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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 343 363
Rank change year-on-year +25 +20 +158
Contract jobs citing WCAG 63 34 46
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.44% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.43% 1.62% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 26 38
10th Percentile £313 £176 £413
25th Percentile £382 £359 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £476 £519
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% -8.24% -1.19%
75th Percentile £530 £540 £592
90th Percentile £575 £638 £650
England median daily rate £454 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -1.84% -7.50% -

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 2,593 2,098 2,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.14% 13.45% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,722 1,290 2,042
10th Percentile £325 £306 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.65%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £689
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 28 46
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.70 £18.58
25th Percentile £25.15 £32.84 £22.07
Median hourly rate £31.49 £40.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.72% +25.38% +5.69%
75th Percentile £43.60 £79.60 £50.33
90th Percentile £68.12 £95.75 £66.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £35.79
% change year-on-year -13.28% -18.97% +59.07%

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

WCAG
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCAG in London over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 2025. 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 +15 11 £513 +5.13% 2
South London - 2 £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 6 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.76%) Confluence
2 3 (4.76%) Moodle
3 2 (3.17%) Alfresco
3 2 (3.17%) CMS
3 2 (3.17%) Magnolia
3 2 (3.17%) WordPress
4 1 (1.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.59%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Sketch
2 5 (7.94%) Adobe XD
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (3.17%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (3.17%) InVision
4 2 (3.17%) Trello
5 1 (1.59%) Chatbot
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.98%) AWS
2 15 (23.81%) Figma
3 13 (20.63%) Azure
4 12 (19.05%) GitHub
5 6 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.35%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.35%) Serverless
7 3 (4.76%) Asana
7 3 (4.76%) BrowserStack
7 3 (4.76%) GCP
7 3 (4.76%) Google Analytics
7 3 (4.76%) Miro
7 3 (4.76%) SaaS
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.17%) Canva
8 2 (3.17%) Lucidchart
8 2 (3.17%) PowerApps
8 2 (3.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) DNS
1 3 (4.76%) HTTP
2 2 (3.17%) Internet
3 1 (1.59%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
1 2 (3.17%) Power BI
2 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.59%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (22.22%) Git
2 9 (14.29%) JIRA
2 9 (14.29%) webpack
3 8 (12.70%) Cypress.io
4 5 (7.94%) Vite
5 4 (6.35%) Axure RP
5 4 (6.35%) Selenium
6 3 (4.76%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (4.76%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.76%) ESLint
6 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
6 3 (4.76%) Postman
6 3 (4.76%) rollup.js
6 3 (4.76%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (3.17%) GitLab
7 2 (3.17%) gulp
7 2 (3.17%) Jasmine
7 2 (3.17%) Pa11y
8 1 (1.59%) Mockito
8 1 (1.59%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.63%) Public Sector
3 11 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (14.29%) Finance
5 5 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.35%) Marketing
7 3 (4.76%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.17%) Legal
8 2 (3.17%) Publishing
9 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (38.10%) Developer
2 14 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 6 (9.52%) Designer
3 6 (9.52%) Lead
4 5 (7.94%) Senior
5 4 (6.35%) .NET Developer
5 4 (6.35%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 4 (6.35%) Test Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Tester
6 3 (4.76%) Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Web Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Architect
7 2 (3.17%) Auditor
7 2 (3.17%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Salesforce Developer
7 2 (3.17%) Service Designer
7 2 (3.17%) Software Tester
7 2 (3.17%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Test Leader
7 2 (3.17%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (34.92%) CSS
1 22 (34.92%) React
2 16 (25.40%) HTML
3 12 (19.05%) Jest
4 10 (15.87%) AngularJS
4 10 (15.87%) HTML5
4 10 (15.87%) Vue
5 9 (14.29%) REST
6 8 (12.70%) Sass
7 7 (11.11%) RESTful
7 7 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
8 6 (9.52%) Playwright
9 5 (7.94%) .NET
9 5 (7.94%) Blazor
9 5 (7.94%) CSS3
9 5 (7.94%) Next.js
9 5 (7.94%) Node.js
10 4 (6.35%) D3.js
10 4 (6.35%) Parceljs
10 4 (6.35%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (4.76%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (3.17%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.17%) e-Learning
3 2 (3.17%) Learning Management System
3 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.17%) Video Editing
3 2 (3.17%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.59%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.59%) Replication
4 1 (1.59%) RIA
4 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.59%) VLE
4 1 (1.59%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Android
1 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (49.21%) Agile
2 24 (38.10%) User Experience
3 22 (34.92%) CI/CD
4 18 (28.57%) Front End Development
5 16 (25.40%) Responsive Web Design
6 14 (22.22%) Wireframes
7 13 (20.63%) Test Automation
7 13 (20.63%) UX Design
8 12 (19.05%) User Research
9 11 (17.46%) DevOps
10 10 (15.87%) Inclusive Design
10 10 (15.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 8 (12.70%) AI
12 7 (11.11%) A/B Testing
12 7 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (11.11%) Scrum
12 7 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
12 7 (11.11%) User Stories
13 6 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
13 6 (9.52%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 23 (36.51%) JavaScript
2 18 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 6 (9.52%) SQL
4 4 (6.35%) Java
5 3 (4.76%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.59%) Python
6 1 (1.59%) SOQL
6 1 (1.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (30.16%) Security Cleared
2 16 (25.40%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.70%) Degree
4 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (92.06%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.76%) GDPR
2 3 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.59%) Section 508
System Software
1 4 (6.35%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.70%) Adobe
3 6 (9.52%) Salesforce
4 4 (6.35%) Google
5 3 (4.76%) Amplitude
5 3 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.17%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.17%) Siebel
7 1 (1.59%) Apple
7 1 (1.59%) DevExpress
7 1 (1.59%) Genesys
7 1 (1.59%) Oracle
7 1 (1.59%) Telerik