Event-Driven Programming Contract Job Trends

Event-Driven Programming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Event-Driven Programming skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 523 586
Rank change year-on-year -42 +63 +5
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Programming 17 20 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.047% 0.056% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.064% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 18
10th Percentile £458 £535 £489
25th Percentile £491 £542 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £713 £688
Median % change year-on-year -24.56% +3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £629 £788 £975
90th Percentile £788 £834 £1,000
UK excluding London median daily rate £635 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +11.59%

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 32,247 31,236 40,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.88% 87.47% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,285 18,990 26,947
10th Percentile £300 £308 £310
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,084 1,559
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.25 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.19 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%

Event-Driven Programming
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Event-Driven Programming relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Event-Driven Programming job vacancy trend in the UK

Event-Driven Programming
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Event-Driven Programming.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Event-Driven Programming

Event-Driven Programming
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven Programming over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven Programming in the UK

Event-Driven Programming
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Event-Driven Programming.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Event-Driven Programming

Event-Driven Programming
Top 8 Contract Job 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 13 December 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 -40 17 £538 -24.56% 10
London -4 13 £538 -30.65% 6
Work from Home +1 9 £500 -34.43% 6
UK excluding London -43 3 £635 +15.45% 7
South East -15 1 £635 +15.45% 4
South West - 1 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -

Event-Driven Programming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure AKS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (23.53%) Serverless
3 3 (17.65%) GCP
3 3 (17.65%) npm
3 3 (17.65%) Yarn
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) Apigee
5 1 (5.88%) Azure App Service
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
1 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) webpack
3 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.88%) GitLab
4 1 (5.88%) Gradle
4 1 (5.88%) JUnit
4 1 (5.88%) Maven
4 1 (5.88%) Mocha
4 1 (5.88%) Mockito
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Investment Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Developer
2 8 (47.06%) Senior
3 7 (41.18%) Senior Developer
4 5 (29.41%) Java Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Senior UI Developer
5 3 (17.65%) UI Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Backend Developer
6 2 (11.76%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Lead
6 2 (11.76%) SQL Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Technical Leader
7 1 (5.88%) Architect
7 1 (5.88%) GCP Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Python Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Architect
7 1 (5.88%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) RESTful
1 5 (29.41%) Spring
2 4 (23.53%) CSS
2 4 (23.53%) OAuth
2 4 (23.53%) OAuth2
3 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
3 3 (17.65%) JMS
3 3 (17.65%) React
3 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
4 2 (11.76%) GraphQL
4 2 (11.76%) Hibernate
4 2 (11.76%) Kafka
4 2 (11.76%) REST
5 1 (5.88%) .NET
5 1 (5.88%) HTML
5 1 (5.88%) Jest
5 1 (5.88%) Middleware
5 1 (5.88%) ModSecurity
5 1 (5.88%) WireMock
5 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Derivative
2 3 (17.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.88%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) IoT
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 9 (52.94%) Agile
2 9 (52.94%) Microservices
3 8 (47.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
4 7 (41.18%) DevOps
5 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
7 4 (23.53%) Analytics
7 4 (23.53%) Code Quality
7 4 (23.53%) CQRS
7 4 (23.53%) Data Integration
7 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
7 4 (23.53%) Scrum
7 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
8 3 (17.65%) API Integration
8 3 (17.65%) DevSecOps
8 3 (17.65%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Java
2 8 (47.06%) Python
3 7 (41.18%) TypeScript
4 6 (35.29%) SQL
5 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
6 2 (11.76%) Go
7 1 (5.88%) Bicep
7 1 (5.88%) C#
7 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.88%) JSP 440
3 1 (5.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Atlassian
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.88%) OpenAI