Chaos Engineering Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Chaos Engineering
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Chaos Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 54 58
Rank change year-on-year -47 +4 -
Contract jobs citing Chaos Engineering 4 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.34% 0.97% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 1.02% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £475 £610 -
25th Percentile £493 £644 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% - -
75th Percentile £561 - -
90th Percentile £576 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £530 £700 -
% change year-on-year -24.25% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,041 391 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 89.20% 94.44% 87.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 250 240
10th Percentile £363 £265 £360
25th Percentile £424 £386 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £557 £574 £582
90th Percentile £669 £638 £622
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 17
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.10 £10.90
25th Percentile £13.35 £18.20 £12.55
Median hourly rate £16.50 £18.69 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year -11.72% +45.67% +20.70%
75th Percentile £19.97 £18.87 £22.00
90th Percentile £24.29 - £23.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%

Chaos Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Chaos Engineering job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Chaos Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Chaos Engineering

Chaos Engineering
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
Sheffield -54 4 £530 -24.25% 1
Chaos Engineering
Yorkshire

Chaos Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Lead
2 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Lead Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Lead Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) CoreOS
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) VMS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Availability Management
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) FMEA
3 2 (50.00%) GitOps
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (50.00%) ITSM
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) RHCA
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Argo
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Commvault
2 1 (25.00%) Veeam