Event-Driven Architecture Contracts in the UK excluding London

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Event-Driven Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Event-Driven Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 362 383
Rank change year-on-year +57 +21 +72
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture 48 30 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.14% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.17% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 19 42
10th Percentile £432 £470 £491
25th Percentile £458 £489 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - +4.95%
75th Percentile £551 £638 £688
90th Percentile £570 £682 £722
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £56.16
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% -45.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Event-Driven Architecture 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,235 17,586 20,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.46% 82.35% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,495 10,292 13,879
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £368 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 996 2,217 1,273
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.50 £11.84
25th Percentile £16.90 £15.50 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.08 £38.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.22% +17.29% +54.76%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.45 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

Event-Driven Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Event-Driven Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven Architecture in the UK excluding London

Event-Driven Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Event-Driven Architecture in the UK excluding London

Event-Driven Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven Architecture in the UK excluding London

Event-Driven Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Event-Driven Architecture in the UK excluding London

Event-Driven Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
North of England +22 26 £500 -1.38% 106
North West +12 18 £530 +7.18% 65
South East +52 8 £513 +12.33% 99
Scotland +7 5 £675 +12.50% 22
Midlands - 5 £420 - 30
North East +5 4 £465 -28.46% 9
Yorkshire -3 4 £475 -6.31% 32
East Midlands - 4 £420 - 12
South West +41 1 - - 34
East of England +23 1 - - 21
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 11
Wales - 1 £540 - 5
Event-Driven Architecture
UK

Event-Driven Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (4.17%) Apache
1 2 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.08%) Camunda
2 1 (2.08%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (52.08%) AWS
2 16 (33.33%) Azure
3 11 (22.92%) GCP
4 8 (16.67%) Serverless
5 5 (10.42%) Kong
6 4 (8.33%) GitHub
7 3 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (4.17%) Apigee
8 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.17%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.08%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (35.42%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (29.17%) NoSQL
2 14 (29.17%) Relational Database
3 11 (22.92%) MongoDB
4 6 (12.50%) MySQL
5 5 (10.42%) DynamoDB
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (4.17%) Apache Hudi
6 2 (4.17%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (4.17%) Big Data
6 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.17%) Delta Lake
6 2 (4.17%) DocumentDB
6 2 (4.17%) Flink
6 2 (4.17%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.17%) Parquet
7 1 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (27.08%) GitLab
1 13 (27.08%) Jenkins
2 6 (12.50%) Git
3 5 (10.42%) Artifactory
3 5 (10.42%) Gradle
3 5 (10.42%) gulp
3 5 (10.42%) JUnit
3 5 (10.42%) Liquibase
3 5 (10.42%) Maven
3 5 (10.42%) Mockito
3 5 (10.42%) SonarQube
3 5 (10.42%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (6.25%) JIRA
5 2 (4.17%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 14 (29.17%) Public Sector
3 12 (25.00%) Finance
4 9 (18.75%) Banking
5 7 (14.58%) Telecoms
6 6 (12.50%) Marketing
7 5 (10.42%) Electronics
7 5 (10.42%) Manufacturing
8 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (4.17%) Investment Banking
8 2 (4.17%) Retail
9 1 (2.08%) Advertising
9 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (41.67%) Developer
2 14 (29.17%) Architect
3 9 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (16.67%) Java Developer
5 5 (10.42%) Lead
5 5 (10.42%) React Developer
5 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 5 (10.42%) Software Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Senior
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Architect
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Java Architect
8 2 (4.17%) Java Technical Architect
8 2 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Payments Architect
8 2 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (39.58%) Kafka
2 13 (27.08%) React
3 12 (25.00%) Node.js
3 12 (25.00%) Spring
4 11 (22.92%) Spring Boot
5 9 (18.75%) Express.js
5 9 (18.75%) RabbitMQ
5 9 (18.75%) RESTful
6 8 (16.67%) OpenAPI
6 8 (16.67%) Swagger
7 7 (14.58%) .NET
8 6 (12.50%) AngularJS
9 5 (10.42%) Apache CXF
9 5 (10.42%) Dropwizard
9 5 (10.42%) Hibernate
9 5 (10.42%) JAX-RS
9 5 (10.42%) MEAN Stack
9 5 (10.42%) Mongoose
9 5 (10.42%) OAuth
9 5 (10.42%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.17%) Digital Wallet
3 2 (4.17%) EMV
3 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (89.58%) Event-Driven
2 34 (70.83%) Microservices
3 24 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 19 (39.58%) Containerisation
5 18 (37.50%) DevOps
6 16 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 12 (25.00%) Agile
7 12 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (20.83%) Architectural Patterns
8 10 (20.83%) Test Automation
9 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (18.75%) TDD
10 8 (16.67%) Migration
10 8 (16.67%) Open Source
11 7 (14.58%) Enterprise Architecture
12 6 (12.50%) Clean Code
12 6 (12.50%) OO
13 5 (10.42%) ETL
13 5 (10.42%) Event-Driven Programming
13 5 (10.42%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 22 (45.83%) SQL
2 21 (43.75%) Java
3 12 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 12 (25.00%) Python
4 9 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 5 (10.42%) C#
6 2 (4.17%) Scala
7 1 (2.08%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.08%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (2.08%) DataWeave
7 1 (2.08%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.08%) Degree
5 1 (2.08%) IBM Certification
5 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) ISO 20022
1 2 (4.17%) ISO 8583
1 2 (4.17%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.17%) PSD2
1 2 (4.17%) SEPA
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (54.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 12 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (4.17%) Grafana
3 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) Google
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) SAP
3 4 (8.33%) Virgin Media
4 2 (4.17%) Databricks
5 1 (2.08%) Brio
5 1 (2.08%) Criteo
5 1 (2.08%) IBM
5 1 (2.08%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (2.08%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle
5 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.08%) Splunk
5 1 (2.08%) Sybase