Accessibility (a11y)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Accessibility skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Accessibility over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 270 227
Rank change year-on-year -10 -43 +131
Permanent jobs citing Accessibility 1,037 1,296 2,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.03% 1.32% 1.80%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.65% 7.00% 10.59%
Number of salaries quoted 625 520 913
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,454 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,078 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.02% +6.69% -2.73%
75th Percentile £66,500 £71,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,200
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £47,000
% change year-on-year -8.90% +16.77% -6.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

Accessibility is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,561 18,525 27,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.44% 18.81% 17.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,147 8,607 13,266
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,602
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.04% +0.22%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Accessibility.

Salary trend for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Accessibility over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -31 789 £55,000 -4.35% 325
UK excluding London -1 708 £50,000 -8.90% 225
Work from Home +3 406 £57,500 -4.17% 156
London -27 227 £64,488 -0.79% 142
North of England +123 226 £57,965 +5.62% 39
Midlands -76 138 £52,500 -6.25% 38
North West +55 125 £57,500 -4.17% 26
Scotland +24 125 £56,900 +23.27% 16
South East -65 102 £40,000 -20.00% 89
West Midlands -31 100 £60,000 +5.26% 28
Yorkshire +100 66 £52,500 -4.34% 9
South West -36 49 £50,000 -9.09% 19
East of England +9 38 £34,500 -31.00% 27
North East +15 35 £57,965 +2.59% 4
East Midlands -68 34 £37,500 -25.00% 10
Wales +18 16 £55,900 +5.49% 3
Northern Ireland +32 14 £58,800 - 3

Accessibility
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:

