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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 120 123
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +67
Contract jobs citing WCAG 8 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.44% 0.049% 0.44%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.09% 0.32% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 8
10th Percentile £385 - £383
25th Percentile £425 £475 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £547 £525 £609
90th Percentile £580 - £638
Central London median daily rate £513 £500 £480
% change year-on-year +2.50% +4.17% -

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 383 311 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.84% 15.35% 16.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 169 293
10th Percentile £325 £323 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £684
90th Percentile £825 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £561 £575
% change year-on-year -6.46% -2.39% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £26.51 - -
25th Percentile £26.54 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +271.79%
75th Percentile £32.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile £34.30 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.34 £28.75 £72.50
% change year-on-year -8.38% -60.34% +271.79%

WCAG
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

WCAG
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

WCAG
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 30 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in the City of London

WCAG
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

WCAG
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 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) BrowserStack
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (12.50%) npm
1 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) gulp
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (12.50%) webpack
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (25.00%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Content Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) User Researcher
3 1 (12.50%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
1 3 (37.50%) React
1 3 (37.50%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) D3.js
2 2 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (25.00%) SOAP
2 2 (25.00%) Visualforce
2 2 (25.00%) Vue
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5
3 1 (12.50%) Jest
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) Playwright
3 1 (12.50%) Sass
3 1 (12.50%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (37.50%) Responsive Web Design
1 3 (37.50%) User Research
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (25.00%) Data Science
2 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusive Design
2 2 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (25.00%) Web Development
3 1 (12.50%) Compatibility Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Psychology
3 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Apex Code
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
WCAG jobs