Event-Driven Contracts in Reading

Event-Driven
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 55 86 86
Rank change year-on-year +31 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 5 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.84% 0.42% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.47% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile - £428 -
25th Percentile - £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% -9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £421 £488 £538
90th Percentile £441 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £409 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -13.89% -9.52% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven in Reading

Event-Driven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Event-Driven in Reading

Event-Driven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Event-Driven in Reading

Event-Driven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
2 4 (80.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (80.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) HBase
2 1 (20.00%) HDInsight
2 1 (20.00%) Impala
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Backend Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) GraphQL
1 4 (80.00%) Prisma
1 4 (80.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) PySpark
3 1 (20.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) API Design
2 4 (80.00%) Code Quality
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Cost Management
2 4 (80.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (80.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (80.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Front End Development
2 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) MapReduce
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Flume
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) StreamSets