Event-Driven Architecture Contracts

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 345 494 490
Rank change year-on-year +149 -4 -17
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture 181 88 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.20% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.23% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 73 180
10th Percentile £409 £400 £488
25th Percentile £503 £488 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -13.73% +6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £700
90th Percentile £800 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +5.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +57.14% -45.94%
75th Percentile - £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - £49.11
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Event-Driven Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Event-Driven Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven Architecture in the UK

Event-Driven Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture.

Daily rate trend for Event-Driven Architecture in the UK

Event-Driven Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven Architecture in the UK

Event-Driven Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture.

Hourly rate trend for Event-Driven Architecture in the UK

Event-Driven Architecture
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 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
England +123 152 £556 +1.14% 223
London +72 93 £625 +13.64% 135
Work from Home +86 71 £540 -1.82% 157
UK excluding London +94 56 £513 -6.82% 134
North of England +37 31 £500 +1.11% 41
North West +34 25 £530 +8.38% 30
South East +55 11 £455 -5.21% 56
Scotland +16 5 £675 +12.50% 6
North East +3 4 £465 -28.46% 3
East Midlands - 3 - - 2
Midlands - 3 - - 11
South West +41 2 £700 +16.67% 13
East of England +31 2 - - 6
Yorkshire +6 2 £475 -13.64% 8
Wales - 1 £540 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 3

Event-Driven Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (2.76%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.66%) Apache
3 2 (1.10%) Camunda
3 2 (1.10%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.55%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.55%) Confluence
4 1 (0.55%) JBoss
4 1 (0.55%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.55%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (39.78%) AWS
2 66 (36.46%) Azure
3 39 (21.55%) Serverless
4 34 (18.78%) GCP
5 19 (10.50%) Azure AKS
6 18 (9.94%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (9.94%) GitHub
7 14 (7.73%) Azure Functions
7 14 (7.73%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (6.08%) Amazon EventBridge
8 11 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (5.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.52%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.97%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (4.97%) SaaS
11 8 (4.42%) PaaS
12 7 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.66%) IPsec
1 3 (1.66%) Kerberos
1 3 (1.66%) SSL
2 2 (1.10%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.55%) HTTP
3 1 (0.55%) MQTT
3 1 (0.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (22.10%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (18.23%) NoSQL
3 32 (17.68%) Relational Database
4 20 (11.05%) MongoDB
5 12 (6.63%) Redis
6 11 (6.08%) MySQL
7 8 (4.42%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.87%) Data Lake
9 6 (3.31%) DynamoDB
10 5 (2.76%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.21%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (1.66%) Big Data
12 3 (1.66%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.66%) Flink
13 2 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.10%) OLTP
13 2 (1.10%) Parquet
13 2 (1.10%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 38 (20.99%) GitLab
2 37 (20.44%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.94%) Git
4 16 (8.84%) Maven
5 15 (8.29%) Gradle
5 15 (8.29%) JUnit
5 15 (8.29%) Mockito
6 11 (6.08%) Liquibase
7 7 (3.87%) Artifactory
7 7 (3.87%) gulp
7 7 (3.87%) SonarQube
7 7 (3.87%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (2.76%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.76%) Postman
9 4 (2.21%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.66%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.66%) IntelliJ
10 3 (1.66%) JIRA
10 3 (1.66%) TestNG
11 2 (1.10%) Cucumber
General
1 39 (21.55%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.89%) Finance
3 33 (18.23%) Public Sector
4 17 (9.39%) Telecoms
5 14 (7.73%) Banking
6 12 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (6.08%) Electronics
7 11 (6.08%) Manufacturing
7 11 (6.08%) Marketing
8 6 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.21%) Publishing
10 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.10%) Retail
11 1 (0.55%) Billing
11 1 (0.55%) Front Office
11 1 (0.55%) Games
Job Titles
1 65 (35.91%) Architect
2 54 (29.83%) Developer
3 33 (18.23%) Solutions Architect
4 21 (11.60%) Java Developer
5 20 (11.05%) Software Engineer
6 17 (9.39%) Senior
7 16 (8.84%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (7.73%) Enterprise Architect
9 11 (6.08%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
9 11 (6.08%) React Developer
9 11 (6.08%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 11 (6.08%) Technical Architect
10 10 (5.52%) Python Engineer
11 9 (4.97%) Lead
12 8 (4.42%) AWS Architect
12 8 (4.42%) Senior Developer
13 7 (3.87%) AWS Solution Architect
13 7 (3.87%) Azure Architect
13 7 (3.87%) Azure Developer
13 7 (3.87%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (35.36%) Kafka
2 33 (18.23%) Spring Boot
3 32 (17.68%) Node.js
3 32 (17.68%) Spring
4 30 (16.57%) RESTful
5 27 (14.92%) React
6 22 (12.15%) REST
7 21 (11.60%) OAuth
8 20 (11.05%) .NET
9 17 (9.39%) OpenAPI
9 17 (9.39%) Swagger
10 16 (8.84%) GraphQL
11 14 (7.73%) AngularJS
11 14 (7.73%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (6.63%) Express.js
13 11 (6.08%) OpenID
14 10 (5.52%) Hibernate
14 10 (5.52%) OAuth2
15 9 (4.97%) OpenTelemetry
16 8 (4.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.26%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.50%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.31%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.66%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (1.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (1.66%) Educational Technology
5 3 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.66%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.66%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.10%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.10%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (1.10%) EMV
6 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.10%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.10%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.10%) PKI
6 2 (1.10%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.76%) Linux
2 1 (0.55%) Unix
2 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (92.82%) Event-Driven
2 107 (59.12%) Microservices
3 98 (54.14%) CI/CD
4 74 (40.88%) Agile
5 65 (35.91%) Containerisation
6 59 (32.60%) DevOps
7 50 (27.62%) Software Engineering
8 43 (23.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 36 (19.89%) Test Automation
10 30 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (16.02%) Full-Stack Development
12 27 (14.92%) Technical Leadership
13 26 (14.36%) Mentoring
14 23 (12.71%) Design Patterns
15 19 (10.50%) TDD
16 18 (9.94%) ETL
16 18 (9.94%) Migration
16 18 (9.94%) Observability
16 18 (9.94%) SOA
17 17 (9.39%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 66 (36.46%) Java
2 62 (34.25%) Python
3 56 (30.94%) SQL
4 40 (22.10%) JavaScript
5 33 (18.23%) C#
6 23 (12.71%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.42%) Scala
8 6 (3.31%) Ruby
9 5 (2.76%) Go
10 4 (2.21%) Bicep
10 4 (2.21%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.66%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.10%) ActionScript
12 2 (1.10%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (1.10%) C++
12 2 (1.10%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.55%) Bash
13 1 (0.55%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.55%) XPath
Qualifications
1 42 (23.20%) Security Cleared
2 41 (22.65%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.29%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.76%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.76%) OCP
5 5 (2.76%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (2.21%) Degree
7 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.10%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.42%) QA
2 4 (2.21%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.66%) GDPR
3 3 (1.66%) HL7
4 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.10%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.10%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.10%) PSD2
4 2 (1.10%) SEPA
5 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 84 (46.41%) Docker
2 3 (1.66%) RACF
3 2 (1.10%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 74 (40.88%) Kubernetes
2 57 (31.49%) Terraform
3 14 (7.73%) Ansible
4 11 (6.08%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.87%) Grafana
6 6 (3.31%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.66%) Istio
7 3 (1.66%) Packer
8 2 (1.10%) Argo
8 2 (1.10%) MOM
8 2 (1.10%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.55%) Kibana
9 1 (0.55%) linkerd
9 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.55%) vRealize
9 1 (0.55%) VxRail
9 1 (0.55%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 16 (8.84%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.18%) Google
2 13 (7.18%) SAP
3 9 (4.97%) Databricks
4 6 (3.31%) Virgin Media
5 4 (2.21%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.66%) Oracle
6 3 (1.66%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.66%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.66%) Splunk
7 2 (1.10%) Confluent
7 2 (1.10%) IBM
7 2 (1.10%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (0.55%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.55%) Cisco
8 1 (0.55%) EMC
8 1 (0.55%) F5
8 1 (0.55%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.55%) New Relic
8 1 (0.55%) Sybase