Chai Contract Job Trends in the North East

Chai Assertion Library (Chai.js)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Chai skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Chai 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.27% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £504 - -
25th Percentile £511 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 - -
75th Percentile £536 - -
90th Percentile £543 - -
England median daily rate £545 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -0.91% +10.00% +1.01%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 160 42 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 21.48% 13.86% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 34 21
10th Percentile £363 £365 £338
25th Percentile £406 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +9.41% -21.30%
75th Percentile £550 £498 £501
90th Percentile £644 £575 £550
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.91% -5.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 0 2
10th Percentile £60.75 - -
25th Percentile £63.44 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £46.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%

Chai
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Chai relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Chai job vacancy trend in the North East

Chai
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chai within the North East region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
Tyne and Wear - 2 £523 -
Chai
England

Chai
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Mocha
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Express.js
1 2 (100.00%) Jest
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes