Accessibility Contracts in England

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Accessibility skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Accessibility over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 229 282
Rank change year-on-year +48 +53 -38
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 366 383 461
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.50% 1.03% 0.91%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.47% 7.23% 6.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 245 322
10th Percentile £307 £350 £313
25th Percentile £398 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -4.65%
75th Percentile £578 £588 £600
90th Percentile £669 £650 £687
UK median daily rate £484 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +4.54% -7.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 27 4
10th Percentile £21.00 £14.00 -
25th Percentile £22.75 £14.39 £16.77
Median hourly rate £28.18 £18.97 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year +48.55% -5.46% -19.76%
75th Percentile £35.75 £29.14 £24.46
90th Percentile £59.15 £52.00 £26.43
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £17.72 £23.36
% change year-on-year +59.03% -24.14% +11.82%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,865 5,295 6,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.87% 14.24% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,481 3,378 4,585
10th Percentile £270 £300 £276
25th Percentile £400 £408 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -
75th Percentile £635 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 347 206
10th Percentile £17.78 £10.95 £13.94
25th Percentile £22.27 £13.09 £19.50
Median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.11 £67.38 £79.88
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in England

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in England.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in England

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in England

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in England.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in England

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Accessibility in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Accessibility in England

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +38 234 £513 +3.80% 459
North of England +9 62 £455 -1.62% 131
North West +15 41 £453 -5.24% 77
Midlands +34 22 £406 -0.91% 70
South West +42 19 £400 -31.62% 61
West Midlands +22 17 £460 +12.20% 43
Yorkshire +2 16 £275 -35.29% 39
South East +18 8 £325 -25.50% 152
East of England +35 7 £450 -35.71% 40
East Midlands +14 5 £322 -19.50% 21
North East -2 5 £493 +8.78% 19
Accessibility
UK

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 21 (5.74%) Confluence
2 16 (4.37%) CMS
3 7 (1.91%) Apache
3 7 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.91%) Drupal
4 6 (1.64%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.09%) nginx
6 3 (0.82%) R Markdown
6 3 (0.82%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.55%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.55%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.27%) Camunda
8 1 (0.27%) Moodle
8 1 (0.27%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (4.10%) Sketch
2 14 (3.83%) Adobe XD
3 9 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.91%) Chatbot
5 7 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.82%) Acrobat
7 3 (0.82%) Adobe After Effects
7 3 (0.82%) CINEMA 4D
7 3 (0.82%) Final Cut Pro
7 3 (0.82%) InVision
7 3 (0.82%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.55%) Blender
8 2 (0.55%) Camtasia
8 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.55%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.09%) SAP ERP
3 4 (1.09%) Shopify
3 4 (1.09%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.55%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.55%) SAP PLM
4 2 (0.55%) SAP PS
4 2 (0.55%) SAP SRM
4 2 (0.55%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.27%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.27%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.27%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.27%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.27%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.27%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 69 (18.85%) Azure
2 42 (11.48%) Figma
3 35 (9.56%) Power Platform
4 34 (9.29%) AWS
5 14 (3.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (3.01%) GCP
7 11 (3.01%) GitHub
7 11 (3.01%) SaaS
8 10 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.91%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.64%) Google Analytics
11 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (1.64%) Miro
12 5 (1.37%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.37%) Internet
2 4 (1.09%) HTTP
2 4 (1.09%) Intranet
3 2 (0.55%) NAS
3 2 (0.55%) SAN
4 1 (0.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.47%) Power BI
2 13 (3.55%) NoSQL
3 11 (3.01%) Data Lake
4 10 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.73%) Tableau
5 7 (1.91%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (1.64%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.37%) FileMaker
7 5 (1.37%) Metadata
8 4 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.09%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.09%) InfluxDB
8 4 (1.09%) MySQL
8 4 (1.09%) Qlik Sense
8 4 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.09%) Spotfire
8 4 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (9.29%) Git
2 31 (8.47%) JIRA
3 21 (5.74%) Cypress.io
4 13 (3.55%) Cucumber
5 12 (3.28%) Jasmine
6 11 (3.01%) Postman
7 10 (2.73%) Selenium
8 8 (2.19%) Grunt
8 8 (2.19%) Mocha
9 7 (1.91%) gulp
9 7 (1.91%) SoapUI
9 7 (1.91%) webpack
10 6 (1.64%) Axure RP
10 6 (1.64%) Subversion
11 5 (1.37%) Jenkins
11 5 (1.37%) Visual Studio
12 4 (1.09%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.09%) JUnit
12 4 (1.09%) NUnit
13 3 (0.82%) JMeter
General
1 115 (31.42%) Social Skills
2 80 (21.86%) Public Sector
3 78 (21.31%) Finance
4 44 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (11.20%) Marketing
6 18 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.37%) Local Government
8 13 (3.55%) Banking
9 12 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (3.01%) Manufacturing
11 10 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (2.46%) Legal
12 9 (2.46%) Retail
13 8 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (2.19%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.64%) Military
14 6 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.37%) Electronics
15 5 (1.37%) Law
15 5 (1.37%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 74 (20.22%) Developer
2 56 (15.30%) Senior
3 50 (13.66%) Designer
4 27 (7.38%) Lead
5 23 (6.28%) Analyst
6 21 (5.74%) Data Engineer
6 21 (5.74%) Senior Developer
7 20 (5.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 19 (5.19%) UX Designer
9 18 (4.92%) Architect
10 15 (4.10%) Project Manager
11 14 (3.83%) Consultant
12 13 (3.55%) Content Designer
13 12 (3.28%) Senior Designer
14 11 (3.01%) Tester
15 10 (2.73%) User Researcher
16 9 (2.46%) Data Architect
16 9 (2.46%) Software Engineer
16 9 (2.46%) UI Designer
17 8 (2.19%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (18.03%) CSS
2 62 (16.94%) HTML
3 42 (11.48%) React
4 27 (7.38%) Node.js
5 22 (6.01%) AngularJS
6 19 (5.19%) HTML5
7 18 (4.92%) RESTful
7 18 (4.92%) Sass
8 13 (3.55%) .NET
8 13 (3.55%) REST
9 12 (3.28%) PySpark
9 12 (3.28%) Vue
10 11 (3.01%) CSS3
10 11 (3.01%) jQuery
11 10 (2.73%) SOAP
12 8 (2.19%) Bootstrap
12 8 (2.19%) Jest
12 8 (2.19%) Playwright
13 7 (1.91%) Android SDK
13 7 (1.91%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.10%) Mobile App
2 16 (4.37%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.19%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.19%) Driving Licence
6 8 (2.19%) e-Learning
7 7 (1.91%) Social Media
8 5 (1.37%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.37%) Animation
8 5 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.82%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.82%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.64%) Linux
2 13 (3.55%) Android
3 11 (3.01%) Apple iOS
4 10 (2.73%) Mac OS X
5 8 (2.19%) Unix
6 6 (1.64%) Windows
7 4 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (37.98%) Agile
2 96 (26.23%) User Experience
3 69 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (15.85%) UX Design
5 55 (15.03%) Analytics
6 53 (14.48%) CI/CD
7 52 (14.21%) Decision-Making
8 47 (12.84%) Front End Development
8 47 (12.84%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 46 (12.57%) Test Automation
10 38 (10.38%) Data Modelling
11 37 (10.11%) Prototyping
12 36 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
13 35 (9.56%) User Research
13 35 (9.56%) Visualisation
14 34 (9.29%) Business Intelligence
15 33 (9.02%) Collaborative Working
16 31 (8.47%) DevOps
17 29 (7.92%) Project Management
18 28 (7.65%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 80 (21.86%) JavaScript
2 64 (17.49%) SQL
3 42 (11.48%) Python
4 29 (7.92%) Java
5 28 (7.65%) TypeScript
6 16 (4.37%) C#
7 14 (3.83%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.46%) PHP
9 8 (2.19%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.64%) Bash
10 6 (1.64%) R
11 5 (1.37%) Scala
12 4 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.09%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.55%) ABAP
13 2 (0.55%) Go
13 2 (0.55%) Swift
14 1 (0.27%) COBOL
14 1 (0.27%) Ruby
14 1 (0.27%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 36 (9.84%) Degree
2 34 (9.29%) Security Cleared
3 26 (7.10%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.82%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.82%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.55%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.27%) CCA
7 1 (0.27%) CIMA
7 1 (0.27%) CISM
7 1 (0.27%) CISSP
7 1 (0.27%) ISEB
7 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.27%) PMP
7 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (12.57%) WCAG
2 25 (6.83%) QA
3 22 (6.01%) Data Quality
4 17 (4.64%) GDPR
5 5 (1.37%) PMO
6 4 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.82%) GxP
8 2 (0.55%) COSHH
8 2 (0.55%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.55%) EMIR
8 2 (0.55%) ISO 14001
8 2 (0.55%) MiFID
8 2 (0.55%) WAI
9 1 (0.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (8.47%) Docker
2 5 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 17 (4.64%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.09%) Terraform
3 1 (0.27%) Ansible
3 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.27%) Puppet
3 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 54 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.29%) SAP
3 27 (7.38%) Adobe
4 15 (4.10%) Databricks
5 11 (3.01%) Google
6 9 (2.46%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.37%) Informatica
8 4 (1.09%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.09%) Siemens
8 4 (1.09%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.82%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (0.82%) YouTube
10 2 (0.55%) Cisco
10 2 (0.55%) Facebook
10 2 (0.55%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.55%) Pega
10 2 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.55%) Talend
10 2 (0.55%) VMware
11 1 (0.27%) Perforce