CQRS Contracts

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 635 737
Rank change year-on-year +79 +102 -93
Contract jobs citing CQRS 28 62 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.12% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 58 103
10th Percentile £489 - £388
25th Percentile £500 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £675 £666 £650
90th Percentile £825 £755 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £730 £525
% change year-on-year -32.26% +39.05% +9.38%

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CQRS in the UK

CQRS
Top 9 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 12 June 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 +53 28 £550 +15.79% 8
London +48 18 £575 +21.05% 3
Work from Home +89 12 £520 +9.47% 3
UK excluding London +30 10 £495 -32.26% 4
North of England - 8 £489 - 2
North West - 7 £489 - 1
South East +9 1 £625 -14.38%
East of England +4 1 £550 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -

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 6 (21.43%) Confluence
1 6 (21.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (25.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Temenos T24
2 5 (17.86%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 23 (82.14%) Azure
2 12 (42.86%) AWS
3 7 (25.00%) Apigee
3 7 (25.00%) Kong
4 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) GitHub
5 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (10.71%) PaaS
5 3 (10.71%) Serverless
6 1 (3.57%) GCP
6 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 7 (25.00%) OLAP
1 7 (25.00%) OLTP
2 6 (21.43%) Oracle OLAP
3 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Git
1 7 (25.00%) JIRA
2 5 (17.86%) Pylint
3 3 (10.71%) ScalaTest
4 2 (7.14%) Cypress.io
4 2 (7.14%) Postman
4 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.57%) JMeter
General
1 17 (60.71%) Finance
2 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 7 (25.00%) Banking
4 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Architect
3 7 (25.00%) AWS Architect
4 6 (21.43%) Software Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) Senior
6 4 (14.29%) Senior Developer
7 3 (10.71%) C# Software Engineer
7 3 (10.71%) Scala Developer
8 2 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) Lead
8 2 (7.14%) Python Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) Technical Architect
9 1 (3.57%) Applications Developer
9 1 (3.57%) Backend Developer
9 1 (3.57%) Full Stack Engineer
9 1 (3.57%) Lead Full Stack Developer
9 1 (3.57%) Python Developer
9 1 (3.57%) Senior Backend Developer
9 1 (3.57%) Software Developer
9 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (71.43%) Kafka
2 10 (35.71%) HTML
3 9 (32.14%) J2EE
4 7 (25.00%) IBM Integration Bus
4 7 (25.00%) pytest
4 7 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (25.00%) SOAP
4 7 (25.00%) Web Services
4 7 (25.00%) WebSockets
5 6 (21.43%) Apache Camel
5 6 (21.43%) Spring
5 6 (21.43%) Spring Boot
5 6 (21.43%) Spring Integration
6 5 (17.86%) .NET
6 5 (17.86%) React
7 3 (10.71%) Akka
8 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
8 2 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
9 1 (3.57%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) DataPower
1 7 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (17.86%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.71%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
3 3 (10.71%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (10.71%) Solar Panel
4 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Microservices
2 16 (57.14%) DevOps
3 12 (42.86%) Design Patterns
3 12 (42.86%) OO
4 11 (39.29%) Software Engineering
5 9 (32.14%) Containerisation
5 9 (32.14%) Event-Driven
6 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 8 (28.57%) Front End Development
6 8 (28.57%) Open Source
6 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (25.00%) API Management
7 7 (25.00%) Code Quality
7 7 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 7 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 7 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
7 7 (25.00%) Risk Management
7 7 (25.00%) SOA
7 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Java
2 12 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 12 (42.86%) SQL
3 10 (35.71%) Python
4 5 (17.86%) C#
5 3 (10.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) ISEB
3 1 (3.57%) ISTQB
System Software
1 12 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (46.43%) Kubernetes
2 6 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) IBM
1 7 (25.00%) TSYS
2 6 (21.43%) Oracle