Event-Driven Architecture Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Event-Driven Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 111 111
Rank change year-on-year -27 0 +65
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.14% 0.16% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.19% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £550
75th Percentile £569 - -
90th Percentile £588 - -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Event-Driven Architecture 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,902 1,577 1,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.84% 83.26% 84.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,213 990 1,115
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £624 £600
90th Percentile £675 £714 £714
England median daily rate £507 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 47 54
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £16.09
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.25 £18.31
Median hourly rate £23.00 £26.13 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.96% -5.00% +55.19%
75th Percentile £30.29 £34.47 £49.38
90th Percentile £50.00 £51.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

Event-Driven Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Event-Driven Architecture job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Event-Driven Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Event-Driven Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Event-Driven Architecture

Event-Driven Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Birmingham -3 2 £525 - 4
Coventry - 1 £600 -
Event-Driven Architecture
England

Event-Driven Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Calypso Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Derivative
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Client Onboarding
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Calypso
2 1 (33.33%) AVEVA
2 1 (33.33%) Solace