Accessibility Contracts in the West Midlands

Accessibility (a11y)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 100 117 139
Rank change year-on-year +17 +22 -27
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 9 22 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.47% 0.92% 1.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.04% 5.46% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 30
10th Percentile £380 £296 £381
25th Percentile £401 £411 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £488 £542
Median % change year-on-year -15.90% -9.97% +19.80%
75th Percentile £488 £613 £575
90th Percentile £531 £655 £590
England median daily rate £475 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -7.32% -4.65% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £18.97 £20.07 £25.01
% change year-on-year -5.46% -19.76% -1.94%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 296 403 481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.38% 16.93% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 260 339
10th Percentile £260 £262 £250
25th Percentile £363 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £459
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +7.84% +8.00%
75th Percentile £625 £595 £575
90th Percentile £784 £675 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 10 7
10th Percentile £11.91 £10.99 £10.65
25th Percentile £13.18 £12.50 £11.63
Median hourly rate £14.00 £16.10 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -5.29% -5.56%
75th Percentile £45.78 £23.02 £18.75
90th Percentile £58.75 £27.92 £20.00
England median hourly rate £22.04 £40.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year -45.25% +46.36% +30.95%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the West Midlands

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the West Midlands

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the West Midlands

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the West Midlands

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +3 3 £360 -42.40% 15
Coventry +12 2 £450 -5.26%
Warwickshire - 2 £410 - 2
Worcestershire - 1 £550 -
Accessibility
England

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (22.22%) CMS
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Headless CMS
2 1 (11.11%) Jadu
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (11.11%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Figma
2 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) webpack
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (22.22%) Marketing
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Designer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Interaction Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Service Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) UX Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Next.js
1 2 (22.22%) React
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Sling
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) User Experience
2 3 (33.33%) Web Accessibility
3 2 (22.22%) Contingency Planning
3 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Prototyping
3 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (22.22%) UX Design
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Interaction Design
4 1 (11.11%) Product Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Service Design
4 1 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe