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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 114 116
Rank change year-on-year -19 +2 +15
Contract jobs citing WCAG 8 9 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.37% 0.52% 0.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.76% 2.55% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 4
10th Percentile £371 £385 -
25th Percentile £401 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £494
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +6.33% -3.66%
75th Percentile £550 £561 £556
90th Percentile £562 £580 £600
Central London median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -7.32%

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 454 353 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.10% 20.51% 16.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 251 203
10th Percentile £352 £338 £350
25th Percentile £459 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.38%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £650
90th Percentile £775 £838 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £34.00 -
Central London median hourly rate £30.41 £34.24 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.19% -2.17% -

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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 16 October 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 2 (25.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Figma
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Gatling
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JMeter
1 1 (12.50%) REST Assured
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Legal
4 1 (12.50%) Local Government
4 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Designer
2 2 (25.00%) Content Designer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Portfolio Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (12.50%) UI Designer
3 1 (12.50%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) D3.js
2 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) Playwright
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) Semantic HTML
2 1 (12.50%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 1 (12.50%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
1 4 (50.00%) Interaction Design
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) User Experience
2 3 (37.50%) UX Design
3 2 (25.00%) Content Management
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (25.00%) Service Design
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) User Research
4 1 (12.50%) Architectural Design
4 1 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (12.50%) Content Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) Human-Centred Design
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Typography
4 1 (12.50%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Brio
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft