Event-Driven Contracts in the South East

Event-Driven
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 146 196 215
Rank change year-on-year +50 +19 +15
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 13 9 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.19% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 3
10th Percentile £300 £445 £503
25th Percentile - £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% -9.52% +1.20%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £613
90th Percentile £775 £679 £658
England median daily rate £600 £550 £670
% change year-on-year +9.09% -17.91% -4.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven in the South East

Event-Driven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Event-Driven in the South East

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven in the South East

Event-Driven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Event-Driven in the South East

Event-Driven
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 within the South East 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
Thames Valley +45 8 £409 -13.89% 11
Berkshire +34 8 £409 -13.89% 4
Surrey +19 3 £750 +36.36% 4
West Sussex +13 2 £300 - 1
Event-Driven
England

Event-Driven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Serverless
2 7 (53.85%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) Azure Functions
4 4 (30.77%) Azure AKS
5 3 (23.08%) AWS
6 2 (15.38%) GitHub
7 1 (7.69%) Akamai
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
7 1 (7.69%) GCP
7 1 (7.69%) IaaS
7 1 (7.69%) Nutanix
7 1 (7.69%) PaaS
7 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
1 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
1 1 (7.69%) WAN
1 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (30.77%) Redis
3 3 (23.08%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
4 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (7.69%) Big Data
4 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
4 1 (7.69%) HBase
4 1 (7.69%) HDInsight
4 1 (7.69%) Impala
4 1 (7.69%) Metadata
4 1 (7.69%) Power BI
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Architect
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Backend Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Data Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Data Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Developer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) RESTful
2 5 (38.46%) Kafka
3 4 (30.77%) GraphQL
3 4 (30.77%) Prisma
4 2 (15.38%) Node.js
4 2 (15.38%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (7.69%) 802.1X
5 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
5 1 (7.69%) CSS
5 1 (7.69%) HTML
5 1 (7.69%) MACH
5 1 (7.69%) PySpark
5 1 (7.69%) React
5 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 1 (7.69%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Reference Data
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) DevOps
3 7 (53.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 7 (53.85%) Microservices
4 6 (46.15%) Containerisation
5 5 (38.46%) Design Patterns
6 4 (30.77%) API Design
6 4 (30.77%) Code Quality
6 4 (30.77%) Cost Management
6 4 (30.77%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (30.77%) Front End Development
6 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (23.08%) Agile
7 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
7 3 (23.08%) Data Management
7 3 (23.08%) ETL
8 2 (15.38%) Data Architecture
8 2 (15.38%) Data Integration
8 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
2 2 (15.38%) Go
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
3 1 (7.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Flume
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Grafana
2 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Dell KACE
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Meraki
3 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds
3 1 (7.69%) StreamSets
3 1 (7.69%) Ubiquiti