Web Accessibility Contracts

Web Accessibility
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Web Accessibility skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Web 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 583 705 796
Rank change year-on-year +122 +91 -181
Contract jobs citing Web Accessibility 15 14 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.023% 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.026% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 41
10th Percentile £223 £418 £413
25th Percentile £327 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% -14.29% +27.27%
75th Percentile £497 £488 £575
90th Percentile £536 £589 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £219 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -51.33% -10.00% +92.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £20.50
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Web Accessibility is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Web Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Accessibility in the UK

Web Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Web Accessibility in the UK

Web Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Web Accessibility in the UK

Web Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Accessibility in the UK

Web Accessibility
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Accessibility within the UK 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
England +128 10 £475 - 13
Work from Home +133 9 £463 +2.78% 9
London +104 7 £488 -23.53% 4
UK excluding London +66 5 £219 -51.33% 8
West Midlands +32 3 £360 - 1
Midlands +25 3 £360 - 2
Scotland - 2 £219 -

Web Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (20.00%) CMS
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Headless CMS
2 2 (13.33%) WordPress
3 1 (6.67%) Jadu
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Cypress.io
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Selenium
2 2 (13.33%) webpack
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 3 (20.00%) Ruby Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Tester
3 2 (13.33%) Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Content Editor
4 1 (6.67%) Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Scrum Master
4 1 (6.67%) UX Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) HTML
1 6 (40.00%) Node.js
1 6 (40.00%) RESTful
1 6 (40.00%) Web Services
2 3 (20.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (13.33%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) CSS
3 2 (13.33%) Next.js
3 2 (13.33%) Playwright
3 2 (13.33%) React
3 2 (13.33%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (6.67%) Apache Sling
4 1 (6.67%) Express.js
4 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.67%) jQuery
4 1 (6.67%) JSON
4 1 (6.67%) Nunjucks
4 1 (6.67%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (20.00%) DevOps
2 3 (20.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (20.00%) User Experience
3 2 (13.33%) Analytics
3 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (13.33%) Performance Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Regression Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Service Design
3 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (13.33%) UX Design
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (6.67%) Content Management
4 1 (6.67%) SEO
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (20.00%) Ruby
2 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (26.67%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Adobe