Event-Driven Contracts

Event-Driven
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Event-Driven skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Event-Driven over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 407 345 288
Rank change year-on-year -62 -57 +42
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 178 388 830
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.68% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.76% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 303 627
10th Percentile £427 £488 £476
25th Percentile £489 £543 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £688 £749 £775
90th Percentile £770 £863 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 3
10th Percentile - - £56.63
25th Percentile £52.50 - £62.82
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £74.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -53.02% -
75th Percentile £57.50 - £77.30
90th Percentile - £45.58 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Event-Driven is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -44 157 £550 -16.98% 107
London -50 94 £600 -11.11% 56
Work from Home +19 69 £550 -19.12% 62
UK excluding London +49 59 £550 - 62
North of England +39 26 £550 +3.53% 23
South West +13 18 £550 -18.52% 2
North West +28 16 £538 +2.38% 15
Yorkshire +19 11 £529 -1.67% 4
South East +14 9 £475 -11.63% 10
Scotland +35 5 £550 -5.94% 7
North East - 3 £650 - 4
West Midlands +25 2 £300 -55.56% 5
Midlands +21 2 £300 -40.00% 9
East of England -2 2 £575 +9.52% 6
Wales +18 1 - - 2

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 7 (3.93%) Confluence
1 7 (3.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.12%) CMS
3 2 (1.12%) nginx
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) JBoss
4 1 (0.56%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.93%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 74 (41.57%) AWS
2 71 (39.89%) Azure
3 41 (23.03%) Serverless
4 34 (19.10%) GCP
5 27 (15.17%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (10.67%) Amazon S3
7 18 (10.11%) Azure Service Bus
8 16 (8.99%) Azure Stack
9 14 (7.87%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (6.18%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (6.18%) GitHub
11 10 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (5.06%) Azure Event Grid
12 9 (5.06%) PaaS
13 8 (4.49%) Apigee
13 8 (4.49%) Azure App Service
14 7 (3.93%) Azure AKS
14 7 (3.93%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (3.93%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.93%) AMQP
2 6 (3.37%) Network Security
3 2 (1.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (20.22%) NoSQL
2 22 (12.36%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (11.24%) MongoDB
4 19 (10.67%) Relational Database
5 16 (8.99%) Snowflake Schema
6 11 (6.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (5.06%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.93%) BigQuery
8 7 (3.93%) DynamoDB
8 7 (3.93%) OLAP
8 7 (3.93%) OLTP
8 7 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (3.37%) InfluxDB
9 6 (3.37%) Oracle OLAP
9 6 (3.37%) Power BI
10 5 (2.81%) Looker
10 5 (2.81%) Tableau
11 4 (2.25%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 28 (15.73%) Git
2 20 (11.24%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.30%) JIRA
4 10 (5.62%) Cucumber
5 8 (4.49%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.81%) GitLab
6 5 (2.81%) Postman
6 5 (2.81%) Selenium
7 4 (2.25%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.69%) PHPUnit
8 3 (1.69%) webpack
9 2 (1.12%) Jaeger
9 2 (1.12%) JMeter
9 2 (1.12%) Mocha
9 2 (1.12%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.56%) Gradle
10 1 (0.56%) NUnit
10 1 (0.56%) Serilog
10 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (24.16%) Finance
2 29 (16.29%) Banking
3 22 (12.36%) Social Skills
4 21 (11.80%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (7.30%) Retail
7 12 (6.74%) Investment Banking
8 8 (4.49%) Marketing
9 6 (3.37%) Advertising
10 5 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.69%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.69%) Retail Banking
13 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.56%) Back Office
14 1 (0.56%) Electronics
14 1 (0.56%) Front Office
14 1 (0.56%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.56%) Retail Finance
14 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (36.52%) Architect
2 45 (25.28%) Developer
3 21 (11.80%) Data Architect
4 18 (10.11%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (8.99%) Senior
6 13 (7.30%) Data Engineer