Application Platforms
1 37 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 36 (3.47%) CMS
3 32 (3.09%) IIS
4 31 (2.99%) Apache
5 27 (2.60%) Tomcat
6 20 (1.93%) Confluence
7 19 (1.83%) Umbraco
8 16 (1.54%) WordPress
9 8 (0.77%) Sitecore CMS
10 7 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.58%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.58%) SAS
12 4 (0.39%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.39%) OpenZeppelin
13 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.29%) Moodle
13 3 (0.29%) Orchard CMS
14 1 (0.096%) Apache Airflow
14 1 (0.096%) Drupal
14 1 (0.096%) Totara
Applications
1 66 (6.36%) Sketch
2 61 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 27 (2.60%) Adobe XD
5 23 (2.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 16 (1.54%) InVision
7 11 (1.06%) Adobe Captivate
8 8 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (0.77%) Photoshop
9 7 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.48%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.48%) Revit
11 4 (0.39%) InDesign
12 3 (0.29%) Trello
12 3 (0.29%) UserZoom
13 2 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
14 1 (0.096%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 71 (6.85%) NEC Housing
2 20 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.06%) Shopify
4 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.096%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.096%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 157 (15.14%) Azure
2 144 (13.89%) AWS
3 84 (8.10%) Figma
4 63 (6.08%) Power Platform
5 47 (4.53%) Miro
6 46 (4.44%) Heroku
7 40 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (3.47%) GCP
9 34 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
10 24 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (2.22%) SaaS
12 21 (2.03%) Serverless
13 17 (1.64%) GitHub
14 14 (1.35%) Google Analytics
14 14 (1.35%) IaaS
15 12 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (1.06%) Google Tag Manager
16 11 (1.06%) SurveyMonkey
17 7 (0.68%) dbt
17 7 (0.68%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.45%) HTTP
2 14 (1.35%) Intranet
3 13 (1.25%) Internet
4 10 (0.96%) LAN
4 10 (0.96%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.96%) WAN
5 8 (0.77%) DNS
6 5 (0.48%) Firewall
7 4 (0.39%) Broadband
7 4 (0.39%) DHCP
7 4 (0.39%) IPFS
7 4 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.39%) WPA
8 2 (0.19%) Network Security
8 2 (0.19%) SNA
8 2 (0.19%) Wireless
9 1 (0.096%) FTP
9 1 (0.096%) SAN
9 1 (0.096%) VoIP
9 1 (0.096%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (7.04%) SQL Server
2 52 (5.01%) Oracle Database
3 46 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (4.15%) Power BI
5 29 (2.80%) Relational Database
6 28 (2.70%) Tableau
7 24 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (2.12%) Oracle Database 12c
9 17 (1.64%) Big Data
9 17 (1.64%) MongoDB
10 15 (1.45%) NoSQL
11 10 (0.96%) GIS
12 7 (0.68%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (0.68%) Spatial Data
13 6 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.58%) EDMS
13 6 (0.58%) MySQL
14 5 (0.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.48%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 111 (10.70%) Git
2 51 (4.92%) JIRA
3 26 (2.51%) Visual Studio
4 23 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 22 (2.12%) Postman
6 20 (1.93%) Team Foundation Server
7 17 (1.64%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.54%) Jasmine
8 16 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
9 15 (1.45%) JMeter
9 15 (1.45%) Karma Test Runner
10 14 (1.35%) Axure RP
10 14 (1.35%) Balsamiq
10 14 (1.35%) Selenium
11 13 (1.25%) Cypress.io
11 13 (1.25%) SpecFlow
12 11 (1.06%) SoapUI
12 11 (1.06%) webpack
13 9 (0.87%) JUnit
13 9 (0.87%) TeamCity
General
1 322 (31.05%) Social Skills
2 267 (25.75%) Finance
3 201 (19.38%) Public Sector
4 195 (18.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 176 (16.97%) Marketing
6 125 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
7 104 (10.03%) Law
8 76 (7.33%) Police
9 75 (7.23%) Local Government
10 72 (6.94%) Banking
11 47 (4.53%) Investment Banking
12 39 (3.76%) Financial Institution
13 37 (3.57%) Legal
13 37 (3.57%) Retail
14 32 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (2.51%) Back Office
15 26 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (2.03%) Telecoms
17 19 (1.83%) French Language
18 15 (1.45%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 254 (24.49%) Senior
2 183 (17.65%) Designer
3 157 (15.14%) Developer
4 111 (10.70%) Lead
5 80 (7.71%) Senior Designer
6 78 (7.52%) UX Designer
7 67 (6.46%) Software Engineer
8 66 (6.36%) UI Designer
9 61 (5.88%) UI/UX Designer
10 60 (5.79%) Senior UX Designer
11 51 (4.92%) Interaction Designer
12 48 (4.63%) Senior UI Designer
13 46 (4.44%) Senior UI/UX Designer
14 45 (4.34%) User Researcher
15 40 (3.86%) Lead Software Engineer
16 36 (3.47%) Architect
16 36 (3.47%) Full Stack Developer
17 35 (3.38%) Administrator
17 35 (3.38%) Senior Developer
17 35 (3.38%) Senior User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (28.16%) HTML
2 226 (21.79%) CSS
3 103 (9.93%) React
4 90 (8.68%) .NET
5 83 (8.00%) Node.js
5 83 (8.00%) RESTful
6 81 (7.81%) AngularJS
7 66 (6.36%) Web Services
8 55 (5.30%) REST
9 49 (4.73%) Vue
10 45 (4.34%) ASP.NET
10 45 (4.34%) jQuery
11 42 (4.05%) Sass
12 34 (3.28%) Spring
13 33 (3.18%) Spring Boot
14 31 (2.99%) HTML5
14 31 (2.99%) OAuth
15 29 (2.80%) ASP.NET Web API
16 25 (2.41%) Swagger
17 24 (2.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 79 (7.62%) Product Ownership
2 59 (5.69%) Cloud Native
3 47 (4.53%) Public Cloud
4 45 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
5 42 (4.05%) Management Information System
5 42 (4.05%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.60%) Mobile App
7 25 (2.41%) Social Media
8 24 (2.31%) Driving Licence
9 21 (2.03%) NHS
10 19 (1.83%) Algorithms
10 19 (1.83%) e-Learning
10 19 (1.83%) FMCG
11 14 (1.35%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.25%) Animation
13 12 (1.16%) Graphic Design
13 12 (1.16%) Taxonomies
14 11 (1.06%) Blockchain
14 11 (1.06%) Data Structures
14 11 (1.06%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 66 (6.36%) Windows
2 57 (5.50%) Unix
3 43 (4.15%) Linux
4 27 (2.60%) Solaris
5 19 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.54%) Apple iOS
7 14 (1.35%) Android
8 6 (0.58%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.29%) VMS
10 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (36.07%) Agile
2 253 (24.40%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 240 (23.14%) User Experience
4 226 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
5 204 (19.67%) Coaching
6 163 (15.72%) UX Design
7 160 (15.43%) CI/CD
8 151 (14.56%) Mentoring
9 150 (14.46%) Actionable Insight
10 148 (14.27%) Software Engineering
11 146 (14.08%) Prototyping
12 128 (12.34%) Customer Experience
13 124 (11.96%) Workshop Facilitation
14 120 (11.57%) User Research
15 114 (10.99%) Front End Development
16 110 (10.61%) Decision-Making
17 105 (10.13%) Analytics
17 105 (10.13%) Digital Customer Experience
18 103 (9.93%) DevOps
19 102 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 257 (24.78%) JavaScript
2 137 (13.21%) SQL
3 113 (10.90%) C#
4 99 (9.55%) Python
5 92 (8.87%) TypeScript
6 58 (5.59%) Java
7 39 (3.76%) PHP
8 28 (2.70%) Shell Script
9 24 (2.31%) T-SQL
10 22 (2.12%) Go
11 16 (1.54%) R
12 14 (1.35%) Rust
13 5 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.48%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.48%) Scala
14 4 (0.39%) Solidity
15 3 (0.29%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.29%) Bash
15 3 (0.29%) Dart
15 3 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 234 (22.57%) Degree
2 213 (20.54%) Security Cleared
3 145 (13.98%) SC Cleared
4 33 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.89%) Master's Degree
6 22 (2.12%) Oracle Certification
7 17 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.45%) DBS Check
9 14 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.06%) PhD
11 9 (0.87%) CIPD
11 9 (0.87%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.87%) MBA
12 6 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
13 5 (0.48%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.39%) GIAC
14 4 (0.39%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.29%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (16.01%) WCAG
2 69 (6.65%) QA
3 40 (3.86%) Data Quality
4 29 (2.80%) GDPR
5 17 (1.64%) WAI
6 15 (1.45%) SLA
7 11 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.77%) PMO
10 6 (0.58%) CDISC
10 6 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.096%) COBIT
12 1 (0.096%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.096%) NIST
12 1 (0.096%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 26 (2.51%) Docker
3 11 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 20 (1.93%) Terraform
2 15 (1.45%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.58%) Grafana
4 2 (0.19%) Ansible
4 2 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.096%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.096%) Plesk
5 1 (0.096%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.096%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 178 (17.16%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.85%) NEC
3 63 (6.08%) Oracle
4 60 (5.79%) Adobe
5 32 (3.09%) Google
6 17 (1.64%) VMware
7 12 (1.16%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.06%) Cisco
8 11 (1.06%) Sitecore
9 8 (0.77%) Atlassian
10 7 (0.68%) Databricks
10 7 (0.68%) Mapbox
11 6 (0.58%) Hotjar
11 6 (0.58%) iManage
11 6 (0.58%) Marketo
11 6 (0.58%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.58%) WooCommerce
12 5 (0.48%) ATG
12 5 (0.48%) DevExpress
12 5 (0.48%) Xamarin