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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 248 255
Rank change year-on-year +73 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 397 353 469
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.59% 0.94% 1.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.68% 7.00% 7.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 201 344
10th Percentile £303 £319 £313
25th Percentile £371 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £571 £600 £600
90th Percentile £603 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 28 6
10th Percentile £14.71 £13.86 £16.77
25th Percentile £22.75 £14.20 £18.08
Median hourly rate £29.09 £17.14 £22.68
Median % change year-on-year +69.77% -24.45% -68.72%
75th Percentile £35.43 £27.85 £26.65
90th Percentile £35.75 £38.15 £31.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £18.13 £23.36
% change year-on-year +65.47% -22.39% -66.63%

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 4,102 5,040 6,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.42% 13.44% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,642 3,157 4,314
10th Percentile £268 £300 £304
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 385 236
10th Percentile £15.13 £10.95 £15.21
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.84 £20.38
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.80 £40.32
Median % change year-on-year +36.55% -40.97% +49.33%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.07 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.15 £70.00 £79.88
UK median hourly rate £31.70 £23.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +37.83% -38.67% +36.36%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +69 251 £500 +5.26% 2,106
North of England +19 69 £455 -5.21% 804
North West +3 39 £460 -16.45% 417
Midlands +18 22 £388 -3.13% 461
Yorkshire +6 21 £420 -4.00% 311
South West +42 17 £413 -30.08% 325
South East +28 17 £400 -11.11% 650
West Midlands +22 17 £425 +6.25% 282
North East +2 9 £460 +1.60% 78
East of England +28 7 £450 - 395
East Midlands +7 5 £322 -9.61% 177
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 17 (4.28%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.03%) CMS
3 14 (3.53%) Confluence
4 8 (2.02%) Apache
4 8 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.02%) Drupal
4 8 (2.02%) Moodle
5 3 (0.76%) Alfresco
5 3 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.76%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.50%) R Markdown
6 2 (0.50%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.25%) nginx
7 1 (0.25%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.25%) SAS
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (4.03%) Sketch
2 14 (3.53%) Adobe XD
2 14 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.76%) Chatbot
5 5 (1.26%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.76%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.76%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.76%) InVision
6 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.76%) Revit
7 2 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.50%) MicroStation
7 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.50%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.01%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.76%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.50%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.50%) SAP PLM
5 2 (0.50%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.50%) SAP SRM
5 2 (0.50%) Shopify
6 1 (0.25%) iTrent
6 1 (0.25%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.25%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.25%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.25%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.25%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.25%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 82 (20.65%) Azure
2 44 (11.08%) Figma
3 38 (9.57%) AWS
4 32 (8.06%) Power Platform
5 20 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (4.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 15 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (3.78%) GCP
8 13 (3.27%) GitHub
9 11 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (2.27%) Google Analytics
12 7 (1.76%) SaaS
12 7 (1.76%) Snowflake
13 6 (1.51%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (1.51%) PowerApps
14 5 (1.26%) dbt
14 5 (1.26%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.26%) HTTP
2 4 (1.01%) Internet
3 3 (0.76%) DNS
3 3 (0.76%) WebEx
4 2 (0.50%) Firewall
4 2 (0.50%) Intranet
5 1 (0.25%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.79%) Power BI
2 10 (2.52%) Data Lake
3 8 (2.02%) NoSQL
4 7 (1.76%) Metadata
5 6 (1.51%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.01%) Big Data
7 4 (1.01%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.01%) InfluxDB
7 4 (1.01%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.01%) Qlik Sense
7 4 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (1.01%) Spotfire
8 3 (0.76%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.76%) Tableau
9 2 (0.50%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.50%) Flink
9 2 (0.50%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 38 (9.57%) Git
2 27 (6.80%) Cypress.io
3 25 (6.30%) JIRA
4 16 (4.03%) Jenkins
5 14 (3.53%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.27%) Selenium
7 12 (3.02%) Postman
8 11 (2.77%) Axure RP
8 11 (2.77%) GitLab
8 11 (2.77%) REST Assured
9 10 (2.52%) Grunt
9 10 (2.52%) webpack
10 9 (2.27%) gulp
11 7 (1.76%) JMeter
11 7 (1.76%) Subversion
12 6 (1.51%) Jasmine
12 6 (1.51%) Maven
