Accessibility Contracts in England

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Accessibility skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Accessibility over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 275 241
Rank change year-on-year +44 -34 -19
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 377 459 802
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.03% 0.96% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.37% 7.14% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 332 560
10th Percentile £331 £313 £362
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £590 £607 £600
90th Percentile £653 £687 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 4 16
10th Percentile £14.00 - £25.01
25th Percentile £14.44 £16.77 £56.03
Median hourly rate £18.13 £20.07 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% -73.25% +194.12%
75th Percentile £27.85 £24.46 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.50 £26.43 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £23.36 £75.00
% change year-on-year -22.39% -68.85% +194.12%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

Accessibility is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,113 6,432 9,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.93% 13.51% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,279 4,357 6,413
10th Percentile £300 £300 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £733
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 220 271
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.19 £12.31
25th Percentile £13.14 £19.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 £39.51 £27.73
Median % change year-on-year -41.79% +42.48% +32.05%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.99 £79.78 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £21.12 £35.00 £29.31
% change year-on-year -39.67% +19.41% +39.57%

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 28 May 2024.

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 28 May 2024.

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 28 May 2024. 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 +42 222 £500 -9.09% 153
North of England +29 73 £469 -6.25% 39
North West +26 43 £538 +4.88% 25
South East +7 34 £430 +9.21% 91
Yorkshire +9 22 £438 -14.22% 8
South West +2 21 £565 +17.40% 22
Midlands +9 10 £400 -15.79% 34
North East +14 8 £453 +0.06% 6
West Midlands +3 8 £410 -13.68% 22
East of England +7 2 £700 +69.70% 26
East Midlands +6 2 £356 -19.49% 12
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 43 (11.41%) CMS
2 12 (3.18%) Drupal
2 12 (3.18%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.92%) nginx
4 9 (2.39%) WordPress
5 8 (2.12%) govService
6 5 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (1.33%) ArcGIS
6 5 (1.33%) Confluence
7 3 (0.80%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.27%) CoreMedia CMS
8 1 (0.27%) Jadu
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.27%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (3.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 13 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (3.18%) Sketch
6 9 (2.39%) Adobe XD
7 7 (1.86%) InVision
8 2 (0.53%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.53%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.27%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.27%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.27%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.27%) InDesign
9 1 (0.27%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.27%) SPSS
9 1 (0.27%) Trello
9 1 (0.27%) UXPin
9 1 (0.27%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.80%) Aareon QL
2 3 (0.80%) Shopify
3 2 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.27%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.27%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 50 (13.26%) Azure
2 45 (11.94%) AWS
3 31 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (6.37%) GitHub
5 23 (6.10%) Figma
6 17 (4.51%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (4.51%) Azure Pipelines
7 16 (4.24%) Power Platform
8 15 (3.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 15 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (3.71%) Azure Service Bus
10 11 (2.92%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 10 (2.65%) Serverless
12 9 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.59%) BrowserStack
13 6 (1.59%) PaaS
14 5 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
15 4 (1.06%) GCP
15 4 (1.06%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.39%) Intranet
2 4 (1.06%) HTTP
3 2 (0.53%) FTP
4 1 (0.27%) Firewall
4 1 (0.27%) SMS
4 1 (0.27%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (3.18%) Power BI
3 9 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.86%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.59%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.33%) Big Data
6 5 (1.33%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.33%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.06%) MySQL
8 3 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (0.80%) GIS
8 3 (0.80%) Metadata
8 3 (0.80%) Tableau
9 2 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.53%) OLAP
9 2 (0.53%) OLTP
9 2 (0.53%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 46 (12.20%) Git
2 24 (6.37%) Selenium
3 19 (5.04%) JIRA
4 16 (4.24%) Postman
5 15 (3.98%) Cypress.io
6 11 (2.92%) JMeter
7 8 (2.12%) Visual Studio
8 7 (1.86%) NUnit
9 6 (1.59%) Jenkins
9 6 (1.59%) WebDriver
10 5 (1.33%) Appium
10 5 (1.33%) webpack
11 4 (1.06%) Jasmine
