Chocolatey Job Trends

Chocolatey (Choco)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Chocolatey skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 704 724
Rank change year-on-year +68 +20 +293
Permanent jobs citing Chocolatey 6 3 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.006% 0.020%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.17% 0.055% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile - £65,000 -
25th Percentile £61,250 £66,875 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +3.70% +17.39%
75th Percentile £64,688 £70,625 £71,875
90th Percentile £65,000 £71,000 £75,250
UK excluding London median annual salary - £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +21.74%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,581 5,484 6,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.04% 10.25% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,332 3,150 5,278
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,566 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.17% -4.35% +4.55%

Chocolatey
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Chocolatey job vacancy trend in the UK

Chocolatey
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Chocolatey.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Chocolatey

Chocolatey
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Chocolatey within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +85 6 £62,500 -10.71% 3
London - 6 £62,500 -

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 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Datadog
1 6 (100.00%) IaaS
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 6 (100.00%) PaaS
1 6 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DHCP
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) SAN
1 6 (100.00%) VLAN
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
1 6 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (100.00%) Banking
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) IT Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) Senior
2 5 (83.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) Senior IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 6 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 6 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
1 6 (100.00%) ITSM
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (100.00%) Security Patching
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 6 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 6 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Tenable
1 6 (100.00%) VMware