The first table below looks at the demand for WCAG skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WCAG over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Rank 506 547 566
Rank change year-on-year
+41 +19
Contract jobs citing WCAG 28 39 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.059% 0.066% 0.033%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.851% 0.902% 0.472%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 26 14
Average daily rate £325 £365 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.95% +21.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £256 £275 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £474 £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £406 £300
% change year-on-year
-26.15% +35.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
3290 4326 4233
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.981% 7.297% 7.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 1971 2269 2317
Average daily rate £400 £415 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.61% -7.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £230 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 224 229
Average hourly rate £19.00 £16.72 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -39.20%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £110.00 £37.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%

WCAG
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WCAG within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

WCAG Jobs Demand Trend

WCAG
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WCAG within the UK.

WCAG Daily Rate Trend

WCAG
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WCAG within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

WCAG Daily Rate Histogram

WCAG
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WCAG within the UK.

WCAG Hourly Rate Trend

WCAG
Top 19 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +40 23 £325 -10.95%
London +17 17 £375 +5.63%
City of London +14 8 £420 -4.00%
North West +7 2 £240 -50.56%
Scotland - 2 £350 -
Cheshire - 2 £240 -
South East +16 1 - -
West Midlands +10 1 - -
East of England - 1 - -
Canary Wharf - 1 £500 -
Glasgow - 1 - -
Cambridge - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £260 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £260 -
Shropshire - 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Telford - 1 - -
Sheffield - 1 £260 -

WCAG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WCAG also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WCAG.

1 38 (79.17%) JavaScript
2 30 (62.50%) CSS
3 25 (52.08%) HTML
4 20 (41.67%) XHTML
4 20 (41.67%) W3C
5 17 (35.42%) .NET
6 16 (33.33%) SQL Server
6 16 (33.33%) XML
7 15 (31.25%) ASP.NET
7 15 (31.25%) C#
8 14 (29.17%) DOM
8 14 (29.17%) jQuery
8 14 (29.17%) SQL Server 2008
9 13 (27.08%) SharePoint 2010
9 13 (27.08%) XSL
9 13 (27.08%) SharePoint
10 12 (25.00%) Web Accessibility
11 11 (22.92%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 11 (22.92%) CSS3
11 11 (22.92%) E-business
11 11 (22.92%) SQL Server 2005
11 11 (22.92%) .NET Framework
12 10 (20.83%) Systems Analysis
12 10 (20.83%) Change Management
12 10 (20.83%) Photoshop
13 9 (18.75%) HTTP
13 9 (18.75%) CMS
13 9 (18.75%) Content Management
13 9 (18.75%) WCF
13 9 (18.75%) Volume Testing

WCAG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WCAG also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WCAG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 30 (62.50%) CSS
2 25 (52.08%) HTML
3 20 (41.67%) XHTML
4 17 (35.42%) .NET
5 16 (33.33%) XML
6 15 (31.25%) ASP.NET
7 14 (29.17%) DOM
7 14 (29.17%) jQuery
8 13 (27.08%) XSL
9 11 (22.92%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 11 (22.92%) CSS3
9 11 (22.92%) .NET Framework
10 9 (18.75%) WCF
11 8 (16.67%) Ajax
11 8 (16.67%) Web Services
12 7 (14.58%) DHTML
13 6 (12.50%) JSON
13 6 (12.50%) HTML5
14 4 (8.333%) Sass
14 4 (8.333%) LESS
Application Platforms
1 13 (27.08%) SharePoint 2010
1 13 (27.08%) SharePoint
2 9 (18.75%) CMS
3 2 (4.167%) Alfresco
3 2 (4.167%) Liferay
4 1 (2.083%) Magento
4 1 (2.083%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (2.083%) WordPress
4 1 (2.083%) Umbraco
4 1 (2.083%) Joomla!
4 1 (2.083%) IIS
4 1 (2.083%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (2.083%) TeamSite
Applications
1 10 (20.83%) Photoshop
2 8 (16.67%) GIMP
3 1 (2.083%) InfoPath
3 1 (2.083%) MS Office
3 1 (2.083%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.75%) HTTP
2 6 (12.50%) SSH
3 4 (8.333%) Internet
4 3 (6.250%) Intranet
5 1 (2.083%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 14 (29.17%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (22.92%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (6.250%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.083%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (2.083%) MySQL
5 1 (2.083%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (2.083%) SAP BW
5 1 (2.083%) EDRMS
5 1 (2.083%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 8 (16.67%) Dreamweaver
2 7 (14.58%) Subversion
3 6 (12.50%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 2 (4.167%) Visual Studio
4 2 (4.167%) Maven
5 1 (2.083%) Git (software)
5 1 (2.083%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.083%) QUnit
5 1 (2.083%) CruiseControl
5 1 (2.083%) PVCS
General
1 2 (4.167%) Front Office
1 2 (4.167%) Back Office
1 2 (4.167%) Marketing
2 1 (2.083%) Local Government
2 1 (2.083%) Banking
2 1 (2.083%) Retail
2 1 (2.083%) Finance
Job Titles
1 40 (83.33%) Developer
2 17 (35.42%) Web Developer
3 11 (22.92%) SharePoint Developer
4 10 (20.83%) Front-End Developer
5 8 (16.67%) HTML Developer
6 4 (8.333%) Designer
7 3 (6.250%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.250%) Web Designer
7 3 (6.250%) Analyst
8 2 (4.167%) Support Analyst
8 2 (4.167%) Tester
8 2 (4.167%) Software Tester
8 2 (4.167%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.167%) Front-End Web Developer
9 1 (2.083%) User Experience Designer
9 1 (2.083%) CMS Developer
9 1 (2.083%) C# .NET Developer
9 1 (2.083%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 1 (2.083%) C# Developer
9 1 (2.083%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (41.67%) W3C
2 6 (12.50%) Graphic Design
3 2 (4.167%) N-Tier
3 2 (4.167%) Social Media
4 1 (2.083%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.083%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.58%) UNIX
1 7 (14.58%) Linux
2 6 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (2.083%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.00%) Web Accessibility
2 11 (22.92%) E-business
3 10 (20.83%) Systems Analysis
3 10 (20.83%) Change Management
4 9 (18.75%) Content Management
4 9 (18.75%) Volume Testing
4 9 (18.75%) Unit Testing
5 8 (16.67%) Web Development
6 6 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (12.50%) MVC
6 6 (12.50%) Information Architecture
7 4 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (8.333%) Change Control
7 4 (8.333%) BDD
7 4 (8.333%) OO
7 4 (8.333%) Scrum
7 4 (8.333%) TDD
8 3 (6.250%) Web Design
9 2 (4.167%) E-Commerce
9 2 (4.167%) UML
Programming Languages
1 38 (79.17%) JavaScript
2 15 (31.25%) C#
3 4 (8.333%) SQL
4 3 (6.250%) Java
4 3 (6.250%) VB
5 2 (4.167%) PL/SQL
5 2 (4.167%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.083%) PHP5
6 1 (2.083%) Perl
6 1 (2.083%) PHP
6 1 (2.083%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.083%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1 (2.083%) Degree
1 1 (2.083%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) WAI
Systems Management
1 1 (2.083%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (6.250%) Oracle
2 2 (4.167%) Salesforce.com
2 2 (4.167%) HP
2 2 (4.167%) Adobe
3 1 (2.083%) EPiServer
3 1 (2.083%) Open Text
3 1 (2.083%) SAP
3 1 (2.083%) Interwoven
3 1 (2.083%) Microsoft