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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 323 357
Rank change year-on-year -20 +34 +53
Contract jobs citing WCAG 95 38 48
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 0.29% 0.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.67% 1.74% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 21 29
10th Percentile £334 £325 £360
25th Percentile £400 £356 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £472 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.66% -0.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £538
90th Percentile £668 £638 £623
England median daily rate £450 £472 £475
% change year-on-year -4.66% -0.63% -11.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £27.00 - £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 3,558 2,187 2,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.34% 16.47% 13.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,377 1,446 1,678
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £756 £800
England median daily rate £507 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.45% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 31 60
10th Percentile £19.09 £22.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £23.94 £25.15 £17.94
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +44.96% -8.46%
75th Percentile £41.80 £49.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £65.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £31.76 £24.18
% change year-on-year +10.20% +31.35% -41.08%

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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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -11 10 £381 -27.52% 7
South London - 2 £480 -
West London - 1 £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 8 (8.42%) CMS
2 6 (6.32%) Confluence
3 5 (5.26%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.16%) Drupal
5 1 (1.05%) Kentico
5 1 (1.05%) R Markdown
Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Adobe XD
1 3 (3.16%) Sketch
2 1 (1.05%) InVision
2 1 (1.05%) Trello
2 1 (1.05%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.05%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 23 (24.21%) Figma
2 14 (14.74%) Azure
3 11 (11.58%) AWS
4 7 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (6.32%) GitHub
6 5 (5.26%) Slack
7 4 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.16%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.16%) GCP
8 3 (3.16%) npm
8 3 (3.16%) Serverless
8 3 (3.16%) Yarn
9 2 (2.11%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.11%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.05%) Amazon Neptune
10 1 (1.05%) Cloud Run
10 1 (1.05%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.16%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.11%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.11%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.05%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (12.63%) Cypress.io
1 12 (12.63%) JIRA
2 9 (9.47%) Git
3 4 (4.21%) Storybook
3 4 (4.21%) webpack
4 3 (3.16%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.16%) GitLab
4 3 (3.16%) MSBuild
4 3 (3.16%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.11%) Ant
5 2 (2.11%) JMeter
5 2 (2.11%) Vite
6 1 (1.05%) Axure RP
6 1 (1.05%) Gatling
6 1 (1.05%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.05%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.05%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.05%) TestRail
6 1 (1.05%) Zephyr
General
1 48 (50.53%) Public Sector
2 11 (11.58%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.42%) Finance
4 6 (6.32%) Banking
5 5 (5.26%) Local Government
6 4 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.11%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.11%) Marketing
8 2 (2.11%) Military
8 2 (2.11%) Publishing
8 2 (2.11%) Retail
9 1 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Law
9 1 (1.05%) Legal
9 1 (1.05%) Police
9 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (36.84%) Developer
2 30 (31.58%) Designer
3 15 (15.79%) Senior
4 13 (13.68%) React Developer
5 10 (10.53%) Interaction Designer
5 10 (10.53%) Lead
6 9 (9.47%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 8 (8.42%) Content Designer
8 6 (6.32%) Node.js Developer
8 6 (6.32%) Senior Designer
8 6 (6.32%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.32%) Tester
9 5 (5.26%) Senior Interaction Designer
9 5 (5.26%) Service Designer
9 5 (5.26%) UX Designer
10 3 (3.16%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 3 (3.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Lead Consultant
10 3 (3.16%) Mobile Designer
10 3 (3.16%) User Experience Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (36.84%) React
2 24 (25.26%) CSS
3 23 (24.21%) HTML
4 16 (16.84%) Redux
5 15 (15.79%) RESTful
6 12 (12.63%) CSS3
6 12 (12.63%) HTML5
7 11 (11.58%) Playwright
8 9 (9.47%) Jest
8 9 (9.47%) Next.js
8 9 (9.47%) REST
9 8 (8.42%) Node.js
10 6 (6.32%) GraphQL
10 6 (6.32%) Tailwind CSS
11 5 (5.26%) .NET
12 4 (4.21%) Vue
13 3 (3.16%) AngularJS
13 3 (3.16%) Dapper ORM
13 3 (3.16%) Entity Framework
13 3 (3.16%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.37%) NHS
2 4 (4.21%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.16%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.11%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.05%) BYOD
5 1 (1.05%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.05%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.05%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.16%) Android
1 3 (3.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (44.21%) Agile
2 29 (30.53%) User Experience
2 29 (30.53%) User Research
3 28 (29.47%) CI/CD
4 23 (24.21%) UX Design
5 19 (20.00%) Inclusive Design
5 19 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 18 (18.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 18 (18.95%) Wireframes
7 17 (17.89%) AI
7 17 (17.89%) Interaction Design
8 14 (14.74%) Analytics
8 14 (14.74%) Prototyping
9 12 (12.63%) Responsive Web Design
9 12 (12.63%) Service Design
10 11 (11.58%) Front End Development
10 11 (11.58%) Performance Optimisation
10 11 (11.58%) TDD
10 11 (11.58%) Usability Testing
11 10 (10.53%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 37 (38.95%) TypeScript
2 31 (32.63%) JavaScript
3 9 (9.47%) Python
4 7 (7.37%) C#
5 3 (3.16%) Ruby
5 3 (3.16%) SQL
6 2 (2.11%) Java
7 1 (1.05%) R
7 1 (1.05%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 24 (25.26%) Security Cleared
2 22 (23.16%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.11%) Degree
4 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.05%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.05%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (95.79%) Accessibility
2 9 (9.47%) QA
3 4 (4.21%) GDPR
4 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.11%) Terraform
2 1 (1.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (4.21%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.16%) Adobe
3 2 (2.11%) Google
3 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.11%) SAP
4 1 (1.05%) Foundry
4 1 (1.05%) IBM
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle