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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 317 353
Rank change year-on-year -2 +36 +107
Contract jobs citing WCAG 88 38 43
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.51% 0.30% 0.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.78% 1.93% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 29 30
10th Percentile £316 £352 £318
25th Percentile £400 £405 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +14.29% -17.84%
75th Percentile £519 £623 £531
90th Percentile £575 £638 £650
England median daily rate £445 £479 £425
% change year-on-year -7.00% +12.59% -19.43%
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 3,161 1,974 2,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.25% 15.59% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,120 1,313 1,761
10th Percentile £350 £313 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £765 £788
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 24 62
10th Percentile £18.09 £18.69 £12.68
25th Percentile £21.27 £22.27 £17.56
Median hourly rate £26.81 £37.00 £25.81
Median % change year-on-year -27.55% +43.36% -38.81%
75th Percentile £36.41 £65.00 £49.00
90th Percentile £68.80 £90.59 £59.75
England median hourly rate £30.58 £33.81 £20.50
% change year-on-year -9.54% +64.90% -50.60%

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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 16 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 16 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 -4 10 £513 +2.50% 7
South London - 2 £480 - 2
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 7 (7.95%) CMS
2 3 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.27%) Drupal
3 2 (2.27%) Magnolia
3 2 (2.27%) WordPress
4 1 (1.14%) Confluence
4 1 (1.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 8 (9.09%) Adobe XD
1 8 (9.09%) Sketch
2 4 (4.55%) InVision
3 3 (3.41%) Trello
4 2 (2.27%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (2.27%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.86%) Figma
2 16 (18.18%) AWS
2 16 (18.18%) Azure
3 12 (13.64%) GitHub
4 8 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.41%) GCP
6 3 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.41%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (3.41%) Serverless
7 2 (2.27%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.27%) Asana
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.27%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.14%) Amazon Neptune
8 1 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.14%) Miro
8 1 (1.14%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.68%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.27%) Power BI
3 1 (1.14%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.14%) Metadata
3 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (13.64%) JIRA
2 10 (11.36%) Cypress.io
2 10 (11.36%) Git
3 6 (6.82%) Axure RP
4 5 (5.68%) webpack
5 3 (3.41%) ESLint
5 3 (3.41%) Jasmine
5 3 (3.41%) rollup.js
5 3 (3.41%) Vite
6 2 (2.27%) GitLab
6 2 (2.27%) Selenium
6 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.14%) JMeter
7 1 (1.14%) Mockito
7 1 (1.14%) MSBuild
7 1 (1.14%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.14%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.14%) Zephyr
General
1 38 (43.18%) Public Sector
2 19 (21.59%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.23%) Finance
4 8 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.41%) Local Government
5 3 (3.41%) Marketing
6 2 (2.27%) Banking
6 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.27%) Legal
6 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.27%) Publishing
7 1 (1.14%) Law
7 1 (1.14%) Military
7 1 (1.14%) Police
7 1 (1.14%) Retail
7 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (42.05%) Developer
2 23 (26.14%) Designer
3 14 (15.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 11 (12.50%) Senior
5 9 (10.23%) React Developer
6 6 (6.82%) Interaction Designer
6 6 (6.82%) Node.js Developer
6 6 (6.82%) Service Designer
6 6 (6.82%) Tester
7 5 (5.68%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.55%) Content Designer
8 4 (4.55%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 4 (4.55%) UX Designer
9 3 (3.41%) Analyst
9 3 (3.41%) Senior Designer
9 3 (3.41%) UI Designer
10 2 (2.27%) Junior
10 2 (2.27%) Junior Developer
10 2 (2.27%) QA Engineer
10 2 (2.27%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (34.09%) React
2 26 (29.55%) CSS
3 24 (27.27%) HTML
4 16 (18.18%) RESTful
5 12 (13.64%) Jest
5 12 (13.64%) Redux
6 11 (12.50%) CSS3
6 11 (12.50%) HTML5
7 10 (11.36%) REST
8 9 (10.23%) Node.js
9 8 (9.09%) Playwright
9 8 (9.09%) Vue
10 6 (6.82%) .NET
10 6 (6.82%) AngularJS
10 6 (6.82%) Next.js
11 5 (5.68%) Lightning Web Components
12 4 (4.55%) NgRx
12 4 (4.55%) OAuth
12 4 (4.55%) OAuth2
13 3 (3.41%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.82%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (3.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.27%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.27%) PMI
3 2 (2.27%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.14%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.14%) NHS
4 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.14%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (51.14%) Agile
2 29 (32.95%) CI/CD
2 29 (32.95%) User Experience
3 25 (28.41%) User Research
4 20 (22.73%) Test Automation
4 20 (22.73%) UX Design
5 19 (21.59%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 18 (20.45%) Wireframes
7 17 (19.32%) Front End Development
8 15 (17.05%) AI
9 14 (15.91%) Service Design
10 13 (14.77%) Analytics
10 13 (14.77%) Containerisation
10 13 (14.77%) Inclusive Design
10 13 (14.77%) Journey Map
10 13 (14.77%) Responsive Web Design
11 11 (12.50%) Interaction Design
11 11 (12.50%) Prototyping
12 10 (11.36%) DevOps
13 9 (10.23%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (38.64%) TypeScript
2 29 (32.95%) JavaScript
3 6 (6.82%) C#
3 6 (6.82%) Python
4 3 (3.41%) Java
4 3 (3.41%) Ruby
4 3 (3.41%) SQL
5 2 (2.27%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.14%) R
6 1 (1.14%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 18 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.82%) Degree
4 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.27%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.27%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (90.91%) Accessibility
2 9 (10.23%) QA
3 4 (4.55%) GDPR
4 2 (2.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 12 (13.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (9.09%) Adobe
2 5 (5.68%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.68%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.27%) Google
4 1 (1.14%) DevExpress
4 1 (1.14%) Genesys
4 1 (1.14%) IBM
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle
4 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.14%) Telerik