Chocolatey Contract Job Trends

Chocolatey (Choco)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Chocolatey skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 519 589
Rank change year-on-year -59 +70 +186
Contract jobs citing Chocolatey 3 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.003% 0.019%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.056% 0.024% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £226 - -
25th Percentile £322 £518 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £647 £523 £511
90th Percentile £739 - £531
UK excluding London median daily rate £175 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

Chocolatey falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,335 4,195 5,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.58% 13.38% 12.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,655 2,640 3,751
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -6.74% -4.02%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £513
% change year-on-year -0.42% -6.93% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 71 199
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.50 £43.93
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.25 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

Chocolatey
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Chocolatey job vacancy trend in the UK

Chocolatey
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Chocolatey
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chocolatey over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Chocolatey in the UK

Chocolatey
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chocolatey within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England -69 3 £488 -6.25% 3
London - 2 £800 -
Midlands - 1 £175 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £175 - 3
UK excluding London - 1 £175 - 3

Chocolatey
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 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 2 (66.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Artifactory
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Architect
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support Technician
2 1 (33.33%) IT Technician
2 1 (33.33%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) BREW
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Application Packaging
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google