Event-Driven Contracts in Scotland

Event-Driven
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 93 124 155
Rank change year-on-year +31 +31 -9
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 23 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.42% 0.23% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.25% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 4
10th Percentile £416 £428 £477
25th Percentile £450 £450 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.14% +2.57%
75th Percentile £563 £625 £586
90th Percentile - - £654
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% +57.14% -53.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven in Scotland

Event-Driven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Event-Driven in Scotland

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven in Scotland

Event-Driven
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +16 16 £450 - 10
Lanarkshire - 6 £525 - 1
Edinburgh +4 1 £450 -25.00% 11
Event-Driven
UK

Event-Driven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) AWS
2 10 (43.48%) Azure
3 7 (30.43%) Amazon Cognito
3 7 (30.43%) Amazon S3
3 7 (30.43%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (30.43%) Serverless
4 6 (26.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (26.09%) AWS CloudTrail
4 6 (26.09%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (26.09%) GitHub
5 3 (13.04%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) Relational Database
2 7 (30.43%) DynamoDB
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (26.09%) DB2
3 6 (26.09%) Parquet
3 6 (26.09%) RDBMS
4 5 (21.74%) MongoDB
5 4 (17.39%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (4.35%) Metadata
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
6 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) JUnit
2 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
General
1 17 (73.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Financial Institution
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Front Office
4 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Developer
2 8 (34.78%) Architect
2 8 (34.78%) Java Developer
2 8 (34.78%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (30.43%) Senior
4 6 (26.09%) Cloud Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Developer
6 3 (13.04%) AWS Developer
6 3 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Senior Architect
6 3 (13.04%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 2 (8.70%) Core Java Developer
8 1 (4.35%) MongoDB Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) Spring
2 7 (30.43%) AWS CDK
3 6 (26.09%) JSON
3 6 (26.09%) Kafka
3 6 (26.09%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.35%) JMS
4 1 (4.35%) React
4 1 (4.35%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 12 (52.17%) Cloud Native
2 7 (30.43%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (13.04%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
2 6 (26.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (34.78%) Architectural Patterns
2 8 (34.78%) Concurrent Programming
2 8 (34.78%) DevOps
2 8 (34.78%) Enterprise Architecture
3 7 (30.43%) Data Security
4 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 6 (26.09%) Community of Practice
4 6 (26.09%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (21.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (21.74%) Multithreading
6 4 (17.39%) Agile
6 4 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (17.39%) Critical Thinking
6 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
7 3 (13.04%) Cost Optimisation
7 3 (13.04%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (13.04%) Impact Assessments
7 3 (13.04%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) Python
2 15 (65.22%) SQL
3 13 (56.52%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (56.52%) AWS Certification
2 7 (30.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 7 (30.43%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Sybase
2 3 (13.04%) IBM
3 1 (4.35%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle