Event-Driven Contract Job Trends in the South East

Event-Driven
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Event-Driven skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 164 199
Rank change year-on-year +14 +35 +29
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 22 16 14
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.62% 0.36% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.44% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 8
10th Percentile £287 £478 £470
25th Percentile £366 £528 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.74% +4.55% -5.58%
75th Percentile £648 £688 £647
90th Percentile £697 - £675
England median daily rate £575 £600 £610
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.64% -10.95%

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 3,167 3,651 4,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.04% 82.92% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,977 2,189 3,316
10th Percentile £216 £254 £248
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 205 255
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.00 £23.79
Median hourly rate £22.19 £58.38 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.99% +9.11% +83.79%
75th Percentile £48.75 £70.43 £66.13
90th Percentile £69.11 £77.99 £76.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +42.26%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Event-Driven job vacancy trend in the South East

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven in the South East

Event-Driven
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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 3 October 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
Hampshire +15 10 £462 -19.74% 5
Thames Valley +7 5 £650 +10.64% 9
Berkshire +9 3 £600 -5.88% 5
West Sussex -4 3 £290 -27.50% 4
Buckinghamshire +6 2 £650 +18.18% 3
Surrey +10 1 - - 4
East Sussex +3 1 £925 +85.00% 1
Kent - 1 £375 - 2
Middlesex - 1 £635 -
Event-Driven
England

Event-Driven
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (18.18%) Confluence
2 2 (9.09%) JBoss
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 7 (31.82%) GitHub
4 5 (22.73%) GCP
5 4 (18.18%) Serverless
6 3 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (9.09%) Datadog
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Kerberos
2 1 (4.55%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) DynamoDB
1 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
1 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 2 (9.09%) HBase
2 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.55%) Data Vault
3 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) Metadata
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) JIRA
2 4 (18.18%) Git
2 4 (18.18%) JUnit
3 3 (13.64%) Gradle
3 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (9.09%) Artifactory
4 2 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 2 (9.09%) GitLab
4 2 (9.09%) IntelliJ
4 2 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (4.55%) Maven
5 1 (4.55%) Poetry
5 1 (4.55%) Pylint
5 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Advertising
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Automotive
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Senior
3 6 (27.27%) Senior Developer
4 5 (22.73%) Architect
5 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (13.64%) .NET Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Java Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Lead
6 3 (13.64%) Technical Leader
7 2 (9.09%) AWS Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Angular Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) AWS Architect
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Solution Architect
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) .NET
1 5 (22.73%) Kafka
1 5 (22.73%) REST
2 4 (18.18%) AngularJS
2 4 (18.18%) RESTful
2 4 (18.18%) Spring
3 3 (13.64%) .NET Core
4 2 (9.09%) .NET Framework
4 2 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (9.09%) React
4 2 (9.09%) SOAP
4 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.55%) ADO
5 1 (4.55%) gRPC
5 1 (4.55%) Middleware
5 1 (4.55%) Node.js
5 1 (4.55%) pytest
5 1 (4.55%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (4.55%) Redux
5 1 (4.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) IoT
3 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) SCADA
3 1 (4.55%) State Machine
3 1 (4.55%) Taxonomies
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) CI/CD
2 14 (63.64%) Microservices
3 13 (59.09%) DevOps
4 11 (50.00%) Agile
4 11 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 6 (27.27%) Test Automation
6 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
6 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
7 4 (18.18%) Design Patterns
7 4 (18.18%) High Availability
7 4 (18.18%) Observability
7 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (18.18%) TDD
8 3 (13.64%) Architectural Patterns
8 3 (13.64%) Data Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
8 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
8 3 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Java
2 5 (22.73%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) C#
4 3 (13.64%) Python
5 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.55%) Bash
6 1 (4.55%) Bicep
6 1 (4.55%) Go
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) OCP
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (22.73%) Terraform
3 4 (18.18%) Grafana
4 2 (9.09%) Ansible
4 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.55%) Proxmox
5 1 (4.55%) Rundeck
5 1 (4.55%) Salt
5 1 (4.55%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Databricks
1 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
1 2 (9.09%) Splunk
2 1 (4.55%) Criteo
2 1 (4.55%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) JDA
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.55%) VMware