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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 331 347
Rank change year-on-year -11 +16 +64
Contract jobs citing WCAG 96 37 48
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.67% 1.68% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 20 29
10th Percentile £334 £324 £360
25th Percentile £400 £355 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £467 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% -1.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £575 £528 £538
90th Percentile £668 £639 £623
England median daily rate £450 £467 £475
% change year-on-year -3.69% -1.63% -10.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £27.00 - £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 3,593 2,207 2,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.37% 16.52% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,406 1,461 1,674
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £686
90th Percentile £738 £763 £800
England median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 31 60
10th Percentile £20.04 £22.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.15 £17.94
Median hourly rate £28.28 £34.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -18.04% +44.96% -9.33%
75th Percentile £41.80 £49.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £65.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% +28.00% -41.18%

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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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -6 10 £381 -27.52% 3
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 (8.33%) CMS
2 5 (5.21%) Confluence
3 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.13%) Drupal
5 1 (1.04%) Kentico
5 1 (1.04%) R Markdown
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Adobe XD
1 4 (4.17%) Sketch
2 1 (1.04%) InVision
2 1 (1.04%) Trello
2 1 (1.04%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.04%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (25.00%) Figma
2 15 (15.63%) Azure
3 11 (11.46%) AWS
4 8 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (6.25%) GitHub
6 5 (5.21%) Slack
7 4 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.13%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.13%) GCP
8 3 (3.13%) npm
8 3 (3.13%) Serverless
8 3 (3.13%) Yarn
9 2 (2.08%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.08%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.04%) Amazon Neptune
10 1 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.04%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.08%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 11 (11.46%) JIRA
3 9 (9.38%) Git
4 5 (5.21%) Storybook
4 5 (5.21%) webpack
5 3 (3.13%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.13%) GitLab
5 3 (3.13%) MSBuild
5 3 (3.13%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.08%) Ant
6 2 (2.08%) JMeter
6 2 (2.08%) Vite
7 1 (1.04%) Axure RP
7 1 (1.04%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.04%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.04%) rollup.js
7 1 (1.04%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.04%) TestRail
7 1 (1.04%) Zephyr
General
1 49 (51.04%) Public Sector
2 11 (11.46%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.33%) Finance
4 6 (6.25%) Banking
5 5 (5.21%) Local Government
6 4 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.08%) Marketing
8 2 (2.08%) Military
8 2 (2.08%) Publishing
8 2 (2.08%) Retail
9 1 (1.04%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Law
9 1 (1.04%) Legal
9 1 (1.04%) Police
9 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (36.46%) Developer
2 31 (32.29%) Designer
3 16 (16.67%) Senior
4 13 (13.54%) React Developer
5 11 (11.46%) Interaction Designer
6 10 (10.42%) Lead
7 9 (9.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 8 (8.33%) Content Designer
9 6 (6.25%) Node.js Developer
9 6 (6.25%) Senior Designer
9 6 (6.25%) Senior Developer
9 6 (6.25%) Tester
10 5 (5.21%) Senior Interaction Designer
10 5 (5.21%) Service Designer
10 5 (5.21%) UX Designer
11 3 (3.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 3 (3.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) Lead Consultant
11 3 (3.13%) Mobile Designer
11 3 (3.13%) User Experience Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (37.50%) React
2 25 (26.04%) CSS
3 24 (25.00%) HTML
4 17 (17.71%) Redux
5 16 (16.67%) RESTful
6 13 (13.54%) CSS3
6 13 (13.54%) HTML5
7 11 (11.46%) Playwright
8 10 (10.42%) Jest
8 10 (10.42%) Next.js
9 9 (9.38%) REST
10 8 (8.33%) Node.js
11 6 (6.25%) GraphQL
11 6 (6.25%) Tailwind CSS
12 5 (5.21%) .NET
13 4 (4.17%) Vue
14 3 (3.13%) AngularJS
14 3 (3.13%) Dapper ORM
14 3 (3.13%) Entity Framework
14 3 (3.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.29%) NHS
2 4 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.08%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.04%) BYOD
5 1 (1.04%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.04%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Android
1 3 (3.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (43.75%) Agile
2 30 (31.25%) User Experience
2 30 (31.25%) User Research
3 29 (30.21%) CI/CD
4 24 (25.00%) UX Design
5 20 (20.83%) Test Automation
6 19 (19.79%) Inclusive Design
6 19 (19.79%) Wireframes
7 18 (18.75%) Interaction Design
7 18 (18.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 16 (16.67%) AI
9 14 (14.58%) Analytics
9 14 (14.58%) Prototyping
10 13 (13.54%) Service Design
11 12 (12.50%) Front End Development
11 12 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
11 12 (12.50%) Responsive Web Design
11 12 (12.50%) Usability Testing
12 11 (11.46%) DevOps
12 11 (11.46%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 37 (38.54%) TypeScript
2 32 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 9 (9.38%) Python
4 7 (7.29%) C#
5 3 (3.13%) Ruby
5 3 (3.13%) SQL
6 2 (2.08%) Java
7 1 (1.04%) R
7 1 (1.04%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 25 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 23 (23.96%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.21%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (5.21%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.08%) Degree
4 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.04%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.04%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (95.83%) Accessibility
2 9 (9.38%) QA
3 4 (4.17%) GDPR
4 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (10.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.08%) Terraform
2 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (5.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.17%) Adobe
3 2 (2.08%) Google
3 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.08%) SAP
4 1 (1.04%) Foundry
4 1 (1.04%) IBM
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle