Chaos Engineering Contracts in England

Chaos Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Chaos Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Chaos Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 538 643
Rank change year-on-year +66 +105 +134
Contract jobs citing Chaos Engineering 13 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.011% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% 0.012% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £311 £505 £530
25th Percentile £325 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -17.45% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £613 £663 £600
90th Percentile £700 £715 -
UK median daily rate £454 £550 £581
% change year-on-year -17.45% -5.38% +5.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Chaos Engineering 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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Chaos Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Chaos Engineering in England

Chaos Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Chaos Engineering in England

Chaos Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chaos Engineering in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Chaos Engineering in England

Chaos Engineering
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +44 9 £363 -34.09% 5
North of England +22 4 £700 - 1
Yorkshire - 4 £700 - 1
Chaos Engineering
UK

Chaos Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
1 7 (53.85%) Azure DevOps
1 7 (53.85%) Azure Monitor
1 7 (53.85%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (30.77%) Azure AKS
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) DNS
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
1 3 (23.08%) FTP
1 3 (23.08%) HTTP
1 3 (23.08%) SMTP
1 3 (23.08%) SSL
1 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
General
1 8 (61.54%) Banking
2 5 (38.46%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) .NET
2 4 (30.77%) JSON
2 4 (30.77%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 3 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
1 13 (100.00%) Microservices
1 13 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 10 (76.92%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (76.92%) Observability
3 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 8 (61.54%) Test Automation
4 5 (38.46%) API Management
4 5 (38.46%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
4 5 (38.46%) Data Analysis
4 5 (38.46%) Design Patterns
4 5 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (38.46%) GitOps
4 5 (38.46%) Incident Management
4 5 (38.46%) ITSM
4 5 (38.46%) Service Management
4 5 (38.46%) Technology Strategy
5 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 4 (30.77%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) Bicep
2 4 (30.77%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (23.08%) C#
3 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
1 5 (38.46%) Prometheus
2 4 (30.77%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft