Event-Driven Architecture Contracts

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Event-Driven Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Event-Driven Architecture over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 499 501 453
Rank change year-on-year +2 -48 -12
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture 87 224 435
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.37% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.41% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 175 330
10th Percentile £400 £488 £463
25th Percentile £488 £521 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +12.68%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £720
90th Percentile £720 £750 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £530 £523
% change year-on-year +3.77% +1.31% -0.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
10th Percentile - - £54.56
25th Percentile - - £57.66
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £64.75
Median % change year-on-year - -45.94% -
75th Percentile - - £71.26
90th Percentile - £49.11 £74.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Event-Driven Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

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 25 April 2024.

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 12 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 25 April 2024. 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 +21 85 £550 -13.73% 68
London +22 58 £550 -15.38% 42
Work from Home +53 26 £550 -12.00% 42
UK excluding London +59 25 £550 +3.77% 27
North of England +40 13 £495 -9.06% 14
North West +19 8 £489 -11.09% 11
South West +23 7 £600 +4.35% 1
Yorkshire +30 4 £550 +2.33% 3
Scotland +22 2 £600 +2.61% 1
South East +9 2 £480 -8.57% 3
East of England +4 1 £600 +14.50%
North East - 1 £650 -

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 (5.75%) Confluence
1 5 (5.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.30%) CMS
3 1 (1.15%) Apache
3 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (5.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.15%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (43.68%) Azure
2 37 (42.53%) AWS
3 23 (26.44%) GCP
3 23 (26.44%) Serverless
4 14 (16.09%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (14.94%) Azure Service Bus
6 7 (8.05%) Azure AKS
6 7 (8.05%) Azure Event Grid
7 6 (6.90%) Amazon S3
7 6 (6.90%) Apigee
7 6 (6.90%) Azure App Service
7 6 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (6.90%) GitHub
7 6 (6.90%) NuGet
8 5 (5.75%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (5.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (5.75%) Kong
9 4 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.29%) NoSQL
2 9 (10.34%) MongoDB
2 9 (10.34%) Relational Database
3 7 (8.05%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.90%) DynamoDB
5 5 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.75%) OLAP
5 5 (5.75%) OLTP
5 5 (5.75%) Oracle OLAP
5 5 (5.75%) Redis
6 4 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (4.60%) Bigtable
6 4 (4.60%) Cloud Spanner
6 4 (4.60%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.60%) RDBMS
7 3 (3.45%) MySQL
8 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.30%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 11 (12.64%) JIRA
2 9 (10.34%) Git
3 8 (9.20%) Cucumber
4 4 (4.60%) JUnit
5 3 (3.45%) Hamcrest
5 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.30%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.30%) Gradle
6 2 (2.30%) Maven
6 2 (2.30%) Mockito
6 2 (2.30%) Selenium
7 1 (1.15%) GitLab
7 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (33.33%) Finance
2 15 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 14 (16.09%) Banking
4 7 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.75%) Retail
6 4 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.45%) Marketing
8 2 (2.30%) Law
9 1 (1.15%) Advertising
9 1 (1.15%) Electronics
9 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.15%) Retail Finance
9 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (40.23%) Architect
2 23 (26.44%) Developer
3 14 (16.09%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (12.64%) Data Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) AWS Architect
5 9 (10.34%) GCP Architect
6 7 (8.05%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.90%) .NET Developer
8 5 (5.75%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (5.75%) Java Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Lead
8 5 (5.75%) Senior
9 4 (4.60%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) QA Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) QA Test Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Test Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) C# Software Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (31.03%) Kafka
2 23 (26.44%) .NET
3 16 (18.39%) REST
4 15 (17.24%) .NET Core
5 14 (16.09%) Node.js
6 12 (13.79%) SOAP
7 11 (12.64%) Spring
7 11 (12.64%) Spring Boot
8 9 (10.34%) GraphQL
8 9 (10.34%) Web Services
9 7 (8.05%) Jest
9 7 (8.05%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (8.05%) React
10 6 (6.90%) J2EE
10 6 (6.90%) YAML
11 5 (5.75%) IBM Integration Bus
11 5 (5.75%) Middleware
12 4 (4.60%) HTML5
12 4 (4.60%) OpenID
12 4 (4.60%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (8.05%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.75%) DataPower
3 5 (5.75%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (4.60%) Blockchain
4 4 (4.60%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.30%) Wiki
7 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.15%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.45%) Unix
2 2 (2.30%) Linux
3 1 (1.15%) Android
3 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 46 (52.87%) Microservices
3 34 (39.08%) Agile
4 20 (22.99%) DevOps
5 16 (18.39%) TDD
6 15 (17.24%) CI/CD
7 12 (13.79%) Design Patterns
8 11 (12.64%) API Management
8 11 (12.64%) Software Engineering
9 10 (11.49%) OO
9 10 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (10.34%) Machine Learning
10 9 (10.34%) SOA
10 9 (10.34%) Test Automation
11 8 (9.20%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (9.20%) BDD
11 8 (9.20%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (9.20%) Enterprise Architecture
11 8 (9.20%) Event-Driven Programming
11 8 (9.20%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 31 (35.63%) Java
2 23 (26.44%) C#
3 21 (24.14%) Python
4 15 (17.24%) TypeScript
5 11 (12.64%) SQL
6 7 (8.05%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.75%) Bicep
8 4 (4.60%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.45%) Go
10 2 (2.30%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.15%) Gremlin
11 1 (1.15%) Scala
11 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (4.60%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.30%) Degree
2 2 (2.30%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.15%) CISSP
3 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.15%) GIAC
3 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.20%) QA
2 4 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.15%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 20 (22.99%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.34%) Terraform
3 4 (4.60%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.15%) Ganglia
4 1 (1.15%) Istio
4 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.94%) Google
3 12 (13.79%) IBM
3 12 (13.79%) Oracle
4 5 (5.75%) TSYS
5 4 (4.60%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.30%) Confluent
7 1 (1.15%) Adobe
7 1 (1.15%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.15%) Databricks
7 1 (1.15%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.15%) Informatica
7 1 (1.15%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.15%) New Relic
7 1 (1.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) SAP
7 1 (1.15%) Solace
7 1 (1.15%) Teradata