Event-Driven
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Event-Driven skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 308 535
Rank change year-on-year +18 +227 -154
Permanent jobs citing Event-Driven 554 396 364
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.95% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.02% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 373 314 293
10th Percentile £55,750 £52,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £94,694 £100,064
90th Percentile £130,000 £116,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £78,810 £75,250
% change year-on-year -4.83% +4.73% -5.94%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 65,992 38,867 81,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.24% 92.91% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40,690 22,673 59,246
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Event-Driven job vacancy trend in the UK

Event-Driven
Salary Trend

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

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

Event-Driven
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Event-Driven in the UK

Event-Driven
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 21 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 -12 438 £85,000 +3.03% 303
Work from Home +41 282 £80,000 +6.67% 153
UK excluding London -35 277 £75,000 -4.83% 197
London +30 202 £100,000 +11.11% 137
North of England -23 109 £85,000 +7.85% 57
North West -15 68 £90,000 +18.03% 38
Scotland +20 60 £49,080 -23.31% 7
East of England -28 34 £60,100 -29.29% 34
South East -83 32 £75,535 -8.44% 45
Yorkshire -50 25 £75,000 -23.08% 13
Midlands -20 23 £75,000 - 27
West Midlands -15 17 £75,000 - 8
North East -24 16 £77,676 +19.67% 6
South West -75 14 £56,250 -28.63% 20
East Midlands -55 6 £74,000 +5.71% 19
Wales -30 3 £60,000 +20.00% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 6
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Event-Driven
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 23 (4.15%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.81%) JBoss
2 10 (1.81%) WebSphere
3 9 (1.62%) Apache
4 8 (1.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.54%) Camunda
7 2 (0.36%) nginx
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.18%) CICS
8 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) CMS
8 1 (0.18%) Confluence
8 1 (0.18%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.18%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.44%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.72%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Endur
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.18%) Quorum
4 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 273 (49.28%) AWS
2 218 (39.35%) Azure
3 108 (19.49%) Serverless
4 82 (14.80%) GCP
5 76 (13.72%) SaaS
6 57 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
7 52 (9.39%) GitHub
8 44 (7.94%) Azure Service Bus
9 40 (7.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 40 (7.22%) Amazon S3
10 36 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (6.32%) Amazon SQS
11 35 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 35 (6.32%) Power Platform
12 32 (5.78%) Azure Logic Apps
13 23 (4.15%) Azure Event Grid
14 22 (3.97%) Datadog
14 22 (3.97%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
16 20 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (6.68%) Broadband
2 5 (0.90%) WAN
3 3 (0.54%) LTE
3 3 (0.54%) Modbus
3 3 (0.54%) Network Security
3 3 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.36%) MQTT
4 2 (0.36%) VPN
5 1 (0.18%) AMQP
5 1 (0.18%) CTI
5 1 (0.18%) HTTP
5 1 (0.18%) LAN
5 1 (0.18%) Multicast
5 1 (0.18%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.18%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.18%) SMS
5 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (12.27%) NoSQL
2 47 (8.48%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (7.40%) SQL Server
4 38 (6.86%) Amazon RDS
5 32 (5.78%) DynamoDB
6 23 (4.15%) Power BI
7 17 (3.07%) MongoDB
7 17 (3.07%) Redis
8 16 (2.89%) MySQL
9 15 (2.71%) Data Lake
10 14 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (2.17%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.81%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (1.62%) Tableau
14 7 (1.26%) Flink
14 7 (1.26%) Metadata
15 6 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
16 5 (0.90%) Couchbase
17 4 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 77 (13.90%) Jenkins
2 66 (11.91%) GitLab
3 58 (10.47%) Git
4 35 (6.32%) SonarQube
5 20 (3.61%) CircleCI
6 17 (3.07%) Cucumber
7 13 (2.35%) JUnit
8 12 (2.17%) JIRA
9 10 (1.81%) Selenium
10 8 (1.44%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (0.90%) Maven
11 5 (0.90%) MLflow
11 5 (0.90%) Mockito
11 5 (0.90%) Postman
11 5 (0.90%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.54%) ESLint
12 3 (0.54%) git-flow
12 3 (0.54%) NUnit
13 2 (0.36%) Liquibase
13 2 (0.36%) Storybook
General
1 176 (31.77%) Social Skills
2 163 (29.42%) Finance
3 65 (11.73%) Public Sector
4 55 (9.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (9.57%) Banking
6 46 (8.30%) Marketing
6 46 (8.30%) Retail
7 38 (6.86%) Law
8 34 (6.14%) Games
9 32 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
10 22 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (3.07%) Financial Institution
12 16 (2.89%) Legal
13 15 (2.71%) Manufacturing
