CQRS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Command-Query Responsibility Segregation (also Command-Query Separation)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for CQRS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CQRS over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 428 565
Rank change year-on-year +88 +137 -119
Contract jobs citing CQRS 12 38 63
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.080% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% 0.17% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 38 57
10th Percentile £407 - £400
25th Percentile £489 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% -20.83% +29.73%
75th Percentile £561 £488 £675
90th Percentile £609 £576 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +9.47% -20.83% +29.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

CQRS 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,241 22,603 40,082
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.03% 89.73% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,876 15,973 29,084
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 519 538
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.63 £14.18
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +50.28% +44.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.60
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

CQRS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CQRS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CQRS trend for jobs with a WFH option

CQRS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CQRS.

CQRS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CQRS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CQRS over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

CQRS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CQRS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (33.33%) Confluence
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Temenos T24
2 2 (16.67%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) Apigee
3 4 (33.33%) Kong
4 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) PaaS
5 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 4 (33.33%) OLAP
1 4 (33.33%) OLTP
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle OLAP
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (16.67%) Postman
2 2 (16.67%) Pylint
3 1 (8.33%) JMeter
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) AWS Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Full Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) PHP Developer
4 1 (8.33%) PHP Symfony Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Symfony Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Kafka
2 4 (33.33%) .NET
2 4 (33.33%) IBM Integration Bus
2 4 (33.33%) J2EE
2 4 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (33.33%) SOAP
2 4 (33.33%) Web Services
3 3 (25.00%) Apache Camel
3 3 (25.00%) Spring
3 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (25.00%) Spring Integration
3 3 (25.00%) WebSockets
4 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 2 (16.67%) HTML
4 2 (16.67%) pytest
4 2 (16.67%) React
5 1 (8.33%) REST
5 1 (8.33%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) DataPower
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Microservices
2 7 (58.33%) Design Patterns
2 7 (58.33%) DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) OO
4 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven
5 4 (33.33%) API Management
5 4 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
5 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
5 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 4 (33.33%) SOA
5 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) C#
3 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) Python
5 1 (8.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) ISEB
1 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) IBM
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
1 4 (33.33%) TSYS