Accessibility Contracts in Scotland

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 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 55 65 71
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -19
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 80 116 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.62% 4.06% 2.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.23% 20.42% 15.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 108 85
10th Percentile £219 £405 £321
25th Percentile £415 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -2.50% +12.36%
75th Percentile £508 £538 £550
90th Percentile £575 £589 £650
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £15.19 - -
25th Percentile £15.34 - -
Median hourly rate £15.70 - -
75th Percentile £17.06 - -
90th Percentile £17.46 - -
UK median hourly rate £18.35 £23.36 £20.89
% change year-on-year -21.47% +11.82% -18.08%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 416 568 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.85% 19.90% 19.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 481 507
10th Percentile £193 £213 £213
25th Percentile £340 £400 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +2.41%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £625 £638 £600
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 13
10th Percentile £15.32 £26.25 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.18 £34.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £18.27 £47.73 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.72% +44.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £51.28 £50.74 £43.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £52.55 £52.60
UK median hourly rate £20.61 £37.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -45.05% +31.58% +35.71%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in Scotland

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in Scotland

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in Scotland

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in Scotland

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +12 46 £459 -5.12% 8
Glasgow +6 20 £486 -4.94% 4
South Lanarkshire -3 1 £550 +11.11%
Lanarkshire - 1 £425 - 1
West Lothian - 1 £188 -
Accessibility
UK

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (6.25%) CMS
2 4 (5.00%) WordPress
3 3 (3.75%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.50%) Moodle
5 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.50%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (2.50%) Camtasia
2 2 (2.50%) Lectora
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.25%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.25%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.25%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 33 (41.25%) AWS
2 27 (33.75%) Amazon S3
2 27 (33.75%) Serverless
3 26 (32.50%) AWS Lambda
4 25 (31.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (22.50%) OpenShift
6 6 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (5.00%) Rekognition
8 4 (5.00%) Textract
9 2 (2.50%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (2.50%) Azure
9 2 (2.50%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.25%) Canva
10 1 (1.25%) CloudFront
10 1 (1.25%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.25%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (1.25%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) VoIP
2 1 (1.25%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) Internet
2 1 (1.25%) LAN
2 1 (1.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (33.75%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (32.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (7.50%) Oracle Database
4 4 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (2.50%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.50%) Metadata
6 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.25%) Looker
7 1 (1.25%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.25%) MySQL
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (13.75%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.25%) Cypress.io
3 4 (5.00%) JIRA
4 2 (2.50%) GitLab
4 2 (2.50%) webpack
5 1 (1.25%) Git
General
1 49 (61.25%) Public Sector
2 17 (21.25%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.25%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (8.75%) Finance
6 4 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Publishing
8 1 (1.25%) Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
8 1 (1.25%) Marketing
8 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (37.50%) Developer
2 19 (23.75%) Designer
3 11 (13.75%) Lead
3 11 (13.75%) Senior
4 9 (11.25%) Full Stack Developer
5 8 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 8 (10.00%) UX Designer
6 7 (8.75%) Content Designer
7 6 (7.50%) Senior Designer
7 6 (7.50%) Technical Leader
8 5 (6.25%) Java Developer
9 4 (5.00%) User Researcher
10 3 (3.75%) AWS Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Service Designer
10 3 (3.75%) Voice Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Voice Specialist
10 3 (3.75%) VoIP Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) VoIP Specialist
11 2 (2.50%) Learning Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (37.50%) HTML
2 28 (35.00%) AWS CDK
2 28 (35.00%) CSS
3 27 (33.75%) React
4 16 (20.00%) Node.js
5 13 (16.25%) REST
6 10 (12.50%) Spring
6 10 (12.50%) Spring Boot
7 8 (10.00%) Spring MVC
7 8 (10.00%) Spring Web Flow
8 7 (8.75%) Thymeleaf
9 6 (7.50%) OAuth
9 6 (7.50%) Spring Security
10 5 (6.25%) OAuth2
11 2 (2.50%) Flash
11 2 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (2.50%) RESTful
11 2 (2.50%) Web Services
12 1 (1.25%) COM+
12 1 (1.25%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.75%) Video Editing
4 2 (2.50%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.50%) Learning Management System
4 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.50%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) VLE
5 1 (1.25%) 3D Graphics
5 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.25%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.25%) Motion Graphics
5 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) Android
1 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.25%) Linux
1 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
1 1 (1.25%) Unix
1 1 (1.25%) Windows
1 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.75%) Agile
2 30 (37.50%) User Experience
3 25 (31.25%) Inclusive Design
4 24 (30.00%) Human-Centred Design
5 23 (28.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (27.50%) Mentoring
6 22 (27.50%) Service Design
7 19 (23.75%) CI/CD
7 19 (23.75%) User Research
8 18 (22.50%) Code Quality
8 18 (22.50%) Microservices
9 17 (21.25%) Test Automation
9 17 (21.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 16 (20.00%) Coaching
10 16 (20.00%) Pair Programming
10 16 (20.00%) TDD
11 15 (18.75%) Product Management
11 15 (18.75%) Unit Testing
12 14 (17.50%) Analytics
12 14 (17.50%) Code Coverage
Programming Languages
1 31 (38.75%) JavaScript
2 29 (36.25%) TypeScript
3 22 (27.50%) Java
4 16 (20.00%) Python
5 9 (11.25%) SQL
6 8 (10.00%) Bash
7 6 (7.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (7.50%) Degree
2 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.25%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (11.25%) WCAG
3 3 (3.75%) QA
4 2 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (21.25%) Grafana
2 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.50%) Kibana
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (11.25%) Oracle
2 6 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.00%) Adobe
4 2 (2.50%) IBM
4 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.25%) Avaya
5 1 (1.25%) Citrix
5 1 (1.25%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.25%) Facebook
5 1 (1.25%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.25%) Google
5 1 (1.25%) Instagram
5 1 (1.25%) Pega
5 1 (1.25%) Twitter