WCAG Contracts in Leeds

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 66 82
Rank change year-on-year +8 +16 +14
Contract jobs citing WCAG 2 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.43% 0.13% 0.69%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.17% 1.10% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £474
25th Percentile £413 £375 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £438 £525 £560
90th Percentile - - £572
West Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +16.67%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 63 91 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 13.49% 11.52% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 60 82
10th Percentile £235 £324 £305
25th Percentile £263 £435 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.18% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £519 £589 £575
90th Percentile £575 £691 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £431 £528 £500
% change year-on-year -18.25% +5.50% +13.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 £18.27 -
Median % change year-on-year +80.41% - -
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £18.27 £13.16
% change year-on-year +21.18% +38.83% -29.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for WCAG in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) TestNG
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker