Accessibility Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Accessibility (a11y)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Accessibility skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 56 66
Rank change year-on-year -11 +10 -4
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 3 10 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.38% 1.27% 0.57%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.13% 9.71% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £306 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £322 £313 £375
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% -16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile - £319 £498
90th Percentile - - £522
England median daily rate £470 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -9.62% +4.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.25 - -
Median hourly rate £20.50 £13.52 -
Median % change year-on-year +51.63% - -
75th Percentile £20.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £33.46 £26.56 £19.75
% change year-on-year +25.98% +34.48% -72.76%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

Accessibility 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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 141 103 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.78% 13.09% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 57 77
10th Percentile £300 £263 £258
25th Percentile £358 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £473 £600 £538
90th Percentile £538 £731 £653
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 8
10th Percentile £15.12 - £10.76
25th Percentile £17.69 £12.75 £15.19
Median hourly rate £20.83 £13.51 £20.26
Median % change year-on-year +54.18% -33.30% +3.00%
75th Percentile £25.11 £35.25 £41.32
90th Percentile £29.88 £48.63 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £33.07 £36.75
% change year-on-year -1.72% -10.01% +63.33%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the East Midlands

Accessibility
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Accessibility.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Accessibility.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire - 1 - -
Leicestershire - 1 - - 11
Northamptonshire - 1 £322 - 2
Accessibility
England

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
1 1 (33.33%) Google Analytics
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior UI/UX Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior UX Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Manager
2 1 (33.33%) UI Designer
2 1 (33.33%) UI/UX Designer
2 1 (33.33%) UX Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) EDI
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Content Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Contextual Inquiry
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
2 1 (33.33%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (33.33%) Infographics
2 1 (33.33%) Interaction Design
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Typography
2 1 (33.33%) User Research
2 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow