Chaos Engineering Contract Job Trends in London

Chaos Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Chaos Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 359 377
Rank change year-on-year -73 +18 +93
Contract jobs citing Chaos Engineering 6 9 8
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.030% 0.066% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.071% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile £432 £309 £565
25th Percentile £484 £316 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £363 £675
Median % change year-on-year +51.72% -46.30% -3.57%
75th Percentile £603 £441 £750
90th Percentile £609 £455 £795
England median daily rate £550 £454 £663
% change year-on-year +21.15% -31.47% +20.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,802 12,600 14,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.23% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,756 8,430 10,474
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 240 222
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £20.94 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.63
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -13.36% -20.27%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

Chaos Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Chaos Engineering job vacancy trend in London

Chaos Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Chaos Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chaos Engineering in London over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Chaos Engineering in London

Chaos Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Datadog
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (33.33%) Law
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (33.33%) Fixed Income
2 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Observability
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (50.00%) AI
4 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (50.00%) High Availability
4 3 (50.00%) Microservices
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
5 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
5 2 (33.33%) Fintech
5 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (33.33%) People Management
5 2 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
1 1 (16.67%) New Relic
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk