CQRS Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring CQRS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 682 687
Rank change year-on-year +42 +5 +182
Permanent jobs citing CQRS 13 17 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.032% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.035% 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 10 11 31
10th Percentile £50,000 £76,250 -
25th Percentile £54,470 £83,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £90,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +33.33% -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 - £78,750
90th Percentile £92,125 - £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.74% +19.23% -

All Process & 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 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

CQRS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CQRS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

CQRS job vacancy trend in the UK

CQRS
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CQRS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CQRS

CQRS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CQRS over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for CQRS in the UK

CQRS
Top 7 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 14 January 2026. 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 +64 11 £75,000 -3.23% 16
London +57 6 £82,500 - 5
Work from Home +60 4 £57,066 -36.59% 11
UK excluding London +55 4 £63,750 -17.74% 11
South East - 2 £63,750 - 5
South West - 1 £80,000 - 1
Wales - 1 £56,631 -

CQRS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) CMS
1 1 (7.69%) Kentico
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) Serverless
4 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (15.38%) Azure API Management
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) GCP
6 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) NoSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Cucumber
1 3 (23.08%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) git-flow
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Financial Institution
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 6 (46.15%) Senior
3 4 (30.77%) C# Developer
4 3 (23.08%) .NET Developer
4 3 (23.08%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Java Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior Java Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Lead
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Lead C# Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Team Leader
6 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) .NET
2 4 (30.77%) Kafka
2 4 (30.77%) Spring
3 3 (23.08%) .NET Core
3 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
4 2 (15.38%) Node.js
5 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
5 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
5 1 (7.69%) React
5 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Cloud Native
2 3 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (23.08%) e-Learning
2 3 (23.08%) Public Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) Microservices
3 7 (53.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven
5 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
5 5 (38.46%) Domain-Driven Design
6 4 (30.77%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (30.77%) DevOps
6 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
7 3 (23.08%) BDD
7 3 (23.08%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
7 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
7 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (23.08%) Performance Testing
7 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
7 3 (23.08%) Test Strategy
8 2 (15.38%) Open Source
8 2 (15.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) C#
2 6 (46.15%) Java
3 5 (38.46%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) C
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) AWS Certification
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft