Event-Driven Job Trends in the South West

Event-Driven
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Event-Driven skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 162 180
Rank change year-on-year -7 +18 +79
Permanent jobs citing Event-Driven 8 27 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.16% 0.65% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.76% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 7 12 29
10th Percentile £53,800 - £50,000
25th Percentile £58,125 £52,500 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,750 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -9.67% -2.65%
75th Percentile £73,750 £90,000 £96,539
90th Percentile £83,750 £98,376 £100,064
England median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% -3.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

Event-Driven falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,639 3,549 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.62% 85.58% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 1,776 3,216
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,454 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Event-Driven job vacancy trend in the South West

Event-Driven
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Event-Driven.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Event-Driven

Event-Driven
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven in the South West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Event-Driven in the South West

Event-Driven
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Event-Driven within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Dorset +5 3 £57,000 -32.94% 8
Bristol -6 3 £62,500 -7.41% 12
Gloucestershire - 1 £82,500 - 10
Event-Driven
England

Event-Driven
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) CockroachDB
3 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) REST Assured
2 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
2 1 (12.50%) TestNG
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Electronics
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Spring
2 3 (37.50%) Kafka
3 2 (25.00%) J2EE
3 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
4 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (12.50%) pytest
4 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (12.50%) React
4 1 (12.50%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Microservices
2 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Technical Debt
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) User Experience
5 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) Python
4 2 (25.00%) C#
4 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (12.50%) Bash
5 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) SAP
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk