Event-Driven Contracts in the UK excluding London

Event-Driven
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 234 345 396
Rank change year-on-year +111 +51 -24
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 102 54 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.80% 0.26% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.31% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 38 47
10th Percentile £405 £410 £483
25th Percentile £454 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £688
90th Percentile £638 £645 £730
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% -
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 £35.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% +57.14% -53.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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

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

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

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

Event-Driven
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 within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +50 52 £530 -3.64% 280
North West +38 36 £530 +3.97% 146
Scotland +31 23 £525 -4.55% 51
South East +50 13 £409 -13.89% 277
Yorkshire +13 12 £550 -7.17% 104
Midlands +28 8 £537 +79.00% 208
East Midlands - 6 £537 - 82
South West +32 4 £675 +22.73% 123
North East +1 4 £465 -28.46% 30
East of England +31 3 £525 -8.70% 155
West Midlands +14 2 £581 +93.67% 111
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 16
Event-Driven
UK

Event-Driven
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 10 (9.80%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.94%) Apache
3 2 (1.96%) Camunda
4 1 (0.98%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.98%) Confluence
4 1 (0.98%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 44 (43.14%) AWS
2 38 (37.25%) Azure
3 32 (31.37%) Serverless
4 16 (15.69%) Amazon S3
5 14 (13.73%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (12.75%) GCP
7 12 (11.76%) GitHub
8 11 (10.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (6.86%) Amazon Cognito
10 6 (5.88%) AWS CloudTrail
10 6 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (4.90%) Amazon Glacier
11 5 (4.90%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (4.90%) Azure Functions
11 5 (4.90%) Kong
12 4 (3.92%) Azure AKS
12 4 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.92%) Snowflake
13 3 (2.94%) Apigee
13 3 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.98%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (0.98%) Firewall
1 1 (0.98%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.98%) Network Security
1 1 (0.98%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.98%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.98%) VPN
1 1 (0.98%) WAN
1 1 (0.98%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (25.49%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (20.59%) NoSQL
3 20 (19.61%) MongoDB
4 19 (18.63%) Relational Database
5 15 (14.71%) DynamoDB
6 9 (8.82%) Flink
7 8 (7.84%) Parquet
8 7 (6.86%) MySQL
9 6 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (5.88%) DB2
9 6 (5.88%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.92%) Big Data
10 4 (3.92%) Hadoop
10 4 (3.92%) Redis
11 3 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.94%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (1.96%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.96%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (21.57%) Jenkins
2 15 (14.71%) GitLab
3 12 (11.76%) JUnit
4 8 (7.84%) Git
5 6 (5.88%) Gradle
5 6 (5.88%) Maven
5 6 (5.88%) Mockito
6 5 (4.90%) Artifactory
6 5 (4.90%) gulp
6 5 (4.90%) Liquibase
6 5 (4.90%) SonarQube
6 5 (4.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.94%) JIRA
8 2 (1.96%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.98%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.98%) Cypress.io
General
1 31 (30.39%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.65%) Finance
3 15 (14.71%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.78%) Banking
5 8 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.84%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.90%) Electronics
6 5 (4.90%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.90%) Marketing
6 5 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.94%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.94%) Front Office
8 2 (1.96%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.96%) Retail
9 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.98%) International Banking
9 1 (0.98%) Legal
9 1 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 47 (46.08%) Developer
2 38 (37.25%) Architect
3 21 (20.59%) Solutions Architect
4 19 (18.63%) Java Developer
5 13 (12.75%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (12.75%) Senior
6 8 (7.84%) Java Architect
7 6 (5.88%) Cloud Developer
7 6 (5.88%) Java Technical Architect
7 6 (5.88%) React Developer
7 6 (5.88%) Technical Architect
8 5 (4.90%) Applications Architect
8 5 (4.90%) Azure Developer
8 5 (4.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 5 (4.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 4 (3.92%) .NET Architect
9 4 (3.92%) .NET Technical Architect
9 4 (3.92%) Java Applications Architect
9 4 (3.92%) Node.js Developer
9 4 (3.92%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (44.12%) Kafka
2 19 (18.63%) Spring Boot
3 18 (17.65%) RESTful
3 18 (17.65%) Spring
4 15 (14.71%) Node.js
4 15 (14.71%) React
5 9 (8.82%) Express.js
5 9 (8.82%) JSON
6 8 (7.84%) AWS CDK
6 8 (7.84%) OpenAPI
6 8 (7.84%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (7.84%) Swagger
7 7 (6.86%) .NET
8 6 (5.88%) AngularJS
8 6 (5.88%) Apache Beam
8 6 (5.88%) Spark Streaming
9 5 (4.90%) Dropwizard
9 5 (4.90%) GraphQL
9 5 (4.90%) Mongoose
9 5 (4.90%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.63%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.78%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.86%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.94%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.96%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (1.96%) EMV
5 2 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.96%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.98%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) IoT
6 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.98%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.78%) Linux
2 8 (7.84%) Unix
3 2 (1.96%) Windows
4 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (55.88%) Microservices
2 51 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 43 (42.16%) CI/CD
4 39 (38.24%) DevOps
5 33 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (26.47%) Agile
7 26 (25.49%) Containerisation
8 17 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (15.69%) Architectural Patterns
10 13 (12.75%) Migration
11 12 (11.76%) Software Engineering
12 11 (10.78%) Design Patterns
12 11 (10.78%) ETL
12 11 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (9.80%) Data Pipeline
13 10 (9.80%) Data Security
13 10 (9.80%) Enterprise Architecture
13 10 (9.80%) Technical Leadership
14 9 (8.82%) Data Integration
14 9 (8.82%) Event-Driven Programming
Programming Languages
1 47 (46.08%) Java
2 39 (38.24%) SQL
3 26 (25.49%) Python
4 13 (12.75%) TypeScript
5 7 (6.86%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.90%) C#
7 2 (1.96%) Go
7 2 (1.96%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.96%) Scala
8 1 (0.98%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.98%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.98%) DataWeave
8 1 (0.98%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.98%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (12.75%) AWS Certification
2 12 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 11 (10.78%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.82%) Azure Certification
5 7 (6.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.96%) Degree
7 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.98%) IBM Certification
7 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.96%) ISO 20022
1 2 (1.96%) ISO 8583
1 2 (1.96%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.96%) PSD2
1 2 (1.96%) SEPA
2 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.98%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 41 (40.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.98%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.98%) HDFS
2 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (25.49%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.73%) Terraform
3 3 (2.94%) Ansible
3 3 (2.94%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.96%) Grafana
4 2 (1.96%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.80%) Virgin Media
3 7 (6.86%) Sybase
4 5 (4.90%) Google
4 5 (4.90%) SAP
5 4 (3.92%) IBM
6 3 (2.94%) Databricks
6 3 (2.94%) Splunk
7 2 (1.96%) Oracle
8 1 (0.98%) Cisco
8 1 (0.98%) Dell KACE
8 1 (0.98%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.98%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (0.98%) Meraki
8 1 (0.98%) New Relic
8 1 (0.98%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.98%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.98%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.98%) Ubiquiti