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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CQRS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited CQRS over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 854 868 824
Rank change year-on-year +14 -44 -173
Permanent jobs citing CQRS 30 107 449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.11% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.11% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 27 55 181
10th Percentile £56,500 £56,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £68,125 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £180,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% +12.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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 20 May 2024.

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 20 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +3 22 £80,000 - 9
Work from Home +56 21 £82,500 -17.50% 20
London +63 13 £85,000 -15.00% 2
UK excluding London -26 8 £72,500 +11.54% 7
South East +7 3 £72,500 +11.54% 3
North of England +37 2 £78,500 - 3
North West -1 1 £97,000 - 1
South West -24 1 £62,500 -10.71%
Yorkshire - 1 £60,000 - 2
East of England - 1 £72,500 - 1
Scotland - 1 £80,000 -

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 (6.67%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 19 (63.33%) Azure
2 11 (36.67%) Entra ID
3 10 (33.33%) AWS
4 9 (30.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (26.67%) PaaS
5 8 (26.67%) Serverless
6 6 (20.00%) Azure Service Fabric
6 6 (20.00%) IaaS
6 6 (20.00%) SaaS
7 5 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (16.67%) Azure Storage
8 4 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (13.33%) Azure API Management
9 3 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (6.67%) Cloudflare
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 5 (16.67%) Redis
4 3 (10.00%) DynamoDB
4 3 (10.00%) Event Store
5 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.33%) OLAP
6 1 (3.33%) OLTP
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) NUnit
1 3 (10.00%) Postman
2 2 (6.67%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) Moq
2 2 (6.67%) Selenium
2 2 (6.67%) SoapUI
2 2 (6.67%) SpecFlow
2 2 (6.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 20 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Retail
5 1 (3.33%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Developer
2 12 (40.00%) Architect
3 9 (30.00%) .NET Developer
4 6 (20.00%) Information Architect
4 6 (20.00%) Information Security Architect
4 6 (20.00%) Lead
4 6 (20.00%) Security Architect
5 5 (16.67%) AWS Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Lead Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Senior
6 4 (13.33%) Technical Architect
7 3 (10.00%) Backend Developer
7 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Azure Architect
8 2 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (6.67%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Lead .NET Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (60.00%) .NET
2 13 (43.33%) REST
3 8 (26.67%) .NET Core
3 8 (26.67%) React
4 7 (23.33%) SOAP
4 7 (23.33%) Web Services
5 6 (20.00%) .NET Framework
5 6 (20.00%) Kafka
6 4 (13.33%) ASP.NET
6 4 (13.33%) Entity Framework
6 4 (13.33%) OAuth
6 4 (13.33%) Vue
7 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
7 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (10.00%) GraphQL
7 3 (10.00%) J2EE
7 3 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (10.00%) SignalR
7 3 (10.00%) Swagger
8 2 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.00%) Client/Server
3 3 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (10.00%) Hedge funds
3 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (10.00%) Sports Betting
4 2 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.67%) W3C
5 1 (3.33%) DataPower
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Microservices
2 11 (36.67%) Agile
2 11 (36.67%) Computer Science
2 11 (36.67%) Design Patterns
2 11 (36.67%) DevOps
2 11 (36.67%) Software Engineering
3 10 (33.33%) OWASP
4 9 (30.00%) SOA
4 9 (30.00%) TOGAF
5 8 (26.67%) Application Security
6 7 (23.33%) Scrum
7 6 (20.00%) Business Analysis
7 6 (20.00%) Change Management
7 6 (20.00%) Configuration Management
7 6 (20.00%) Information Security
7 6 (20.00%) Information Security Management
7 6 (20.00%) Security Architecture
7 6 (20.00%) Security Management
7 6 (20.00%) TDD
7 6 (20.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) C#
2 11 (36.67%) SQL
3 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.33%) Java
4 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.67%) Bash
5 2 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (6.67%) PHP
5 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.67%) Python
6 1 (3.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 13 (43.33%) Degree
2 11 (36.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (23.33%) Master's Degree
4 6 (20.00%) CISM
4 6 (20.00%) CISSP
4 6 (20.00%) GIAC
4 6 (20.00%) SANS
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) COBIT
1 6 (20.00%) NIST
1 6 (20.00%) Web Application Security Consortium
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) ISO 9000
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (6.67%) WCAG
3 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Docker
2 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 6 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Google
2 1 (3.33%) IBM
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle
2 1 (3.33%) TSYS
2 1 (3.33%) Zend