Chocolatey Contract Job Trends in England

Chocolatey (Choco)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Chocolatey skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 477 535
Rank change year-on-year -61 +58 +174
Contract jobs citing Chocolatey 3 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.010% 0.004% 0.022%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.066% 0.028% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £226 - -
25th Percentile £322 £518 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £647 £523 £511
90th Percentile £739 - £531
UK median daily rate £488 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +4.00% -

All Development Application Skills
England

Chocolatey falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,560 3,571 4,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.70% 13.37% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,148 2,223 3,100
10th Percentile £333 £335 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £642
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £538
% change year-on-year -0.50% -6.51% -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 65 194
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £44.98
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £81.85 £75.85 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

Chocolatey
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Chocolatey job vacancy trend in England

Chocolatey
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Chocolatey.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Chocolatey

Chocolatey
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chocolatey in England over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Chocolatey in England

Chocolatey
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 Chocolatey within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London - 2 £800 -
Midlands - 1 £175 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £175 - 3
Chocolatey
UK

Chocolatey
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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 2 (66.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Artifactory
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Architect
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support Technician
2 1 (33.33%) IT Technician
2 1 (33.33%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) BREW
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Application Packaging
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google