WCAG Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring WCAG skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 116 131
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 +67
Contract jobs citing WCAG 9 5 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.52% 0.24% 0.59%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.55% 1.40% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 12
10th Percentile £385 - £414
25th Percentile £463 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £513
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -3.66% -24.07%
75th Percentile £561 £556 £609
90th Percentile £580 £600 £638
Central London median daily rate £525 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +10.53% -7.32% -24.07%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

WCAG falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 353 357 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.51% 16.85% 15.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 203 324
10th Percentile £338 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £695 £650 £696
90th Percentile £838 £750 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £23.83 - -
25th Percentile £26.57 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
75th Percentile £56.75 - -
90th Percentile £75.95 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.24 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year -2.17% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WCAG relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

WCAG job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WCAG.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WCAG

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCAG in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WCAG.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WCAG

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) Drupal
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Figma
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) BrowserStack
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) npm
2 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) webpack
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) gulp
2 1 (11.11%) Postman
2 1 (11.11%) Storybook
2 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (11.11%) Vite
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Designer
2 2 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Content Designer
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) UI Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) User Researcher
3 1 (11.11%) UX Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Visual Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) HTML
2 3 (33.33%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) React
3 2 (22.22%) REST
3 2 (22.22%) Sass
4 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 1 (11.11%) D3.js
4 1 (11.11%) HTML5
4 1 (11.11%) Jest
4 1 (11.11%) jQuery
4 1 (11.11%) Node.js
4 1 (11.11%) Playwright
4 1 (11.11%) Redux
4 1 (11.11%) Semantic HTML
4 1 (11.11%) SPFx
4 1 (11.11%) Twig
4 1 (11.11%) Vue
4 1 (11.11%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Front End Development
2 4 (44.44%) Scrum
2 4 (44.44%) User Experience
2 4 (44.44%) UX Design
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Inclusive Design
3 3 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (22.22%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (22.22%) Secure Coding
4 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) User Research
4 2 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (11.11%) Budget Responsibility
5 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (11.11%) Mobile First
5 1 (11.11%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) Accessibility
2 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft