Chaos Engineering Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Chaos Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Chaos Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Chaos Engineering 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £260 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £272 - -
75th Percentile £285 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £272 £513 -
% change year-on-year -46.93% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,350 12,206 16,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.21% 87.88% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,394 7,131 10,850
10th Percentile £221 £240 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,673 686 1,285
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.29 £20.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.41 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -30.74% +59.64%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £73.75 £76.81
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

Chaos Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Chaos Engineering job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Chaos Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Chaos Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Chaos Engineering
UK

Chaos Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform