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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 120 120
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 +27
Contract jobs citing WCAG 9 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.38% 0.38% 0.44%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.07% 1.97% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 8
10th Percentile £362 £323 £419
25th Percentile £380 £386 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.46% +7.89% -11.21%
75th Percentile £575 £548 £508
90th Percentile £643 £597 £561
Central London median daily rate £403 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -21.46% +7.89% -11.21%

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 435 356 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.13% 19.08% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 259 231
10th Percentile £379 £359 £363
25th Percentile £464 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £675
90th Percentile £775 £815 £751
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.32% -8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £28.05 £16.60
25th Percentile £72.25 £37.13 £17.50
Median hourly rate £74.50 £54.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.70% +172.50% -
75th Percentile £76.75 £72.75 £22.50
90th Percentile - £82.35 £23.40
Central London median hourly rate £66.00 £34.48 £23.80
% change year-on-year +91.42% +44.87% -4.80%

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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 7 August 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 4 (44.44%) Figma
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Gatling
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) JMeter
1 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Local Government
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Designer
2 3 (33.33%) UI Designer
3 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) QA Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Content Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Portfolio Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Product Designer
4 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior UI Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) UI Developer
4 1 (11.11%) UI/UX Designer
4 1 (11.11%) UI/UX Developer
4 1 (11.11%) UX Designer
4 1 (11.11%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) D3.js
1 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
1 1 (11.11%) Playwright
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
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%) Inclusive Design
1 4 (44.44%) User Experience
1 4 (44.44%) UX Design
2 3 (33.33%) AI
2 3 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) Interaction Design
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) OWASP
3 2 (22.22%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Usability Testing
3 2 (22.22%) User Research
3 2 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (22.22%) Wireframes
4 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
4 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (11.11%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
2 1 (11.11%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (22.22%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) IBM