WCAG Contract Job Trends in London

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring WCAG skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 320 345
Rank change year-on-year +2 +25 +89
Contract jobs citing WCAG 93 31 51
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.86% 1.56% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 23 35
10th Percentile £337 £351 £331
25th Percentile £400 £398 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% +11.11% -21.74%
75th Percentile £536 £525 £534
90th Percentile £668 £630 £623
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -19.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 - £50.00

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,248 1,990 2,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.06% 16.02% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,184 1,323 1,745
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% -3.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 29 62
10th Percentile £19.68 £19.63 £12.70
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.27 £17.85
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +42.68% -30.91%
75th Percentile £37.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £67.25 £85.31 £57.13
England median hourly rate £33.12 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.37% +55.56% -40.00%

WCAG
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WCAG relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

WCAG job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing WCAG.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing WCAG

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCAG in London over the 6 months to 19 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing WCAG.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing WCAG

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the London region over the 6 months to 19 May 2026. 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
Central London -4 11 £447 -12.88% 4
South London - 2 £480 -
West London - 1 £450 -
WCAG
England

WCAG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (8.60%) CMS
2 5 (5.38%) Confluence
2 5 (5.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.23%) Drupal
4 1 (1.08%) Kentico
4 1 (1.08%) R Markdown
Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Adobe XD
1 5 (5.38%) Sketch
2 3 (3.23%) InVision
3 2 (2.15%) Trello
3 2 (2.15%) Zeplin
4 1 (1.08%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.08%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 23 (24.73%) Figma
2 17 (18.28%) Azure
3 11 (11.83%) AWS
4 10 (10.75%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.53%) GitHub
6 6 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.30%) Slack
8 3 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (3.23%) Serverless
9 2 (2.15%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.15%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.15%) GCP
9 2 (2.15%) npm
9 2 (2.15%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.15%) Yarn
10 1 (1.08%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.23%) NoSQL
1 3 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.08%) Metadata
3 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (13.98%) JIRA
2 12 (12.90%) Cypress.io
3 7 (7.53%) Git
4 3 (3.23%) Axure RP
5 2 (2.15%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.15%) GitLab
5 2 (2.15%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.15%) JMeter
5 2 (2.15%) MSBuild
5 2 (2.15%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.15%) Storybook
5 2 (2.15%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.15%) webpack
6 1 (1.08%) Ant
6 1 (1.08%) Gatling
6 1 (1.08%) Postman
6 1 (1.08%) Selenium
6 1 (1.08%) TestRail
6 1 (1.08%) Vite
6 1 (1.08%) Zephyr
General
1 49 (52.69%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.05%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.75%) Finance
4 5 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.38%) Banking
4 5 (5.38%) Local Government
5 4 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.23%) Marketing
7 2 (2.15%) Legal
7 2 (2.15%) Military
7 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Publishing
7 2 (2.15%) Retail
8 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Law
8 1 (1.08%) Police
8 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (34.41%) Developer
2 29 (31.18%) Designer
3 12 (12.90%) Senior
4 11 (11.83%) React Developer
5 8 (8.60%) Interaction Designer
5 8 (8.60%) Lead
6 7 (7.53%) Content Designer
6 7 (7.53%) Service Designer
7 6 (6.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (6.45%) Node.js Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Tester
8 5 (5.38%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 5 (5.38%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.38%) UX Designer
9 4 (4.30%) Senior Designer
10 3 (3.23%) Consultant
10 3 (3.23%) QA Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Senior Interaction Designer
10 3 (3.23%) UI Designer
10 3 (3.23%) User Experience Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (31.18%) React
2 23 (24.73%) CSS
2 23 (24.73%) HTML
3 14 (15.05%) RESTful
4 13 (13.98%) Redux
5 11 (11.83%) CSS3
5 11 (11.83%) HTML5
6 9 (9.68%) Playwright
6 9 (9.68%) REST
7 8 (8.60%) .NET
7 8 (8.60%) Jest
8 7 (7.53%) Next.js
8 7 (7.53%) Node.js
9 5 (5.38%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (4.30%) GraphQL
10 4 (4.30%) Lightning Web Components
10 4 (4.30%) Vue
11 3 (3.23%) AngularJS
11 3 (3.23%) OAuth2
11 3 (3.23%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.38%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.30%) NHS
3 3 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.15%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.15%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.08%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.08%) BYOD
5 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.08%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.08%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.08%) PMI
5 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.08%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.15%) Android
1 2 (2.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (48.39%) Agile
2 32 (34.41%) User Experience
3 26 (27.96%) User Research
4 25 (26.88%) UX Design
5 24 (25.81%) CI/CD
6 20 (21.51%) Test Automation
7 18 (19.35%) Wireframes
8 17 (18.28%) Inclusive Design
9 16 (17.20%) AI
9 16 (17.20%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 15 (16.13%) Analytics
10 15 (16.13%) Prototyping
11 14 (15.05%) Interaction Design
12 13 (13.98%) Service Design
13 12 (12.90%) DevOps
13 12 (12.90%) Responsive Web Design
14 11 (11.83%) Usability Testing
15 10 (10.75%) Containerisation
15 10 (10.75%) Journey Map
16 9 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 35 (37.63%) TypeScript
2 27 (29.03%) JavaScript
3 9 (9.68%) C#
4 6 (6.45%) Python
5 3 (3.23%) Ruby
6 1 (1.08%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.08%) Java
6 1 (1.08%) R
6 1 (1.08%) SPARQL
6 1 (1.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 18 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.38%) Degree
4 4 (4.30%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.15%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.08%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (91.40%) Accessibility
2 10 (10.75%) QA
3 5 (5.38%) GDPR
4 1 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.15%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.38%) Adobe
3 4 (4.30%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.15%) Google
4 2 (2.15%) SAP
5 1 (1.08%) IBM
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle