WCAG Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring WCAG skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WCAG over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 119 167
Rank change year-on-year +4 +48 +12
Contract jobs citing WCAG 4 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.32% 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.39% 1.85% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile £392 £338 £354
25th Percentile £445 £373 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £431 £535
Median % change year-on-year +18.84% -19.39% -10.83%
75th Percentile £553 £475 £564
90th Percentile £604 £488 £571
Central London median daily rate £513 £450 £535
% change year-on-year +13.89% -15.89% -10.83%

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 287 378 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.33% 17.21% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 273 337
10th Percentile £375 £363 £400
25th Percentile £462 £463 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £703 £663 £725
90th Percentile £809 £770 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.61 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £23.40 £23.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.43% -45.98%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing WCAG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WCAG in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for WCAG in the City of London

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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 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (25.00%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Storybook
1 1 (25.00%) Vite
1 1 (25.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Law
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (25.00%) Interaction Designer
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile UX Designer
2 1 (25.00%) React Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Interaction Designer
2 1 (25.00%) UI Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) UX Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) Redux
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
1 2 (50.00%) User Experience
1 2 (50.00%) User Research
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (25.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (25.00%) Interaction Design
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (25.00%) Usability Testing
2 1 (25.00%) UX Design
2 1 (25.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (25.00%) SAP