Event-Driven Job Trends

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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 362 399
Rank change year-on-year +40 +37 +45
Permanent jobs citing Event-Driven 368 383 372
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.72% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.79% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 250 239 313
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% -3.03%
75th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £135,250 £115,000 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,750 £80,000 £77,000
% change year-on-year -7.81% +3.90% +10.00%

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 48,033 48,451 50,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.60% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,230 23,579 38,463
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,479
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Event-Driven in the UK

Event-Driven
Top 17 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 12 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
England +26 290 £80,000 -3.03% 536
Work from Home +69 203 £77,500 -1.59% 278
UK excluding London +11 169 £73,750 -7.81% 479
London +55 167 £100,000 +8.11% 112
Scotland +41 52 £62,297 -10.36% 13
North of England -3 33 £72,500 -3.33% 97
Midlands +38 28 £75,000 +3.25% 50
East of England +32 21 £77,500 +19.23% 74
North West +22 21 £72,500 -3.33% 40
South East -43 20 £75,535 -8.44% 156
West Midlands +37 17 £72,500 +20.83% 13
East Midlands -2 11 £78,750 -5.97% 37
Yorkshire -13 10 £75,000 -12.03% 44
South West -6 8 £62,500 -1.96% 61
Wales +3 6 £60,748 +21.50% 28
North East +5 2 £55,200 -14.96% 13
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 21 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 13 (3.53%) Apache
4 9 (2.45%) JBoss
4 9 (2.45%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.09%) Confluence
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.54%) nginx
7 1 (0.27%) Camunda
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.27%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.27%) TPMS
Applications
1 4 (1.09%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (4.62%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.27%) Endur
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle CRM
4 1 (0.27%) Quorum
4 1 (0.27%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.27%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 192 (52.17%) AWS
2 165 (44.84%) Azure
3 66 (17.93%) GitHub
4 61 (16.58%) GCP
5 59 (16.03%) Serverless
6 57 (15.49%) SaaS
7 43 (11.68%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (9.51%) Power Platform
9 34 (9.24%) Azure Service Bus
10 32 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (7.88%) Amazon SQS
12 25 (6.79%) Amazon S3
13 22 (5.98%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (5.43%) Azure Event Grid
14 20 (5.43%) Azure Logic Apps
15 19 (5.16%) Azure Monitor
15 19 (5.16%) GitHub Copilot
16 18 (4.89%) AWS CloudFormation
17 17 (4.62%) OCI
18 16 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.89%) Broadband
2 2 (0.54%) AMQP
3 1 (0.27%) HTTP
3 1 (0.27%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (11.68%) NoSQL
2 40 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (8.42%) SQL Server
4 25 (6.79%) Power BI
5 22 (5.98%) DynamoDB
6 18 (4.89%) Tableau
7 16 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (3.53%) MongoDB
10 10 (2.72%) MySQL
11 7 (1.90%) Redis
12 6 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.63%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.63%) Power Query
12 6 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.36%) Couchbase
14 4 (1.09%) Relational Database
15 3 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.82%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 49 (13.32%) Jenkins
2 48 (13.04%) Git
3 30 (8.15%) GitLab
4 23 (6.25%) JIRA
5 17 (4.62%) Oracle Forms
6 15 (4.08%) SonarQube
7 12 (3.26%) Cucumber
8 10 (2.72%) CircleCI
9 9 (2.45%) Selenium
10 8 (2.17%) JUnit
11 7 (1.90%) git-flow
12 5 (1.36%) Postman
13 3 (0.82%) ESLint
13 3 (0.82%) JMeter
13 3 (0.82%) Storybook
13 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.54%) Gradle
15 1 (0.27%) Liquibase
15 1 (0.27%) SoapUI
General
1 127 (34.51%) Social Skills
2 117 (31.79%) Finance
3 31 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.88%) Retail
5 26 (7.07%) Marketing
6 24 (6.52%) Public Sector
7 22 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (5.71%) Banking
9 20 (5.43%) Law
10 17 (4.62%) Financial Institution
11 15 (4.08%) Games
12 13 (3.53%) Telecoms
13 12 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (2.45%) Legal
15 5 (1.36%) Back Office
16 4 (1.09%) Electronics
16 4 (1.09%) Manufacturing
16 4 (1.09%) Polish Language
16 4 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (29.08%) Senior
2 90 (24.46%) Architect
2 90 (24.46%) Developer
3 51 (13.86%) Lead
