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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 285 269 225
Rank change year-on-year -16 -44 +131
Permanent jobs citing Accessibility 1,037 1,281 3,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 1.32% 1.83%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.61% 7.11% 10.68%
Number of salaries quoted 623 519 916
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,522 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.90% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £65,950 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £47,444
% change year-on-year -8.90% +15.68% -5.11%

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 13,629 18,029 28,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.28% 18.52% 17.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9,164 8,543 13,451
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% +4.75%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,825
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.55% +0.68%

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 28 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 28 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 -31 791 £52,500 -8.70% 295
UK excluding London -4 709 £50,000 -8.90% 185
Work from Home +4 408 £57,500 - 169
North of England +121 227 £57,965 +5.62% 39
London -22 225 £62,806 -3.38% 117
Midlands -67 138 £52,500 -6.25% 36
North West +65 127 £57,500 -2.13% 22
Scotland +24 122 £56,900 +23.27% 22
South East -75 105 £40,000 -20.00% 44
West Midlands -33 100 £60,000 +5.26% 24
Yorkshire +96 65 £52,500 -4.34% 9
South West -46 49 £50,000 -9.09% 23
East of England -3 38 £34,500 -31.00% 27
North East +15 35 £57,965 +2.59% 8
East Midlands -75 34 £37,500 -25.00% 12
Wales +12 16 £55,900 +5.49% 3
Northern Ireland +25 14 £58,800 - 2

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 39 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 37 (3.57%) CMS
3 32 (3.09%) IIS
4 31 (2.99%) Apache
5 27 (2.60%) Tomcat
6 19 (1.83%) Confluence
6 19 (1.83%) Umbraco
7 16 (1.54%) WordPress
8 8 (0.77%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.58%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.58%) SAS
11 4 (0.39%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.39%) OpenZeppelin
12 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.29%) Moodle
12 3 (0.29%) Orchard CMS
13 1 (0.096%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.096%) Drupal
13 1 (0.096%) Totara
Applications
1 64 (6.17%) Sketch
2 62 (5.98%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 27 (2.60%) Adobe XD
5 23 (2.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 14 (1.35%) 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 6 (0.58%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.48%) Revit
12 4 (0.39%) InDesign
13 3 (0.29%) Trello
13 3 (0.29%) UserZoom
14 2 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
14 2 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
15 1 (0.096%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 74 (7.14%) NEC Housing
2 20 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.06%) Shopify
4 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.096%) Magento
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
1 155 (14.95%) Azure
2 140 (13.50%) AWS
3 84 (8.10%) Figma
4 63 (6.08%) Power Platform
5 47 (4.53%) Miro
6 46 (4.44%) Heroku
7 38 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
9 35 (3.38%) GCP
10 24 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (2.31%) SaaS
11 20 (1.93%) Serverless
12 18 (1.74%) GitHub
13 14 (1.35%) Google Analytics
13 14 (1.35%) IaaS
14 12 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (1.06%) Google Tag Manager
15 11 (1.06%) SurveyMonkey
16 7 (0.68%) dbt
16 7 (0.68%) PaaS
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 72 (6.94%) 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
5 29 (2.80%) Tableau
6 24 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (2.12%) Oracle Database 12c
8 17 (1.64%) Big Data
8 17 (1.64%) MongoDB
9 15 (1.45%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.06%) GIS
11 8 (0.77%) Geospatial Data
11 8 (0.77%) Spatial Data
12 7 (0.68%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.68%) MySQL
13 6 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.58%) EDMS
14 5 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 110 (10.61%) Git
2 49 (4.73%) JIRA
3 26 (2.51%) Visual Studio
4 22 (2.12%) Jenkins
5 20 (1.93%) Postman
5 20 (1.93%) Team Foundation Server
6 16 (1.54%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.45%) Jasmine
7 15 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
8 14 (1.35%) Axure RP
8 14 (1.35%) Balsamiq
8 14 (1.35%) JMeter
8 14 (1.35%) Karma Test Runner
9 13 (1.25%) Cypress.io
10 12 (1.16%) Selenium
10 12 (1.16%) SpecFlow
11 11 (1.06%) webpack
12 10 (0.96%) SoapUI
13 9 (0.87%) JUnit
14 8 (0.77%) TeamCity
General
1 328 (31.63%) Social Skills
2 269 (25.94%) Finance
3 205 (19.77%) Public Sector
4 194 (18.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 177 (17.07%) Marketing
6 129 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
7 103 (9.93%) Law
8 79 (7.62%) Police
9 78 (7.52%) Local Government
10 69 (6.65%) Banking
11 45 (4.34%) Investment Banking
12 39 (3.76%) Legal
13 38 (3.66%) Retail
14 37 (3.57%) Financial Institution
15 32 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
16 28 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
17 26 (2.51%) Back Office
18 21 (2.03%) Telecoms
19 19 (1.83%) French Language
20 14 (1.35%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 254 (24.49%) Senior
2 182 (17.55%) Designer
3 155 (14.95%) Developer
4 108 (10.41%) Lead
5 80 (7.71%) Senior Designer
6 77 (7.43%) UX Designer
7 65 (6.27%) Software Engineer
7 65 (6.27%) UI Designer
8 60 (5.79%) Senior UX Designer
8 60 (5.79%) UI/UX Designer
9 51 (4.92%) Interaction Designer
10 48 (4.63%) Senior UI Designer
11 46 (4.44%) Senior UI/UX Designer
12 45 (4.34%) User Researcher
13 39 (3.76%) Lead Software Engineer
14 37 (3.57%) Full Stack Developer
15 36 (3.47%) Architect
16 35 (3.38%) Administrator
16 35 (3.38%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
16 35 (3.38%) Senior User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (28.06%) HTML
2 225 (21.70%) CSS
3 103 (9.93%) React
4 88 (8.49%) .NET
5 83 (8.00%) Node.js
5 83 (8.00%) RESTful
6 79 (7.62%) AngularJS
7 67 (6.46%) Web Services
8 53 (5.11%) REST
9 49 (4.73%) Vue
10 45 (4.34%) ASP.NET
11 44 (4.24%) jQuery
12 41 (3.95%) Sass
13 34 (3.28%) Spring
14 33 (3.18%) Spring Boot
15 31 (2.99%) HTML5
16 30 (2.89%) OAuth
17 28 (2.70%) ASP.NET Web API
18 24 (2.31%) Swagger
18 24 (2.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (7.71%) Product Ownership
2 57 (5.50%) Cloud Native
3 46 (4.44%) Public Cloud
3 46 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 43 (4.15%) Management Information System
5 42 (4.05%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.51%) 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 15 (1.45%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.25%) Animation
13 12 (1.16%) Graphic Design
13 12 (1.16%) Taxonomies
14 11 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.06%) Blockchain
14 11 (1.06%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 64 (6.17%) 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
1 370 (35.68%) Agile
2 253 (24.40%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 240 (23.14%) User Experience
4 231 (22.28%) Problem-Solving
5 202 (19.48%) Coaching
6 161 (15.53%) UX Design
7 158 (15.24%) CI/CD
8 152 (14.66%) Mentoring
9 150 (14.46%) Actionable Insight
10 147 (14.18%) Prototyping
11 146 (14.08%) Software Engineering
12 129 (12.44%) Customer Experience
13 124 (11.96%) Workshop Facilitation
14 119 (11.48%) User Research
15 113 (10.90%) Front End Development
16 110 (10.61%) Decision-Making
17 106 (10.22%) Analytics
18 105 (10.13%) Digital Customer Experience
19 104 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
20 102 (9.84%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 256 (24.69%) JavaScript
2 137 (13.21%) SQL
3 109 (10.51%) C#
4 98 (9.45%) Python
5 90 (8.68%) TypeScript
6 57 (5.50%) Java
7 40 (3.86%) PHP
8 28 (2.70%) Shell Script
9 23 (2.22%) 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%) VB
16 2 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 235 (22.66%) Degree
2 214 (20.64%) Security Cleared
3 146 (14.08%) SC Cleared
4 33 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (2.89%) Master's Degree
6 29 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (2.12%) Oracle Certification
8 18 (1.74%) DBS Check
9 17 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.35%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.06%) PhD
12 9 (0.87%) CIPD
12 9 (0.87%) ISTQB
12 9 (0.87%) MBA
13 6 (0.58%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
14 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.39%) GIAC
15 4 (0.39%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.29%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (15.81%) WCAG
2 70 (6.75%) QA
3 40 (3.86%) Data Quality
4 29 (2.80%) GDPR
5 16 (1.54%) 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 27 (2.60%) Docker
3 11 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 21 (2.03%) Terraform
2 15 (1.45%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.58%) Grafana
4 3 (0.29%) Ansible
5 2 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.19%) Plesk
6 1 (0.096%) cPanel
6 1 (0.096%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.096%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.096%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.096%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.096%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 181 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 74 (7.14%) NEC
3 63 (6.08%) Oracle
4 61 (5.88%) 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