Chaos Engineering Contracts

Chaos Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Chaos Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Chaos Engineering over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 691 853
Rank change year-on-year +105 +162 -157
Contract jobs citing Chaos Engineering 4 12 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.020% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.023% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 2
10th Percentile £505 - £511
25th Percentile £513 £550 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £552
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.70% -4.00%
75th Percentile £663 - £595
90th Percentile £715 £675 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate - £581 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Chaos Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Chaos Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Chaos Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Chaos Engineering in the UK

Chaos Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Chaos Engineering.

Daily rate trend for Chaos Engineering in the UK

Chaos Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chaos Engineering over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Chaos Engineering in the UK

Chaos Engineering
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chaos Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +120 4 £550 -5.38% 2
Work from Home +121 3 £550 -8.33% 1
London +96 3 £550 - 2
UK excluding London +47 1 - -
North of England +22 1 - -
North West +10 1 - -

Chaos Engineering
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Gliffy
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Application Security
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Load Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Scalability Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (25.00%) Qualys
1 1 (25.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (25.00%) Veracode