CQRS Contracts

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 499 554 655
Rank change year-on-year +55 +101 +85
Contract jobs citing CQRS 21 28 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.064% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.079% 0.074% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 59
10th Percentile - £482 -
25th Percentile £463 £489 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% +9.47% -20.83%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £644
90th Percentile £709 £825 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £492 £725
% change year-on-year +16.93% -32.17% +38.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

CQRS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CQRS in the UK

CQRS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CQRS in the UK

CQRS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CQRS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CQRS in the UK

CQRS
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 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
England +40 11 £575 +10.58% 20
London +26 7 £525 -4.55% 6
UK excluding London +59 4 £575 +16.93% 17
South East +47 3 £575 -5.15% 4
Work from Home +29 1 £430 -14.77% 9
North of England +15 1 £675 +38.04% 3
North West +13 1 £675 +38.04% 2

CQRS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 10 (47.62%) AWS
3 9 (42.86%) GCP
4 4 (19.05%) Serverless
5 3 (14.29%) Cloud Functions
5 3 (14.29%) GitHub
5 3 (14.29%) Google App Engine
5 3 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (14.29%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 7 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 4 (19.05%) MongoDB
2 4 (19.05%) MySQL
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Spanner
3 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (14.29%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.76%) Informix
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Bitbucket
1 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 3 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.76%) French Language
4 1 (4.76%) German Language
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Software Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Software Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (14.29%) GCP Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Gen AI Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Gen AI Software Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Python Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.76%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) Spring
2 5 (23.81%) RESTful
3 4 (19.05%) JSON
3 4 (19.05%) OpenAPI
3 4 (19.05%) RAML
3 4 (19.05%) Swagger
3 4 (19.05%) XML
4 3 (14.29%) J2EE
4 3 (14.29%) Kafka
4 3 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.76%) .NET
5 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.76%) Web Services
5 1 (4.76%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (19.05%) Genomics
2 4 (19.05%) LIMS
2 4 (19.05%) Management Information System
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) Microservices
2 12 (57.14%) Design Patterns
3 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
3 10 (47.62%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 9 (42.86%) Domain-Driven Design
5 8 (38.10%) Software Engineering
6 7 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (33.33%) Data Modelling
6 7 (33.33%) TDD
6 7 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (28.57%) Code Quality
8 5 (23.81%) Agile
8 5 (23.81%) Architectural Patterns
9 4 (19.05%) Actionable Insight
9 4 (19.05%) Data Management
9 4 (19.05%) ERP
9 4 (19.05%) Information Management
9 4 (19.05%) Scrum
9 4 (19.05%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Java
2 10 (47.62%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) Ruby
4 3 (14.29%) Go
4 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 3 (14.29%) PHP
4 3 (14.29%) R
5 1 (4.76%) C#
5 1 (4.76%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.76%) Scala
5 1 (4.76%) SQL
5 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (61.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (61.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Ansible
2 3 (14.29%) Packer
2 3 (14.29%) Progress Chef
2 3 (14.29%) Puppet
2 3 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) LabVantage
1 4 (19.05%) MuleSoft
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
1 4 (19.05%) Salesforce
2 3 (14.29%) Databricks
2 3 (14.29%) Google
2 3 (14.29%) Virgin Media
3 1 (4.76%) Telerik