WCAG Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring WCAG skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 74 80
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 +40
Contract jobs citing WCAG 2 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.32% 0.25% 0.41%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.42% 1.17% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £330
25th Percentile - £525 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £448
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.91% +9.15%
75th Percentile - £575 £496
90th Percentile - - £499
Scotland median daily rate £497 £511 £498
% change year-on-year -2.89% +2.76% +12.24%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 141 171 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.89% 21.22% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 100 162
10th Percentile £273 £177 £232
25th Percentile £413 £315 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% - -6.05%
75th Percentile £500 £533 £538
90th Percentile £561 £600 £587
Scotland median daily rate £454 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +0.89% -2.17% -3.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £15.83 -
25th Percentile £43.44 £17.09 £57.50
Median hourly rate £58.75 £19.17 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +206.47% -68.05% +217.46%
75th Percentile £69.69 £47.09 £62.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.83 -
Scotland median hourly rate £40.00 £14.98 £14.50
% change year-on-year +167.02% +3.31% -20.33%

WCAG
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

WCAG job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

WCAG
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing WCAG

WCAG
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Appium
1 1 (50.00%) Storybook
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) React Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior UX Designer
1 1 (50.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Ionic Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Jest
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) React Native
1 1 (50.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Development
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Research
2 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) UX Research
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland