Chaos Engineering Contracts

Chaos Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Chaos Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Chaos Engineering over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 676 849
Rank change year-on-year +103 +173 -132
Contract jobs citing Chaos Engineering 12 13 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.023% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.026% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 1
10th Percentile £513 £550 -
25th Percentile £556 £553 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £600 £504
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +19.05% -12.35%
75th Percentile £750 £663 -
90th Percentile £788 £675 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £581 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Chaos Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Chaos Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Chaos Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Chaos Engineering in the UK

Chaos Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Chaos Engineering.

Daily rate trend for Chaos Engineering in the UK

Chaos Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chaos Engineering over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Chaos Engineering in the UK

Chaos Engineering
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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 +108 11 £688 +14.58% 3
London +93 8 £688 -19.12% 3
Work from Home +102 5 £625 +4.17%
UK excluding London +30 3 - - 1
North of England +23 3 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North West +16 1 - -

Chaos Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Gliffy
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) JMeter
General
1 10 (83.33%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Retail Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Java Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Full Stack Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
1 11 (91.67%) Test Automation
2 10 (83.33%) Microservices
2 10 (83.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 9 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 9 (75.00%) Data Analysis
3 9 (75.00%) DevOps
3 9 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (75.00%) Observability
4 8 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
5 7 (58.33%) Cloud Security
6 6 (50.00%) Design Patterns
7 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
7 2 (16.67%) IT Strategy
7 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (16.67%) Service Management
7 2 (16.67%) Wealth Management
8 1 (8.33%) BDD
8 1 (8.33%) CQRS
8 1 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) ISEB
1 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (8.33%) OCP
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Checkmarx
1 1 (8.33%) Qualys
1 1 (8.33%) Rapid7
1 1 (8.33%) Veracode