The first table below looks at the demand for WCAG skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCAG over the 3 months to 17 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 for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Rank - 188 167
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 0 1 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands - 0.022% 0.072%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 0.329% 0.831%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 3
Average salary - £18,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -28.00%
UK excluding London average salary £24,000 £35,000 £25,000
% change year-on-year
-31.42% +40.00%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
511 304 361
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 10.29% 6.751% 8.697%
Number of salaries quoted 405 254 296
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,450 £26,448 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
WCAG
England

WCAG
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing WCAG across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

West Midlands WCAG Jobs Demand Trend

WCAG
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WCAG across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands WCAG Salary Trend

WCAG
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited WCAG.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) WAI
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) DotNetNuke
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development

WCAG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited WCAG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) DotNetNuke
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) WAI