Chaos Engineering Contract Job Trends in England

Chaos Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Chaos Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 483 -
Rank change year-on-year -55 - -
Contract jobs citing Chaos Engineering 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.010% 0.011% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.012% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £260 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £272 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.19% - -
75th Percentile £285 £538 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £272 £513 -
% change year-on-year -46.93% - -

All Process & 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 27,872 24,320 31,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.34% 88.88% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,782 14,954 21,308
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,755 794 1,429
10th Percentile £15.20 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%

Chaos Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Chaos Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Chaos Engineering job vacancy trend in England

Chaos Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Chaos Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Chaos Engineering

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 8 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 2 £272 - 1
London -12 1 - - 1
Chaos Engineering
UK

Chaos Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Gatling
1 2 (66.67%) JMeter
1 2 (66.67%) LoadRunner
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) NeoLoad
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyberattack
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Resilience Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Scalability Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) AppDynamics
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) New Relic
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk