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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 320 369
Rank change year-on-year +8 +49 +126
Contract jobs citing WCAG 78 34 34
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.51% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.74% 1.74% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 28 27
10th Percentile £316 £314 £335
25th Percentile £400 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +11.11% -6.49%
75th Percentile £528 £606 £520
90th Percentile £573 £638 £643
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 2,848 1,955 2,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.57% 14.37% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,888 1,199 1,831
10th Percentile £350 £300 £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 £665 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 29 59
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.19 £22.27 £19.69
Median hourly rate £26.11 £39.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.05% +23.81% -10.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £83.20 £46.42
90th Percentile £76.67 £95.50 £61.75
England median hourly rate £24.19 £30.99 £25.06
% change year-on-year -21.93% +23.66% -17.26%

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 14 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in London

WCAG
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 14 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 -5 12 £513 +2.50% 2
South London - 3 £475 -
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 4 (5.13%) CMS
1 4 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.85%) Confluence
3 2 (2.56%) Magnolia
3 2 (2.56%) WordPress
4 1 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 8 (10.26%) Adobe XD
1 8 (10.26%) Sketch
2 4 (5.13%) InVision
3 2 (2.56%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (2.56%) Trello
3 2 (2.56%) Zeplin
4 1 (1.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.08%) Figma
2 17 (21.79%) Azure
3 13 (16.67%) GitHub
4 12 (15.38%) AWS
5 8 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.41%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.13%) Power Platform
7 4 (5.13%) Serverless
8 3 (3.85%) Asana
8 3 (3.85%) GCP
8 3 (3.85%) Miro
8 3 (3.85%) SaaS
9 2 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.56%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (2.56%) Lucidchart
9 2 (2.56%) npm
9 2 (2.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) DNS
1 1 (1.28%) HTTP
1 1 (1.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.13%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.56%) Power BI
3 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (16.67%) Git
2 11 (14.10%) Cypress.io
2 11 (14.10%) JIRA
3 8 (10.26%) webpack
4 6 (7.69%) Axure RP
5 4 (5.13%) Selenium
6 3 (3.85%) ESLint
6 3 (3.85%) rollup.js
6 3 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (3.85%) Vite
7 2 (2.56%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.56%) gulp
7 2 (2.56%) Jasmine
7 2 (2.56%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.56%) Pa11y
7 2 (2.56%) Postman
7 2 (2.56%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.28%) MSBuild
8 1 (1.28%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.28%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (29.49%) Public Sector
2 22 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.54%) Finance
5 4 (5.13%) Marketing
6 3 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.85%) Legal
7 2 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Local Government
7 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Publishing
7 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.28%) Banking
8 1 (1.28%) Military
8 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (33.33%) Developer
2 17 (21.79%) Designer
3 15 (19.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 11 (14.10%) Senior
5 6 (7.69%) Lead
5 6 (7.69%) UX Designer
6 5 (6.41%) Tester
7 4 (5.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 4 (5.13%) Senior Designer
7 4 (5.13%) Service Designer
7 4 (5.13%) Test Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Analyst
8 3 (3.85%) Content Designer
8 3 (3.85%) Interaction Designer
8 3 (3.85%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.56%) Node.js Developer
9 2 (2.56%) Salesforce Developer
9 2 (2.56%) Senior Interaction Designer
9 2 (2.56%) Senior UX Designer
9 2 (2.56%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (34.62%) React
2 19 (24.36%) CSS
3 16 (20.51%) HTML
4 12 (15.38%) Jest
5 11 (14.10%) REST
6 9 (11.54%) AngularJS
6 9 (11.54%) RESTful
6 9 (11.54%) Vue
7 8 (10.26%) HTML5
7 8 (10.26%) Playwright
8 7 (8.97%) Node.js
9 6 (7.69%) .NET
9 6 (7.69%) Next.js
9 6 (7.69%) Sass
10 5 (6.41%) CSS3
11 4 (5.13%) D3.js
11 4 (5.13%) OAuth
11 4 (5.13%) Tailwind CSS
12 3 (3.85%) Enzyme
12 3 (3.85%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.56%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.56%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.56%) PMI
3 2 (2.56%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.28%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.28%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.28%) Replication
4 1 (1.28%) RIA
4 1 (1.28%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.28%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.28%) Android
1 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (57.69%) Agile
2 30 (38.46%) User Experience
3 26 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 23 (29.49%) User Research
5 20 (25.64%) UX Design
6 19 (24.36%) Front End Development
7 18 (23.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 17 (21.79%) Responsive Web Design
9 16 (20.51%) Wireframes
10 15 (19.23%) AI
10 15 (19.23%) Inclusive Design
11 14 (17.95%) Test Automation
12 12 (15.38%) DevOps
12 12 (15.38%) Journey Map
13 11 (14.10%) Service Design
14 10 (12.82%) Analytics
14 10 (12.82%) Prototyping
14 10 (12.82%) Usability Testing
15 9 (11.54%) Interaction Design
16 8 (10.26%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 23 (29.49%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.41%) C#
4 4 (5.13%) Python
5 3 (3.85%) Java
6 2 (2.56%) Apex Code
6 2 (2.56%) SQL
7 1 (1.28%) SPARQL
7 1 (1.28%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 16 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.26%) Degree
4 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.56%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.28%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.28%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (89.74%) Accessibility
2 7 (8.97%) QA
3 4 (5.13%) GDPR
4 2 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (8.97%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (11.54%) Adobe
1 9 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.41%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.28%) Amplitude
4 1 (1.28%) Apple
4 1 (1.28%) DevExpress
4 1 (1.28%) Genesys
4 1 (1.28%) Google
4 1 (1.28%) Telerik