CQRS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Command-Query Responsibility Segregation (also Command-Query Separation)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 332 391 457
Rank change year-on-year +59 +66 +33
Contract jobs citing CQRS 4 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.039% 0.021%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.045% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 3
10th Percentile - £463 £671
25th Percentile £563 £487 £684
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £492 £725
Median % change year-on-year +16.93% -32.17% +38.10%
75th Percentile £619 £583 £746
90th Percentile £675 £616 £752
UK median daily rate £575 £520 £475
% change year-on-year +10.58% +9.47% -20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

CQRS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CQRS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CQRS in the UK excluding London

CQRS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CQRS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CQRS in the UK excluding London

CQRS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
South East +47 3 £575 -5.15% 22
North of England +15 1 £675 +38.04% 20
North West +13 1 £675 +38.04% 10
CQRS
UK

CQRS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (75.00%) Azure
General
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Software Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Gen AI Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Gen AI Software Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Python Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (75.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks
1 3 (75.00%) Virgin Media