The first table below looks at the demand for CQRS skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CQRS over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Command-Query Responsibility Segregation (also Command-Query Separation)
Rank 531 565 595
Rank change year-on-year
+34 +30
Contract jobs citing CQRS 10 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.021% 0.009% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.013% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 2
Average daily rate £405 £613 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.87% +36.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
34218 39623 41917
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.12% 68.27% 67.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 20499 22617 23889
Average daily rate £413 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £275 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 979 1259 1448
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.83 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%

CQRS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CQRS within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

CQRS Jobs Demand Trend

CQRS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CQRS within the UK.

CQRS Daily Rate Trend

CQRS
Top 25 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CQRS within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +18 10 £405 -33.87% 20
London +30 9 £410 -33.06% 9
Cambridgeshire - 1 £400 - 1
East of England - 1 £400 - 1
Kent - - - - 3
Surrey - - - - 1
City of London - - - - 1
Merseyside - - - -
North East - - - - 1
North West - - - -
South East - - - - 8
Tyne and Wear - - - - 1
West Midlands - - - -
Smethwick - - - -
South Shields - - - - 1
Whitstable - - - -
Wokingham - - - - 2
Berkshire - - - - 2
Buckinghamshire - - - - 2
Birmingham - - - -
Camberley - - - -
Cambridge - - - -
Chesham - - - - 2
Leatherhead - - - - 1
Liverpool - - - -

CQRS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing CQRS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CQRS.

1 41 (95.35%) TDD
2 40 (93.02%) C#
3 34 (79.07%) Agile Software Development
4 29 (67.44%) .NET
5 24 (55.81%) WCF
5 24 (55.81%) WPF
6 19 (44.19%) Rhino Mocks
7 16 (37.21%) Team Foundation Server
8 15 (34.88%) MS Excel
8 15 (34.88%) Microsoft
9 14 (32.56%) WF
9 14 (32.56%) MSTest
10 13 (30.23%) ASP.NET
11 12 (27.91%) MVC
11 12 (27.91%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (27.91%) BDD
12 11 (25.58%) Finance
13 10 (23.26%) Degree
13 10 (23.26%) MVVM
13 10 (23.26%) Computer Science
13 10 (23.26%) ASP.NET MVC
14 9 (20.93%) Razor View Engine
14 9 (20.93%) Backbone.js
14 9 (20.93%) KnockoutJS
14 9 (20.93%) Code Coverage
14 9 (20.93%) CSS
14 9 (20.93%) JavaScript
14 9 (20.93%) jQuery
14 9 (20.93%) Ajax
15 7 (16.28%) .NET Framework

CQRS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing CQRS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CQRS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 29 (67.44%) .NET
2 24 (55.81%) WCF
2 24 (55.81%) WPF
3 14 (32.56%) WF
4 13 (30.23%) ASP.NET
5 10 (23.26%) ASP.NET MVC
6 9 (20.93%) Razor View Engine
6 9 (20.93%) Backbone.js
6 9 (20.93%) KnockoutJS
6 9 (20.93%) CSS
6 9 (20.93%) jQuery
6 9 (20.93%) Ajax
7 7 (16.28%) .NET Framework
7 7 (16.28%) HTML
7 7 (16.28%) XML
8 6 (13.95%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 5 (11.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 5 (11.63%) XSLT
9 5 (11.63%) COM
10 4 (9.302%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.651%) CMS
1 2 (4.651%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (2.326%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 15 (34.88%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.977%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.977%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.651%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (4.651%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 19 (44.19%) Rhino Mocks
2 16 (37.21%) Team Foundation Server
3 14 (32.56%) MSTest
4 5 (11.63%) Visual Studio
5 2 (4.651%) NUnit
5 2 (4.651%) TeamCity
5 2 (4.651%) Git (software)
6 1 (2.326%) Moq
6 1 (2.326%) Subversion
General
1 11 (25.58%) Finance
2 1 (2.326%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 40 (93.02%) Developer
2 28 (65.12%) C# Developer
3 10 (23.26%) Senior Developer
4 8 (18.60%) .NET Developer
5 4 (9.302%) Senior C# Developer
5 4 (9.302%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (4.651%) Web Developer
6 2 (4.651%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.651%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.651%) Senior Web Developer
6 2 (4.651%) Java Developer
7 1 (2.326%) Lead Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Computer Science
2 2 (4.651%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.651%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.326%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.977%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (95.35%) TDD
2 34 (79.07%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (27.91%) MVC
3 12 (27.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (27.91%) BDD
4 10 (23.26%) MVVM
5 9 (20.93%) Code Coverage
6 7 (16.28%) E-Commerce
7 4 (9.302%) Scrum
8 3 (6.977%) Workflow
9 2 (4.651%) SOA
9 2 (4.651%) OO
9 2 (4.651%) Penetration Testing
9 2 (4.651%) Performance Testing
9 2 (4.651%) Load Testing
9 2 (4.651%) Security Testing
9 2 (4.651%) Multithreading
9 2 (4.651%) Network Architecture
10 1 (2.326%) Domain-Driven Design
10 1 (2.326%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 40 (93.02%) C#
2 9 (20.93%) JavaScript
3 4 (9.302%) SQL
4 2 (4.651%) Java
4 2 (4.651%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.326%) F#
5 1 (2.326%) VB6
5 1 (2.326%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) Degree
Vendors
1 15 (34.88%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) Twitter
3 2 (4.651%) Sitecore
London
C#, WPF, MVC, TDD, BDD, nHibernate, Castle, Nunit, Message Buses, RabbitMQ, NserviceBus, MSTest, RhinoMocks, Team City, CQRS, Lambda, Distributed Computing, Financial Software... It is ideal if candidates hold...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
c# mvc WPF developer financial Hedgefund agile finance london software... - C# asp.net - Very strong agile (TDD etc) - WPF (preferably) - MVC(4) Ideally + any of these NHibernate, Castle,...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £300 - £450 per day + dependant on candiate
Posted: 7 June 2013
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
Senior / Lead Software Engineer Role: You will be developing and supporting enterprise scale applications for the web. You will be delivering high quality solutions whilst learning from and...
Annapurna HR
Rate: £400 - £550 per day
Posted: 6 June 2013
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