7 12 (6.74%) Java Developer
8 11 (6.18%) AWS Architect
9 10 (5.62%) Lead
10 9 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (5.06%) GCP Architect
11 8 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.93%) .NET Developer
12 7 (3.93%) Senior Developer
12 7 (3.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 6 (3.37%) Software Engineer
13 6 (3.37%) UI Developer
14 5 (2.81%) Azure Architect
14 5 (2.81%) Cloud Architect
14 5 (2.81%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (25.84%) Kafka
2 38 (21.35%) REST
3 31 (17.42%) .NET
4 27 (15.17%) React
5 24 (13.48%) Spring
6 23 (12.92%) JSON
6 23 (12.92%) Node.js
7 21 (11.80%) CSS
8 20 (11.24%) RabbitMQ
9 19 (10.67%) Spring Boot
10 18 (10.11%) .NET Core
11 16 (8.99%) XML
12 13 (7.30%) GraphQL
12 13 (7.30%) HTML
13 12 (6.74%) SOAP
14 11 (6.18%) RESTful
15 10 (5.62%) Jest
15 10 (5.62%) Swagger
15 10 (5.62%) Web Services
16 9 (5.06%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.24%) Data Structures
1 20 (11.24%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (10.67%) Product Ownership
3 14 (7.87%) Reference Data
4 10 (5.62%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.93%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.93%) DataPower
6 6 (3.37%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (3.37%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (3.37%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.81%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (2.25%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.69%) Derivative
9 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.69%) N-Tier
9 3 (1.69%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.18%) Linux
2 5 (2.81%) Unix
3 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.56%) Android
4 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (54.49%) Microservices
2 95 (53.37%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 80 (44.94%) Agile
4 45 (25.28%) DevOps
5 44 (24.72%) CI/CD
6 33 (18.54%) TDD
7 30 (16.85%) Analytics
8 27 (15.17%) Test Automation
9 26 (14.61%) Data Modelling
10 25 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (12.92%) Software Engineering
12 20 (11.24%) Containerisation
12 20 (11.24%) Data Protection
13 19 (10.67%) Data Architecture
13 19 (10.67%) Design Patterns
14 17 (9.55%) Full Stack Development
14 17 (9.55%) Machine Learning
15 16 (8.99%) OO
16 15 (8.43%) Data Governance
16 15 (8.43%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 63 (35.39%) Java
2 46 (25.84%) Python
3 44 (24.72%) SQL
4 33 (18.54%) JavaScript
5 30 (16.85%) C#
6 23 (12.92%) TypeScript
7 16 (8.99%) Go
8 12 (6.74%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.93%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.93%) PHP
9 7 (3.93%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.81%) Bicep
11 4 (2.25%) C
12 3 (1.69%) Ruby
13 2 (1.12%) Groovy
13 2 (1.12%) R
14 1 (0.56%) Gremlin
14 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (8.99%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.74%) Degree
3 10 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.93%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.37%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.25%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.56%) CISSP
8 1 (0.56%) GIAC
8 1 (0.56%) ISEB
8 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.11%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.18%) QA
3 4 (2.25%) GDPR
3 4 (2.25%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (19.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 45 (25.28%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.24%) Terraform
3 12 (6.74%) Grafana
4 11 (6.18%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.37%) Ansible
5 6 (3.37%) Progress Chef
5 6 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.81%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.12%) Istio
7 2 (1.12%) Kibana
8 1 (0.56%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 24 (13.48%) Google
1 24 (13.48%) Oracle
2 19 (10.67%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.87%) IBM
4 7 (3.93%) Adobe
4 7 (3.93%) TSYS
5 6 (3.37%) Ensighten
5 6 (3.37%) Omniture
5 6 (3.37%) SAP
5 6 (3.37%) Tealium
6 5 (2.81%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.81%) Monetate
6 5 (2.81%) Optimizely
7 4 (2.25%) Confluent
7 4 (2.25%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.69%) Splunk
9 2 (1.12%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.12%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.12%) Informatica
9 2 (1.12%) Solace