WCAG Contracts in Yorkshire

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 115 137
Rank change year-on-year +18 +22 -50
Contract jobs citing WCAG 8 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.48% 0.49% 0.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.72% 3.96% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 6
10th Percentile £401 £437 £325
25th Percentile £413 £501 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +23.53% +63.46%
75th Percentile £450 £554 £504
90th Percentile £473 £564 £536
England median daily rate £450 £560 £500
% change year-on-year -19.64% +12.00% +17.65%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 215 278 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.90% 12.30% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 159 237
10th Percentile £304 £274 £171
25th Percentile £378 £413 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +20.00% +1.19%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £538
90th Percentile £650 £638 £600
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 20
10th Percentile - £13.16 £15.93
25th Percentile £10.86 £16.58 £18.40
Median hourly rate £10.93 £30.25 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.87% +47.60% +3.02%
75th Percentile £14.22 £49.08 £25.38
90th Percentile £27.41 £50.22 £28.45
England median hourly rate £22.42 £39.80 £29.12
% change year-on-year -43.67% +36.68% +38.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing WCAG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WCAG in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for WCAG in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
South Yorkshire +1 7 £425 -3.41%
West Yorkshire +20 1 £450 -14.29%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) JMeter
1 7 (87.50%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Tester
3 2 (25.00%) Tester
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Content Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer in Test
4 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Developer in Test
4 1 (12.50%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Acceptance Criteria
1 7 (87.50%) Test Scripting
1 7 (87.50%) User Stories
2 3 (37.50%) SDET
2 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) Accessibility