CQRS Contracts in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring CQRS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CQRS over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 504 572
Rank change year-on-year +11 +68 +139
DemandTrendContract jobs citing CQRS 23 23 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.083% 0.069% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.092% 0.081% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 34
10th Percentile £505 £465 -
25th Percentile £515 £489 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -21.49%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £706
90th Percentile £638 £667 £755
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

CQRS 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 in England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,021 28,491 38,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.82% 85.73% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,924 18,337 27,102
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £627 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £753 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,473 1,519 1,387
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £18.12 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +54.55%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.93 £75.00 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £42.50
% change year-on-year -38.57% -3.67% +54.55%

CQRS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CQRS in England

CQRS
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CQRS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CQRS

CQRS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CQRS in England over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CQRS in England

CQRS
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CQRS within the England region over the 6 months to 25 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +35 12 £533 +6.50% 9
North West -13 6 £575 +17.59% 3
North of England -24 6 £575 +17.59% 3
South East +30 4 £600 -4.00% 4
East of England +4 1 £500 -6.98%
CQRS
UK

CQRS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 19 (82.61%) Azure
2 17 (73.91%) AWS
3 16 (69.57%) GCP
4 10 (43.48%) GitHub
5 9 (39.13%) Serverless
6 8 (34.78%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (30.43%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (26.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (26.09%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (26.09%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (26.09%) Apigee
8 6 (26.09%) Datadog
8 6 (26.09%) PaaS
9 5 (21.74%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (21.74%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (21.74%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (21.74%) Loggly
9 5 (21.74%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (30.43%) DynamoDB
2 7 (30.43%) NoSQL
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (21.74%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (21.74%) BigQuery
4 5 (21.74%) MySQL
4 5 (21.74%) RDBMS
4 5 (21.74%) Redis
4 5 (21.74%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Git
2 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 6 (26.09%) SonarQube
3 5 (21.74%) Gradle
3 5 (21.74%) Maven
3 5 (21.74%) SonarLint
4 2 (8.70%) JUnit
4 2 (8.70%) Mockito
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) Developer
2 9 (39.13%) Java Developer
3 8 (34.78%) Architect
3 8 (34.78%) Technical Architect
4 6 (26.09%) Java Architect
4 6 (26.09%) Java Technical Architect
5 4 (17.39%) Cloud Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Python Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Senior
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Backend Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Lead
7 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
7 1 (4.35%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
7 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (4.35%) SQL Developer
7 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) RESTful
2 10 (43.48%) Spring
3 9 (39.13%) Spring Boot
4 7 (30.43%) J2EE
5 5 (21.74%) Dropwizard
5 5 (21.74%) JWT
5 5 (21.74%) Micronaut
6 4 (17.39%) Celery
6 4 (17.39%) FastAPI
7 3 (13.04%) REST
8 2 (8.70%) GraphQL
8 2 (8.70%) RAML
8 2 (8.70%) WireMock
9 1 (4.35%) .NET
9 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
9 1 (4.35%) Java EE
9 1 (4.35%) Kafka
9 1 (4.35%) MediatR
9 1 (4.35%) React
9 1 (4.35%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Cloud Native
2 5 (21.74%) N-Tier
2 5 (21.74%) Product Ownership
3 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
4 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) CI/CD
2 19 (82.61%) Design Patterns
2 19 (82.61%) Microservices
3 14 (60.87%) Domain-Driven Design
4 12 (52.17%) TDD
5 11 (47.83%) Containerisation
5 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (43.48%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (34.78%) Agile
7 8 (34.78%) DevOps
7 8 (34.78%) Event-Driven
8 7 (30.43%) Clean Code
8 7 (30.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 6 (26.09%) API Design
9 6 (26.09%) Asynchronous Programming
9 6 (26.09%) OWASP
9 6 (26.09%) SOLID
9 6 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (26.09%) Technology Roadmap
9 6 (26.09%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) Java
2 9 (39.13%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.70%) SQL
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 14 (60.87%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (65.22%) Kubernetes
2 8 (34.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Gigya
2 4 (17.39%) Databricks
2 4 (17.39%) Virgin Media
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft