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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 336 377
Rank change year-on-year +92 +41 -8
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 101 63 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 0.30% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.36% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 44 45
10th Percentile £356 £428 £467
25th Percentile £450 £487 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £688
90th Percentile £615 £668 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% -2.99%
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% -45.94%

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 11,829 17,325 20,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.60% 83.38% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,354 10,289 13,948
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 864 2,130 1,241
10th Percentile £13.82 £12.42 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.54
% change year-on-year -24.66% -0.11% +42.29%

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 June 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 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 +44 55 £530 -3.64% 995
North West +31 33 £530 -1.40% 488
Scotland +20 20 £475 -5.00% 184
Yorkshire +22 18 £550 +4.07% 399
Midlands +20 13 £537 +79.00% 826
South East +45 9 £390 -23.90% 1,074
East Midlands - 7 £447 - 331
West Midlands +14 5 £600 +100.00% 440
North East +2 4 £465 -28.46% 108
East of England +31 3 £525 -8.70% 649
South West +25 3 £594 +7.95% 515
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 65
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 12 (11.88%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.97%) Apache
3 2 (1.98%) Mule
4 1 (0.99%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.99%) Camunda
4 1 (0.99%) Confluence
4 1 (0.99%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.98%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 45 (44.55%) AWS
2 37 (36.63%) Azure
3 29 (28.71%) Serverless
4 17 (16.83%) GCP
5 16 (15.84%) Amazon S3
6 14 (13.86%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (12.87%) GitHub
8 8 (7.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (6.93%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (6.93%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (4.95%) Amazon Glacier
10 5 (4.95%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (4.95%) Kong
10 5 (4.95%) Snowflake
11 4 (3.96%) Amazon Cognito
11 4 (3.96%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.96%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.97%) Amazon EventBridge
12 3 (2.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.97%) Firewall
2 1 (0.99%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.99%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.99%) Network Security
2 1 (0.99%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.99%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.99%) VPN
2 1 (0.99%) WAN
2 1 (0.99%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (23.76%) MongoDB
2 23 (22.77%) NoSQL
2 23 (22.77%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (17.82%) Relational Database
4 14 (13.86%) DynamoDB
5 12 (11.88%) Flink
6 7 (6.93%) MySQL
7 6 (5.94%) DB2
7 6 (5.94%) RDBMS
8 5 (4.95%) Parquet
9 4 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.96%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.97%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.97%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (2.97%) Big Data
10 3 (2.97%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.97%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.97%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.98%) DocumentDB
11 2 (1.98%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (19.80%) Jenkins
2 14 (13.86%) GitLab
3 12 (11.88%) JUnit
4 10 (9.90%) Git
5 6 (5.94%) SonarQube
6 5 (4.95%) Artifactory
6 5 (4.95%) Gradle
6 5 (4.95%) gulp
6 5 (4.95%) Liquibase
6 5 (4.95%) Maven
6 5 (4.95%) Mockito
6 5 (4.95%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.97%) CircleCI
7 3 (2.97%) JIRA
8 2 (1.98%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.99%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.99%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.99%) IntelliJ
General
1 30 (29.70%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.79%) Finance
3 16 (15.84%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.89%) Banking
5 7 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.93%) Telecoms
6 6 (5.94%) Marketing
7 5 (4.95%) Electronics
7 5 (4.95%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.97%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.97%) Front Office
8 3 (2.97%) Retail
9 2 (1.98%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.99%) Advertising
10 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.99%) International Banking
10 1 (0.99%) Legal
10 1 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 42 (41.58%) Developer
2 41 (40.59%) Architect
3 24 (23.76%) Solutions Architect
4 18 (17.82%) Java Developer
5 13 (12.87%) Senior
6 11 (10.89%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (7.92%) Java Architect
7 8 (7.92%) Technical Architect
8 6 (5.94%) Java Technical Architect
8 6 (5.94%) Lead
8 6 (5.94%) React Developer
9 5 (4.95%) Applications Architect
9 5 (4.95%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 5 (4.95%) Senior Architect
9 5 (4.95%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.96%) .NET Architect
10 4 (3.96%) .NET Technical Architect
10 4 (3.96%) Azure Developer
10 4 (3.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 4 (3.96%) Java Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (45.54%) Kafka
2 20 (19.80%) Spring
3 19 (18.81%) Spring Boot
4 15 (14.85%) React
5 13 (12.87%) Node.js
5 13 (12.87%) RESTful
6 9 (8.91%) Apache Beam
6 9 (8.91%) Express.js
6 9 (8.91%) Spark Streaming
6 9 (8.91%) Swagger
7 8 (7.92%) .NET
7 8 (7.92%) OpenAPI
7 8 (7.92%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (6.93%) JDBC
9 6 (5.94%) AngularJS
9 6 (5.94%) JSON
10 5 (4.95%) Apache CXF
10 5 (4.95%) Hibernate
10 5 (4.95%) JAX-RS
10 5 (4.95%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.80%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.88%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.93%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.97%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.98%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.98%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (1.98%) EMV
5 2 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.98%) IoT
5 2 (1.98%) SCADA
5 2 (1.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.99%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.99%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.90%) Linux
2 7 (6.93%) Unix
3 1 (0.99%) Windows
3 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (51.49%) Microservices
2 44 (43.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 40 (39.60%) CI/CD
4 39 (38.61%) DevOps
5 32 (31.68%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (28.71%) Agile
7 24 (23.76%) Containerisation
8 19 (18.81%) Architectural Patterns
9 13 (12.87%) Data Pipeline
9 13 (12.87%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (12.87%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (12.87%) Software Engineering
10 12 (11.88%) High Availability
10 12 (11.88%) Migration
11 11 (10.89%) Integration Patterns
12 10 (9.90%) Enterprise Architecture
12 10 (9.90%) SDLC
12 10 (9.90%) TDD
13 9 (8.91%) Artificial Intelligence
13 9 (8.91%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 49 (48.51%) Java
2 38 (37.62%) SQL
3 25 (24.75%) Python
4 12 (11.88%) TypeScript
5 7 (6.93%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.96%) Bicep
7 3 (2.97%) C#
7 3 (2.97%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.98%) Go
8 2 (1.98%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.98%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.98%) Scala
9 1 (0.99%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.99%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.99%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 13 (12.87%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.89%) AWS Certification
2 11 (10.89%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.91%) Azure Certification
4 7 (6.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.97%) Degree
6 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.99%) IBM Certification
7 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.97%) GDPR
2 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.98%) ISO 20022
2 2 (1.98%) ISO 8583
2 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.98%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.98%) PSD2
2 2 (1.98%) SEPA
3 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 35 (34.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.99%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 24 (23.76%) Kubernetes
2 19 (18.81%) Terraform
3 4 (3.96%) Ansible
3 4 (3.96%) Grafana
3 4 (3.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.91%) Virgin Media
3 7 (6.93%) SAP
3 7 (6.93%) Sybase
4 4 (3.96%) Databricks
4 4 (3.96%) IBM
4 4 (3.96%) Oracle
4 4 (3.96%) Splunk
5 3 (2.97%) Google
6 2 (1.98%) Informatica
7 1 (0.99%) Cisco
7 1 (0.99%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.99%) Dell KACE
7 1 (0.99%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (0.99%) Meraki
7 1 (0.99%) Qualys
7 1 (0.99%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.99%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.99%) SolarWinds