Chai Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 165 - 215
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Chai 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.030% - 0.086%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% - 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £570
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £538 £570
% change year-on-year +2.33% -5.70% +14.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 685 900 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.79% 18.88% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 615 875
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £558 £596 £597
90th Percentile £650 £691 £675
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 10
10th Percentile £65.25 £13.87 £44.28
25th Percentile £68.81 £21.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £86.46 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.22% -26.11% +48.81%
75th Percentile £99.42 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £72.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Chai
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Chai in the North of England

Chai
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Chai in the North of England

Chai
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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 -
Chai
England

Chai
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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