Chai Contracts in England

Chai Assertion Library (Chai.js)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Chai skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Chai over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 540 643
Rank change year-on-year +56 +103 +84
Contract jobs citing Chai 1 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.004% 0.005% 0.020%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.018% 0.027% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £508 £520
25th Percentile £525 £519 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £570
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -5.70% +14.00%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £573
90th Percentile - £568 £575
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £570
% change year-on-year +2.33% -5.70% +26.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Chai falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Chai
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Chai as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Chai in England

Chai
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Chai in England.

Daily rate trend for Chai in England

Chai
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Chai in England.

Hourly rate trend for Chai in England

Chai
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chai within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
North West - 1 £550 -
North of England - 1 £550 -
Chai
UK

Chai
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) MuleSoft