Accessibility Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Accessibility (a11y)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Accessibility skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 43 42
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 24 27 47
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.01% 4.10% 5.01%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.02% 17.53% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 40
10th Percentile £297 £369 £398
25th Percentile £419 £441 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £477
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -0.37% -0.68%
75th Percentile £538 £493 £541
90th Percentile £553 £666 £582
Scotland median daily rate £475 £470 £463
% change year-on-year +1.06% +1.62% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.20 £26.32 -
Median hourly rate £13.91 £27.35 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -49.16% +54.35% -6.18%
75th Percentile £14.61 £28.38 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £13.91 £27.35 £15.42
% change year-on-year -49.16% +77.37% -18.36%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 141 154 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.58% 23.37% 26.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 92 162
10th Percentile £146 £150 £232
25th Percentile £403 £306 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £461
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -2.28% -3.05%
75th Percentile £528 £500 £543
90th Percentile £590 £618 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £26.64 £17.26 £19.27
25th Percentile £30.50 £20.66 £21.58
Median hourly rate £57.50 £27.35 £41.44
Median % change year-on-year +110.24% -33.99% +82.65%
75th Percentile £72.50 £51.69 £61.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.68 £62.20
Scotland median hourly rate £40.00 £15.00 £17.22
% change year-on-year +166.67% -12.87% +30.81%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Accessibility relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Accessibility job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Accessibility
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Accessibility.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in Edinburgh

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Accessibility.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (8.33%) Apache
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (8.33%) CMS
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) Umbraco
2 1 (4.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 9 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (37.50%) Serverless
3 6 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (16.67%) OpenShift
5 3 (12.50%) Azure
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (8.33%) Dagster
6 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (8.33%) Figma
6 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (4.17%) Canva
7 1 (4.17%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) HTTP
2 1 (4.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (12.50%) Git
3 2 (8.33%) Axure RP
3 2 (8.33%) GitLab
3 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.17%) MLflow
4 1 (4.17%) Storybook
General
1 17 (70.83%) Public Sector
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Back Office
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Legal
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Lead
2 4 (16.67%) Technical Leader
3 3 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Designer
4 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) UX Designer
5 1 (4.17%) Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Content Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Information Assurance Officer
5 1 (4.17%) Information Officer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Designer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior UX Designer
5 1 (4.17%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) User Researcher
5 1 (4.17%) Video Content Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) CSS
1 10 (41.67%) HTML
2 9 (37.50%) AWS CDK
3 7 (29.17%) React
3 7 (29.17%) REST
4 5 (20.83%) OAuth
5 4 (16.67%) boto
5 4 (16.67%) Hugging Face
5 4 (16.67%) NumPy
5 4 (16.67%) OpenCV
5 4 (16.67%) Pandas
5 4 (16.67%) PyTorch
5 4 (16.67%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (12.50%) JWT
7 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
7 2 (8.33%) Express.js
7 2 (8.33%) FastAPI
7 2 (8.33%) Next.js
7 2 (8.33%) OAuth2
7 2 (8.33%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 4 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Social Media
2 2 (8.33%) Web Conferencing
3 1 (4.17%) Derivative
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Photography
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Agile
2 9 (37.50%) User Experience
3 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (29.17%) DevOps
4 7 (29.17%) Mentoring
5 6 (25.00%) Coaching
5 6 (25.00%) Community of Practice
5 6 (25.00%) Service Design
5 6 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (20.83%) AI
6 5 (20.83%) Analytics
6 5 (20.83%) API Development
6 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
6 5 (20.83%) Code Quality
6 5 (20.83%) Front End Development
6 5 (20.83%) TDD
7 4 (16.67%) Code Coverage
7 4 (16.67%) ETL
7 4 (16.67%) OOP
7 4 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) TypeScript
2 6 (25.00%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
4 2 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
1 1 (4.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Grafana
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) Kibana
3 1 (4.17%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Facebook
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) Adobe
2 1 (4.17%) Instagram
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft