WCAG Contracts in the UK excluding London

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 354 403 442
Rank change year-on-year +49 +39 -79
Contract jobs citing WCAG 31 53 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.23% 0.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.02% 1.52% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 43 48
10th Percentile £325 £387 £268
25th Percentile £389 £420 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £478 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +0.53% +31.03%
75th Percentile £553 £544 £531
90th Percentile £575 £638 £592
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £485
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.25% +14.12%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding 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 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%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for WCAG in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for WCAG in the UK excluding London

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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 WCAG 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 +24 11 £425 -16.67% 2
Scotland +33 10 £403 -4.17% 1
Yorkshire +24 8 £425 -19.05%
South West +18 4 £700 +7.53% 3
South East +8 3 £463 -15.91% 3
North East +15 2 £453 -9.45% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 -
Midlands +25 1 £400 +2.89% 3
North West +22 1 - - 1
East Midlands +18 1 £400 +5.96% 2
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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 3 (9.68%) WordPress
2 1 (3.23%) ArcGIS
2 1 (3.23%) CMS
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) InVision
1 3 (9.68%) Sketch
2 2 (6.45%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) AWS
1 3 (9.68%) Azure
1 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (9.68%) Figma
2 2 (6.45%) Azure Functions
2 2 (6.45%) Serverless
3 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.23%) GCP
3 1 (3.23%) GitHub
3 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.23%) Google Analytics
3 1 (3.23%) npm
3 1 (3.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Internet
2 1 (3.23%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (3.23%) MariaDB
1 1 (3.23%) Metadata
1 1 (3.23%) MySQL
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Selenium
2 7 (22.58%) JMeter
3 2 (6.45%) Git
3 2 (6.45%) webpack
4 1 (3.23%) Babel
4 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.23%) ESLint
4 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.23%) JIRA
4 1 (3.23%) Vite
General
1 13 (41.94%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Local Government
5 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Designer
1 9 (29.03%) Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Senior
3 6 (19.35%) UX Designer
4 4 (12.90%) Lead
4 4 (12.90%) Test Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Java Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Content Designer
6 2 (6.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (6.45%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Designer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Java Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Software Tester
6 2 (6.45%) Tester
7 1 (3.23%) Drupal Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Interaction Designer
7 1 (3.23%) Java Developer in Test
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) HTML
2 3 (9.68%) CSS
2 3 (9.68%) Web Services
3 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.45%) Node.js
3 2 (6.45%) React
3 2 (6.45%) RESTful
3 2 (6.45%) Vue
4 1 (3.23%) .NET
4 1 (3.23%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.23%) CSS3
4 1 (3.23%) HTML5
4 1 (3.23%) Jest
4 1 (3.23%) Material-UI
4 1 (3.23%) Parceljs
4 1 (3.23%) Redux
4 1 (3.23%) REST
4 1 (3.23%) SAML
4 1 (3.23%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
1 1 (3.23%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
1 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) User Experience
2 9 (29.03%) Agile
3 7 (22.58%) Acceptance Criteria
3 7 (22.58%) Test Scripting
3 7 (22.58%) User Research
3 7 (22.58%) User Stories
3 7 (22.58%) UX Design
4 6 (19.35%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 5 (16.13%) Inclusive Design
5 5 (16.13%) Service Design
5 5 (16.13%) Usability Testing
5 5 (16.13%) Wireframes
6 4 (12.90%) Contextual Inquiry
6 4 (12.90%) Front End Development
6 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
7 3 (9.68%) CI/CD
7 3 (9.68%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
7 3 (9.68%) Prototyping
7 3 (9.68%) SDET
7 3 (9.68%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) Java
2 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
3 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.45%) Bash
5 1 (3.23%) C#
5 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
3 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (90.32%) Accessibility
2 3 (9.68%) QA
3 1 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) Packer
2 1 (3.23%) Puppet
2 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Google
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow