CQRS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Command-Query Responsibility Segregation (also Command-Query Separation)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 144 150
Rank change year-on-year +45 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing CQRS 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.20% 0.037% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.043% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 £569 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -12.96% +6.93%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £688
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £575 £606 £725
% change year-on-year -5.15% -16.38% +48.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

CQRS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing CQRS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for CQRS in the Thames Valley

CQRS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CQRS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for CQRS in the Thames Valley

CQRS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CQRS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +33 3 £575 -2.13% 2
CQRS
South East

CQRS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Gen AI Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Gen AI Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Python Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Python Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
1 3 (100.00%) Virgin Media