Command-Query Responsibility Segregation (also Command-Query Separation)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CQRS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited CQRS over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 843 864 798
Rank change year-on-year +21 -66 -128
Permanent jobs citing CQRS 34 114 449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.11% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.11% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 31 63 216
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £63,250 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £85,625 £105,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £171,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,500 £66,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.13% -5.36% +9.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,683 99,249 149,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,831 58,284 83,142
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,182 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

CQRS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CQRS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CQRS in the UK

CQRS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CQRS.

Salary trend for CQRS in the UK

CQRS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CQRS over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for CQRS in the UK

CQRS
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CQRS within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +3 26 £73,750 -4.84% 8
Work from Home +62 22 £82,500 -10.81% 19
London +76 15 £80,000 -20.00% 2
UK excluding London -23 10 £65,500 -1.13% 5
South East +15 6 £65,500 +0.77% 2
North of England +44 1 £60,000 - 3
South West -28 1 £62,500 -10.71%
Scotland - 1 £80,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 £60,000 - 2
East of England - 1 £72,500 -

CQRS
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 3 (8.82%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 21 (61.76%) Azure
2 11 (32.35%) AWS
2 11 (32.35%) Entra ID
3 10 (29.41%) Azure Service Bus
3 10 (29.41%) PaaS
4 9 (26.47%) Serverless
5 8 (23.53%) IaaS
5 8 (23.53%) SaaS
6 6 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (17.65%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (17.65%) Azure Service Fabric
7 5 (14.71%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (14.71%) Azure API Management
7 5 (14.71%) Azure Storage
8 3 (8.82%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (8.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (8.82%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (8.82%) Cloudflare
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) Azure SQL Database
1 9 (26.47%) SQL Server
2 6 (17.65%) Redis
3 5 (14.71%) NoSQL
4 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
5 3 (8.82%) DynamoDB
5 3 (8.82%) Event Store
6 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Git
1 3 (8.82%) NUnit
1 3 (8.82%) Postman
2 2 (5.88%) Moq
2 2 (5.88%) Selenium
2 2 (5.88%) SoapUI
2 2 (5.88%) SpecFlow
2 2 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (61.76%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.88%) Retail
4 1 (2.94%) Automotive
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Developer
2 12 (35.29%) Architect
3 9 (26.47%) .NET Developer
4 8 (23.53%) Lead
5 6 (17.65%) Information Architect
5 6 (17.65%) Information Security Architect
5 6 (17.65%) Lead Developer
5 6 (17.65%) Security Architect
5 6 (17.65%) Senior
6 5 (14.71%) AWS Developer
6 5 (14.71%) Senior Developer
6 5 (14.71%) Technical Architect
7 3 (8.82%) Backend Developer
7 3 (8.82%) C# Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Software Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Azure Architect
8 2 (5.88%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (5.88%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (61.76%) .NET
2 14 (41.18%) REST
3 11 (32.35%) React
4 8 (23.53%) .NET Core
5 7 (20.59%) .NET Framework
6 6 (17.65%) Kafka
6 6 (17.65%) SOAP
6 6 (17.65%) Web Services
7 5 (14.71%) AngularJS
7 5 (14.71%) RESTful
8 4 (11.76%) ASP.NET
8 4 (11.76%) Entity Framework
8 4 (11.76%) OAuth
8 4 (11.76%) Vue
9 3 (8.82%) GraphQL
9 3 (8.82%) LINQ
9 3 (8.82%) Next.js
9 3 (8.82%) Node.js
9 3 (8.82%) SignalR
9 3 (8.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (38.24%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (14.71%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.82%) Client/Server
3 3 (8.82%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (8.82%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (8.82%) Hedge funds
3 3 (8.82%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.82%) Sports Betting
4 2 (5.88%) W3C
5 1 (2.94%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Microservices
2 13 (38.24%) Design Patterns
2 13 (38.24%) DevOps
3 12 (35.29%) Agile
3 12 (35.29%) Software Engineering
4 11 (32.35%) Computer Science
4 11 (32.35%) OWASP
5 9 (26.47%) SOA
5 9 (26.47%) TOGAF
6 8 (23.53%) Application Security
6 8 (23.53%) TDD
7 7 (20.59%) Scrum
8 6 (17.65%) Business Analysis
8 6 (17.65%) Change Management
8 6 (17.65%) Configuration Management
8 6 (17.65%) Information Security
8 6 (17.65%) Information Security Management
8 6 (17.65%) Security Architecture
8 6 (17.65%) Security Management
8 6 (17.65%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 23 (67.65%) C#
2 11 (32.35%) SQL
3 9 (26.47%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.82%) Bash
5 3 (8.82%) Java
5 3 (8.82%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.82%) Python
6 2 (5.88%) PHP
7 1 (2.94%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.94%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) Degree
2 11 (32.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (20.59%) Master's Degree
4 6 (17.65%) CISM
4 6 (17.65%) CISSP
4 6 (17.65%) GIAC
4 6 (17.65%) SANS
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) COBIT
1 6 (17.65%) NIST
1 6 (17.65%) Web Application Security Consortium
2 3 (8.82%) ISO 9000
2 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.82%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.88%) WCAG
4 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (17.65%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.94%) Google
2 1 (2.94%) Zend