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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 310 358
Rank change year-on-year -9 +48 +114
Contract jobs citing WCAG 90 37 35
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.53% 0.29% 0.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.86% 1.90% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 29 27
10th Percentile £314 £352 £316
25th Percentile £400 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +17.65% -17.07%
75th Percentile £520 £623 £506
90th Percentile £575 £638 £643
England median daily rate £462 £476 £425
% change year-on-year -2.94% +12.00% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
England median hourly rate £25.00 - -

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 3,152 1,943 2,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.71% 15.39% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,095 1,297 1,738
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £634 £663 £688
90th Percentile £750 £769 £788
England median daily rate £510 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 25 57
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.88 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.59 £22.27 £17.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £39.04 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year -33.12% +48.78% -40.17%
75th Percentile £56.63 £78.40 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.69 £89.53 £59.20
England median hourly rate £28.00 £32.66 £22.01
% change year-on-year -14.26% +48.36% -48.21%

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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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -1 13 £513 +2.50% 9
South London - 1 £510 - 1
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 5 (5.56%) CMS
2 3 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.22%) Magnolia
3 2 (2.22%) WordPress
4 1 (1.11%) Confluence
4 1 (1.11%) Drupal
4 1 (1.11%) R Markdown
Applications
1 9 (10.00%) Adobe XD
1 9 (10.00%) Sketch
2 4 (4.44%) InVision
3 2 (2.22%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (2.22%) Trello
3 2 (2.22%) Zeplin
4 1 (1.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.56%) Figma
2 17 (18.89%) Azure
3 16 (17.78%) AWS
4 14 (15.56%) GitHub
5 9 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.33%) GCP
8 3 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (3.33%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.33%) Serverless
9 2 (2.22%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.22%) Asana
9 2 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.22%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.22%) npm
9 2 (2.22%) SaaS
10 1 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.11%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) Internet
1 1 (1.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.22%) Power BI
3 1 (1.11%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.11%) Metadata
3 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (13.33%) Git
2 11 (12.22%) Cypress.io
2 11 (12.22%) JIRA
3 6 (6.67%) Axure RP
3 6 (6.67%) webpack
4 3 (3.33%) ESLint
4 3 (3.33%) Jasmine
4 3 (3.33%) rollup.js
4 3 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (3.33%) Vite
5 2 (2.22%) GitLab
5 2 (2.22%) Selenium
6 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.11%) JMeter
6 1 (1.11%) Mockito
6 1 (1.11%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.11%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.11%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (38.89%) Public Sector
2 20 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.89%) Finance
5 3 (3.33%) Marketing
6 2 (2.22%) Banking
6 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Legal
6 2 (2.22%) Local Government
6 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Law
7 1 (1.11%) Military
7 1 (1.11%) Police
7 1 (1.11%) Retail
7 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (42.22%) Developer
2 21 (23.33%) Designer
3 16 (17.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 13 (14.44%) Senior
5 7 (7.78%) React Developer
6 6 (6.67%) Interaction Designer
6 6 (6.67%) Node.js Developer
6 6 (6.67%) Tester
6 6 (6.67%) UX Designer
7 5 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.44%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 4 (4.44%) Senior Designer
8 4 (4.44%) Service Designer
9 3 (3.33%) Analyst
9 3 (3.33%) Content Designer
9 3 (3.33%) Lead
9 3 (3.33%) UI Designer
10 2 (2.22%) Architect
10 2 (2.22%) Junior
10 2 (2.22%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (34.44%) React
2 27 (30.00%) CSS
3 25 (27.78%) HTML
4 14 (15.56%) RESTful
5 13 (14.44%) Jest
6 12 (13.33%) HTML5
7 11 (12.22%) Node.js
7 11 (12.22%) REST
8 10 (11.11%) CSS3
8 10 (11.11%) Redux
9 9 (10.00%) Playwright
9 9 (10.00%) Vue
10 7 (7.78%) AngularJS
11 6 (6.67%) .NET
11 6 (6.67%) Next.js
12 5 (5.56%) Lightning Web Components
12 5 (5.56%) Sass
13 4 (4.44%) NgRx
13 4 (4.44%) OAuth
13 4 (4.44%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.33%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.22%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (2.22%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.22%) PMI
3 2 (2.22%) Virtual Reality
3 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.11%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.11%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.11%) NHS
4 1 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.11%) RIA
4 1 (1.11%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.11%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.11%) Android
1 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (50.00%) Agile
2 32 (35.56%) User Experience
3 30 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 24 (26.67%) User Research
5 23 (25.56%) UX Design
6 20 (22.22%) Front End Development
7 19 (21.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 19 (21.11%) Wireframes
8 18 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 17 (18.89%) AI
10 16 (17.78%) Inclusive Design
10 16 (17.78%) Responsive Web Design
11 13 (14.44%) Analytics
11 13 (14.44%) Containerisation
11 13 (14.44%) Prototyping
12 12 (13.33%) Interaction Design
12 12 (13.33%) Service Design
13 11 (12.22%) DevOps
13 11 (12.22%) Journey Map
14 10 (11.11%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (37.78%) TypeScript
2 31 (34.44%) JavaScript
3 6 (6.67%) C#
3 6 (6.67%) Python
4 3 (3.33%) Java
4 3 (3.33%) Ruby
4 3 (3.33%) SQL
5 2 (2.22%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.11%) R
6 1 (1.11%) SPARQL
6 1 (1.11%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (25.56%) Security Cleared
2 19 (21.11%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.78%) Degree
4 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.22%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.22%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.11%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (90.00%) Accessibility
2 9 (10.00%) QA
3 4 (4.44%) GDPR
4 2 (2.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 12 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (10.00%) Adobe
1 9 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.22%) Google
3 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.11%) DevExpress
4 1 (1.11%) Genesys
4 1 (1.11%) IBM
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle
4 1 (1.11%) Telerik