Event-Driven Contracts

Event-Driven
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Event-Driven skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Event-Driven over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 394 368 289
Rank change year-on-year -26 -79 +64
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 200 354 831
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.64% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.71% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 282 626
10th Percentile £415 £473 £500
25th Percentile £505 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% -3.70% +22.73%
75th Percentile £675 £743 £775
90th Percentile £770 £863 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - - £20.38
25th Percentile £52.50 - £20.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -9.68% -
75th Percentile £57.50 - £62.09
90th Percentile - £45.58 £70.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year - +64.71% -

All Process and 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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,177 49,806 79,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.20% 89.64% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,769 34,463 55,610
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,687 1,847
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +66.67% +0.65%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Event-Driven as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven in the UK

Event-Driven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven.

Daily rate trend for Event-Driven in the UK

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven in the UK

Event-Driven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven.

Hourly rate trend for Event-Driven in the UK

Event-Driven
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Event-Driven within the UK over the 6 months to 10 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -6 182 £573 -11.92% 107
London -25 113 £600 -11.11% 62
Work from Home +33 71 £550 -18.52% 74
UK excluding London +34 65 £550 - 55
North of England +46 28 £550 +4.76% 15
South West +7 18 £550 -19.12% 6
North West +22 16 £538 +2.38% 13
South East +22 14 £513 -6.82% 7
Yorkshire +20 13 £529 +7.04%
Scotland +38 4 £500 -4.76% 8
North East - 3 £650 - 2
West Midlands +16 2 £300 -55.56% 6
Midlands +10 2 £300 -40.00% 7
East of England -8 2 £575 +9.94% 7
Wales +20 1 - - 3

Event-Driven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (4.00%) Confluence
2 7 (3.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.50%) nginx
5 2 (1.00%) CMS
6 1 (0.50%) Apache
6 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.50%) JBoss
6 1 (0.50%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.50%) Mule
6 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.50%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 97 (48.50%) Azure
2 78 (39.00%) AWS
3 39 (19.50%) Serverless
4 38 (19.00%) GCP
5 25 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (11.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 19 (9.50%) Amazon S3
8 16 (8.00%) Azure Stack
9 15 (7.50%) Azure Event Grid
10 14 (7.00%) Microsoft Purview
11 13 (6.50%) GitHub
12 12 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (6.00%) Azure App Service
12 12 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (4.50%) Azure AKS
15 8 (4.00%) OpenShift
16 7 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
16 7 (3.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.50%) AMQP
2 7 (3.50%) Network Security
3 2 (1.00%) HTTP
4 1 (0.50%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.50%) Internet
4 1 (0.50%) MPLS
4 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.50%) VPLS
4 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (23.00%) NoSQL
2 25 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (11.50%) Relational Database
4 21 (10.50%) MongoDB
5 20 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (8.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 15 (7.50%) SQL Server
8 8 (4.00%) BigQuery
9 7 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (3.50%) DynamoDB
9 7 (3.50%) InfluxDB
9 7 (3.50%) OLAP
9 7 (3.50%) OLTP
9 7 (3.50%) Power BI
10 6 (3.00%) Oracle OLAP
11 5 (2.50%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.50%) Looker
11 5 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (2.50%) Tableau
12 4 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 31 (15.50%) Git
2 19 (9.50%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.50%) Cucumber
4 12 (6.00%) JIRA
5 11 (5.50%) Selenium
6 9 (4.50%) Cypress.io
7 7 (3.50%) Maven
8 6 (3.00%) JMeter
9 5 (2.50%) GitLab
9 5 (2.50%) Postman
10 4 (2.00%) CircleCI
10 4 (2.00%) PHPUnit
11 3 (1.50%) Mocha
11 3 (1.50%) webpack
12 2 (1.00%) Gradle
12 2 (1.00%) Jaeger
12 2 (1.00%) JUnit
12 2 (1.00%) Mockito
12 2 (1.00%) Travis CI
13 1 (0.50%) IntelliJ
General
1 45 (22.50%) Finance
2 31 (15.50%) Banking
3 24 (12.00%) Social Skills
4 20 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.00%) Investment Banking
5 16 (8.00%) Retail
6 9 (4.50%) Marketing
7 5 (2.50%) Advertising
7 5 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.00%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (2.00%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.50%) Back Office
10 1 (0.50%) Electronics
10 1 (0.50%) Front Office
10 1 (0.50%) Law
10 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (32.50%) Architect
2 56 (28.00%) Developer
3 25 (12.50%) Senior
4 22 (11.00%) Data Architect
5 17 (8.50%) Data Engineer
5 17 (8.50%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (6.00%) Java Developer
7 10 (5.00%) .NET Developer
7 10 (5.00%) AWS Architect
7 10 (5.00%) Lead
8 8 (4.00%) C# Developer
8 8 (4.00%) GCP Architect
8 8 (4.00%) Java Engineer
8 8 (4.00%) Senior Developer
8 8 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.50%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.00%) UI Developer
11 5 (2.50%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (28.00%) Kafka
2 41 (20.50%) REST
3 40 (20.00%) .NET
4 30 (15.00%) React
5 24 (12.00%) .NET Core
5 24 (12.00%) Spring
6 23 (11.50%) CSS
6 23 (11.50%) JSON
6 23 (11.50%) Node.js
7 22 (11.00%) RabbitMQ
8 21 (10.50%) Spring Boot
9 17 (8.50%) GraphQL
10 16 (8.00%) XML
11 15 (7.50%) HTML
12 14 (7.00%) RESTful
13 12 (6.00%) gRPC
13 12 (6.00%) OAuth
13 12 (6.00%) SOAP
14 11 (5.50%) Swagger
15 10 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (9.50%) Product Ownership
3 18 (9.00%) Data Structures
4 14 (7.00%) Reference Data
5 11 (5.50%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (3.50%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.50%) DataPower
6 7 (3.50%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (3.00%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (3.00%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.50%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (2.00%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.50%) Derivative
10 3 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.50%) N-Tier
10 3 (1.50%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.50%) Linux
2 9 (4.50%) Unix
3 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (55.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 106 (53.00%) Microservices
3 90 (45.00%) Agile
4 52 (26.00%) DevOps
5 46 (23.00%) CI/CD
6 40 (20.00%) TDD
7 33 (16.50%) Test Automation
8 31 (15.50%) Analytics
9 30 (15.00%) Data Modelling
10 29 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (12.50%) Software Engineering
12 24 (12.00%) Design Patterns
13 22 (11.00%) Containerisation
14 21 (10.50%) Data Architecture
15 19 (9.50%) Data Protection
16 18 (9.00%) Full Stack Development
16 18 (9.00%) OO
17 17 (8.50%) Unit Testing
18 16 (8.00%) Computer Science
18 16 (8.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 73 (36.50%) Java
2 55 (27.50%) Python
3 53 (26.50%) SQL
4 40 (20.00%) C#
4 40 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 24 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 16 (8.00%) Go
7 14 (7.00%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.00%) Kotlin
8 8 (4.00%) PHP
9 7 (3.50%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.50%) Bicep
11 4 (2.00%) C
12 3 (1.50%) Ruby
13 2 (1.00%) Groovy
14 1 (0.50%) ABAP
14 1 (0.50%) Gremlin
14 1 (0.50%) Scala
14 1 (0.50%) VC++
Qualifications
1 17 (8.50%) Degree
2 15 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.00%) Master's Degree
5 7 (3.50%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.00%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.50%) ISEB
8 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.50%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.00%) QA
3 6 (3.00%) GDPR
3 6 (3.00%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (18.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 53 (26.50%) Kubernetes
2 22 (11.00%) Terraform
3 13 (6.50%) Grafana
3 13 (6.50%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.50%) Ansible
4 7 (3.50%) Progress Chef
5 6 (3.00%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.50%) Ganglia
6 1 (0.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (12.00%) Google
1 24 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.50%) Oracle
3 11 (5.50%) IBM
4 8 (4.00%) SAP
5 7 (3.50%) Adobe
5 7 (3.50%) TSYS
6 6 (3.00%) Ensighten
6 6 (3.00%) Omniture
6 6 (3.00%) Tealium
7 5 (2.50%) Informatica
7 5 (2.50%) Monetate
7 5 (2.50%) Optimizely
8 4 (2.00%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.00%) Confluent
8 4 (2.00%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.50%) Splunk
10 2 (1.00%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.00%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.00%) Databricks