Event-Driven Architecture Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Event-Driven Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Event-Driven Architecture 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 233 319 376
Rank change year-on-year +86 +57 +4
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture 71 26 101
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.72% 0.17% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.19% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 26 78
10th Percentile £405 £424 £500
25th Percentile £483 £489 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £725
90th Percentile £609 £694 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £638
% change year-on-year - -13.73% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Event-Driven Architecture
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Event-Driven Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Event-Driven Architecture trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Event-Driven Architecture
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Event-Driven Architecture.

Event-Driven Architecture daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Event-Driven Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Event-Driven Architecture over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Event-Driven Architecture daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Event-Driven Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 34 (47.89%) Azure
2 28 (39.44%) AWS
3 22 (30.99%) GCP
4 19 (26.76%) Serverless
5 12 (16.90%) Azure AKS
6 10 (14.08%) Azure Service Bus
6 10 (14.08%) GitHub
7 8 (11.27%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (11.27%) Azure Functions
7 8 (11.27%) SaaS
8 7 (9.86%) PaaS
9 6 (8.45%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (7.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (7.04%) Amazon EventBridge
10 5 (7.04%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (7.04%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (7.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) IPsec
1 3 (4.23%) Kerberos
1 3 (4.23%) SSL
2 1 (1.41%) HTTP
2 1 (1.41%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.41%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (26.76%) Relational Database
2 14 (19.72%) NoSQL
3 13 (18.31%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (15.49%) MongoDB
5 8 (11.27%) Redis
6 7 (9.86%) SQL Server
7 5 (7.04%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (7.04%) MySQL
8 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.41%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.41%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (1.41%) Pinecone
9 1 (1.41%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (16.90%) Jenkins
2 11 (15.49%) GitLab
3 8 (11.27%) Maven
4 6 (8.45%) Git
5 3 (4.23%) Cypress.io
5 3 (4.23%) Eclipse
5 3 (4.23%) Gradle
5 3 (4.23%) IntelliJ
5 3 (4.23%) JUnit
5 3 (4.23%) Mockito
5 3 (4.23%) Postman
5 3 (4.23%) TestNG
6 2 (2.82%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.82%) gulp
6 2 (2.82%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.82%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.41%) Mocha
7 1 (1.41%) Selenium
General
1 13 (18.31%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.08%) Finance
2 10 (14.08%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.82%) Banking
4 1 (1.41%) Billing
4 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.41%) Front Office
4 1 (1.41%) Games
4 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (28.17%) Architect
1 20 (28.17%) Developer
2 14 (19.72%) Software Engineer
3 6 (8.45%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (8.45%) Java Developer
3 6 (8.45%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (8.45%) Technical Architect
4 5 (7.04%) AWS Architect
4 5 (7.04%) AWS Solution Architect
4 5 (7.04%) C# Software Engineer
4 5 (7.04%) Data Architect
4 5 (7.04%) Lead
5 4 (5.63%) Azure Architect
5 4 (5.63%) Azure Developer
5 4 (5.63%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) GCP Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Python Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Python Software Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.17%) Kafka
2 15 (21.13%) RESTful
3 14 (19.72%) Node.js
4 13 (18.31%) OAuth
5 12 (16.90%) REST
6 11 (15.49%) .NET
7 10 (14.08%) Spring
8 9 (12.68%) Spring Boot
9 8 (11.27%) OAuth2
9 8 (11.27%) OpenID
10 7 (9.86%) Express.js
11 5 (7.04%) GraphQL
11 5 (7.04%) Hibernate
11 5 (7.04%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (5.63%) JWT
12 4 (5.63%) NumPy
12 4 (5.63%) OpenAPI
12 4 (5.63%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (5.63%) SAML
12 4 (5.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.45%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.04%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (7.04%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.82%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.82%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.41%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.41%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (1.41%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.41%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
2 1 (1.41%) Unix
2 1 (1.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (81.69%) Event-Driven
2 44 (61.97%) Microservices
3 36 (50.70%) CI/CD
4 30 (42.25%) Containerisation
5 25 (35.21%) Agile
6 23 (32.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (32.39%) Software Engineering
6 23 (32.39%) Test Automation
7 18 (25.35%) Technical Leadership
8 17 (23.94%) DevOps
9 16 (22.54%) Design Patterns
9 16 (22.54%) SOA
10 15 (21.13%) Mentoring
11 14 (19.72%) OO
12 13 (18.31%) Concurrent Programming
12 13 (18.31%) Multithreading
13 12 (16.90%) Full-Stack Development
14 9 (12.68%) Integration Patterns
14 9 (12.68%) Scrum
15 8 (11.27%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 27 (38.03%) Python
2 22 (30.99%) JavaScript
3 21 (29.58%) Java
4 19 (26.76%) C#
5 18 (25.35%) SQL
6 6 (8.45%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.82%) Ruby
8 1 (1.41%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.41%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (1.41%) Bicep
8 1 (1.41%) C++
8 1 (1.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (28.17%) SC Cleared
1 20 (28.17%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.45%) AWS Certification
3 5 (7.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (5.63%) OCP
4 4 (5.63%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.41%) Degree
6 1 (1.41%) IBM Certification
6 1 (1.41%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (4.23%) HL7
2 3 (4.23%) QA
3 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.41%) GDPR
4 1 (1.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (47.89%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) RACF
Systems Management
1 32 (45.07%) Kubernetes
2 25 (35.21%) Terraform
3 9 (12.68%) Ansible
4 4 (5.63%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.63%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (4.23%) Grafana
5 3 (4.23%) Packer
6 1 (1.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (14.08%) Google
2 4 (5.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.63%) Virgin Media
3 1 (1.41%) Databricks
3 1 (1.41%) HubSpot
3 1 (1.41%) IBM
3 1 (1.41%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (1.41%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.41%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.41%) SAP
3 1 (1.41%) Sybase