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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring CQRS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited CQRS over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 674 882 860
Rank change year-on-year +208 -22 -37
Permanent jobs citing CQRS 35 30 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.029% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.035% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 30 27 53
10th Percentile £53,500 £56,500 £55,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £68,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -2.94% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £95,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £87,375 £107,500 £180,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% +11.54% -7.80%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CQRS.

Salary trend for CQRS in the UK

CQRS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CQRS over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for CQRS in the UK

CQRS
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CQRS within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +169 33 £60,000 -25.00% 296
UK excluding London +208 22 £60,000 -17.24% 306
Work from Home +117 19 £60,000 -27.27% 83
Midlands - 14 £60,000 - 62
West Midlands - 13 £60,000 - 34
London +112 11 £65,000 -23.53% 23
North of England +55 5 £60,000 -23.57% 66
North West +13 5 £60,000 -38.14% 28
South East +87 2 £60,000 -17.24% 79
South West +105 1 £85,000 +36.00% 36
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 24

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 2 (5.71%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (82.86%) AWS
2 25 (71.43%) Azure
3 20 (57.14%) GCP
4 5 (14.29%) NuGet
5 3 (8.57%) Serverless
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.86%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Apache Iceberg
1 2 (5.71%) Big Data
1 2 (5.71%) Data Lake
1 2 (5.71%) DynamoDB
1 2 (5.71%) OLAP
1 2 (5.71%) OLTP
1 2 (5.71%) Spark SQL
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Git
General
1 5 (14.29%) Finance
2 4 (11.43%) Banking
3 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.71%) Law
4 1 (2.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 14 (40.00%) Java Engineer
3 13 (37.14%) Java Software Engineer
4 10 (28.57%) Developer
5 6 (17.14%) C# Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Senior
5 6 (17.14%) Senior Developer
6 5 (14.29%) Senior C# Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Lead
7 3 (8.57%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Architect
8 2 (5.71%) AWS Developer
8 2 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) AWS Software Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Lead Java Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Python Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Python Software Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.86%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (42.86%) Spring
2 9 (25.71%) .NET
3 7 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 7 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 7 (20.00%) Entity Framework
4 5 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (11.43%) Kafka
5 4 (11.43%) RESTful
6 3 (8.57%) REST
7 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
7 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET
7 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (5.71%) Dapper ORM
7 2 (5.71%) Node.js
7 2 (5.71%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (5.71%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (77.14%) Microservices
2 25 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 23 (65.71%) DevOps
3 23 (65.71%) Domain-Driven Design
4 21 (60.00%) CI/CD
5 17 (48.57%) Software Architecture
6 16 (45.71%) Containerisation
6 16 (45.71%) Continuous Delivery
7 15 (42.86%) Code Quality
7 15 (42.86%) TDD
8 14 (40.00%) Design Patterns
9 13 (37.14%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (37.14%) Software Delivery
10 12 (34.29%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (28.57%) Agile
12 9 (25.71%) Fintech
13 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 4 (11.43%) Architectural Patterns
14 4 (11.43%) Multithreading
15 3 (8.57%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) Java
2 9 (25.71%) C#
3 8 (22.86%) SQL
4 7 (20.00%) Go
5 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.71%) Python
6 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
1 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
1 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) GDPR
1 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.71%) QA
1 2 (5.71%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (54.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Google
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft