Event-Driven Contracts

Event-Driven
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Event-Driven skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Event-Driven over the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 402 372
Rank change year-on-year +163 -30 -76
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 370 186 357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 0.43% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 0.50% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 138 283
10th Percentile £377 £431 £463
25th Percentile £461 £508 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £690 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £766 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +1.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.25 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £27.75 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.55% +57.14% +64.71%
75th Percentile £44.38 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £55.63 - £45.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.50 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - +84.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Event-Driven 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 29,321 36,863 51,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.46% 85.39% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,457 23,536 35,259
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,492 2,486 1,707
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -6.25% +53.85%
75th Percentile £52.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.54 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -35.62% -3.62% +87.35%

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 10 July 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Event-Driven over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Event-Driven in the UK

Event-Driven
Top 17 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 10 July 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 +141 300 £600 +4.35% 269
London +103 204 £635 +5.83% 124
Work from Home +92 127 £545 -0.91% 161
UK excluding London +111 114 £525 -4.55% 177
North of England +39 57 £530 +0.95% 56
North West +23 31 £530 +3.97% 39
Scotland +20 22 £475 -5.00% 8
Yorkshire +10 21 £550 +4.07% 14
South East +41 14 £550 +7.32% 47
Midlands +20 14 £525 +74.83% 23
East Midlands - 8 £420 - 5
West Midlands +14 5 £600 +100.00% 18
Wales +9 5 £283 - 5
North East +4 5 £465 -28.46% 3
East of England +25 3 £513 -10.87% 1
South West +31 1 £513 -6.82% 27
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 13

