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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 114 158
Rank change year-on-year +5 +44 +35
Contract jobs citing WCAG 6 11 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.33% 0.52% 0.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.82% 3.01% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 8
10th Percentile £404 £398 £298
25th Percentile £475 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £524
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.31% -12.71%
75th Percentile £556 £501 £558
90th Percentile £605 £551 £594
Central London median daily rate £525 £463 £524
% change year-on-year +13.51% -11.69% -12.71%

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 330 366 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.36% 17.14% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 257 356
10th Percentile £369 £363 £388
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £706 £650 £713
90th Percentile £800 £769 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £28.05 £16.78 -
25th Percentile £37.13 £17.96 -
Median hourly rate £54.50 £20.61 -
Median % change year-on-year +164.50% - -
75th Percentile £72.75 £22.65 -
90th Percentile £82.35 £23.46 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £23.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +47.35% -6.40% -39.76%

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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 3 July 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 (16.67%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe XD
1 1 (16.67%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Figma
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Storybook
1 1 (16.67%) Vite
1 1 (16.67%) webpack
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (16.67%) Interaction Designer
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile UX Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Interaction Designer
2 1 (16.67%) UI Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) UX Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) Redux
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) Sass
3 1 (16.67%) Semantic HTML
3 1 (16.67%) Twig
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) User Experience
1 4 (66.67%) UX Design
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) User Research
4 1 (16.67%) Conversational UI
4 1 (16.67%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
4 1 (16.67%) Fintech
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (16.67%) Interaction Design
4 1 (16.67%) Mobile First
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
4 1 (16.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft