ChatOps Contract Job Trends

ChatOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ChatOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 - 598
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ChatOps 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.005% - 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.005% - 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 - £500
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

ChatOps 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,537 26,694 38,745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.12% 90.29% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,174 17,018 25,183
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.28% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,160 902 2,347
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.51 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £77.10 £71.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.55 £31.76 £31.80
% change year-on-year -16.40% -0.13% -9.14%

ChatOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ChatOps job vacancy trend in the UK

ChatOps
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ChatOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ChatOps

ChatOps
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ChatOps within the UK over the 6 months to 10 March 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
UK excluding London - 2 £514 - 3
North of England - 1 £514 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £514 - 2
Midlands - 1 £514 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £514 - 1
England - 1 £514 - 7
Scotland - 1 £514 -

ChatOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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%) OpenShift
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Fluent Bit
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) CMDB
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AIOps
1 2 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 2 (100.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) etcd
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Fluentd
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk