Accessibility Contracts in the UK excluding London

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 200 217
Rank change year-on-year +10 +17 -69
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 212 291 357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.03% 1.24% 1.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.97% 8.34% 8.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 239 278
10th Percentile £360 £360 £342
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -1.20% +13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £573 £575
90th Percentile £631 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.00 - -
Median hourly rate £14.50 £16.77 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.54% - -
75th Percentile £19.62 - -
90th Percentile £55.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £23.36 £20.89
% change year-on-year -22.39% +11.82% -18.08%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,042 3,490 4,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.82% 14.85% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,782 2,350 3,075
10th Percentile £250 £218 £204
25th Percentile £363 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £479 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% +6.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 186 193
10th Percentile £10.95 £12.67 £11.39
25th Percentile £12.63 £18.02 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £32.94 £21.04
Median % change year-on-year -45.36% +56.57% +0.07%
75th Percentile £45.00 £59.82 £44.69
90th Percentile £68.00 £77.50 £64.19
UK median hourly rate £20.61 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -41.13% +27.27% +30.95%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Accessibility in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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 of England +22 72 £463 -11.90% 47
Scotland +4 66 £461 -5.49% 11
North West +26 42 £490 -9.89% 25
South East +5 36 £450 +10.77% 36
South West +24 24 £590 -1.67% 27
Yorkshire +18 23 £425 -19.05% 18
Midlands +8 10 £410 -12.53% 34
West Midlands +14 9 £410 -15.90% 29
North East +10 7 £453 -17.68% 5
East of England +4 2 £700 +69.70% 13
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 - 4
East Midlands +8 1 £400 +5.96% 5
Accessibility
UK

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 13 (6.13%) CMS
2 9 (4.25%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.36%) Confluence
4 4 (1.89%) Drupal
5 3 (1.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.42%) WordPress
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.47%) Jadu
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.47%) Moodle
6 1 (0.47%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 18 (8.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (6.13%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (5.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (2.36%) InVision
5 5 (2.36%) Sketch
6 3 (1.42%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.94%) Adobe Captivate
7 2 (0.94%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.94%) Lectora
7 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.47%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.42%) Aareon QL
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.47%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.47%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.47%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.47%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 42 (19.81%) AWS
2 26 (12.26%) Serverless
3 24 (11.32%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (9.43%) Amazon S3
5 18 (8.49%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (8.02%) Azure
7 12 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (5.19%) OpenShift
9 9 (4.25%) GitHub
10 8 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.30%) Figma
11 7 (3.30%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.36%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (2.36%) BrowserStack
12 5 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.89%) Rekognition
13 4 (1.89%) Textract
14 3 (1.42%) npm
14 3 (1.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.42%) Internet
1 3 (1.42%) Intranet
1 3 (1.42%) VoIP
2 2 (0.94%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) LAN
3 1 (0.47%) SMS
3 1 (0.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.85%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.96%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (3.77%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.30%) Power BI
5 6 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.83%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.83%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.89%) MySQL
6 4 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.42%) Big Data
7 3 (1.42%) Metadata
8 2 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.94%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.94%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.94%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.47%) Looker
9 1 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 14 (6.60%) Cypress.io
2 11 (5.19%) JIRA
2 11 (5.19%) Selenium
3 10 (4.72%) Git
3 10 (4.72%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.30%) JMeter
5 6 (2.83%) Postman
5 6 (2.83%) Visual Studio
5 6 (2.83%) webpack
6 5 (2.36%) NUnit
7 4 (1.89%) GitLab
8 2 (0.94%) TestCafe
9 1 (0.47%) Babel
9 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.47%) Gatling
9 1 (0.47%) GoCD
9 1 (0.47%) Pa11y
9 1 (0.47%) rollup.js
9 1 (0.47%) Vite
9 1 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 67 (31.60%) Social Skills
2 64 (30.19%) Public Sector
3 36 (16.98%) Finance
4 23 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.55%) Marketing
6 14 (6.60%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.25%) Legal
8 5 (2.36%) Law
9 4 (1.89%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.89%) Publishing
10 3 (1.42%) Banking
11 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.94%) Local Government
11 2 (0.94%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.47%) Electronics
12 1 (0.47%) French Language
12 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (22.17%) Developer
2 43 (20.28%) Designer
3 35 (16.51%) Senior
4 22 (10.38%) Test Engineer
5 16 (7.55%) Senior Test Engineer
6 15 (7.08%) UX Designer
7 13 (6.13%) Architect
8 12 (5.66%) Lead
9 10 (4.72%) Java Developer
10 9 (4.25%) Content Designer
10 9 (4.25%) Software Developer
11 8 (3.77%) Creative Designer
11 8 (3.77%) Senior Designer
11 8 (3.77%) User Researcher
12 7 (3.30%) Interaction Designer
12 7 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (3.30%) Test Automation Engineer
13 6 (2.83%) Full Stack Developer
13 6 (2.83%) Full Stack Engineer
13 6 (2.83%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.15%) React
2 28 (13.21%) HTML
3 25 (11.79%) CSS
4 22 (10.38%) AWS CDK
5 19 (8.96%) Node.js
6 8 (3.77%) GraphQL
6 8 (3.77%) Playwright
6 8 (3.77%) REST
6 8 (3.77%) Spring
6 8 (3.77%) Spring Boot
7 7 (3.30%) .NET
7 7 (3.30%) AngularJS
7 7 (3.30%) Next.js
7 7 (3.30%) RESTful
8 5 (2.36%) Jest
9 4 (1.89%) Redux
9 4 (1.89%) Spring MVC
9 4 (1.89%) Spring Web Flow
9 4 (1.89%) Thymeleaf
10 3 (1.42%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.55%) Management Information System
2 11 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.72%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.77%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.36%) NHS
6 4 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.42%) Smartphone
7 3 (1.42%) Video Editing
8 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.94%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.94%) Learning Management System
8 2 (0.94%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.94%) Social Media
9 1 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.47%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.47%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.47%) Motion Graphics
9 1 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.30%) Windows
2 4 (1.89%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.94%) Android
3 2 (0.94%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.94%) Linux
3 2 (0.94%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.47%) Unix
4 1 (0.47%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (37.74%) Agile
2 49 (23.11%) User Experience
3 36 (16.98%) Test Automation
4 32 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (13.68%) CI/CD
5 29 (13.68%) User Research
6 28 (13.21%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 26 (12.26%) Mentoring
8 24 (11.32%) UX Design
9 23 (10.85%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (10.38%) Service Design
10 22 (10.38%) TDD
11 21 (9.91%) DevOps
12 20 (9.43%) Analytics
12 20 (9.43%) Coaching
12 20 (9.43%) Project Management
13 18 (8.49%) Inclusive Design
13 18 (8.49%) Microservices
13 18 (8.49%) Roadmaps
13 18 (8.49%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 43 (20.28%) JavaScript
2 42 (19.81%) Java
3 33 (15.57%) TypeScript
4 21 (9.91%) Python
5 19 (8.96%) SQL
6 9 (4.25%) Bash
7 6 (2.83%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.89%) C#
9 2 (0.94%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.47%) PHP
10 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (10.85%) Security Cleared
2 18 (8.49%) Degree
3 14 (6.60%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.30%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.89%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.47%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.21%) WCAG
2 12 (5.66%) QA
3 11 (5.19%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (2.36%) SLA
5 4 (1.89%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.47%) GDPR
6 1 (0.47%) GMP
6 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (8.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (8.02%) Grafana
2 5 (2.36%) Kibana
3 4 (1.89%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.89%) Terraform
4 1 (0.47%) Ansible
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.47%) Packer
4 1 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (10.38%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.96%) Adobe
3 9 (4.25%) Oracle
4 5 (2.36%) Reuters
4 5 (2.36%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.89%) Brio
5 4 (1.89%) Remedy
6 3 (1.42%) Aareon
7 2 (0.94%) Facebook
7 2 (0.94%) Google
7 2 (0.94%) IBM
7 2 (0.94%) Instagram
7 2 (0.94%) SAP
8 1 (0.47%) Databricks
8 1 (0.47%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.47%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.47%) Mitel
8 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.47%) Pega
8 1 (0.47%) Twitter