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 22 (5.95%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.51%) Apache
3 6 (1.62%) Mule
4 5 (1.35%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.35%) Confluence
4 5 (1.35%) JBoss
5 4 (1.08%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.81%) Camunda
7 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.54%) Gunicorn
7 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.54%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.54%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Sketch
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Oracle Retail
2 3 (0.81%) SAP PM
3 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.27%) SAP MRS
Cloud Services
1 153 (41.35%) AWS
2 116 (31.35%) Azure
3 99 (26.76%) Serverless
4 52 (14.05%) AWS Lambda
5 49 (13.24%) GCP
6 40 (10.81%) Amazon S3
7 37 (10.00%) GitHub
8 33 (8.92%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (8.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (6.22%) Amazon SQS
10 23 (6.22%) Azure Service Bus
10 23 (6.22%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (5.41%) Amazon EventBridge
12 18 (4.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (4.59%) Azure Functions
14 16 (4.32%) Azure AKS
15 14 (3.78%) Azure Logic Apps
15 14 (3.78%) Datadog
15 14 (3.78%) SaaS
16 13 (3.51%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.62%) Firewall
2 4 (1.08%) AMQP
2 4 (1.08%) DSL
2 4 (1.08%) MQTT
2 4 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (0.81%) Network Security
3 3 (0.81%) VPN
4 2 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.54%) HTTP
4 2 (0.54%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.54%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.54%) WAN
4 2 (0.54%) Wireless
5 1 (0.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (15.14%) NoSQL
2 52 (14.05%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (10.81%) MongoDB
4 32 (8.65%) DynamoDB
5 28 (7.57%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.32%) Flink
7 14 (3.78%) Data Lake
7 14 (3.78%) MySQL
8 11 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (2.97%) Redis
9 10 (2.70%) Big Data
9 10 (2.70%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (2.16%) DB2
11 7 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.89%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.89%) Power BI
12 6 (1.62%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 65 (17.57%) Jenkins
2 57 (15.41%) Git
3 44 (11.89%) GitLab
4 28 (7.57%) JUnit
5 20 (5.41%) Mockito
6 18 (4.86%) Gradle
7 15 (4.05%) Maven
8 12 (3.24%) Liquibase
9 11 (2.97%) JIRA
9 11 (2.97%) SonarQube
10 10 (2.70%) CircleCI
10 10 (2.70%) webpack
11 9 (2.43%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.89%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.89%) gulp
12 7 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (1.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.35%) Bitbucket
14 5 (1.35%) IntelliJ
14 5 (1.35%) Postman
General
1 107 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 87 (23.51%) Finance
3 47 (12.70%) Banking
4 45 (12.16%) Public Sector
5 23 (6.22%) Investment Banking
6 22 (5.95%) Telecoms
7 21 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (3.24%) Marketing
9 11 (2.97%) Electronics
9 11 (2.97%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.70%) Retail
11 7 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.62%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.35%) Front Office
13 5 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.08%) Military
15 2 (0.54%) Legal
15 2 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 138 (37.30%) Developer
2 125 (33.78%) Architect
3 72 (19.46%) Senior
4 50 (13.51%) Java Developer
5 49 (13.24%) Solutions Architect
6 36 (9.73%) Senior Developer
7 29 (7.84%) Technical Architect
8 28 (7.57%) Software Engineer
9 26 (7.03%) Lead
10 25 (6.76%) Full-Stack Developer
11 22 (5.95%) Senior Architect
12 15 (4.05%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (4.05%) React Developer
13 14 (3.78%) AWS Architect
14 12 (3.24%) Data Engineer
14 12 (3.24%) Python Developer
14 12 (3.24%) Senior Technical Architect
15 11 (2.97%) Azure Architect
15 11 (2.97%) Data Architect
15 11 (2.97%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (31.89%) Kafka
2 62 (16.76%) Spring
3 60 (16.22%) React
4 56 (15.14%) Spring Boot
5 54 (14.59%) RESTful
6 42 (11.35%) Node.js
7 35 (9.46%) .NET
8 31 (8.38%) REST
9 27 (7.30%) OAuth
10 25 (6.76%) AngularJS
10 25 (6.76%) RabbitMQ
11 23 (6.22%) GraphQL
12 19 (5.14%) Swagger
13 18 (4.86%) OpenAPI
13 18 (4.86%) SOAP
14 16 (4.32%) Hibernate
14 16 (4.32%) JWT
14 16 (4.32%) OpenTelemetry
15 15 (4.05%) CSS
15 15 (4.05%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 71 (19.19%) Cloud Native
2 48 (12.97%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (7.03%) Public Cloud
4 17 (4.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (4.32%) Derivative
6 14 (3.78%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.51%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.62%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.62%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.62%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.62%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.35%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.35%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.08%) IoT
13 4 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.38%) Linux
2 15 (4.05%) Unix
3 4 (1.08%) Windows
4 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (55.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 170 (45.95%) Microservices
3 165 (44.59%) CI/CD
4 141 (38.11%) Agile
5 139 (37.57%) DevOps
6 84 (22.70%) Containerisation
7 82 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
8 79 (21.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 71 (19.19%) Software Engineering
10 52 (14.05%) Full-Stack Development
11 47 (12.70%) TDD
12 46 (12.43%) Architectural Patterns
13 44 (11.89%) Mentoring
13 44 (11.89%) Technical Leadership
14 42 (11.35%) Observability
14 42 (11.35%) Test Automation
15 40 (10.81%) Scrum
16 37 (10.00%) API Development
16 37 (10.00%) Clean Code
17 36 (9.73%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 156 (42.16%) Java
2 127 (34.32%) Python
3 111 (30.00%) SQL
4 65 (17.57%) TypeScript
5 56 (15.14%) JavaScript
6 39 (10.54%) C#
7 14 (3.78%) Kotlin
8 13 (3.51%) C++
9 11 (2.97%) Go
10 8 (2.16%) Bicep
10 8 (2.16%) Scala
11 6 (1.62%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.62%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.35%) DataWeave
12 5 (1.35%) Ruby
13 4 (1.08%) C
13 4 (1.08%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.81%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.54%) ActionScript
15 2 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 44 (11.89%) Security Cleared
2 38 (10.27%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.22%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (2.97%) Degree
6 9 (2.43%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.35%) OCP
8 5 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.54%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.27%) CEH
11 1 (0.27%) CISSP
11 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.05%) QA
2 12 (3.24%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.24%) GDPR
3 6 (1.62%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.35%) HL7
5 4 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.81%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.81%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.54%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.54%) PSD2
7 2 (0.54%) Section 508
7 2 (0.54%) SEPA
7 2 (0.54%) WCAG
8 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.27%) EMIR
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.27%) MiFID
8 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 118 (31.89%) Docker
2 4 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.54%) vSphere
5 1 (0.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 113 (30.54%) Kubernetes
2 93 (25.14%) Terraform
3 33 (8.92%) Prometheus
4 24 (6.49%) Grafana
5 23 (6.22%) Ansible
6 10 (2.70%) Kibana
7 5 (1.35%) Control-M
7 5 (1.35%) ITRS Geneos
7 5 (1.35%) logstash
8 3 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.27%) Argo
9 1 (0.27%) Istio
9 1 (0.27%) linkerd
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.27%) Packer
9 1 (0.27%) vRealize
9 1 (0.27%) VxRail
9 1 (0.27%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 28 (7.57%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.95%) Oracle
3 19 (5.14%) Google
4 16 (4.32%) Databricks
4 16 (4.32%) SAP
5 12 (3.24%) MuleSoft
5 12 (3.24%) Splunk
6 11 (2.97%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.70%) Atlassian
8 9 (2.43%) IBM
9 8 (2.16%) BT
9 8 (2.16%) Virgin Media
10 7 (1.89%) Sybase
11 5 (1.35%) Cisco
11 5 (1.35%) Solace
12 4 (1.08%) DocuSign
13 3 (0.81%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.81%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.81%) VMware
14 2 (0.54%) Dell KACE