4 46 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 43 (11.68%) Senior Developer
6 40 (10.87%) Software Engineer
7 26 (7.07%) Applications Engineer
8 22 (5.98%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (5.98%) Java Engineer
9 21 (5.71%) Technical Architect
10 17 (4.62%) Senior Java Engineer
11 15 (4.08%) Principal Engineer
11 15 (4.08%) Salesforce Architect
12 14 (3.80%) AWS Developer
12 14 (3.80%) Backend Developer
12 14 (3.80%) Data Engineer
12 14 (3.80%) Integration Engineer
12 14 (3.80%) Lead Architect
12 14 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (22.55%) RESTful
2 82 (22.28%) Kafka
3 68 (18.48%) REST
4 67 (18.21%) Spring
5 61 (16.58%) .NET
6 52 (14.13%) OAuth
7 49 (13.32%) Spring Boot
8 44 (11.96%) React
9 42 (11.41%) SOAP
10 38 (10.33%) OAuth2
11 32 (8.70%) Node.js
12 29 (7.88%) Middleware
13 28 (7.61%) SAML
14 27 (7.34%) RabbitMQ
15 26 (7.07%) GraphQL
16 22 (5.98%) CSS
17 19 (5.16%) Hibernate
18 18 (4.89%) Django
18 18 (4.89%) HTML
19 17 (4.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 157 (42.66%) Cloud Native
2 63 (17.12%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (10.60%) Enterprise Software
4 36 (9.78%) Product Ownership
5 27 (7.34%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (4.89%) Distributed Architecture
7 15 (4.08%) Virtual Team
8 14 (3.80%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.45%) AI Agents
9 9 (2.45%) DataPower
10 8 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.90%) IoT
11 7 (1.90%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.90%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.63%) Low-Code
13 5 (1.36%) Blockchain
13 5 (1.36%) iSeries
13 5 (1.36%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.53%) Android
2 10 (2.72%) Linux
3 4 (1.09%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (55.98%) Microservices
2 204 (55.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 191 (51.90%) CI/CD
4 162 (44.02%) DevOps
5 117 (31.79%) Agile
6 88 (23.91%) AI
7 80 (21.74%) Software Engineering
8 74 (20.11%) Mentoring
9 72 (19.57%) Test Automation
10 69 (18.75%) Observability
11 68 (18.48%) Containerisation
12 67 (18.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 67 (18.21%) Roadmaps
13 65 (17.66%) Analytics
14 62 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
15 56 (15.22%) Data Pipeline
16 54 (14.67%) Infrastructure as Code
16 54 (14.67%) Technical Leadership
17 53 (14.40%) Integration Patterns
18 52 (14.13%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 104 (28.26%) Java
2 96 (26.09%) SQL
3 88 (23.91%) Python
4 61 (16.58%) C#
5 46 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 44 (11.96%) TypeScript
7 23 (6.25%) Shell Script
8 18 (4.89%) Go
9 17 (4.62%) Kotlin
9 17 (4.62%) PL/SQL
10 16 (4.35%) Apex Code
10 16 (4.35%) Bicep
11 15 (4.08%) SOQL
11 15 (4.08%) SOSL
12 12 (3.26%) Scala
13 10 (2.72%) Rust
14 8 (2.17%) C++
15 6 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (1.63%) Delphi
16 4 (1.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 35 (9.51%) Degree
2 20 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (4.89%) AWS Certification
4 16 (4.35%) Security Cleared
5 12 (3.26%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.63%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.54%) CISM
10 2 (0.54%) CISSP
10 2 (0.54%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.54%) IIBA
10 2 (0.54%) PhD
11 1 (0.27%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.07%) GDPR
2 21 (5.71%) QA
3 12 (3.26%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.45%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.36%) WCAG
7 3 (0.82%) NCSC
7 3 (0.82%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.82%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.54%) NIST
9 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.27%) IFRS
9 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 91 (24.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) Firmware
2 1 (0.27%) HDFS
2 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 95 (25.82%) Kubernetes
2 67 (18.21%) Terraform
3 17 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (3.26%) Grafana
5 7 (1.90%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.36%) Argo
7 4 (1.09%) Control-M
7 4 (1.09%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.27%) Ansible
8 1 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 38 (10.33%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.42%) Salesforce
3 30 (8.15%) Oracle
4 24 (6.52%) SAP
5 17 (4.62%) IBM
5 17 (4.62%) Splunk
6 14 (3.80%) Ab Initio
7 11 (2.99%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.17%) Google
9 7 (1.90%) Informatica
9 7 (1.90%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.63%) Databricks
11 4 (1.09%) Adobe
12 3 (0.82%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.82%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.82%) Pega
12 3 (0.82%) Solace
13 2 (0.54%) BiZZdesign
13 2 (0.54%) SendGrid
13 2 (0.54%) Sparx