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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 46 46
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 24 30 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.86% 3.60% 4.76%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.05% 17.65% 19.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 23 42
10th Percentile £416 £331 £401
25th Percentile £450 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% -1.84%
75th Percentile £547 £494 £527
90th Percentile £555 £568 £572
Scotland median daily rate £475 £469 £475
% change year-on-year +1.28% -1.26% -5.00%

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 133 170 255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.38% 20.41% 24.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 96 177
10th Percentile £283 £165 £228
25th Percentile £413 £306 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £445 £457
Median % change year-on-year +3.93% -2.63% -3.79%
75th Percentile £500 £527 £528
90th Percentile £559 £609 £588
Scotland median daily rate £454 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +0.89% -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £25.42 £15.83 -
25th Percentile £35.00 £17.09 £57.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £19.17 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +199.95% -68.05% +217.46%
75th Percentile £66.88 £47.09 £62.50
90th Percentile £73.50 £63.83 -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £14.98 £31.12
% change year-on-year +133.64% -51.86% +64.63%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility 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 29 September 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 and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (8.33%) Apache
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) CMS
2 1 (4.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) Serverless
3 8 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 8 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (20.83%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (12.50%) Azure
5 3 (12.50%) Azure AI
5 3 (12.50%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 3 (12.50%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) OpenShift
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%) Dagster
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.17%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) HTTP
2 1 (4.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.50%) Metadata
3 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) Appium
3 1 (4.17%) MLflow
3 1 (4.17%) Storybook
General
1 17 (70.83%) Public Sector
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Legal
4 2 (8.33%) Marketing
5 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Architect
1 4 (16.67%) Developer
1 4 (16.67%) Lead
1 4 (16.67%) Technical Leader
2 3 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 3 (12.50%) Senior
2 3 (12.50%) Technical Architect
2 3 (12.50%) User Researcher
3 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Python Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior User Researcher
4 1 (4.17%) Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Email Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Information Officer
4 1 (4.17%) React Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Test Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) UX Designer
4 1 (4.17%) Video Content Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (37.50%) React
2 8 (33.33%) AWS CDK
3 6 (25.00%) CSS
3 6 (25.00%) HTML
4 4 (16.67%) .NET
4 4 (16.67%) boto
4 4 (16.67%) Hugging Face
4 4 (16.67%) NumPy
4 4 (16.67%) OAuth
4 4 (16.67%) OpenCV
4 4 (16.67%) Pandas
4 4 (16.67%) PyTorch
4 4 (16.67%) REST
4 4 (16.67%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (12.50%) RESTful
6 2 (8.33%) OAuth2
6 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
6 2 (8.33%) Spring MVC
6 2 (8.33%) Spring Web Flow
6 2 (8.33%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 4 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 4 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 4 (16.67%) Web Conferencing
2 2 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) Photography
3 1 (4.17%) Social Media
3 1 (4.17%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Agile
2 10 (41.67%) User Experience
3 9 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 9 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (33.33%) Coaching
4 8 (33.33%) Service Design
5 7 (29.17%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (29.17%) DevOps
5 7 (29.17%) Machine Learning
5 7 (29.17%) OCR
6 6 (25.00%) API Development
6 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (20.83%) Product Management
7 5 (20.83%) Usability Testing
8 4 (16.67%) Async-Await
8 4 (16.67%) Community of Practice
8 4 (16.67%) Computer Vision
8 4 (16.67%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) TypeScript
3 4 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (12.50%) C#
4 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (8.33%) WCAG
3 1 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Grafana
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Kibana
3 1 (4.17%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.17%) dotdigital
3 1 (4.17%) Facebook
3 1 (4.17%) Instagram
3 1 (4.17%) Twitter