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 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 115 119
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 +54
Contract jobs citing WCAG 9 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.39% 0.23% 0.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.08% 1.39% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 6
10th Percentile £257 £392 £338
25th Percentile £373 £445 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £513 £431
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +18.84% -19.39%
75th Percentile £533 £553 £475
90th Percentile £609 £604 £488
Central London median daily rate £481 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -6.10% +13.89% -15.89%

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 432 288 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.86% 16.38% 17.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 184 277
10th Percentile £331 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% +3.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £660
90th Percentile £775 £800 £760
Central London median daily rate £525 £554 £550
% change year-on-year -5.15% +0.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £19.23 - £17.18
25th Percentile £22.24 - £18.94
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £21.80
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +0.91% -
75th Percentile £52.25 - £36.44
90th Percentile £66.95 - £58.83
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £22.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +16.04% -5.46% +1.28%

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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 30 April 2026.

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%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe XD
1 1 (11.11%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Figma
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Local Government
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Designer
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Salesforce Developer
2 2 (22.22%) UI Designer
2 2 (22.22%) UX Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Content Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (11.11%) Product Designer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) CSS
1 2 (22.22%) HTML
1 2 (22.22%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) SOAP
1 2 (22.22%) Visualforce
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) D3.js
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
1 1 (11.11%) Taxonomies
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) Analytics
1 4 (44.44%) Inclusive Design
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (44.44%) User Research
2 3 (33.33%) AI
2 3 (33.33%) Interaction Design
2 3 (33.33%) User Experience
2 3 (33.33%) UX Design
3 2 (22.22%) Journey Map
3 2 (22.22%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (22.22%) Usability Testing
3 2 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (22.22%) Web Development
3 2 (22.22%) Wireframes
4 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
4 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
4 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (11.11%) LLM
4 1 (11.11%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) Apex Code
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) IBM