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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 316 346
Rank change year-on-year +5 +30 +121
Contract jobs citing WCAG 90 39 47
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 0.31% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.83% 1.95% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 30 33
10th Percentile £321 £352 £325
25th Percentile £400 £411 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -15.49%
75th Percentile £519 £623 £545
90th Percentile £575 £638 £648
England median daily rate £450 £480 £438
% change year-on-year -6.25% +9.71% -16.67%
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 3,178 1,996 2,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.28% 15.71% 13.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,136 1,326 1,763
10th Percentile £350 £313 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £688
90th Percentile £750 £764 £800
England median daily rate £505 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -0.98% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 25 60
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.88 £12.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.27 £17.34
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £25.62
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +36.61% -39.26%
75th Percentile £37.50 £65.00 £48.83
90th Percentile £69.36 £89.53 £57.75
England median hourly rate £30.49 £34.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year -11.62% +68.29% -50.60%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCAG in London over the 6 months to 19 April 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 19 April 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 -5 10 £513 - 7
South London - 2 £480 - 2
West London -25 1 £450 -28.00%
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 8 (8.89%) CMS
2 5 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.33%) Drupal
4 2 (2.22%) Magnolia
4 2 (2.22%) WordPress
5 1 (1.11%) Confluence
5 1 (1.11%) R Markdown
Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Adobe XD
1 8 (8.89%) Sketch
2 4 (4.44%) InVision
3 3 (3.33%) Trello
4 2 (2.22%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (2.22%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.33%) Figma
2 18 (20.00%) Azure
3 16 (17.78%) AWS
4 12 (13.33%) GitHub
5 9 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.33%) GCP
7 3 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (3.33%) Serverless
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.22%) Asana
8 2 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.22%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.22%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon Neptune
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.11%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.11%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.22%) Power BI
2 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.11%) Metadata
3 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (13.33%) JIRA
2 11 (12.22%) Git
3 10 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 6 (6.67%) Axure RP
5 5 (5.56%) webpack
6 3 (3.33%) ESLint
6 3 (3.33%) Jasmine
6 3 (3.33%) rollup.js
6 3 (3.33%) Vite
7 2 (2.22%) GitLab
7 2 (2.22%) Selenium
7 2 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
8 1 (1.11%) JMeter
8 1 (1.11%) Mockito
8 1 (1.11%) MSBuild
8 1 (1.11%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.11%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.11%) Zephyr
General
1 39 (43.33%) Public Sector
2 20 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.11%) Finance
4 8 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Local Government
6 3 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.33%) Marketing
7 2 (2.22%) Banking
7 2 (2.22%) Legal
7 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Publishing
7 2 (2.22%) Retail
8 1 (1.11%) Law
8 1 (1.11%) Military
8 1 (1.11%) Police
8 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (42.22%) Developer
2 25 (27.78%) Designer
3 14 (15.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 11 (12.22%) Senior
5 9 (10.00%) React Developer
6 7 (7.78%) Service Designer
7 6 (6.67%) Interaction Designer
7 6 (6.67%) Node.js Developer
7 6 (6.67%) Tester
8 5 (5.56%) Content Designer
8 5 (5.56%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.44%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 4 (4.44%) UX Designer
10 3 (3.33%) Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) Senior Designer
10 3 (3.33%) UI Designer
11 2 (2.22%) Junior JavaScript Developer
11 2 (2.22%) Salesforce Developer
11 2 (2.22%) Salesforce Tester
11 2 (2.22%) Senior Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (33.33%) React
2 26 (28.89%) CSS
3 24 (26.67%) HTML
4 16 (17.78%) RESTful
5 12 (13.33%) Jest
5 12 (13.33%) Redux
6 11 (12.22%) CSS3
6 11 (12.22%) HTML5
7 10 (11.11%) REST
8 8 (8.89%) Node.js
8 8 (8.89%) Playwright
8 8 (8.89%) Vue
9 6 (6.67%) .NET
9 6 (6.67%) AngularJS
9 6 (6.67%) Next.js
10 5 (5.56%) Lightning Web Components
11 4 (4.44%) JSON
11 4 (4.44%) NgRx
11 4 (4.44%) OAuth
11 4 (4.44%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.22%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.22%) NHS
3 2 (2.22%) PMI
3 2 (2.22%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.11%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.11%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (51.11%) Agile
2 30 (33.33%) User Experience
3 28 (31.11%) CI/CD
4 26 (28.89%) User Research
5 21 (23.33%) UX Design
6 20 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 19 (21.11%) Test Automation
8 18 (20.00%) Wireframes
9 17 (18.89%) Front End Development
10 16 (17.78%) AI
10 16 (17.78%) Service Design
11 14 (15.56%) Journey Map
12 13 (14.44%) Analytics
12 13 (14.44%) Containerisation
12 13 (14.44%) Inclusive Design
12 13 (14.44%) Responsive Web Design
13 11 (12.22%) DevOps
13 11 (12.22%) Interaction Design
13 11 (12.22%) Prototyping
14 9 (10.00%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (36.67%) TypeScript
2 30 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 7 (7.78%) C#
4 6 (6.67%) Python
5 3 (3.33%) Java
5 3 (3.33%) Ruby
5 3 (3.33%) SQL
6 2 (2.22%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.11%) R
7 1 (1.11%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 18 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.56%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.67%) Degree
4 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.22%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.22%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.11%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (91.11%) Accessibility
2 9 (10.00%) QA
3 5 (5.56%) 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
Vendors
1 8 (8.89%) Adobe
2 6 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.22%) Google
5 1 (1.11%) DevExpress
5 1 (1.11%) IBM
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle
5 1 (1.11%) Telerik