Event-Driven Contracts

Event-Driven
UK

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

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 366 283
Rank change year-on-year -25 -83 +68
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 186 367 834
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.65% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.73% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 292 627
10th Percentile £416 £475 £485
25th Percentile £492 £529 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -3.70% +22.73%
75th Percentile £675 £743 £775
90th Percentile £769 £863 £841
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -2.22% +7.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - - £29.75
25th Percentile £52.50 - £44.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £64.75
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -45.94% -
75th Percentile £57.50 - £76.57
90th Percentile - £45.58 £77.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +75.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Event-Driven 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 36,593 50,587 79,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.80% 89.68% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,580 35,017 55,732
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,483 1,675 1,881
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.78 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.30 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +45.25% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven in the UK

Event-Driven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Event-Driven in the UK

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven in the UK

Event-Driven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Event-Driven in the UK

Event-Driven
Top 15 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 25 May 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 -39 166 £550 -15.38% 155
London -51 99 £600 -10.78% 98
Work from Home +31 72 £550 -18.52% 82
UK excluding London +58 62 £550 -2.22% 110
North of England +48 26 £550 +4.76% 22
South West +16 17 £550 -19.12% 5
North West +33 16 £538 +2.38% 16
South East +19 13 £525 - 49
Yorkshire +18 11 £529 +7.04% 2
Scotland +32 5 £550 -5.94% 11
North East - 3 £650 - 4
Midlands +26 2 £300 -40.00% 7
West Midlands +10 2 £300 -55.56% 4
East of England -3 2 £575 +9.52% 13
Wales +17 1 - - 4

