Accessibility Contracts in the North of England

Accessibility (a11y)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Accessibility skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Accessibility over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 133 136
Rank change year-on-year +21 +3 -34
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 72 80 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.54% 1.41% 1.62%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.00% 10.27% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 61 88
10th Percentile £403 £400 £260
25th Percentile £425 £440 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +5.00% +19.40%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £560
90th Percentile £650 £625 £650
England median daily rate £484 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -7.86% -2.10% +12.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £10.57 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £14.50 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £61.50 - -
England median hourly rate £18.13 £20.07 £25.01
% change year-on-year -9.64% -19.76% -1.94%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

Accessibility 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 the North of England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 720 779 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.40% 13.70% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 482 668
10th Percentile £320 £288 £200
25th Percentile £413 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile £592 £586 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 39 54
10th Percentile - £17.50 £11.36
25th Percentile £10.95 £29.30 £12.02
Median hourly rate £12.84 £39.60 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -67.58% +111.76% +8.88%
75th Percentile £26.66 £49.19 £28.31
90th Percentile £48.75 £69.60 £51.46
England median hourly rate £22.42 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -40.21% +36.36% +30.95%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the North of England

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the North of England

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the North of England

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the North of England

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Accessibility in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Accessibility in the North of England

Accessibility
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 Accessibility within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +17 42 £490 -6.67% 27
Yorkshire +10 23 £425 -19.05% 17
North East +7 7 £453 -17.68% 7
Accessibility
England

Accessibility
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 3 (4.17%) Drupal
2 2 (2.78%) CMS
2 2 (2.78%) Confluence
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.39%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (6.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.39%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Aareon QL
2 1 (1.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.06%) AWS
2 6 (8.33%) Azure
2 6 (8.33%) GitHub
3 5 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (6.94%) BrowserStack
3 5 (6.94%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (6.94%) Serverless
4 2 (2.78%) IaaS
4 2 (2.78%) PaaS
4 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.78%) SaaS
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.39%) Figma
5 1 (1.39%) SpeedCurve
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.17%) Big Data
3 3 (4.17%) MySQL
3 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.78%) Power BI
5 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.39%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (12.50%) Selenium
2 7 (9.72%) Cypress.io
2 7 (9.72%) JMeter
3 2 (2.78%) GitLab
3 2 (2.78%) TestCafe
4 1 (1.39%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.39%) Gatling
4 1 (1.39%) GoCD
4 1 (1.39%) JIRA
4 1 (1.39%) Pa11y
4 1 (1.39%) Postman
4 1 (1.39%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.61%) Public Sector
3 10 (13.89%) Finance
4 6 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Health Technology
6 2 (2.78%) Legal
7 1 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (22.22%) Senior
2 15 (20.83%) Test Engineer
3 10 (13.89%) Developer
3 10 (13.89%) Senior Test Engineer
4 9 (12.50%) Architect
5 6 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.94%) Designer
6 5 (6.94%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.94%) Tester
7 4 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.56%) Full Stack Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Telephony Architect
8 3 (4.17%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.17%) Drupal Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.17%) User Researcher
9 2 (2.78%) IT Support
9 2 (2.78%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.72%) React
2 4 (5.56%) Next.js
3 3 (4.17%) CSS
3 3 (4.17%) HTML
3 3 (4.17%) RESTful
4 2 (2.78%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.78%) Node.js
4 2 (2.78%) Playwright
5 1 (1.39%) .NET
5 1 (1.39%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.39%) CSS3
5 1 (1.39%) D3.js
5 1 (1.39%) Jest
5 1 (1.39%) Sass
5 1 (1.39%) Vue
5 1 (1.39%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.94%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.56%) NHS
3 3 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.17%) Smartphone
4 2 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.39%) Android
1 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (33.33%) Agile
2 17 (23.61%) Test Automation
3 13 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (15.28%) Migration
5 10 (13.89%) Test Scripting
6 9 (12.50%) User Stories
6 9 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 8 (11.11%) Microservices
8 7 (9.72%) Acceptance Criteria
8 7 (9.72%) Load Testing
8 7 (9.72%) Security Testing
8 7 (9.72%) Software Engineering
8 7 (9.72%) Technical Debt
8 7 (9.72%) User Research
9 6 (8.33%) Exploratory Testing
9 6 (8.33%) Full Stack Development
9 6 (8.33%) Mentoring
9 6 (8.33%) SDLC
10 5 (6.94%) Coaching
10 5 (6.94%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 17 (23.61%) Java
2 10 (13.89%) JavaScript
3 7 (9.72%) SQL
4 5 (6.94%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.56%) Python
6 3 (4.17%) C#
7 1 (1.39%) PHP
7 1 (1.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (9.72%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.17%) Degree
3 2 (2.78%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.89%) WCAG
2 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.33%) Grafana
2 3 (4.17%) Kibana
3 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.56%) Brio
3 3 (4.17%) Aareon
4 1 (1.39%) Databricks
4 1 (1.39%) Mitel
4 1 (1.39%) Remedy