Chaos Engineering Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Chaos Engineering
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Chaos Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Chaos Engineering 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.13% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 - -
UK median daily rate £356 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -32.19% -12.50% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,303 1,464 2,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 85.22% 91.27% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 870 1,314
10th Percentile £234 £228 £264
25th Percentile £381 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £631 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 43 80
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.23 £11.99
25th Percentile £17.23 £20.62 £16.19
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +12.54%
75th Percentile £43.30 £24.18 £60.19
90th Percentile £64.00 £40.90 £73.88
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

Chaos Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Chaos Engineering job vacancy trend in Scotland

Chaos Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 February 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
Glasgow - 2 £440 - 1
Chaos Engineering
UK

Chaos Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) GitOps
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks