Chaos Engineering Job Trends in England

Chaos Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Chaos Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 677 673
Rank change year-on-year +66 -4 +286
Permanent jobs citing Chaos Engineering 6 2 7
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.011% 0.004% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.005% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £103,750 - £49,500
25th Percentile £131,875 £105,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £161,250 £110,000 £83,696
Median % change year-on-year +46.59% +31.43% -
75th Percentile £174,063 £115,000 £111,746
90th Percentile £179,125 - -
UK median annual salary £161,250 £110,000 £83,696
% change year-on-year +46.59% +31.43% +36.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Chaos Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,913 43,729 44,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.21% 90.84% 89.77%
Number of salaries quoted 25,804 21,413 34,236
10th Percentile £28,742 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Chaos Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Chaos Engineering job vacancy trend in England

Chaos Engineering
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Chaos Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Chaos Engineering

Chaos Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Chaos Engineering in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Chaos Engineering in England

Chaos Engineering
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Chaos Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +56 3 £167,500 +52.27% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £165,000 -
North of England - 2 £165,000 -
South East +36 1 £85,000 - 1
Chaos Engineering
UK

Chaos Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Datadog
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Burp Suite
1 2 (33.33%) JMeter
1 2 (33.33%) LoadRunner
1 2 (33.33%) NeoLoad
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Law
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) IT Director
2 2 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior IT Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Quality Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Observability
1 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) AI
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) Budget Management
3 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace