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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 323 338
Rank change year-on-year -19 +15 +46
Contract jobs citing WCAG 95 41 45
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.47% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.51% 1.77% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 24 30
10th Percentile £350 £315 £317
25th Percentile £406 £352 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.98% -6.32% -13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £543
90th Percentile £668 £551 £623
England median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -11.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
England median hourly rate £48.50 - £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 3,778 2,318 2,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.81% 17.09% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,556 1,556 1,504
10th Percentile £350 £314 £350
25th Percentile £430 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 45 44
10th Percentile £18.35 - £17.05
25th Percentile £24.81 £25.15 £21.19
Median hourly rate £34.06 £34.48 £27.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +26.49% -0.87%
75th Percentile £44.75 £44.75 £49.06
90th Percentile £66.71 £54.50 £68.31
England median hourly rate £38.72 £31.64 £27.50
% change year-on-year +22.38% +15.05% -21.99%

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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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -7 9 £392 -23.61% 6
South London - 2 £488 -
West London - 1 £450 -
WCAG
England

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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 10 (10.53%) CMS
2 6 (6.32%) Confluence
3 4 (4.21%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.16%) Drupal
5 1 (1.05%) Kentico
5 1 (1.05%) R Markdown
Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Adobe XD
1 3 (3.16%) Sketch
2 1 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (27.37%) Figma
2 14 (14.74%) Azure
3 9 (9.47%) AWS
4 8 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.37%) GitHub
6 6 (6.32%) Pendo
7 5 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.26%) Slack
8 3 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.16%) GCP
9 2 (2.11%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.11%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.11%) Miro
9 2 (2.11%) npm
9 2 (2.11%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.11%) Serverless
9 2 (2.11%) Yarn
10 1 (1.05%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.16%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.21%) Metadata
2 4 (4.21%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.05%) MySQL
4 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (11.58%) JIRA
2 10 (10.53%) Cypress.io
3 9 (9.47%) Git
4 6 (6.32%) Storybook
5 4 (4.21%) GitLab
5 4 (4.21%) webpack
6 2 (2.11%) Ant
6 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.11%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.11%) MSBuild
6 2 (2.11%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.11%) Vite
7 1 (1.05%) Capybara
7 1 (1.05%) Gatling
7 1 (1.05%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.05%) JMeter
7 1 (1.05%) rollup.js
7 1 (1.05%) RSpec
7 1 (1.05%) Selenium
7 1 (1.05%) Zephyr
General
1 53 (55.79%) Public Sector
2 23 (24.21%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.42%) Finance
4 7 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.32%) Local Government
6 5 (5.26%) Banking
7 3 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.11%) Military
8 2 (2.11%) Publishing
8 2 (2.11%) Retail
9 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.05%) Law
9 1 (1.05%) Legal
9 1 (1.05%) Marketing
9 1 (1.05%) Police
Job Titles
1 33 (34.74%) Developer
2 25 (26.32%) Designer
3 12 (12.63%) React Developer
3 12 (12.63%) Senior
4 10 (10.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 10 (10.53%) Interaction Designer
4 10 (10.53%) Lead
5 8 (8.42%) User Researcher
6 6 (6.32%) Content Designer
7 5 (5.26%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.21%) Senior Designer
8 4 (4.21%) Service Designer
8 4 (4.21%) UI Designer
9 3 (3.16%) Content Manager
9 3 (3.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Lead Consultant
9 3 (3.16%) Mobile Designer
9 3 (3.16%) Node.js Developer
9 3 (3.16%) Senior Interaction Designer
9 3 (3.16%) User Experience Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (30.53%) CSS
1 29 (30.53%) React
2 26 (27.37%) HTML
3 17 (17.89%) RESTful
4 15 (15.79%) HTML5
4 15 (15.79%) Redux
5 14 (14.74%) CSS3
6 9 (9.47%) Next.js
6 9 (9.47%) Playwright
7 8 (8.42%) Jest
8 6 (6.32%) Node.js
8 6 (6.32%) REST
8 6 (6.32%) Tailwind CSS
9 5 (5.26%) .NET
10 4 (4.21%) ASP.NET
10 4 (4.21%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (4.21%) GraphQL
10 4 (4.21%) Vue
11 3 (3.16%) AngularJS
11 3 (3.16%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.53%) NHS
2 4 (4.21%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (4.21%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.16%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.05%) BYOD
4 1 (1.05%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.05%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.05%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.16%) Android
1 3 (3.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (49.47%) Agile
2 33 (34.74%) User Experience
3 32 (33.68%) User Research
4 27 (28.42%) CI/CD
5 26 (27.37%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 21 (22.11%) Inclusive Design
6 21 (22.11%) Test Automation
7 20 (21.05%) AI
7 20 (21.05%) Wireframes
8 18 (18.95%) Analytics
8 18 (18.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (18.95%) UX Design
9 16 (16.84%) Front End Development
9 16 (16.84%) Interaction Design
10 15 (15.79%) Prototyping
11 14 (14.74%) Usability Testing
12 13 (13.68%) DevOps
12 13 (13.68%) Responsive Web Design
12 13 (13.68%) Service Design
13 12 (12.63%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (31.58%) JavaScript
2 29 (30.53%) TypeScript
3 8 (8.42%) Python
4 5 (5.26%) C#
5 4 (4.21%) Ruby
6 3 (3.16%) SQL
7 2 (2.11%) Java
8 1 (1.05%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 23 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.05%) Degree
6 1 (1.05%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (95.79%) Accessibility
2 8 (8.42%) QA
3 6 (6.32%) GDPR
4 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (8.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.11%) Terraform
2 1 (1.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.21%) Adobe
3 2 (2.11%) Google
3 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.11%) SAP
4 1 (1.05%) Foundry
4 1 (1.05%) IBM
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle