WCAG Contracts in England

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for WCAG skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WCAG over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 463 582 629
Rank change year-on-year +119 +47 -108
Contract jobs citing WCAG 72 81 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.37% 1.20% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 54 101
10th Percentile £350 £387 £325
25th Percentile £409 £429 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £531 £589 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £663
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £487
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.67% +14.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £29.12
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £38.00 £29.12
% change year-on-year +5.26% +30.49% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

WCAG 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 5,262 6,748 9,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.24% 13.35% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,344 4,590 6,375
10th Percentile £300 £275 £288
25th Percentile £409 £406 £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 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 206 260
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.60 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.05 £19.07 £16.88
Median hourly rate £22.04 £40.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.25% +46.36% +30.95%
75th Percentile £44.69 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.38 £79.88 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £20.61 £37.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -45.05% +31.58% +35.71%

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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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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 +110 50 £450 -15.89% 10
North of England +28 12 £425 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire +19 10 £425 -19.05%
South West +21 4 £700 +7.53% 4
South East +23 2 £463 -22.92% 2
North East +19 2 £453 -9.45%
East Midlands +17 1 £400 +5.96% 1
Midlands +17 1 £400 +2.89% 2
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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 19 (26.39%) CMS
2 3 (4.17%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.39%) Confluence
3 1 (1.39%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (8.33%) InVision
1 6 (8.33%) Sketch
2 5 (6.94%) Adobe XD
2 5 (6.94%) Zeplin
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.39%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 24 (33.33%) Azure
2 23 (31.94%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (23.61%) Azure Pipelines
5 15 (20.83%) Azure Service Bus
6 14 (19.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 10 (13.89%) Figma
8 7 (9.72%) AWS
8 7 (9.72%) GCP
9 5 (6.94%) GitHub
9 5 (6.94%) Serverless
10 4 (5.56%) Azure Functions
10 4 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (4.17%) PaaS
12 2 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (2.78%) Miro
13 1 (1.39%) Azure Key Vault
13 1 (1.39%) Azure Storage
13 1 (1.39%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.17%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (30.56%) Git
2 12 (16.67%) Selenium
3 9 (12.50%) JMeter
4 5 (6.94%) Axure RP
4 5 (6.94%) SpecFlow
5 4 (5.56%) Postman
6 2 (2.78%) JIRA
6 2 (2.78%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.39%) Babel
7 1 (1.39%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.39%) ESLint
7 1 (1.39%) Moq
7 1 (1.39%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.39%) Vite
7 1 (1.39%) webpack
General
1 19 (26.39%) Public Sector
2 10 (13.89%) Back Office
3 3 (4.17%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.78%) Finance
4 2 (2.78%) Legal
4 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.39%) Law
5 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.39%) Publishing
5 1 (1.39%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 40 (55.56%) Developer
2 23 (31.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 21 (29.17%) Senior
4 15 (20.83%) Senior Developer
5 13 (18.06%) Designer
6 12 (16.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 9 (12.50%) Service Designer
8 4 (5.56%) .NET Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Azure Developer
8 4 (5.56%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Java Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Test Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Tester
9 3 (4.17%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Full Stack Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Lead
9 3 (4.17%) Python Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Senior Test Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Test Leader
10 2 (2.78%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (37.50%) CSS
2 24 (33.33%) .NET
2 24 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 24 (33.33%) HTML
3 19 (26.39%) React
4 16 (22.22%) ASP.NET
5 14 (19.44%) jQuery
6 13 (18.06%) ASP.NET MVC
7 10 (13.89%) REST
8 9 (12.50%) AngularJS
9 6 (8.33%) SAML
9 6 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (5.56%) Playwright
10 4 (5.56%) Vue
11 2 (2.78%) .NET Framework
11 2 (2.78%) Flask
11 2 (2.78%) Vuex
12 1 (1.39%) Django
12 1 (1.39%) JSON
12 1 (1.39%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.78%) CCTV
3 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.39%) VLE
3 1 (1.39%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.78%) Windows
2 1 (1.39%) Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (50.00%) Agile
2 25 (34.72%) DevOps
3 24 (33.33%) Front End Development
4 21 (29.17%) TDD
5 19 (26.39%) OO
6 18 (25.00%) API Management
6 18 (25.00%) OOD
7 17 (23.61%) MVC
7 17 (23.61%) User Stories
8 14 (19.44%) Acceptance Criteria
9 13 (18.06%) CI/CD
10 12 (16.67%) Clean Code
10 12 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (16.67%) User Experience
11 11 (15.28%) Service Design
11 11 (15.28%) Test Automation
12 10 (13.89%) User Research
13 8 (11.11%) Scrum
13 8 (11.11%) Usability Testing
13 8 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 35 (48.61%) JavaScript
2 24 (33.33%) C#
2 24 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 14 (19.44%) Bicep
4 10 (13.89%) Java
5 7 (9.72%) SQL
6 5 (6.94%) Python
7 1 (1.39%) Ada
7 1 (1.39%) Bash
7 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.78%) Degree
4 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (83.33%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.56%) QA
3 2 (2.78%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (5.56%) Terraform
3 3 (4.17%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.39%) Ansible
4 1 (1.39%) Packer
4 1 (1.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (23.61%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.72%) Adobe
3 6 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle
4 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow