Chai Contracts with Work from Home Options

Chai Assertion Library (Chai.js)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Chai skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Chai over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 466 586
Rank change year-on-year +125 +120 -113
Contract jobs citing Chai 3 5 37
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.019% 0.083%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.082% 0.077% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 23
10th Percentile - - £428
25th Percentile - - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +26.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile - - £513
90th Percentile - - £588
UK median daily rate £538 £570 £450
% change year-on-year -5.70% +26.67% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Chai is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,647 6,485 13,225
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.91% 25.27% 29.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,547 4,823 9,761
10th Percentile £331 £394 £398
25th Percentile £428 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +13.54%
75th Percentile £650 £657 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 81 120
10th Percentile £28.00 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -28.95% +31.31% +10.00%

Chai
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Chai as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Chai trend for jobs with a WFH option

Chai
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Chai.

Chai daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Chai
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Gradle
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Mocha
2 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) SoapUI
2 2 (66.67%) TestNG
2 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 3 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JAXB
1 2 (66.67%) JAX-RS
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) OOP
2 2 (66.67%) Pair Programming
2 2 (66.67%) SDET
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Review
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) C
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 Chai jobs Nationwide