Event-Driven Programming Contracts

Event-Driven Programming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Event-Driven Programming skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Event-Driven Programming 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 486 565 624
Rank change year-on-year +79 +59 +63
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Programming 34 17 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.039% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.045% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 17 75
10th Percentile £525 £360 £600
25th Percentile £538 £628 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £745
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.04% +1.36%
75th Percentile £788 £850 £863
90th Percentile £805 £900 £1,063
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £635 £550
% change year-on-year -13.39% +15.45% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Event-Driven Programming 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 Programming
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven Programming in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Event-Driven Programming in the UK

Event-Driven Programming
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven Programming in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Event-Driven Programming in the UK

Event-Driven Programming
Top 7 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 Programming 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 +76 34 £725 - 41
London +50 25 £775 +6.90% 25
Work from Home +52 12 £775 +80.23% 29
UK excluding London +71 9 £550 -13.39% 22
North of England +27 9 £550 -13.39% 9
North West - 8 £550 - 6
Yorkshire +8 1 - - 2

Event-Driven Programming
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 3 (8.82%) Apache
1 3 (8.82%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.88%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) Azure
2 12 (35.29%) npm
2 12 (35.29%) Yarn
3 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.82%) AWS
4 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.88%) Apigee
5 2 (5.88%) GitHub
5 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.88%) Serverless
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.94%) Datadog
6 1 (2.94%) GCP
6 1 (2.94%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (17.65%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.82%) Big Data
3 3 (8.82%) Data Lake
3 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
3 3 (8.82%) Power BI
3 3 (8.82%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (8.82%) Star Schema
4 2 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.94%) Hazelcast
5 1 (2.94%) Redis
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (47.06%) Git
2 12 (35.29%) webpack
3 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.88%) GitLab
5 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.94%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.94%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.94%) JIRA
5 1 (2.94%) Mocha
General
1 16 (47.06%) Finance
2 13 (38.24%) Banking
2 13 (38.24%) Investment Banking
3 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Publishing
5 1 (2.94%) Front Office
5 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (67.65%) Developer
2 13 (38.24%) Senior
3 12 (35.29%) Senior Developer
3 12 (35.29%) UI Developer
4 11 (32.35%) Senior UI Developer
5 7 (20.59%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (17.65%) Architect
6 6 (17.65%) Java Developer
7 5 (14.71%) Azure Developer
7 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (14.71%) Node.js Developer
8 4 (11.76%) Lead
8 4 (11.76%) Technical Architect
9 3 (8.82%) Azure Architect
10 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
10 2 (5.88%) Java Architect
10 2 (5.88%) Java Technical Architect
10 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
10 2 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (38.24%) React
2 12 (35.29%) CSS
3 8 (23.53%) Kafka
4 7 (20.59%) Node.js
5 5 (14.71%) Express.js
5 5 (14.71%) Redux
5 5 (14.71%) RxJS
6 4 (11.76%) .NET
7 2 (5.88%) FastAPI
7 2 (5.88%) OAuth
7 2 (5.88%) REST
7 2 (5.88%) RESTful
8 1 (2.94%) Guice
8 1 (2.94%) Jest
8 1 (2.94%) JWT
8 1 (2.94%) Nunjucks
8 1 (2.94%) OpenAPI
8 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
8 1 (2.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (41.18%) Derivative
2 12 (35.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 20 (58.82%) Full-Stack Development
3 16 (47.06%) Agile
4 13 (38.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 12 (35.29%) Customer Requirements
5 12 (35.29%) Electronic Trading
5 12 (35.29%) Microservices
6 11 (32.35%) Web Development
7 10 (29.41%) CI/CD
7 10 (29.41%) DevOps
8 6 (17.65%) Mentoring
8 6 (17.65%) Test Automation
9 5 (14.71%) Data Modelling
10 4 (11.76%) Coaching
10 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
10 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
10 4 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (11.76%) Translating Business Requirements
11 3 (8.82%) Code Quality
11 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (61.76%) Java
2 15 (44.12%) TypeScript
3 13 (38.24%) JavaScript
4 10 (29.41%) Python
5 9 (26.47%) SQL
6 2 (5.88%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 12 (35.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (44.12%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Atlassian
2 6 (17.65%) Virgin Media
3 4 (11.76%) Databricks
4 2 (5.88%) Google
5 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.94%) Solace
5 1 (2.94%) Splunk