CQRS Contract Job Trends in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring CQRS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 375 409
Rank change year-on-year +11 +34 +127
Contract jobs citing CQRS 15 1 12
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% 0.006% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.007% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 11
10th Percentile £413 - £538
25th Percentile £425 - £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £440 £650
Median % change year-on-year +16.48% -32.31% -9.09%
75th Percentile £545 - £713
90th Percentile £550 - -
England median daily rate £530 £619 £650
% change year-on-year -14.31% -4.85% -2.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,677 13,842 18,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.44% 89.12% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,339 8,914 13,096
10th Percentile £331 £350 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 166 237
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.43
25th Percentile £25.09 £25.06 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £38.29 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.75% +2.09% -2.27%
75th Percentile £47.25 £58.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.38 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.07 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.94% -14.45% +27.14%

CQRS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CQRS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

CQRS job vacancy trend in London

CQRS
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CQRS

CQRS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CQRS in London over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CQRS in London

CQRS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CQRS within the London region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South London - 5 £530 - 2
CQRS
England

CQRS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Azure AKS
2 6 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) GCP
3 5 (33.33%) Serverless
4 3 (20.00%) Azure App Service
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Storage
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
6 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.67%) HBase
3 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JUnit
1 4 (26.67%) Mockito
2 3 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) Liquibase
3 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (6.67%) GitLab
4 1 (6.67%) Gradle
4 1 (6.67%) JIRA
4 1 (6.67%) Maven
4 1 (6.67%) Postman
4 1 (6.67%) REST Assured
4 1 (6.67%) Selenium
4 1 (6.67%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Developer
2 9 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Backend Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Leader
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Automation Tester
5 1 (6.67%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) Spring
2 5 (33.33%) RESTful
3 4 (26.67%) WireMock
4 3 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (20.00%) REST
4 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (13.33%) Kafka
5 2 (13.33%) RAML
5 2 (13.33%) React
6 1 (6.67%) Akka
6 1 (6.67%) CSS
6 1 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
6 1 (6.67%) HTML
6 1 (6.67%) J2EE
6 1 (6.67%) Java EE
6 1 (6.67%) Playwright
6 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (6.67%) ReactiveX
6 1 (6.67%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Microservices
2 13 (86.67%) CI/CD
3 10 (66.67%) Domain-Driven Design
4 8 (53.33%) Containerisation
4 8 (53.33%) Design Patterns
4 8 (53.33%) TDD
5 7 (46.67%) DevOps
5 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (40.00%) Agile
6 6 (40.00%) Code Quality
7 5 (33.33%) Event-Driven
8 4 (26.67%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (26.67%) Observability
9 3 (20.00%) Change Management
9 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (20.00%) ITIL
9 3 (20.00%) Performance Testing
9 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) C++
4 1 (6.67%) Clojure
4 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
4 1 (6.67%) Rust
4 1 (6.67%) Scala
4 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (26.67%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft