WCAG Contracts in London

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring WCAG skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WCAG over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 341 450
Rank change year-on-year +21 +109 +66
Contract jobs citing WCAG 33 50 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.28% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.66% 2.00% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 34 25
10th Percentile £351 £328 £389
25th Percentile £394 £408 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £525 £543 £588
90th Percentile £638 £646 £606
England median daily rate £475 £450 £528
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.69% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
England median hourly rate - £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 1,992 2,495 3,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.88% 13.99% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,770 2,546
10th Percentile £313 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £792
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 62 36
10th Percentile £19.44 £12.70 £20.25
25th Percentile £22.27 £17.85 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.75 £24.75 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +40.40% -19.51% -30.90%
75th Percentile £57.50 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.37 £53.73 £81.25
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing WCAG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WCAG in London.

Daily rate trend for WCAG in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCAG in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WCAG in London.

Hourly rate trend for WCAG in London

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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 1 May 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 0 4 £513 +13.89% 9
West London +8 1 £625 +78.57% 2
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (18.18%) CMS
2 3 (9.09%) Confluence
2 3 (9.09%) Drupal
3 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Sketch
2 2 (6.06%) Adobe XD
3 1 (3.03%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) Figma
2 6 (18.18%) AWS
3 3 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (9.09%) GitHub
3 3 (9.09%) Miro
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.03%) BrowserStack
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.03%) Google Analytics
5 1 (3.03%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Intranet
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Git
1 5 (15.15%) JIRA
2 4 (12.12%) Cucumber
3 3 (9.09%) Cypress.io
3 3 (9.09%) Postman
4 2 (6.06%) Storybook
4 2 (6.06%) Subversion
4 2 (6.06%) Vite
4 2 (6.06%) webpack
5 1 (3.03%) Axure RP
5 1 (3.03%) Balsamiq
5 1 (3.03%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (3.03%) Grunt
5 1 (3.03%) gulp
5 1 (3.03%) Jasmine
5 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.03%) Mocha
5 1 (3.03%) Mockito
5 1 (3.03%) Pa11y
5 1 (3.03%) Selenium
General
1 12 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (9.09%) Legal
3 3 (9.09%) Local Government
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Marketing
4 2 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Electronics
5 1 (3.03%) Law
5 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Publishing
5 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Developer
2 9 (27.27%) Designer
3 4 (12.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (12.12%) Lead
3 4 (12.12%) Senior
3 4 (12.12%) UX Designer
4 3 (9.09%) Interaction Designer
4 3 (9.09%) Senior Designer
5 2 (6.06%) Angular Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.06%) JavaScript Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Lead Developer
5 2 (6.06%) QA Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) React Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Interaction Designer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior UX Designer
5 2 (6.06%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) UI Designer
5 2 (6.06%) UI Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (39.39%) CSS
1 13 (39.39%) HTML
2 7 (21.21%) React
3 5 (15.15%) AngularJS
3 5 (15.15%) Sass
4 3 (9.09%) HTML5
4 3 (9.09%) pytest
4 3 (9.09%) Vue
5 2 (6.06%) .NET
5 2 (6.06%) .NET Core
5 2 (6.06%) jQuery
5 2 (6.06%) Next.js
5 2 (6.06%) Node.js
5 2 (6.06%) Shiny
6 1 (3.03%) Django
6 1 (3.03%) Kafka
6 1 (3.03%) Mustache
6 1 (3.03%) REST
6 1 (3.03%) Semantic HTML
6 1 (3.03%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) e-Learning
1 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
1 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Animation
2 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.03%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.03%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
1 2 (6.06%) Mac OS X
1 2 (6.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) Agile
2 15 (45.45%) User Experience
3 9 (27.27%) Front End Development
3 9 (27.27%) Test Automation
3 9 (27.27%) UX Design
4 7 (21.21%) Analytics
4 7 (21.21%) Usability Testing
5 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 6 (18.18%) User Research
6 5 (15.15%) BDD
6 5 (15.15%) Responsive Web Design
6 5 (15.15%) Wireframes
7 4 (12.12%) Decision-Making
7 4 (12.12%) Inclusive Design
7 4 (12.12%) Interaction Design
7 4 (12.12%) Mentoring
7 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (9.09%) DevOps
8 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) JavaScript
2 6 (18.18%) Python
3 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.06%) C#
4 2 (6.06%) R
4 2 (6.06%) SQL
5 1 (3.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) CCA
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (84.85%) Accessibility
2 8 (24.24%) QA
3 2 (6.06%) WAI
4 1 (3.03%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Adobe
2 2 (6.06%) Databricks
2 2 (6.06%) SAP
3 1 (3.03%) Amplitude
3 1 (3.03%) Apple
3 1 (3.03%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (3.03%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) Salesforce