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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 329 357
Rank change year-on-year +15 +28 +150
Contract jobs citing WCAG 60 35 36
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.42% 0.24% 0.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.30% 1.78% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 27 33
10th Percentile £348 £176 £353
25th Percentile £406 £368 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% - -6.98%
75th Percentile £525 £573 £638
90th Percentile £575 £638 £650
England median daily rate £460 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -2.08% -1.11% -9.52%

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 2,614 1,971 2,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.27% 13.78% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,751 1,195 1,859
10th Percentile £343 £300 £363
25th Percentile £415 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -7.08% +2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 30 48
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.81 £18.75
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.65 £24.79
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% - +10.24%
75th Percentile £39.87 £78.40 £52.50
90th Percentile £74.48 £95.25 £64.65
England median hourly rate £26.11 £30.21 £33.75
% change year-on-year -13.57% -10.49% +40.63%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCAG in London over the 6 months to 4 January 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 4 January 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 +6 10 £513 +2.50% 3
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 3 (5.00%) Confluence
1 3 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.33%) CMS
2 2 (3.33%) Magnolia
2 2 (3.33%) WordPress
3 1 (1.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Adobe XD
1 6 (10.00%) Sketch
2 3 (5.00%) InVision
3 2 (3.33%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (3.33%) Trello
4 1 (1.67%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.67%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) AWS
1 15 (25.00%) Azure
2 13 (21.67%) Figma
2 13 (21.67%) GitHub
3 7 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.00%) Asana
6 3 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.00%) GCP
6 3 (5.00%) Miro
6 3 (5.00%) SaaS
6 3 (5.00%) Serverless
7 2 (3.33%) BrowserStack
7 2 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (3.33%) Lucidchart
7 2 (3.33%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.67%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) DNS
1 1 (1.67%) HTTP
1 1 (1.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.33%) Power BI
3 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Git
2 10 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 9 (15.00%) JIRA
4 7 (11.67%) webpack
5 5 (8.33%) Axure RP
5 5 (8.33%) Selenium
6 4 (6.67%) Postman
7 3 (5.00%) ESLint
7 3 (5.00%) rollup.js
7 3 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (5.00%) Vite
8 2 (3.33%) Cucumber
8 2 (3.33%) GitLab
8 2 (3.33%) gulp
8 2 (3.33%) Jasmine
8 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
8 2 (3.33%) Pa11y
8 2 (3.33%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.67%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (1.67%) Mockito
General
1 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.67%) Public Sector
3 12 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.33%) Finance
5 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.00%) Legal
5 3 (5.00%) Marketing
6 2 (3.33%) Publishing
6 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Military
7 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (41.67%) Developer
2 14 (23.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (8.33%) Designer
3 5 (8.33%) Lead
3 5 (8.33%) Test Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) .NET Developer
4 4 (6.67%) Tester
5 3 (5.00%) Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 3 (5.00%) Senior
5 3 (5.00%) Service Designer
6 2 (3.33%) Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Auditor
6 2 (3.33%) Backend Developer
6 2 (3.33%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.33%) Salesforce Developer
6 2 (3.33%) Software Tester
6 2 (3.33%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) UX Designer
7 1 (1.67%) User Experience Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (35.00%) CSS
1 21 (35.00%) React
2 13 (21.67%) HTML
3 11 (18.33%) Jest
4 9 (15.00%) AngularJS
4 9 (15.00%) REST
4 9 (15.00%) RESTful
5 8 (13.33%) .NET
5 8 (13.33%) HTML5
5 8 (13.33%) Tailwind CSS
5 8 (13.33%) Vue
6 6 (10.00%) Playwright
6 6 (10.00%) Sass
7 5 (8.33%) Blazor
7 5 (8.33%) CSS3
7 5 (8.33%) Node.js
8 4 (6.67%) D3.js
8 4 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (6.67%) Next.js
9 3 (5.00%) LESS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.33%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.33%) PMI
3 2 (3.33%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.67%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.67%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.67%) Replication
4 1 (1.67%) RIA
4 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.67%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Android
1 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (56.67%) Agile
2 25 (41.67%) User Experience
3 21 (35.00%) CI/CD
4 18 (30.00%) Front End Development
5 15 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
5 15 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 13 (21.67%) User Research
6 13 (21.67%) UX Design
6 13 (21.67%) Wireframes
7 12 (20.00%) DevOps
8 11 (18.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 10 (16.67%) AI
10 9 (15.00%) Inclusive Design
11 8 (13.33%) Journey Map
11 8 (13.33%) Service Design
11 8 (13.33%) User Stories
12 6 (10.00%) API Integration
12 6 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (10.00%) Prototyping
12 6 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 19 (31.67%) TypeScript
3 6 (10.00%) SQL
4 3 (5.00%) Apex Code
4 3 (5.00%) C#
4 3 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (1.67%) Python
5 1 (1.67%) SOQL
5 1 (1.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.67%) Degree
4 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (90.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.33%) QA
3 4 (6.67%) GDPR
4 2 (3.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.67%) Adobe
3 6 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.33%) Siebel
6 1 (1.67%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.67%) Apple
6 1 (1.67%) DevExpress
6 1 (1.67%) Genesys
6 1 (1.67%) Google
6 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.67%) Telerik