Event-Driven Programming Contract Job Trends in the South East

Event-Driven Programming
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Event-Driven Programming skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 173 210
Rank change year-on-year -15 +37 +34
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Programming 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.024% 0.050% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.058% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £628 £535 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% +10.00% -14.16%
75th Percentile £643 £565 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £538 £713 £688
% change year-on-year -24.56% +3.64% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Event-Driven Programming 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,659 3,456 4,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 86.26% 87.25% 89.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,359 2,138 3,045
10th Percentile £220 £250 £214
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 388 152 243
10th Percentile £14.53 £18.71 £16.42
25th Percentile £16.89 £26.81 £25.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +23.01%
75th Percentile £42.93 £70.00 £65.93
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Event-Driven Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Event-Driven Programming job vacancy trend in the South East

Event-Driven Programming
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Event-Driven Programming.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Event-Driven Programming

Event-Driven Programming
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Event-Driven Programming within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 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
Middlesex - 1 £635 -
Event-Driven Programming
England

Event-Driven Programming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) MQTT
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus