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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CQRS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CQRS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 659 734
Rank change year-on-year +87 +75 -133
Contract jobs citing CQRS 26 60 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.070% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 58 105
10th Percentile £470 - £388
25th Percentile £489 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -20.83% +29.73%
75th Percentile £625 £647 £700
90th Percentile £825 £703 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £725 £525
% change year-on-year -32.55% +38.10% +37.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

CQRS is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

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 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CQRS in the UK

CQRS
Top 8 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 27 April 2024. 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 +96 26 £520 +9.47% 11
London +64 18 £575 +21.05% 2
Work from Home +105 11 £489 +2.95% 21
UK excluding London +69 7 £489 -32.55% 8
North of England - 5 £489 - 3
North West - 5 £489 - 1
South East +24 1 £588 -18.97% 4
East of England - 1 £550 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (19.23%) Confluence
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (19.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Endur
1 5 (19.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 19 (73.08%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) AWS
3 5 (19.23%) Apigee
3 5 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (19.23%) Kong
4 4 (15.38%) Serverless
5 3 (11.54%) GitHub
5 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (7.69%) PaaS
7 1 (3.85%) Azure API Management
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 5 (19.23%) MongoDB
2 5 (19.23%) OLAP
2 5 (19.23%) OLTP
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle OLAP
3 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Git
2 5 (19.23%) JIRA
2 5 (19.23%) Pylint
3 3 (11.54%) ScalaTest
4 2 (7.69%) Postman
4 2 (7.69%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.85%) JMeter
5 1 (3.85%) Moq
5 1 (3.85%) Selenium
5 1 (3.85%) SoapUI
5 1 (3.85%) SpecFlow
5 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (61.54%) Finance
2 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 7 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (19.23%) Banking
5 3 (11.54%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Developer
2 8 (30.77%) Architect
3 5 (19.23%) AWS Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Senior
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Software Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Scala Developer
6 2 (7.69%) .NET Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Python Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.85%) .NET Software Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Applications Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Backend Developer
7 1 (3.85%) C# Software Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Full Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Lead
7 1 (3.85%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) PHP Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Backend Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (69.23%) Kafka
2 10 (38.46%) HTML
3 8 (30.77%) WebSockets
4 7 (26.92%) J2EE
4 7 (26.92%) pytest
5 5 (19.23%) IBM Integration Bus
5 5 (19.23%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (19.23%) React
5 5 (19.23%) SOAP
5 5 (19.23%) Web Services
6 4 (15.38%) .NET
6 4 (15.38%) Apache Camel
6 4 (15.38%) Spring
6 4 (15.38%) Spring Boot
6 4 (15.38%) Spring Integration
7 3 (11.54%) Akka
8 2 (7.69%) .NET Framework
8 2 (7.69%) Entity Framework
8 2 (7.69%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (19.23%) DataPower
2 5 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
3 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
3 3 (11.54%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (11.54%) Solar Panel
4 1 (3.85%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Microservices
2 14 (53.85%) DevOps
3 12 (46.15%) Design Patterns
4 10 (38.46%) Containerisation
4 10 (38.46%) OO
5 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
5 9 (34.62%) Software Engineering
6 8 (30.77%) Front End Development
6 8 (30.77%) Open Source
6 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (26.92%) Code Quality
7 7 (26.92%) Event-Driven
8 5 (19.23%) API Management
8 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Architecture
8 5 (19.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (19.23%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
8 5 (19.23%) SDLC
8 5 (19.23%) Software Deployment
8 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Java
1 12 (46.15%) JavaScript
1 12 (46.15%) SQL
2 10 (38.46%) Python
3 4 (15.38%) C#
4 3 (11.54%) Scala
5 1 (3.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
1 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.85%) ISEB
3 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (42.31%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) IBM
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle
1 5 (19.23%) TSYS
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft