Event-Driven Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Event-Driven
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 211 281 289
Rank change year-on-year +70 +8 -50
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 93 64 192
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.94% 0.42% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.47% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 50 156
10th Percentile £401 £424 £500
25th Percentile £450 £463 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £604 £675 £825
90th Percentile £775 £728 £1,063
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% +57.14% -53.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 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
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Event-Driven
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.

Event-Driven daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

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

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

Event-Driven
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.15%) JBoss
1 2 (2.15%) WebSphere
1 2 (2.15%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.08%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 42 (45.16%) Azure
2 40 (43.01%) AWS
3 35 (37.63%) Serverless
4 17 (18.28%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (15.05%) GitHub
6 13 (13.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (12.90%) Amazon S3
7 12 (12.90%) Azure AKS
8 11 (11.83%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (10.75%) Azure Functions
10 9 (9.68%) GCP
11 8 (8.60%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (8.60%) SaaS
12 7 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (7.53%) PaaS
13 6 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (5.38%) npm
14 5 (5.38%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) IPsec
1 3 (3.23%) Kerberos
1 3 (3.23%) SSL
2 2 (2.15%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.08%) HTTP
3 1 (1.08%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.08%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.20%) NoSQL
2 15 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (15.05%) MongoDB
4 10 (10.75%) Relational Database
5 8 (8.60%) DynamoDB
5 8 (8.60%) Redis
6 7 (7.53%) MySQL
6 7 (7.53%) SQL Server
7 6 (6.45%) DB2
8 5 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (4.30%) RDBMS
10 3 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (3.23%) Parquet
11 2 (2.15%) Data Lake
11 2 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (2.15%) IMS/DB
12 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (1.08%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (1.08%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 19 (20.43%) Jenkins
2 15 (16.13%) Git
3 12 (12.90%) GitLab
4 8 (8.60%) Maven
5 7 (7.53%) JUnit
6 5 (5.38%) webpack
7 3 (3.23%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.23%) Eclipse
7 3 (3.23%) Gradle
7 3 (3.23%) IntelliJ
7 3 (3.23%) Mockito
7 3 (3.23%) Postman
7 3 (3.23%) TestNG
8 2 (2.15%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.15%) gulp
8 2 (2.15%) JIRA
8 2 (2.15%) PHPUnit
8 2 (2.15%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.15%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (27.96%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.35%) Finance
3 12 (12.90%) Banking
4 9 (9.68%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.23%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.15%) Front Office
8 1 (1.08%) Back Office
8 1 (1.08%) Billing
8 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Games
Job Titles
1 44 (47.31%) Developer
2 27 (29.03%) Architect
3 14 (15.05%) Senior
4 11 (11.83%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.75%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (10.75%) Java Developer
5 10 (10.75%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (7.53%) AWS Architect
6 7 (7.53%) AWS Solution Architect
6 7 (7.53%) Software Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) Technical Architect
7 6 (6.45%) Lead
8 5 (5.38%) AWS Developer
8 5 (5.38%) C# Software Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Cloud Developer
8 5 (5.38%) Data Architect
8 5 (5.38%) Node.js Developer
8 5 (5.38%) Senior UI Developer
8 5 (5.38%) UI Developer
9 4 (4.30%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (31.18%) Kafka
2 21 (22.58%) RESTful
3 17 (18.28%) Node.js
4 14 (15.05%) REST
4 14 (15.05%) Spring
5 13 (13.98%) OAuth
5 13 (13.98%) Spring Boot
6 9 (9.68%) .NET
7 8 (8.60%) OAuth2
7 8 (8.60%) OpenID
7 8 (8.60%) React
8 7 (7.53%) Express.js
9 6 (6.45%) Web Services
10 5 (5.38%) AWS CDK
10 5 (5.38%) CSS
10 5 (5.38%) GraphQL
10 5 (5.38%) Hibernate
10 5 (5.38%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (5.38%) Redux
10 5 (5.38%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.75%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.45%) Derivative
3 6 (6.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.23%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.15%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.15%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.08%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.08%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.08%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.08%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.53%) Unix
2 6 (6.45%) Linux
3 2 (2.15%) Windows
4 1 (1.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (62.37%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 41 (44.09%) Microservices
3 40 (43.01%) Agile
4 37 (39.78%) CI/CD
5 27 (29.03%) DevOps
6 24 (25.81%) Containerisation
7 20 (21.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (20.43%) Design Patterns
8 19 (20.43%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (16.13%) Test Automation
10 14 (15.05%) Software Engineering
11 12 (12.90%) Event-Driven Programming
11 12 (12.90%) Integration Patterns
11 12 (12.90%) Scrum
12 10 (10.75%) API Management
12 10 (10.75%) Architectural Patterns
13 9 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
14 8 (8.60%) Observability
14 8 (8.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 38 (40.86%) Java
2 31 (33.33%) SQL
3 28 (30.11%) Python
4 16 (17.20%) C#
4 16 (17.20%) JavaScript
4 16 (17.20%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.23%) Ruby
6 2 (2.15%) PHP
6 2 (2.15%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.15%) REXX
7 1 (1.08%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.08%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.08%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.08%) Bicep
7 1 (1.08%) C++
7 1 (1.08%) Go
7 1 (1.08%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.68%) AWS Certification
2 8 (8.60%) SC Cleared
2 8 (8.60%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.30%) OCP
4 4 (4.30%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.08%) Degree
6 1 (1.08%) IBM Certification
6 1 (1.08%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) QA
1 4 (4.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (3.23%) HL7
3 2 (2.15%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.08%) EMIR
4 1 (1.08%) GDPR
4 1 (1.08%) MiFID
4 1 (1.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (32.26%) Docker
2 3 (3.23%) RACF
Systems Management
1 29 (31.18%) Kubernetes
2 27 (29.03%) Terraform
3 9 (9.68%) Ansible
4 5 (5.38%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.30%) Grafana
5 4 (4.30%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.23%) Packer
7 1 (1.08%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (7.53%) Google
2 5 (5.38%) Atlassian
2 5 (5.38%) Sybase
3 4 (4.30%) IBM
3 4 (4.30%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.30%) Virgin Media
4 3 (3.23%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.15%) BT
5 2 (2.15%) Oracle
5 2 (2.15%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.08%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.08%) CQG
6 1 (1.08%) Databricks
6 1 (1.08%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.08%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.08%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.08%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.08%) Reuters
6 1 (1.08%) SAP
6 1 (1.08%) Splunk