WCAG Contracts in London

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for WCAG skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WCAG over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 454 521
Rank change year-on-year +110 +67 -124
Contract jobs citing WCAG 50 41 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.28% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.02% 1.16% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 25 49
10th Percentile £328 £389 £400
25th Percentile £408 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £535 £487
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% +9.86% -7.24%
75th Percentile £543 £588 £606
90th Percentile £646 £606 £700
England median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £29.12
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £29.12

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,473 3,533 5,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.96% 13.05% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,750 2,550 3,500
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £650
90th Percentile £788 £788 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 36 83
10th Percentile £12.90 £20.25 £21.00
25th Percentile £17.94 £21.24 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% -30.90% +122.50%
75th Percentile £46.25 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £56.75 £81.25 £68.50
England median hourly rate £22.04 £40.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year -45.25% +46.36% +30.95%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing WCAG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WCAG in London.

Daily rate trend for WCAG in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCAG in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WCAG in London.

Hourly rate trend for WCAG in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +42 8 £450 -15.89% 1
West London - 5 £350 -
East London - 1 £450 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 19 (38.00%) CMS
2 1 (2.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.00%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Adobe XD
1 3 (6.00%) InVision
1 3 (6.00%) Sketch
1 3 (6.00%) Zeplin
2 1 (2.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) Azure
2 19 (38.00%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (34.00%) Azure Monitor
3 17 (34.00%) Azure Pipelines
4 14 (28.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 14 (28.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (14.00%) Figma
6 6 (12.00%) GCP
7 5 (10.00%) AWS
8 4 (8.00%) GitHub
9 3 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (4.00%) Miro
11 1 (2.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
11 1 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
11 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (2.00%) PaaS
11 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (42.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (38.00%) Git
2 4 (8.00%) SpecFlow
3 3 (6.00%) Axure RP
3 3 (6.00%) Postman
3 3 (6.00%) Selenium
4 2 (4.00%) JMeter
5 1 (2.00%) JIRA
5 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 10 (20.00%) Back Office
3 2 (4.00%) Finance
3 2 (4.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.00%) Law
4 1 (2.00%) Publishing
4 1 (2.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 31 (62.00%) Developer
2 22 (44.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 16 (32.00%) Senior
4 13 (26.00%) Senior Developer
5 11 (22.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 7 (14.00%) Designer
6 7 (14.00%) Service Designer
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Developer
7 3 (6.00%) C# Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Lead
7 3 (6.00%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Test Leader
8 2 (4.00%) .NET Developer
8 2 (4.00%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (4.00%) QA Specialist
8 2 (4.00%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior C# Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Tester
9 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (50.00%) CSS
2 22 (44.00%) HTML
3 21 (42.00%) .NET
3 21 (42.00%) .NET Core
4 18 (36.00%) React
5 14 (28.00%) ASP.NET
5 14 (28.00%) jQuery
6 11 (22.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 9 (18.00%) REST
8 8 (16.00%) AngularJS
9 5 (10.00%) SAML
9 5 (10.00%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (8.00%) Playwright
11 2 (4.00%) Flask
11 2 (4.00%) Vue
11 2 (4.00%) Vuex
12 1 (2.00%) Pandas
12 1 (2.00%) RESTful
12 1 (2.00%) Sass
12 1 (2.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.00%) CCTV
3 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.00%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (54.00%) Agile
2 23 (46.00%) Front End Development
3 21 (42.00%) DevOps
4 20 (40.00%) TDD
5 19 (38.00%) OO
6 18 (36.00%) API Management
6 18 (36.00%) OOD
7 14 (28.00%) MVC
8 12 (24.00%) Clean Code
9 10 (20.00%) CI/CD
10 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (16.00%) Service Design
11 8 (16.00%) User Experience
11 8 (16.00%) User Stories
12 6 (12.00%) Test Automation
12 6 (12.00%) User Research
12 6 (12.00%) Web Development
13 5 (10.00%) Backlog Management
13 5 (10.00%) Storytelling
13 5 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 28 (56.00%) JavaScript
2 22 (44.00%) TypeScript
3 21 (42.00%) C#
4 14 (28.00%) Bicep
5 5 (10.00%) Python
5 5 (10.00%) SQL
6 1 (2.00%) Ada
6 1 (2.00%) Java
6 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (80.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (8.00%) QA
3 2 (4.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (28.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) Adobe
2 5 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle