WCAG Contracts in England

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring WCAG skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WCAG 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 426 470 570
Rank change year-on-year +44 +100 +65
Contract jobs citing WCAG 59 72 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.53% 1.36% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 51 54
10th Percentile £351 £350 £387
25th Percentile £389 £409 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £528
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.69% +5.50%
75th Percentile £514 £531 £589
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £476 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.78% -10.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +30.49%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 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%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for WCAG in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for WCAG in England

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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 WCAG 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 +21 33 £500 +11.11% 33
North of England +22 15 £480 +12.94% 16
North East +6 8 £480 +6.02% 3
North West - 7 £506 - 8
Midlands +27 6 £410 +2.38% 4
West Midlands - 6 £410 - 2
South West +44 2 £425 -39.29% 9
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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 6 (10.17%) CMS
2 4 (6.78%) Confluence
3 3 (5.08%) Drupal
3 3 (5.08%) R Markdown
4 1 (1.69%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.69%) OpenROAD
4 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Sketch
2 2 (3.39%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.69%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.95%) Figma
2 7 (11.86%) AWS
3 4 (6.78%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (6.78%) GitHub
3 4 (6.78%) Miro
4 3 (5.08%) Serverless
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.39%) Azure
5 2 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.69%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.69%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.69%) PaaS
6 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) Intranet
2 1 (1.69%) DNS
2 1 (1.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.39%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.69%) DocumentDB
3 1 (1.69%) GIS
3 1 (1.69%) Ingres
3 1 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (22.03%) Git
2 8 (13.56%) Jasmine
2 8 (13.56%) Mocha
3 6 (10.17%) JIRA
3 6 (10.17%) Subversion
4 5 (8.47%) Grunt
4 5 (8.47%) gulp
5 4 (6.78%) Cucumber
6 3 (5.08%) Axure RP
6 3 (5.08%) Cypress.io
6 3 (5.08%) Postman
6 3 (5.08%) Storybook
6 3 (5.08%) Vite
6 3 (5.08%) webpack
7 2 (3.39%) Pa11y
8 1 (1.69%) Balsamiq
8 1 (1.69%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
8 1 (1.69%) Mockito
8 1 (1.69%) Selenium
General
1 27 (45.76%) Public Sector
2 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.17%) Finance
4 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Marketing
4 4 (6.78%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.08%) Electronics
5 3 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.08%) Legal
5 3 (5.08%) Local Government
5 3 (5.08%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Aviation
7 1 (1.69%) Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Law
7 1 (1.69%) Military
7 1 (1.69%) Publishing
7 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (44.07%) Developer
2 16 (27.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 12 (20.34%) Designer
4 7 (11.86%) Senior
4 7 (11.86%) UX Designer
5 5 (8.47%) JavaScript Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Interaction Designer
6 4 (6.78%) Lead
6 4 (6.78%) Senior Designer
7 3 (5.08%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Interaction Designer
7 3 (5.08%) Senior UX Designer
7 3 (5.08%) UI Designer
7 3 (5.08%) UI Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) UI/UX Designer
8 2 (3.39%) Lead Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (44.07%) CSS
1 26 (44.07%) HTML
2 17 (28.81%) Sass
3 15 (25.42%) Node.js
4 10 (16.95%) React
5 9 (15.25%) Jest
6 8 (13.56%) HTML5
7 7 (11.86%) AngularJS
7 7 (11.86%) jQuery
8 6 (10.17%) Mustache
8 6 (10.17%) Shiny
9 4 (6.78%) Vue
10 3 (5.08%) .NET
10 3 (5.08%) .NET Core
10 3 (5.08%) pytest
10 3 (5.08%) RESTful
11 2 (3.39%) Kafka
11 2 (3.39%) Next.js
11 2 (3.39%) REST
11 2 (3.39%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.39%) e-Learning
1 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
1 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.69%) Animation
2 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.69%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.17%) Linux
2 5 (8.47%) Mac OS X
2 5 (8.47%) Unix
3 1 (1.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (52.54%) Agile
2 29 (49.15%) User Experience
3 23 (38.98%) Front End Development
4 14 (23.73%) TDD
4 14 (23.73%) Test Automation
5 13 (22.03%) UX Design
6 11 (18.64%) Responsive Web Design
7 9 (15.25%) Analytics
8 8 (13.56%) Web Accessibility
8 8 (13.56%) Web Design
8 8 (13.56%) Wireframes
9 7 (11.86%) CI/CD
9 7 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (11.86%) Scrum
9 7 (11.86%) Usability Testing
9 7 (11.86%) User Research
9 7 (11.86%) Web Development
10 6 (10.17%) Actionable Insight
11 5 (8.47%) Interaction Design
11 5 (8.47%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 29 (49.15%) JavaScript
2 6 (10.17%) Java
2 6 (10.17%) Python
2 6 (10.17%) R
3 4 (6.78%) TypeScript
4 3 (5.08%) C#
4 3 (5.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.17%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.08%) Degree
4 1 (1.69%) CCA
4 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (77.97%) Accessibility
2 8 (13.56%) QA
3 3 (5.08%) GDPR
4 2 (3.39%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (3.39%) WAI
5 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.78%) SAP
3 3 (5.08%) Databricks
4 2 (3.39%) Adobe
5 1 (1.69%) Actian
5 1 (1.69%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.69%) Apple
5 1 (1.69%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.69%) Google
5 1 (1.69%) Salesforce