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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 325 362
Rank change year-on-year +15 +37 +127
Contract jobs citing WCAG 84 32 30
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.53% 0.24% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.79% 1.63% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 26 23
10th Percentile £312 £351 £320
25th Percentile £400 £411 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -2.70%
75th Percentile £520 £617 £576
90th Percentile £565 £638 £648
England median daily rate £475 £475 £425
% change year-on-year - +11.76% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
England median hourly rate £23.00 - -

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 3,010 1,963 2,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.94% 14.63% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,005 1,240 1,806
10th Percentile £350 £308 £363
25th Percentile £419 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £789 £788
England median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 27 61
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.72 £23.23 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.11 £39.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -33.05% +35.65% -17.86%
75th Percentile £57.81 £80.80 £43.75
90th Percentile £78.45 £94.25 £61.75
England median hourly rate £25.94 £31.76 £26.66
% change year-on-year -18.32% +19.13% -23.83%

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 28 February 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

WCAG
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 28 February 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 +12 12 £513 +2.50% 8
South London - 3 £475 - 6
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 (5.95%) CMS
2 4 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.57%) Confluence
4 2 (2.38%) Magnolia
4 2 (2.38%) WordPress
5 1 (1.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.19%) Drupal
Applications
1 8 (9.52%) Adobe XD
1 8 (9.52%) Sketch
2 4 (4.76%) InVision
3 2 (2.38%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (2.38%) Trello
3 2 (2.38%) Zeplin
4 1 (1.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.62%) Figma
2 17 (20.24%) Azure
3 14 (16.67%) GitHub
4 13 (15.48%) AWS
5 10 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.76%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.76%) Serverless
8 3 (3.57%) Asana
8 3 (3.57%) GCP
8 3 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (3.57%) SaaS
9 2 (2.38%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.38%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.38%) npm
9 2 (2.38%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) Internet
1 1 (1.19%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.38%) Power BI
3 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.19%) Metadata
3 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (15.48%) JIRA
2 12 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 12 (14.29%) Git
3 7 (8.33%) webpack
4 6 (7.14%) Axure RP
5 4 (4.76%) Selenium
6 3 (3.57%) ESLint
6 3 (3.57%) rollup.js
6 3 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (2.38%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.38%) gulp
7 2 (2.38%) Jasmine
7 2 (2.38%) Postman
7 2 (2.38%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.38%) Vite
7 2 (2.38%) Zephyr
8 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.19%) Mockito
8 1 (1.19%) MSBuild
8 1 (1.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 26 (30.95%) Public Sector
2 21 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.52%) Finance
5 3 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.57%) Marketing
6 2 (2.38%) Banking
6 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.38%) Legal
6 2 (2.38%) Local Government
6 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.19%) Military
7 1 (1.19%) Publishing
7 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (36.90%) Developer
2 18 (21.43%) Designer
3 15 (17.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 13 (15.48%) Senior
5 7 (8.33%) Tester
6 6 (7.14%) UX Designer
7 5 (5.95%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 4 (4.76%) Interaction Designer
8 4 (4.76%) Node.js Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Senior Designer
8 4 (4.76%) Service Designer
8 4 (4.76%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Analyst
9 3 (3.57%) Content Designer
9 3 (3.57%) Lead
9 3 (3.57%) React Developer
10 2 (2.38%) Architect
10 2 (2.38%) Business Analyst
10 2 (2.38%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (34.52%) React
2 20 (23.81%) CSS
3 18 (21.43%) HTML
4 12 (14.29%) Jest
4 12 (14.29%) REST
5 11 (13.10%) Playwright
6 10 (11.90%) RESTful
7 9 (10.71%) Node.js
7 9 (10.71%) Vue
8 8 (9.52%) AngularJS
8 8 (9.52%) HTML5
9 6 (7.14%) .NET
9 6 (7.14%) CSS3
9 6 (7.14%) Next.js
10 5 (5.95%) Lightning Web Components
10 5 (5.95%) OAuth
10 5 (5.95%) Redux
10 5 (5.95%) Sass
11 4 (4.76%) D3.js
11 4 (4.76%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.57%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.38%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.38%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.38%) PMI
3 2 (2.38%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.19%) NHS
4 1 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.19%) RIA
4 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.19%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.19%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.19%) Android
1 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (51.19%) Agile
2 29 (34.52%) CI/CD
2 29 (34.52%) User Experience
3 24 (28.57%) User Research
4 20 (23.81%) UX Design
5 19 (22.62%) Front End Development
6 17 (20.24%) AI
6 17 (20.24%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 16 (19.05%) Inclusive Design
7 16 (19.05%) Responsive Web Design
7 16 (19.05%) Test Automation
7 16 (19.05%) Wireframes
8 14 (16.67%) DevOps
9 12 (14.29%) Service Design
10 11 (13.10%) Analytics
10 11 (13.10%) Journey Map
10 11 (13.10%) Prototyping
11 10 (11.90%) Containerisation
11 10 (11.90%) Interaction Design
11 10 (11.90%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (35.71%) TypeScript
2 26 (30.95%) JavaScript
3 6 (7.14%) C#
4 4 (4.76%) Python
5 3 (3.57%) Java
6 2 (2.38%) Apex Code
6 2 (2.38%) SQL
7 1 (1.19%) SPARQL
7 1 (1.19%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 18 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.52%) Degree
4 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.38%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.38%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.19%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (90.48%) Accessibility
2 9 (10.71%) QA
3 3 (3.57%) GDPR
4 2 (2.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 9 (10.71%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.71%) Adobe
3 5 (5.95%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.19%) DevExpress
5 1 (1.19%) Genesys
5 1 (1.19%) IBM
5 1 (1.19%) Oracle
5 1 (1.19%) Telerik