14 13 (2.35%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.99%) Back Office
15 11 (1.99%) Polish Language
16 8 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (1.08%) Front Office
18 5 (0.90%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 168 (30.32%) Architect
2 141 (25.45%) Senior
3 112 (20.22%) Developer
4 103 (18.59%) Lead
5 68 (12.27%) Solutions Architect
6 61 (11.01%) Software Engineer
7 44 (7.94%) Senior Developer
8 40 (7.22%) Technical Architect
9 34 (6.14%) Salesforce Architect
10 31 (5.60%) Lead Architect
11 27 (4.87%) Java Engineer
11 27 (4.87%) Principal Engineer
12 25 (4.51%) Senior Architect
13 24 (4.33%) Integration Engineer
14 23 (4.15%) Lead Developer
15 21 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
16 19 (3.43%) Applications Engineer
17 18 (3.25%) Integration Developer
17 18 (3.25%) Salesforce Technical Architect
18 16 (2.89%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (22.92%) Kafka
2 114 (20.58%) REST
3 96 (17.33%) RESTful
4 89 (16.06%) .NET
5 78 (14.08%) Spring
6 68 (12.27%) React
7 62 (11.19%) SOAP
8 60 (10.83%) Spring Boot
9 51 (9.21%) Node.js
10 47 (8.48%) RabbitMQ
11 43 (7.76%) OAuth
12 37 (6.68%) OAuth2
13 35 (6.32%) Lightning Web Components
14 34 (6.14%) Visualforce
15 31 (5.60%) .NET Core
16 29 (5.23%) gRPC
16 29 (5.23%) Middleware
17 23 (4.15%) CSS
18 21 (3.79%) GraphQL
18 21 (3.79%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 226 (40.79%) Cloud Native
2 99 (17.87%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (14.44%) Product Ownership
4 39 (7.04%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (6.68%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (3.25%) AI Agents
6 18 (3.25%) Data Structures
7 17 (3.07%) Low-Code
7 17 (3.07%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.89%) Blockchain
9 15 (2.71%) Distributed Architecture
9 15 (2.71%) Web3
10 11 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
10 11 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.99%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.81%) DataPower
11 10 (1.81%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.81%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.89%) Android
2 8 (1.44%) Linux
3 7 (1.26%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.72%) Unix
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (53.79%) CI/CD
2 294 (53.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 286 (51.62%) Microservices
4 256 (46.21%) DevOps
5 216 (38.99%) Agile
6 139 (25.09%) Mentoring
7 133 (24.01%) Test Automation
8 131 (23.65%) AI
9 130 (23.47%) Software Engineering
10 126 (22.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 126 (22.74%) Roadmaps
11 120 (21.66%) Infrastructure as Code
12 116 (20.94%) Containerisation
13 101 (18.23%) Technical Leadership
14 100 (18.05%) Observability
15 97 (17.51%) Integration Patterns
16 84 (15.16%) Analytics
17 80 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
18 79 (14.26%) Coaching
19 72 (13.00%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 132 (23.83%) Python
2 121 (21.84%) Java
3 114 (20.58%) SQL
4 82 (14.80%) C#
5 71 (12.82%) TypeScript
6 70 (12.64%) JavaScript
7 37 (6.68%) Apex Code
8 34 (6.14%) SOQL
8 34 (6.14%) SOSL
9 33 (5.96%) Go
10 16 (2.89%) Kotlin
11 14 (2.53%) Bicep
11 14 (2.53%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.62%) C++
12 9 (1.62%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.26%) Scala
14 6 (1.08%) Delphi
15 4 (0.72%) Bash
15 4 (0.72%) Clojure
15 4 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (10.11%) Degree
2 45 (8.12%) Security Cleared
3 31 (5.60%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.25%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.99%) DBS Check
8 10 (1.81%) CISSP
9 9 (1.62%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.08%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.72%) CISM
11 4 (0.72%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.54%) CCSP
12 3 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.54%) IIBA
13 2 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.05%) QA
2 25 (4.51%) GDPR
3 18 (3.25%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.71%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.81%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.72%) NIST
8 3 (0.54%) WCAG
9 2 (0.36%) SLA
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.18%) NCSC
10 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 147 (26.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.18%) Firmware
2 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 135 (24.37%) Kubernetes
2 89 (16.06%) Terraform
3 19 (3.43%) Prometheus
4 17 (3.07%) Grafana
5 12 (2.17%) Ansible
6 9 (1.62%) Argo
7 8 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.72%) Control-M
9 3 (0.54%) Puppet
10 2 (0.36%) Salt
11 1 (0.18%) Kibana
11 1 (0.18%) Packer
11 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 57 (10.29%) Salesforce
2 49 (8.84%) Microsoft
3 38 (6.86%) Splunk
4 32 (5.78%) Oracle
5 18 (3.25%) Google
6 17 (3.07%) MuleSoft
6 17 (3.07%) SAP
7 15 (2.71%) Databricks
8 14 (2.53%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.81%) Ab Initio
9 10 (1.81%) Pega
10 8 (1.44%) IBM
10 8 (1.44%) Informatica
11 5 (0.90%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.90%) Workday
12 4 (0.72%) Concur
12 4 (0.72%) Foundry
12 4 (0.72%) IFS
12 4 (0.72%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.72%) Sage