11 4 (1.06%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.80%) Axure RP
12 3 (0.80%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.80%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.80%) Karma Test Runner
12 3 (0.80%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.53%) Charles Proxy
General
1 108 (28.65%) Social Skills
2 67 (17.77%) Public Sector
3 60 (15.92%) Finance
4 33 (8.75%) Marketing
5 28 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.04%) Legal
7 17 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.24%) Local Government
8 16 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (3.98%) Publishing
10 12 (3.18%) Back Office
11 9 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.59%) Advertising
12 6 (1.59%) Games
12 6 (1.59%) Multimedia
12 6 (1.59%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.33%) Law
13 5 (1.33%) Retail
14 4 (1.06%) Banking
14 4 (1.06%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 89 (23.61%) Developer
2 59 (15.65%) Designer
2 59 (15.65%) Senior
3 26 (6.90%) Architect
4 22 (5.84%) Senior Developer
4 22 (5.84%) Test Engineer
5 21 (5.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 19 (5.04%) Project Manager
7 18 (4.77%) Full Stack Developer
8 17 (4.51%) Lead
8 17 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (3.98%) Tester
10 14 (3.71%) Analyst
10 14 (3.71%) Senior Test Engineer
10 14 (3.71%) UX Designer
11 12 (3.18%) Content Designer
12 11 (2.92%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 11 (2.92%) Test Automation Engineer
13 9 (2.39%) Delivery Manager
13 9 (2.39%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (17.24%) HTML
2 64 (16.98%) CSS
3 47 (12.47%) React
4 39 (10.34%) .NET
5 23 (6.10%) .NET Core
6 20 (5.31%) AngularJS
7 19 (5.04%) Playwright
8 17 (4.51%) jQuery
9 16 (4.24%) REST
10 15 (3.98%) ASP.NET
11 14 (3.71%) Node.js
11 14 (3.71%) Sass
12 13 (3.45%) RESTful
13 12 (3.18%) ASP.NET MVC
13 12 (3.18%) Laravel
13 12 (3.18%) WebSockets
14 10 (2.65%) GraphQL
14 10 (2.65%) Next.js
15 8 (2.12%) Jest
16 7 (1.86%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.16%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.10%) Management Information System
3 19 (5.04%) Mobile App
4 10 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.39%) NHS
6 7 (1.86%) Graphic Design
6 7 (1.86%) Photography
7 6 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.33%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.33%) Podcast
9 4 (1.06%) Animation
9 4 (1.06%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.06%) Smartphone
10 3 (0.80%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.80%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.53%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.53%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.24%) Linux
2 13 (3.45%) Windows
3 12 (3.18%) Unix
4 5 (1.33%) Android
4 5 (1.33%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.06%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.27%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (36.07%) Agile
2 82 (21.75%) User Experience
3 59 (15.65%) Test Automation
4 49 (13.00%) TDD
5 46 (12.20%) UX Design
6 45 (11.94%) DevOps
6 45 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (11.14%) Front End Development
9 41 (10.88%) Migration
10 40 (10.61%) Project Management
11 39 (10.34%) CI/CD
12 35 (9.28%) User Research
13 34 (9.02%) Scrum
13 34 (9.02%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 32 (8.49%) Analytics
15 31 (8.22%) Stakeholder Management
16 30 (7.96%) Full Stack Development
17 27 (7.16%) Web Development
18 26 (6.90%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 84 (22.28%) JavaScript
2 45 (11.94%) TypeScript
3 36 (9.55%) Java
3 36 (9.55%) SQL
4 32 (8.49%) C#
5 19 (5.04%) Python
6 16 (4.24%) Bicep
7 15 (3.98%) PHP
8 6 (1.59%) Ruby
9 4 (1.06%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.06%) Swift
10 3 (0.80%) C
10 3 (0.80%) C++
11 2 (0.53%) R
12 1 (0.27%) Ada
12 1 (0.27%) Bash
12 1 (0.27%) Groovy
12 1 (0.27%) Scala
12 1 (0.27%) VB
12 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (14.59%) Security Cleared
2 42 (11.14%) SC Cleared
3 40 (10.61%) Degree
4 10 (2.65%) DBS Check
5 9 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.53%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.53%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.53%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.27%) CISA
10 1 (0.27%) CITP
10 1 (0.27%) CRISC
10 1 (0.27%) ISEB
10 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.27%) PMP
10 1 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (14.32%) WCAG
2 32 (8.49%) QA
3 12 (3.18%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.06%) GDPR
5 3 (0.80%) SLA
6 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.53%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.27%) GMP
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (3.71%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.45%) Docker
3 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.86%) Grafana
2 6 (1.59%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.33%) Terraform
4 3 (0.80%) Kibana
5 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 64 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.75%) Adobe
3 11 (2.92%) SAP
4 10 (2.65%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.59%) Databricks
6 5 (1.33%) Oracle
6 5 (1.33%) Reuters
6 5 (1.33%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.06%) Brio
7 4 (1.06%) Dell
7 4 (1.06%) Hotjar
7 4 (1.06%) HP
7 4 (1.06%) Remedy
7 4 (1.06%) Screaming Frog
7 4 (1.06%) Sitecore
8 3 (0.80%) Aareon
8 3 (0.80%) ESRI
8 3 (0.80%) Google
9 2 (0.53%) Apple
9 2 (0.53%) Splunk