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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 313 344
Rank change year-on-year -42 +31 +33
Contract jobs citing WCAG 94 46 46
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.47% 0.35% 0.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.44% 2.03% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 28 31
10th Percentile £350 £308 £176
25th Percentile £432 £359 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £448 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.35% -5.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £625 £525 £541
90th Percentile £673 £543 £623
England median daily rate £460 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.22% -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 3,849 2,266 2,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.18% 17.15% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,598 1,507 1,444
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £735 £752 £800
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 51 40
10th Percentile £19.76 - £18.13
25th Percentile £23.50 £25.15 £23.35
Median hourly rate £28.55 £34.00 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% +21.78% +1.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £43.98 £50.44
90th Percentile £58.25 £55.00 £72.56
England median hourly rate £36.07 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +10.98% +16.07% -20.00%

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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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -22 9 £474 -7.56% 9
South London - 2 £488 - 2
West London - 1 £450 - 5
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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 12 (12.77%) CMS
2 6 (6.38%) Confluence
3 4 (4.26%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.19%) Headless CMS
5 2 (2.13%) Drupal
6 1 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (1.06%) Kentico
6 1 (1.06%) R Markdown
Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Adobe XD
1 3 (3.19%) Sketch
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.06%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (27.66%) Figma
2 13 (13.83%) Azure
3 8 (8.51%) AWS
4 7 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.38%) Pendo
6 5 (5.32%) Slack
7 4 (4.26%) GitHub
7 4 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.26%) Miro
8 3 (3.19%) Azure Functions
8 3 (3.19%) Bloomreach
8 3 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.19%) GCP
8 3 (3.19%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.19%) Serverless
9 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.13%) npm
9 2 (2.13%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.13%) Yarn
10 1 (1.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.13%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.38%) Metadata
2 5 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (10.64%) Git
2 9 (9.57%) Cypress.io
2 9 (9.57%) JIRA
3 6 (6.38%) Storybook
4 4 (4.26%) webpack
5 3 (3.19%) GitLab
6 2 (2.13%) Ant
6 2 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.13%) MSBuild
6 2 (2.13%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.13%) Vite
7 1 (1.06%) Capybara
7 1 (1.06%) Gatling
7 1 (1.06%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.06%) JMeter
7 1 (1.06%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.06%) rollup.js
7 1 (1.06%) RSpec
7 1 (1.06%) Selenium
General
1 54 (57.45%) Public Sector
2 27 (28.72%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.57%) Finance
4 6 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.38%) Local Government
5 5 (5.32%) Banking
5 5 (5.32%) Publishing
6 3 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.19%) Retail
7 2 (2.13%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.13%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.13%) Military
8 1 (1.06%) Law
8 1 (1.06%) Legal
8 1 (1.06%) Marketing
8 1 (1.06%) Police
8 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (29.79%) Developer
2 26 (27.66%) Designer
3 13 (13.83%) Senior
4 11 (11.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 11 (11.70%) Lead
4 11 (11.70%) React Developer
5 9 (9.57%) Interaction Designer
6 8 (8.51%) User Researcher
7 7 (7.45%) Content Designer
8 5 (5.32%) Senior Designer
8 5 (5.32%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.32%) UI Designer
9 4 (4.26%) Service Designer
10 3 (3.19%) Consultant
10 3 (3.19%) Content Manager
10 3 (3.19%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 3 (3.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) Lead Consultant
10 3 (3.19%) QA Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (29.79%) CSS
2 27 (28.72%) React
3 25 (26.60%) HTML
4 14 (14.89%) HTML5
4 14 (14.89%) RESTful
5 13 (13.83%) CSS3
5 13 (13.83%) Redux
6 10 (10.64%) Next.js
7 8 (8.51%) Jest
8 7 (7.45%) Playwright
9 6 (6.38%) .NET
9 6 (6.38%) REST
9 6 (6.38%) Tailwind CSS
10 5 (5.32%) Node.js
11 4 (4.26%) ASP.NET
11 4 (4.26%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (4.26%) Django
11 4 (4.26%) GraphQL
12 3 (3.19%) AngularJS
12 3 (3.19%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.70%) NHS
2 5 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.26%) Taxonomies
4 3 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.19%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.06%) BYOD
5 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.06%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.19%) Android
1 3 (3.19%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.06%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (54.26%) Agile
2 34 (36.17%) User Experience
3 32 (34.04%) User Research
4 29 (30.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 25 (26.60%) CI/CD
6 24 (25.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (22.34%) Inclusive Design
8 20 (21.28%) AI
8 20 (21.28%) Analytics
8 20 (21.28%) UX Design
9 19 (20.21%) Front End Development
9 19 (20.21%) Wireframes
10 18 (19.15%) Test Automation
11 16 (17.02%) Interaction Design
12 15 (15.96%) Prototyping
13 14 (14.89%) Responsive Web Design
13 14 (14.89%) Usability Testing
14 13 (13.83%) DevOps
14 13 (13.83%) Service Design
15 12 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 27 (28.72%) JavaScript
2 25 (26.60%) TypeScript
3 10 (10.64%) Python
4 5 (5.32%) C#
5 4 (4.26%) Ruby
6 2 (2.13%) SQL
7 1 (1.06%) Java
7 1 (1.06%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (26.60%) Security Cleared
2 23 (24.47%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (5.32%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (91.49%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.38%) QA
3 5 (5.32%) GDPR
4 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (5.32%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (5.32%) Adobe
1 5 (5.32%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.13%) Google
2 2 (2.13%) SAP
3 1 (1.06%) Foundry