12 6 (1.51%) Mocha
12 6 (1.51%) SoapUI
12 6 (1.51%) TestNG
General
1 111 (27.96%) Social Skills
2 80 (20.15%) Finance
3 65 (16.37%) Public Sector
4 39 (9.82%) Marketing
5 35 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (6.05%) Banking
7 18 (4.53%) Local Government
8 17 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (3.02%) Legal
11 10 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (2.52%) Retail
12 9 (2.27%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.51%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.51%) Publishing
14 5 (1.26%) Multimedia
14 5 (1.26%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.01%) Automotive
15 4 (1.01%) Law
Job Titles
1 72 (18.14%) Developer
2 61 (15.37%) Designer
3 56 (14.11%) Senior
4 28 (7.05%) Analyst
5 24 (6.05%) Lead
6 22 (5.54%) UX Designer
7 18 (4.53%) Architect
7 18 (4.53%) Data Engineer
8 17 (4.28%) Consultant
9 15 (3.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 14 (3.53%) Content Designer
10 14 (3.53%) Project Manager
11 11 (2.77%) Product Designer
11 11 (2.77%) Senior Developer
12 10 (2.52%) Android Developer
12 10 (2.52%) Coordinator
12 10 (2.52%) Test Engineer
12 10 (2.52%) Web Engineer
13 9 (2.27%) Data Architect
13 9 (2.27%) Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (21.41%) HTML
2 81 (20.40%) CSS
3 56 (14.11%) React
4 31 (7.81%) Node.js
5 29 (7.30%) AngularJS
6 25 (6.30%) HTML5
7 20 (5.04%) Sass
8 18 (4.53%) Playwright
9 16 (4.03%) RESTful
10 15 (3.78%) CSS3
10 15 (3.78%) REST
10 15 (3.78%) Vue
11 14 (3.53%) Jest
11 14 (3.53%) jQuery
12 13 (3.27%) .NET
13 12 (3.02%) Next.js
14 10 (2.52%) Android SDK
14 10 (2.52%) PySpark
15 9 (2.27%) Kafka
15 9 (2.27%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.57%) Mobile App
2 23 (5.79%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.04%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.53%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.27%) e-Learning
5 9 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.02%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.51%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.51%) Learning Management System
7 6 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.26%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.26%) Social Media
9 4 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.01%) Video Editing
9 4 (1.01%) VLE
10 3 (0.76%) Animation
10 3 (0.76%) IoT
10 3 (0.76%) NHS
10 3 (0.76%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.81%) Android
2 16 (4.03%) Apple iOS
3 11 (2.77%) Linux
4 8 (2.02%) Unix
4 8 (2.02%) Windows
5 5 (1.26%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.50%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (38.29%) Agile
2 115 (28.97%) User Experience
3 74 (18.64%) UX Design
4 72 (18.14%) CI/CD
5 71 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (16.37%) Analytics
7 49 (12.34%) Test Automation
8 44 (11.08%) Decision-Making
8 44 (11.08%) Front End Development
9 42 (10.58%) Data Modelling
9 42 (10.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 40 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
11 37 (9.32%) DevOps
12 36 (9.07%) Prototyping
12 36 (9.07%) Wireframes
13 33 (8.31%) User Research
14 32 (8.06%) Performance Optimisation
15 31 (7.81%) Roadmaps
16 30 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
17 28 (7.05%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 100 (25.19%) JavaScript
2 52 (13.10%) SQL
3 45 (11.34%) Python
4 35 (8.82%) TypeScript
5 34 (8.56%) Java
6 19 (4.79%) Kotlin
7 18 (4.53%) C#
8 9 (2.27%) PHP
9 7 (1.76%) R
10 5 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.26%) Scala
10 5 (1.26%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.50%) ABAP
11 2 (0.50%) Go
11 2 (0.50%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.25%) Ada
12 1 (0.25%) Ruby
12 1 (0.25%) SAS Macro
12 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 41 (10.33%) Security Cleared
2 34 (8.56%) Degree
3 28 (7.05%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.50%) HNC
8 2 (0.50%) HND
8 2 (0.50%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CCA
9 1 (0.25%) CIMA
9 1 (0.25%) CISM
9 1 (0.25%) CISSP
9 1 (0.25%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (16.12%) WCAG
2 32 (8.06%) QA
3 24 (6.05%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.77%) GDPR
5 5 (1.26%) PMO
6 4 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.76%) GxP
8 2 (0.50%) COSHH
8 2 (0.50%) ISO 14001
8 2 (0.50%) Section 508
8 2 (0.50%) WAI
9 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.25%) EMIR
9 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.25%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.25%) NCSC
9 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (7.81%) Docker
2 6 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 14 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.76%) Terraform
3 1 (0.25%) Ansible
3 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.25%) Puppet
3 1 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 62 (15.62%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.56%) Adobe
3 27 (6.80%) SAP
4 20 (5.04%) Google
5 14 (3.53%) Databricks
6 7 (1.76%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.01%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.01%) Perforce
7 4 (1.01%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.01%) Siemens
8 3 (0.76%) Amplitude
8 3 (0.76%) Autodesk
8 3 (0.76%) Hotjar
8 3 (0.76%) Informatica
8 3 (0.76%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.50%) Cisco
9 2 (0.50%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.50%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.25%) Actian