WCAG Contracts in London

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 357 410
Rank change year-on-year +35 +53 +134
Contract jobs citing WCAG 38 48 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.27% 0.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.74% 1.99% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 29 49
10th Percentile £325 £360 £373
25th Percentile £356 £420 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -13.64% -2.65%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £638
90th Percentile £638 £623 £650
England median daily rate £472 £475 £535
% change year-on-year -0.63% -11.21% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
England median hourly rate - £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 2,185 2,407 3,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.45% 13.66% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,444 1,678 2,551
10th Percentile £325 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £756 £800 £799
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 60 35
10th Percentile £22.75 £12.50 £18.07
25th Percentile £25.15 £17.94 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £23.80 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.96% -8.46% -32.03%
75th Percentile £49.38 £43.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £55.50 £81.50
England median hourly rate £31.76 £24.18 £40.32
% change year-on-year +31.35% -40.03% +55.08%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for WCAG in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCAG in London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for WCAG in London

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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 5 July 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
Central London +3 6 £525 +13.51% 13
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (15.79%) Moodle
1 6 (15.79%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.89%) Alfresco
2 3 (7.89%) Drupal
3 2 (5.26%) Apache
3 2 (5.26%) CMS
4 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (7.89%) Sketch
3 2 (5.26%) Adobe XD
4 1 (2.63%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) Figma
2 8 (21.05%) AWS
3 4 (10.53%) GitHub
3 4 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (10.53%) Google Analytics
4 3 (7.89%) Canva
5 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Run
5 2 (5.26%) GCP
5 2 (5.26%) Serverless
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.63%) Azure
6 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.63%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.63%) Miro
6 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) DNS
1 4 (10.53%) HTTP
1 4 (10.53%) Internet
2 3 (7.89%) WebEx
3 1 (2.63%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Git
2 5 (13.16%) Vite
2 5 (13.16%) webpack
3 4 (10.53%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.53%) JIRA
4 3 (7.89%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.26%) Cypress.io
5 2 (5.26%) Postman
5 2 (5.26%) Storybook
6 1 (2.63%) Ant
6 1 (2.63%) Axure RP
6 1 (2.63%) Balsamiq
6 1 (2.63%) Gatling
6 1 (2.63%) JMeter
6 1 (2.63%) JUnit
6 1 (2.63%) Maven
6 1 (2.63%) Mockito
6 1 (2.63%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.63%) Selenium
General
1 14 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.68%) Public Sector
3 6 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.16%) Finance
4 5 (13.16%) Marketing
5 3 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.26%) Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Retail
6 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.63%) Electronics
7 1 (2.63%) Legal
7 1 (2.63%) Local Government
7 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.63%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Designer
2 8 (21.05%) Senior
3 5 (13.16%) Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 4 (10.53%) Lead
4 4 (10.53%) UX Designer
4 4 (10.53%) Web Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Coordinator
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Designer
5 3 (7.89%) UI Designer
6 2 (5.26%) Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Interaction Designer
6 2 (5.26%) JavaScript Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) QA Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Interaction Designer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior UX Designer
6 2 (5.26%) UI Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (47.37%) HTML
2 13 (34.21%) CSS
3 9 (23.68%) React
4 7 (18.42%) Sass
5 6 (15.79%) AngularJS
5 6 (15.79%) React Native
5 6 (15.79%) Vue
6 5 (13.16%) HTML5
7 4 (10.53%) GatsbyJS
7 4 (10.53%) Jest
7 4 (10.53%) Next.js
7 4 (10.53%) Parceljs
8 3 (7.89%) EDI
8 3 (7.89%) Kafka
9 2 (5.26%) .NET
9 2 (5.26%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (5.26%) FHIR
9 2 (5.26%) Playwright
9 2 (5.26%) REST
9 2 (5.26%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) e-Learning
1 4 (10.53%) Marketing Technology
2 3 (7.89%) Learning Management System
2 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.89%) Video Editing
2 3 (7.89%) VLE
3 2 (5.26%) NHS
3 2 (5.26%) W3C
4 1 (2.63%) Animation
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.63%) RIA
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Agile
1 16 (42.11%) User Experience
2 14 (36.84%) UX Design
3 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 8 (21.05%) Scrum
5 7 (18.42%) Front End Development
5 7 (18.42%) Responsive Web Design
6 6 (15.79%) Analytics
6 6 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (15.79%) Usability Testing
6 6 (15.79%) Wireframes
7 5 (13.16%) A/B Testing
7 5 (13.16%) Code Quality
7 5 (13.16%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (13.16%) Digital Marketing
7 5 (13.16%) Inclusive Design
7 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (13.16%) Test Automation
7 5 (13.16%) User Research
8 4 (10.53%) Epics
Programming Languages
1 15 (39.47%) JavaScript
2 7 (18.42%) TypeScript
3 5 (13.16%) Python
4 3 (7.89%) SQL
5 2 (5.26%) C#
5 2 (5.26%) Java
6 1 (2.63%) Ada
6 1 (2.63%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.63%) CCA
3 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (92.11%) Accessibility
2 5 (13.16%) QA
3 4 (10.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (5.26%) Section 508
5 1 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (2.63%) WAI
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.79%) Google
3 5 (13.16%) Adobe
4 4 (10.53%) Amplitude
5 2 (5.26%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.63%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle
6 1 (2.63%) SAP