Event-Driven Contracts in the Thames Valley

Event-Driven
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 120 139
Rank change year-on-year +9 +19 +28
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 3 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.18% 0.26% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.31% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £603 £543 -
25th Percentile £606 £556 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £588 £588
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% - -3.37%
75th Percentile £656 £644 £647
90th Percentile £668 £723 £664
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -5.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,546 1,950 2,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.02% 84.64% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 925 1,110 1,700
10th Percentile £300 £263 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £517
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -1.30% +3.45%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £623
90th Percentile £683 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £518 £518
% change year-on-year -3.39% -0.09% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 114 83
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £14.45
25th Percentile £15.12 £26.00 £22.88
Median hourly rate £24.00 £56.34 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.40% +12.69% +150.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £67.38 £66.11
90th Percentile £77.75 £85.65 £75.59
South East median hourly rate £21.50 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.51% +14.70% +100.00%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven in the Thames Valley

Event-Driven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Event-Driven in the Thames Valley

Event-Driven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Event-Driven in the Thames Valley

Event-Driven
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Berkshire +11 2 £600 +2.13% 4
Buckinghamshire +4 1 £650 - 4
Event-Driven
South East

Event-Driven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Vault
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Data Development
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) JDA
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft