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (18.18%) BigQuery
6 5 (15.15%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (15.15%) MongoDB
6 5 (15.15%) MySQL
6 5 (15.15%) RDBMS
6 5 (15.15%) Redis
6 5 (15.15%) Relational Database
7 4 (12.12%) DocumentDB
8 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (3.03%) Big Data
8 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
8 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (3.03%) Metadata
8 1 (3.03%) Power BI
8 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (33.33%) Git
2 9 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 6 (18.18%) SonarQube
4 5 (15.15%) Gradle
4 5 (15.15%) Maven
4 5 (15.15%) SonarLint
5 2 (6.06%) git-flow
6 1 (3.03%) CircleCI
6 1 (3.03%) GitLab
6 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 11 (33.33%) Finance
3 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.12%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Architect
2 8 (24.24%) Developer
2 8 (24.24%) Java Architect
2 8 (24.24%) Java Technical Architect
2 8 (24.24%) Technical Architect
3 7 (21.21%) Senior
4 5 (15.15%) Software Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Backend Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Mobile Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Java Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Java Mobile Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Lead
7 2 (6.06%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (45.45%) Spring Boot
2 12 (36.36%) Kafka
3 10 (30.30%) RESTful
4 9 (27.27%) Spring
5 6 (18.18%) Dropwizard
5 6 (18.18%) J2EE
5 6 (18.18%) JWT
5 6 (18.18%) Micronaut
5 6 (18.18%) OAuth
5 6 (18.18%) OAuth2
6 5 (15.15%) Celery
7 4 (12.12%) .NET
7 4 (12.12%) GraphQL
7 4 (12.12%) Node.js
8 3 (9.09%) React
9 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
9 2 (6.06%) Next.js
9 2 (6.06%) REST
10 1 (3.03%) Hibernate
10 1 (3.03%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 11 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (18.18%) N-Tier
3 5 (15.15%) Mobile App
3 5 (15.15%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Replication
5 1 (3.03%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (81.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 22 (66.67%) Microservices
3 17 (51.52%) Containerisation
4 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
4 16 (48.48%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (42.42%) Design Patterns
5 14 (42.42%) TDD
6 13 (39.39%) SDLC
7 12 (36.36%) Agile
7 12 (36.36%) API Design
8 11 (33.33%) Mentoring
9 10 (30.30%) BDD
9 10 (30.30%) Clean Code
10 9 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (24.24%) DevOps
11 8 (24.24%) OOP
11 8 (24.24%) TOGAF
12 7 (21.21%) Asynchronous Programming
13 6 (18.18%) SOLID
13 6 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) Java
2 13 (39.39%) Python
3 7 (21.21%) SQL
4 5 (15.15%) Kotlin
4 5 (15.15%) TypeScript
5 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.03%) Go
6 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Tableau Certification
3 1 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.03%) NIST
1 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 19 (57.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (48.48%) Kubernetes
2 15 (45.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Gigya
2 4 (12.12%) Confluent
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.03%) Databricks