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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 327 351
Rank change year-on-year -19 +24 +43
Contract jobs citing WCAG 100 38 47
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.51% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.76% 1.68% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 21 29
10th Percentile £350 £310 £398
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -5.26% -14.41%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £545
90th Percentile £668 £638 £623
England median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -11.21%
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 3,622 2,267 2,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.30% 16.72% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,430 1,513 1,640
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
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 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £754 £800
England median daily rate £510 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 35 56
10th Percentile £20.97 £22.75 £13.49
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.15 £17.94
Median hourly rate £28.55 £34.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +44.96% -27.79%
75th Percentile £44.75 £47.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.70 £61.70 £53.38
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year +13.57% +27.04% -41.18%

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

WCAG
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

WCAG
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCAG in London over the 6 months to 17 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

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 17 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 -7 9 £465 -9.22% 3
South London - 1 £450 -
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 9 (9.00%) CMS
2 6 (6.00%) Confluence
3 4 (4.00%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.00%) Drupal
5 1 (1.00%) Kentico
5 1 (1.00%) R Markdown
Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Adobe XD
1 5 (5.00%) Sketch
2 1 (1.00%) InVision
2 1 (1.00%) Trello
2 1 (1.00%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 25 (25.00%) Figma
2 17 (17.00%) Azure
3 11 (11.00%) AWS
4 10 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (6.00%) GitHub
6 5 (5.00%) Slack
7 4 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.00%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.00%) GCP
8 3 (3.00%) npm
8 3 (3.00%) Serverless
8 3 (3.00%) Yarn
9 2 (2.00%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.00%) Miro
9 2 (2.00%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.00%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.00%) Metadata
2 2 (2.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (13.00%) JIRA
2 12 (12.00%) Cypress.io
3 9 (9.00%) Git
4 5 (5.00%) Storybook
4 5 (5.00%) webpack
5 3 (3.00%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.00%) GitLab
5 3 (3.00%) MSBuild
5 3 (3.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.00%) Ant
6 2 (2.00%) JMeter
6 2 (2.00%) Vite
7 1 (1.00%) Gatling
7 1 (1.00%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.00%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.00%) rollup.js
7 1 (1.00%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.00%) TestRail
7 1 (1.00%) Zephyr
General
1 54 (54.00%) Public Sector
2 13 (13.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.00%) Finance
4 6 (6.00%) Local Government
5 5 (5.00%) Banking
6 4 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.00%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.00%) Marketing
8 2 (2.00%) Military
8 2 (2.00%) Publishing
8 2 (2.00%) Retail
9 1 (1.00%) Law
9 1 (1.00%) Legal
9 1 (1.00%) Police
9 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (36.00%) Developer
2 31 (31.00%) Designer
3 17 (17.00%) Senior
4 13 (13.00%) React Developer
5 12 (12.00%) Interaction Designer
6 11 (11.00%) Lead
7 9 (9.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 8 (8.00%) Content Designer
9 7 (7.00%) Senior Developer
10 6 (6.00%) Node.js Developer
10 6 (6.00%) Senior Designer
10 6 (6.00%) Tester
11 5 (5.00%) Senior Interaction Designer
11 5 (5.00%) Service Designer
12 4 (4.00%) UI Designer
12 4 (4.00%) User Researcher
13 3 (3.00%) Full-Stack Developer
13 3 (3.00%) Mobile Designer
13 3 (3.00%) UI Developer
13 3 (3.00%) User Experience Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (34.00%) React
2 27 (27.00%) CSS
3 25 (25.00%) HTML
4 17 (17.00%) RESTful
5 16 (16.00%) Redux
6 14 (14.00%) CSS3
6 14 (14.00%) HTML5
7 11 (11.00%) Next.js
8 10 (10.00%) Playwright
9 9 (9.00%) Jest
10 8 (8.00%) Node.js
11 7 (7.00%) .NET
11 7 (7.00%) REST
12 6 (6.00%) Tailwind CSS
13 5 (5.00%) ASP.NET
13 5 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
13 5 (5.00%) GraphQL
13 5 (5.00%) Vue
14 3 (3.00%) JSON
14 3 (3.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.00%) NHS
2 4 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.00%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.00%) BYOD
5 1 (1.00%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.00%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.00%) Android
1 3 (3.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (45.00%) Agile
2 32 (32.00%) CI/CD
2 32 (32.00%) User Research
3 30 (30.00%) User Experience
4 22 (22.00%) Test Automation
4 22 (22.00%) UX Design
5 19 (19.00%) Inclusive Design
5 19 (19.00%) Interaction Design
5 19 (19.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 19 (19.00%) Wireframes
6 17 (17.00%) AI
7 15 (15.00%) Analytics
7 15 (15.00%) Service Design
8 14 (14.00%) Prototyping
8 14 (14.00%) Responsive Web Design
9 13 (13.00%) DevOps
10 12 (12.00%) Front End Development
10 12 (12.00%) Performance Optimisation
11 11 (11.00%) TDD
11 11 (11.00%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (35.00%) TypeScript
2 32 (32.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (9.00%) Python
4 7 (7.00%) C#
5 3 (3.00%) Ruby
5 3 (3.00%) SQL
6 2 (2.00%) Java
7 1 (1.00%) R
7 1 (1.00%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 25 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (23.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.00%) Degree
4 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.00%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (96.00%) Accessibility
2 9 (9.00%) QA
3 5 (5.00%) GDPR
4 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (11.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.00%) Terraform
2 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (6.00%) Adobe
2 5 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.00%) Google
3 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.00%) SAP
4 1 (1.00%) Foundry
4 1 (1.00%) IBM
4 1 (1.00%) Oracle