CQRS Contracts in the North of England

Command-Query Responsibility Segregation (also Command-Query Separation)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 157 -
Rank change year-on-year -26 - -
Contract jobs citing CQRS 6 11 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 0.27% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £564 £457 -
25th Percentile £565 £486 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £489 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.59% - -
75th Percentile £585 £609 -
90th Percentile £587 £723 -
England median daily rate £575 £520 £475
% change year-on-year +10.58% +9.47% -20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,553 3,466 4,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.07% 83.96% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,261 2,082 3,111
10th Percentile £268 £311 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
75th Percentile £556 £586 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 244 205
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.73
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.63 £25.65 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year -11.77% -8.33% +39.90%
75th Percentile £44.09 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.75 £69.93 £60.89
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

CQRS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for CQRS in the North of England

CQRS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CQRS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for CQRS in the North of England

CQRS
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 15 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -10 6 £575 +17.59% 3
CQRS
England

CQRS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 6 (100.00%) Apigee
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (100.00%) Datadog
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon EMR
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon EventBridge
2 5 (83.33%) AWS Fargate
2 5 (83.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 5 (83.33%) GitHub
2 5 (83.33%) Loggly
2 5 (83.33%) Route 53
3 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) PaaS
3 4 (66.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 6 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (83.33%) BigQuery
2 5 (83.33%) MySQL
2 5 (83.33%) RDBMS
2 5 (83.33%) Redis
2 5 (83.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 5 (83.33%) Gradle
2 5 (83.33%) Maven
2 5 (83.33%) SonarLint
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Architect
1 6 (100.00%) Java Architect
1 6 (100.00%) Java Technical Architect
1 6 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) RESTful
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (83.33%) Dropwizard
2 5 (83.33%) J2EE
2 5 (83.33%) JWT
2 5 (83.33%) Micronaut
3 4 (66.67%) Celery
4 2 (33.33%) GraphQL
5 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
1 5 (83.33%) N-Tier
1 5 (83.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 6 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 6 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 6 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 6 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (83.33%) BDD
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) Domain-Driven Design
2 5 (83.33%) OOP
2 5 (83.33%) OWASP
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Risk Management
2 5 (83.33%) SOLID
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 5 (83.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Gigya