Event-Driven
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 8 (4.30%) Confluence
2 7 (3.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (2.15%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.08%) CMS
4 2 (1.08%) nginx
5 1 (0.54%) Apache
5 1 (0.54%) JBoss
5 1 (0.54%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.54%) Mule
5 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.76%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.54%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 81 (43.55%) Azure
2 73 (39.25%) AWS
3 36 (19.35%) GCP
3 36 (19.35%) Serverless
4 23 (12.37%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (10.22%) Azure Service Bus
6 18 (9.68%) Amazon S3
7 16 (8.60%) Azure Stack
8 14 (7.53%) Microsoft Purview
9 13 (6.99%) GitHub
10 12 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (5.91%) Azure Event Grid
12 10 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (5.38%) Azure App Service
12 10 (5.38%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (4.84%) Azure AKS
13 9 (4.84%) PaaS
14 8 (4.30%) Apigee
15 7 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.76%) AMQP
2 6 (3.23%) Network Security
3 2 (1.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (21.51%) NoSQL
2 23 (12.37%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (11.29%) MongoDB
4 19 (10.22%) Relational Database
5 16 (8.60%) Snowflake Schema
6 14 (7.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (6.45%) SQL Server
8 8 (4.30%) BigQuery
9 7 (3.76%) DynamoDB
9 7 (3.76%) OLAP
9 7 (3.76%) OLTP
9 7 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (3.76%) Power BI
10 6 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (3.23%) InfluxDB
10 6 (3.23%) Oracle OLAP
11 5 (2.69%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.69%) Looker
11 5 (2.69%) Tableau
12 4 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 29 (15.59%) Git
2 18 (9.68%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.53%) Cucumber
4 12 (6.45%) JIRA
5 10 (5.38%) Selenium
6 8 (4.30%) Cypress.io
7 7 (3.76%) Maven
8 6 (3.23%) JMeter
9 5 (2.69%) GitLab
9 5 (2.69%) Postman
10 4 (2.15%) CircleCI
10 4 (2.15%) PHPUnit
11 3 (1.61%) webpack
12 2 (1.08%) Gradle
12 2 (1.08%) Jaeger
12 2 (1.08%) JUnit
12 2 (1.08%) Mocha
12 2 (1.08%) Mockito
12 2 (1.08%) Travis CI
13 1 (0.54%) IntelliJ
General
1 43 (23.12%) Finance
2 30 (16.13%) Banking
3 25 (13.44%) Social Skills
4 21 (11.29%) Public Sector
5 18 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (8.60%) Retail
7 13 (6.99%) Investment Banking
8 9 (4.84%) Marketing
9 6 (3.23%) Advertising
10 5 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.15%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.15%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.54%) Back Office
13 1 (0.54%) Electronics
13 1 (0.54%) Front Office
13 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.54%) Retail Finance
13 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (34.95%) Architect
2 51 (27.42%) Developer
3 21 (11.29%) Data Architect
3 21 (11.29%) Senior
4 18 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (8.06%) Data Engineer
6 12 (6.45%) Java Developer
7 11 (5.91%) AWS Architect
8 10 (5.38%) Lead
9 9 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (4.84%) GCP Architect
10 8 (4.30%) .NET Developer
11 7 (3.76%) Java Engineer
11 7 (3.76%) Senior Developer
11 7 (3.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 6 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.23%) Software Engineer
12 6 (3.23%) UI Developer
13 5 (2.69%) Cloud Architect
13 5 (2.69%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (26.88%) Kafka
2 39 (20.97%) REST
3 30 (16.13%) .NET
4 27 (14.52%) React
5 25 (13.44%) Spring
6 23 (12.37%) JSON
7 22 (11.83%) Node.js
8 21 (11.29%) CSS
8 21 (11.29%) Spring Boot
9 20 (10.75%) RabbitMQ
10 17 (9.14%) .NET Core
11 16 (8.60%) XML
12 13 (6.99%) GraphQL
12 13 (6.99%) HTML
13 12 (6.45%) RESTful
13 12 (6.45%) SOAP
14 10 (5.38%) Swagger
14 10 (5.38%) Web Services
15 9 (4.84%) jQuery
16 8 (4.30%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.75%) Distributed Systems
1 20 (10.75%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.68%) Data Structures
3 14 (7.53%) Reference Data
4 10 (5.38%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.76%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.76%) DataPower
6 6 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.69%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (2.15%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.61%) Derivative
9 3 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.61%) N-Tier
9 3 (1.61%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.08%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.45%) Linux
2 9 (4.84%) Unix
3 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Android
4 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (53.76%) Microservices
2 97 (52.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 89 (47.85%) Agile
4 49 (26.34%) DevOps
5 42 (22.58%) CI/CD
6 37 (19.89%) TDD
7 32 (17.20%) Test Automation
8 30 (16.13%) Analytics
9 27 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (13.44%) Data Modelling
11 22 (11.83%) Software Engineering
12 21 (11.29%) Containerisation
13 20 (10.75%) Data Architecture
13 20 (10.75%) Data Protection
13 20 (10.75%) Design Patterns
14 17 (9.14%) Full Stack Development
14 17 (9.14%) OO
15 16 (8.60%) Computer Science
15 16 (8.60%) Machine Learning
16 15 (8.06%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 70 (37.63%) Java
2 51 (27.42%) Python
3 46 (24.73%) SQL
4 38 (20.43%) JavaScript
5 29 (15.59%) C#
6 21 (11.29%) TypeScript
7 16 (8.60%) Go
8 13 (6.99%) Shell Script
9 8 (4.30%) PHP
10 7 (3.76%) Kotlin
10 7 (3.76%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.69%) Bicep
12 4 (2.15%) C
13 3 (1.61%) Ruby
14 2 (1.08%) Groovy
15 1 (0.54%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.54%) Scala
15 1 (0.54%) VC++
Qualifications
1 16 (8.60%) Degree
2 15 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.30%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.23%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.23%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.54%) CISSP
7 1 (0.54%) GIAC
7 1 (0.54%) ISEB
7 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.84%) QA
3 4 (2.15%) GDPR
3 4 (2.15%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (17.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 46 (24.73%) Kubernetes
2 21 (11.29%) Terraform
3 12 (6.45%) Grafana
3 12 (6.45%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.23%) Ansible
4 6 (3.23%) Progress Chef
4 6 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.69%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (1.08%) Istio
6 2 (1.08%) Kibana
7 1 (0.54%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 25 (13.44%) Google
2 24 (12.90%) Oracle
3 22 (11.83%) Microsoft
4 14 (7.53%) IBM
5 8 (4.30%) Adobe
6 7 (3.76%) SAP
6 7 (3.76%) TSYS
7 6 (3.23%) Ensighten
7 6 (3.23%) Omniture
7 6 (3.23%) Tealium
8 5 (2.69%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.69%) Confluent
8 5 (2.69%) Informatica
8 5 (2.69%) Monetate
8 5 (2.69%) Optimizely
8 5 (2.69%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.61%) Splunk
10 2 (1.08%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.08%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.08%) Databricks