CQRS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Command-Query Responsibility Segregation (also Command-Query Separation)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 310 401
Rank change year-on-year +3 +91 +163
DemandTrendContract jobs citing CQRS 6 14 31
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.060% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.065% 0.12% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 29
10th Percentile £510 £436 -
25th Percentile £525 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £489 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.47% +2.95% -20.83%
75th Percentile £569 £520 £488
90th Percentile £580 £652 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,179 11,295 19,017
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 92.00% 87.23% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,113 7,519 13,414
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £424 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 347 469
10th Percentile £12.62 £18.41 £17.23
25th Percentile £18.17 £30.47 £25.50
Median hourly rate £34.65 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% -14.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.55 £68.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £80.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.19
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.01% +56.38%

CQRS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing CQRS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CQRS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

CQRS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing CQRS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing CQRS

CQRS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Serverless
3 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) GCP
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (33.33%) Apigee
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (33.33%) Datadog
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (33.33%) Loggly
4 2 (33.33%) PaaS
4 2 (33.33%) Route 53
4 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (33.33%) BigQuery
2 2 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
2 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (33.33%) Redis
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Gradle
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) JUnit
2 2 (33.33%) Maven
2 2 (33.33%) Mockito
2 2 (33.33%) SonarLint
2 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (16.67%) Liquibase
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Backend Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Technical Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
1 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) Celery
2 2 (33.33%) Dropwizard
2 2 (33.33%) J2EE
2 2 (33.33%) JWT
2 2 (33.33%) Micronaut
2 2 (33.33%) RAML
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) WireMock
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (16.67%) Java EE
3 1 (16.67%) MediatR
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
2 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Design Patterns
2 5 (83.33%) Domain-Driven Design
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven
3 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (66.67%) TDD
4 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) OWASP
5 2 (33.33%) BDD
5 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
5 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
5 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Gigya