WCAG Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring WCAG skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 - 65
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Contract jobs citing WCAG 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.090% - 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.63% - 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £443 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.96%
75th Percentile £448 - £425
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -18.92%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 160 92 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 14.41% 17.20% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 60 55
10th Percentile £315 £168 £200
25th Percentile £388 £304 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.16% -9.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £475 £600
90th Percentile £649 £523 £623
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 14
10th Percentile £12.94 £14.50 £9.95
25th Percentile £14.54 £16.88 £12.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £20.60 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% -13.25% -52.51%
75th Percentile £25.50 £25.19 £26.15
90th Percentile - £29.13 £34.48
England median hourly rate £30.58 £35.00 £22.42
% change year-on-year -12.63% +56.11% -41.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WCAG relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

WCAG job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

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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 WCAG within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 May 2026. 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 £445 - 1
WCAG
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility