Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for WAI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WAI 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 877 965 1212
Rank change year-on-year +88 +247 -333
Permanent jobs citing WAI 19 5 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.005% 0.013%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.14% 0.025% 0.078%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile - £47,400 -
25th Percentile £61,250 £54,000 £30,241
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £30,906
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +110.32% -38.19%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £53,750
90th Percentile - £71,000 £57,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £47,000 £30,906
% change year-on-year +32.98% +52.08% -38.19%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

WAI is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,490 20,156 25,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.76% 19.26% 16.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,233 9,268 13,209
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -

WAI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WAI in the UK

WAI
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WAI.

Salary trend for WAI in the UK

WAI
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAI 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +30 17 £62,500 +32.98%
Scotland - 15 - -
England +113 4 £62,500 +11.61%
London +131 2 - -
North East - 2 £62,500 -
North of England - 2 £62,500 -

WAI
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (78.95%) SQL Server
2 6 (31.58%) Big Data
3 4 (21.05%) NoSQL
3 4 (21.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (78.95%) Git
1 15 (78.95%) Jasmine
1 15 (78.95%) Karma Test Runner
1 15 (78.95%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (89.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 15 (78.95%) Banking
2 15 (78.95%) Finance
2 15 (78.95%) Law
2 15 (78.95%) Private Banking
3 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Developer
2 9 (47.37%) UI Developer
3 6 (31.58%) Software Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) UI Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (10.53%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 19 (100.00%) CSS
1 19 (100.00%) RESTful
2 15 (78.95%) .NET
2 15 (78.95%) ASP.NET
2 15 (78.95%) ASP.NET MVC
2 15 (78.95%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 15 (78.95%) ASP.NET Web API
2 15 (78.95%) HTML
2 15 (78.95%) jQuery
2 15 (78.95%) LESS
2 15 (78.95%) OAuth
2 15 (78.95%) OAuth2
2 15 (78.95%) OpenAPI
2 15 (78.95%) Sass
2 15 (78.95%) Swagger
3 4 (21.05%) Express.js
3 4 (21.05%) Node.js
3 4 (21.05%) Nunjucks
3 4 (21.05%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (78.95%) Cloud Native
2 6 (31.58%) Public Cloud
3 4 (21.05%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) Front End Development
2 15 (78.95%) Agile
2 15 (78.95%) Asset Management
2 15 (78.95%) Investment Management
2 15 (78.95%) MVC
2 15 (78.95%) Test Automation
2 15 (78.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 15 (78.95%) Wealth Management
3 9 (47.37%) Software Architecture
3 9 (47.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (31.58%) Software Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (21.05%) Clean Code
5 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
5 4 (21.05%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (21.05%) Micro Frontends
5 4 (21.05%) Mobile First
6 2 (10.53%) API Integration
6 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (10.53%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 15 (78.95%) C#
2 15 (78.95%) T-SQL
2 15 (78.95%) TypeScript
3 4 (21.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (89.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker