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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 116 157
Rank change year-on-year +5 +41 +23
Contract jobs citing WCAG 5 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.29% 0.37% 0.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.65% 2.19% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 4
10th Percentile £392 £389 £374
25th Percentile £445 £416 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £543
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -17.05% -9.58%
75th Percentile £553 £516 £591
90th Percentile £604 £570 £619
Central London median daily rate £513 £450 £543
% change year-on-year +13.89% -17.05% -9.58%

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 303 365 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.84% 16.96% 13.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 265 342
10th Percentile £385 £363 £375
25th Percentile £456 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -8.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £713 £650 £725
90th Percentile £824 £750 £825
Central London median daily rate £568 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +3.18% -8.33% +6.67%
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 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% -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 31 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 (20.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (20.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Figma
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Storybook
1 1 (20.00%) Vite
1 1 (20.00%) webpack
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (20.00%) Interaction Designer
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile UX Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Interaction Designer
2 1 (20.00%) UI Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) UX Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) Redux
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) Sass
3 1 (20.00%) Semantic HTML
3 1 (20.00%) Twig
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) User Experience
1 3 (60.00%) UX Design
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusive Design
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) User Research
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
3 1 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
3 1 (20.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
3 1 (20.00%) Interaction Design
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (20.00%) Speech Recognition
3 1 (20.00%) Usability Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
3 1 (20.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft