Event-Driven Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Event-Driven
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Event-Driven skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 352 548
Rank change year-on-year +54 +196 -155
Permanent jobs citing Event-Driven 398 195 193
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.58% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.65% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 294 171 154
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £70,097 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -
75th Percentile £93,634 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £107,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £81,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +1.23% +1.88% -5.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,529 29,863 58,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.59% 88.35% 79.99%
Number of salaries quoted 35,494 16,025 40,293
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £79,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -8.84%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Event-Driven job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Event-Driven
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Event-Driven.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Event-Driven

Event-Driven
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Event-Driven in the UK excluding London

Event-Driven
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Event-Driven within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
North of England +65 160 £87,431 +10.94% 54
North West +56 110 £90,000 +18.03% 40
South East +2 65 £72,500 -12.12% 63
Midlands +4 40 £80,000 +6.67% 16
Scotland +40 38 £99,283 +80.51% 3
East of England +3 36 £60,100 -29.29% 9
South West -56 34 £63,750 -25.00% 16
West Midlands -11 31 £82,500 +10.00% 10
North East - 29 £67,921 - 7
Wales -32 23 £72,500 +45.00% 10
Yorkshire -22 21 £73,964 -26.04% 7
East Midlands -30 9 £72,000 +2.86% 6
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 9
Event-Driven
UK

Event-Driven
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.01%) CMS
1 4 (1.01%) WordPress
2 2 (0.50%) Confluence
2 2 (0.50%) nginx
3 1 (0.25%) Apache
3 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.25%) Camunda
3 1 (0.25%) CICS
3 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.51%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.01%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 197 (49.50%) AWS
2 140 (35.18%) Azure
3 78 (19.60%) Serverless
4 56 (14.07%) GCP
5 47 (11.81%) AWS Lambda
6 39 (9.80%) SaaS
7 34 (8.54%) GitHub
8 33 (8.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (7.79%) Amazon S3
10 28 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (6.28%) Amazon SQS
12 20 (5.03%) Azure Service Bus
13 18 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (4.27%) Amazon EventBridge
15 14 (3.52%) Power Platform
16 13 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (3.27%) Azure Key Vault
17 12 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
18 11 (2.76%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 38 (9.55%) Broadband
2 11 (2.76%) MQTT
3 6 (1.51%) Network Security
4 2 (0.50%) DNS
4 2 (0.50%) HTTP
5 1 (0.25%) AMQP
5 1 (0.25%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.25%) FTP
5 1 (0.25%) Modbus
5 1 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.25%) RTP
5 1 (0.25%) RTSP
5 1 (0.25%) SCTP
5 1 (0.25%) SMS
5 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.25%) SS7
5 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.25%) VoIP
5 1 (0.25%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.55%) NoSQL
2 28 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (6.28%) SQL Server
4 24 (6.03%) MongoDB
5 22 (5.53%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (5.03%) MySQL
7 18 (4.52%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.27%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.76%) Data Lake
10 10 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (2.51%) Power BI
11 8 (2.01%) Metadata
11 8 (2.01%) Oracle Database
12 6 (1.51%) Flink
13 5 (1.26%) RDBMS
14 4 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (1.01%) Tableau
15 2 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
15 2 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (13.07%) Jenkins
2 48 (12.06%) GitLab
3 39 (9.80%) SonarQube
4 37 (9.30%) Git
5 5 (1.26%) JUnit
5 5 (1.26%) SpecFlow
5 5 (1.26%) Yeoman
6 4 (1.01%) Postman
7 3 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.75%) Mockito
8 2 (0.50%) git-flow
8 2 (0.50%) JIRA
8 2 (0.50%) JMeter
8 2 (0.50%) MSI
8 2 (0.50%) RSpec
8 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.25%) JetBrains Rider
9 1 (0.25%) minitest
9 1 (0.25%) MLflow
General
1 99 (24.87%) Social Skills
2 58 (14.57%) Public Sector
3 57 (14.32%) Finance
4 53 (13.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 45 (11.31%) Marketing
6 38 (9.55%) Games
7 28 (7.04%) Retail
8 18 (4.52%) Law
9 17 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (4.27%) Legal
10 12 (3.02%) Manufacturing
11 10 (2.51%) Banking
12 5 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.26%) Health Technology
13 4 (1.01%) Advertising
13 4 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.50%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.50%) Automotive
15 2 (0.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 108 (27.14%) Architect
2 100 (25.13%) Senior
3 93 (23.37%) Developer
4 92 (23.12%) Lead
5 56 (14.07%) Software Engineer
6 33 (8.29%) Salesforce Architect
6 33 (8.29%) Senior Developer
7 31 (7.79%) Technical Architect
8 28 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
9 23 (5.78%) Full-Stack Developer
9 23 (5.78%) Lead Developer
10 21 (5.28%) Principal Engineer
11 18 (4.52%) Salesforce Technical Architect
12 17 (4.27%) Lead Software Engineer
12 17 (4.27%) Principal Software Engineer
12 17 (4.27%) Python Engineer
13 16 (4.02%) Lead Architect
14 14 (3.52%) Software Developer
15 13 (3.27%) Principal Developer
16 12 (3.02%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (24.12%) REST
2 65 (16.33%) React
3 64 (16.08%) Node.js
4 62 (15.58%) Kafka
5 57 (14.32%) SOAP
6 56 (14.07%) .NET
7 43 (10.80%) Spring Boot
8 39 (9.80%) Spring
9 38 (9.55%) Lightning Web Components
10 34 (8.54%) Visualforce
11 33 (8.29%) RESTful
12 29 (7.29%) OAuth
13 24 (6.03%) Vue
14 22 (5.53%) AngularJS
15 21 (5.28%) RabbitMQ
16 19 (4.77%) OAuth2
17 16 (4.02%) FastAPI
18 15 (3.77%) .NET Core
18 15 (3.77%) AWS CDK
19 14 (3.52%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 139 (34.92%) Cloud Native
2 85 (21.36%) Product Ownership
3 68 (17.09%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.02%) Mainframe
7 11 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (2.51%) Onboarding
9 9 (2.26%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (2.01%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.01%) Life Science
10 8 (2.01%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.76%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.76%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.76%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.51%) Digital Wallet
13 5 (1.26%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.26%) Robotics
14 4 (1.01%) PKI
14 4 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.26%) Linux
2 1 (0.25%) Android
2 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (53.27%) CI/CD
2 201 (50.50%) Agile
3 197 (49.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 172 (43.22%) Microservices
5 159 (39.95%) DevOps
6 131 (32.91%) Software Engineering
7 116 (29.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 115 (28.89%) Mentoring
9 114 (28.64%) AI
10 98 (24.62%) Infrastructure as Code
11 94 (23.62%) Roadmaps
12 84 (21.11%) Containerisation
13 77 (19.35%) Test Automation
14 76 (19.10%) Observability
15 69 (17.34%) Design Patterns
16 66 (16.58%) Integration Patterns
17 63 (15.83%) Technical Leadership
18 59 (14.82%) Decision-Making
19 56 (14.07%) Full-Stack Development
19 56 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 124 (31.16%) Python
2 86 (21.61%) Java
3 80 (20.10%) C#
4 53 (13.32%) SQL
5 51 (12.81%) JavaScript
6 49 (12.31%) TypeScript
7 38 (9.55%) Apex Code
8 34 (8.54%) SOQL
8 34 (8.54%) SOSL
9 15 (3.77%) Go
10 14 (3.52%) Ruby
11 9 (2.26%) ABAP
12 8 (2.01%) Clojure
13 7 (1.76%) Bicep
14 6 (1.51%) COBOL
14 6 (1.51%) Rust
15 5 (1.26%) C++
16 4 (1.01%) Kotlin
16 4 (1.01%) PHP
17 3 (0.75%) Bash
Qualifications
1 36 (9.05%) Security Cleared
2 30 (7.54%) Degree
2 30 (7.54%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.02%) AWS Certification
4 12 (3.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (2.26%) DBS Check
6 8 (2.01%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.01%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.75%) CCSP
10 3 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.75%) CISM
10 3 (0.75%) CISSP
10 3 (0.75%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.25%) CCA
12 1 (0.25%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.29%) QA
2 16 (4.02%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.02%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.01%) Actionable Recommendations
4 8 (2.01%) NCSC
5 6 (1.51%) Government Security Classifications
6 5 (1.26%) WCAG
7 4 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.01%) NIST
8 2 (0.50%) SLA
9 1 (0.25%) GDPR
9 1 (0.25%) PSD2
System Software
1 91 (22.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 82 (20.60%) Kubernetes
2 66 (16.58%) Terraform
3 19 (4.77%) Grafana
4 16 (4.02%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.27%) Ansible
6 6 (1.51%) Puppet
7 4 (1.01%) Argo
8 3 (0.75%) Kibana
8 3 (0.75%) Podman
Vendors
1 48 (12.06%) Salesforce
2 41 (10.30%) Splunk
3 36 (9.05%) Microsoft
4 22 (5.53%) Oracle
5 17 (4.27%) SAP
6 10 (2.51%) Google
7 9 (2.26%) iManage
7 9 (2.26%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.01%) IFS
9 7 (1.76%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.76%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.51%) Databricks
11 5 (1.26%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.26%) Pega
11 5 (1.26%) Tenable
12 3 (0.75%) Foundry
12 3 (0.75%) NVIDIA
13 2 (0.50%) Facebook
13 2 (0.50%) Instagram
13 2 (0.50%) TikTok