Event-Driven Architecture Job Trends

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Event-Driven Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 373 658
Rank change year-on-year -65 +285 -103
Permanent jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture 285 268 219
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.64% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.69% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 213 222 196
10th Percentile £55,750 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,933 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.58%
75th Percentile £100,000 £92,833 £100,064
90th Percentile £129,500 £111,125 £134,581
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,921 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -15.10% - -0.62%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Event-Driven Architecture 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,999 38,652 81,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.50% 92.94% 86.02%
Number of salaries quoted 40,056 22,591 59,648
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,757
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.26%

Event-Driven Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Event-Driven Architecture job vacancy trend in the UK

Event-Driven Architecture
Salary Trend

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

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

Event-Driven Architecture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Event-Driven Architecture in the UK

Event-Driven Architecture
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Event-Driven Architecture within the UK over the 6 months to 17 April 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
England -85 233 £80,000 -3.03% 139
Work from Home -15 153 £75,000 +3.45% 63
UK excluding London -116 137 £67,921 -15.10% 77
London +22 106 £100,000 +17.65% 78
North of England -32 54 £70,000 -9.68% 26
North West 0 37 £82,500 +10.00% 23
East of England -25 23 £60,100 -29.29% 12
South East -82 20 £77,500 -6.06% 23
Scotland -23 17 £49,080 -10.76% 4
Midlands -47 14 £73,750 -1.67% 6
West Midlands -17 12 £73,750 -1.67% 1
Yorkshire -59 10 £62,500 -49.09% 2
South West -67 8 £55,000 -30.04% 5
North East -32 7 £67,921 +4.64% 1
East Midlands -49 2 £74,000 +5.71% 5
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Event-Driven Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 11 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.51%) JBoss
2 10 (3.51%) WebSphere
3 8 (2.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.70%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.35%) Camunda
5 1 (0.35%) CICS
5 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.35%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.81%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.40%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 155 (54.39%) AWS
2 122 (42.81%) Azure
3 79 (27.72%) Serverless
4 58 (20.35%) SaaS
5 55 (19.30%) GCP
6 49 (17.19%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (12.63%) Amazon S3
8 30 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 23 (8.07%) Amazon SQS
9 23 (8.07%) Azure Service Bus
10 22 (7.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (7.72%) Power Platform
11 21 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (7.37%) GitHub
12 19 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (6.32%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (5.96%) Datadog
15 13 (4.56%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (4.21%) Azure Logic Apps
17 10 (3.51%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.05%) Broadband
1 3 (1.05%) LTE
1 3 (1.05%) Modbus
1 3 (1.05%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.70%) Network Security
3 1 (0.35%) AMQP
3 1 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (15.09%) NoSQL
2 34 (11.93%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (8.07%) DynamoDB
4 20 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 13 (4.56%) MySQL
7 11 (3.86%) MongoDB
7 11 (3.86%) Power BI
8 9 (3.16%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.81%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (2.81%) Tableau
10 7 (2.46%) Redis
10 7 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.40%) Flink
13 3 (1.05%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.70%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 41 (14.39%) Git
2 30 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 17 (5.96%) GitLab
4 13 (4.56%) CircleCI
5 9 (3.16%) JIRA
6 8 (2.81%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.40%) Postman
7 4 (1.40%) Selenium
7 4 (1.40%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.05%) ESLint
8 3 (1.05%) NUnit
9 2 (0.70%) git-flow
9 2 (0.70%) MLflow
9 2 (0.70%) Storybook
10 1 (0.35%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.35%) Gradle
10 1 (0.35%) Maven
10 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 118 (41.40%) Social Skills
2 101 (35.44%) Finance
3 40 (14.04%) Public Sector
4 39 (13.68%) Banking
5 31 (10.88%) Retail
6 24 (8.42%) Law
7 20 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (4.91%) Legal
10 14 (4.91%) Manufacturing
11 13 (4.56%) Financial Institution
12 11 (3.86%) Back Office
12 11 (3.86%) Marketing
12 11 (3.86%) Polish Language
13 7 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.75%) Health Technology
15 4 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.40%) Publishing
16 3 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 86 (30.18%) Senior
2 70 (24.56%) Architect
3 67 (23.51%) Developer
4 60 (21.05%) Lead
5 39 (13.68%) Solutions Architect
6 28 (9.82%) Senior Developer
7 26 (9.12%) Software Engineer
8 16 (5.61%) Lead Developer
9 15 (5.26%) Integration Developer
10 14 (4.91%) Applications Engineer
10 14 (4.91%) Lead Architect
10 14 (4.91%) Senior Architect
11 13 (4.56%) Java Engineer
11 13 (4.56%) Senior Manager
11 13 (4.56%) Technical Leader
12 12 (4.21%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (3.86%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (3.51%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 10 (3.51%) React Developer
14 10 (3.51%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (22.11%) .NET
2 62 (21.75%) Kafka
3 53 (18.60%) RESTful
4 52 (18.25%) REST
5 35 (12.28%) React
6 32 (11.23%) Spring
7 28 (9.82%) Node.js
8 27 (9.47%) RabbitMQ
9 24 (8.42%) .NET Core
9 24 (8.42%) OAuth
10 22 (7.72%) Middleware
10 22 (7.72%) SOAP
10 22 (7.72%) Spring Boot
11 18 (6.32%) OAuth2
12 16 (5.61%) gRPC
13 15 (5.26%) .NET Framework
14 13 (4.56%) web3js
15 12 (4.21%) CSS
15 12 (4.21%) GraphQL
16 11 (3.86%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 131 (45.96%) Cloud Native
2 56 (19.65%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (9.47%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (5.96%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (4.56%) Blockchain
6 13 (4.56%) Web3
7 10 (3.51%) DataPower
7 10 (3.51%) Legacy Applications
7 10 (3.51%) Low-Code
7 10 (3.51%) Management Information System
8 9 (3.16%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (2.46%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (2.11%) Data Structures
10 6 (2.11%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.75%) IoT
11 5 (1.75%) NHS
11 5 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.11%) Linux
2 4 (1.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (99.65%) Event-Driven
2 165 (57.89%) Microservices
3 146 (51.23%) CI/CD
4 123 (43.16%) DevOps
5 115 (40.35%) Agile
6 76 (26.67%) AI
7 72 (25.26%) Software Engineering
8 68 (23.86%) Mentoring
8 68 (23.86%) Test Automation
9 66 (23.16%) Technical Leadership
10 65 (22.81%) Observability
11 64 (22.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 61 (21.40%) Containerisation
13 58 (20.35%) Roadmaps
14 57 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
15 53 (18.60%) Integration Patterns
16 48 (16.84%) Analytics
17 45 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
18 44 (15.44%) Coaching
19 43 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (23.86%) SQL
2 64 (22.46%) Python
3 58 (20.35%) Java
4 54 (18.95%) C#
5 39 (13.68%) TypeScript
6 37 (12.98%) JavaScript
7 18 (6.32%) Go
8 14 (4.91%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.16%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.81%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.40%) Bicep
12 3 (1.05%) Clojure
12 3 (1.05%) Rust
12 3 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.70%) Bash
13 2 (0.70%) C++
13 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.70%) Scala
14 1 (0.35%) Korn
14 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (10.88%) Degree
2 24 (8.42%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.96%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.51%) DBS Check
5 9 (3.16%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.81%) CISSP
7 7 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.75%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.05%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.05%) IIBA
10 3 (1.05%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.70%) CCSP
11 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.70%) CISM
11 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.70%) PhD
12 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.96%) QA
2 10 (3.51%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.51%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.51%) GDPR
3 5 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.70%) NIST
4 2 (0.70%) WCAG
5 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 71 (24.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (23.16%) Kubernetes
2 45 (15.79%) Terraform
3 17 (5.96%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.81%) Grafana
4 8 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.11%) Ansible
6 4 (1.40%) Control-M
7 1 (0.35%) Packer
7 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (10.88%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.02%) Oracle
3 15 (5.26%) Google
4 11 (3.86%) SAP
5 7 (2.46%) IBM
6 6 (2.11%) Pega
7 5 (1.75%) Databricks
8 4 (1.40%) HubSpot
8 4 (1.40%) Informatica
8 4 (1.40%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.40%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.40%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.40%) Workday
9 3 (1.05%) Foundry
9 3 (1.05%) IFS
10 2 (0.70%) Confluent
10 2 (0.70%) SendGrid
10 2 (0.70%) Solace
11 1 (0.35%) Remedy
11 1 (0.35%) Splunk