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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 317 333
Rank change year-on-year -25 +16 +53
Contract jobs citing WCAG 102 43 43
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.51% 0.32% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.70% 1.87% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 26 28
10th Percentile £350 £318 £313
25th Percentile £404 £353 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -4.21% -13.64%
75th Percentile £591 £525 £545
90th Percentile £668 £597 £623
England median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -11.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
England median hourly rate £48.50 - £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 3,779 2,305 2,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.75% 16.98% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,553 1,556 1,515
10th Percentile £350 £314 £350
25th Percentile £428 £413 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £794
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 41 43
10th Percentile £18.07 - £16.99
25th Percentile £24.38 £25.15 £21.13
Median hourly rate £29.04 £34.50 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +29.31% -32.32%
75th Percentile £41.68 £44.75 £46.25
90th Percentile £65.44 £55.00 £59.00
England median hourly rate £39.00 £31.64 £27.50
% change year-on-year +23.26% +15.05% -31.80%

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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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -20 9 £392 -23.61% 7
South London - 2 £488 - 1
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 9 (8.82%) CMS
2 6 (5.88%) Confluence
3 4 (3.92%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.94%) Drupal
5 1 (0.98%) Kentico
5 1 (0.98%) R Markdown
Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Adobe XD
1 3 (2.94%) Sketch
2 1 (0.98%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (25.49%) Figma
2 15 (14.71%) Azure
3 13 (12.75%) AWS
4 9 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.86%) GitHub
6 6 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (5.88%) Pendo
7 5 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (4.90%) Slack
8 3 (2.94%) GCP
8 3 (2.94%) Serverless
9 2 (1.96%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.96%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.96%) Miro
9 2 (1.96%) npm
9 2 (1.96%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.96%) Yarn
10 1 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.94%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.92%) Metadata
2 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.96%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.98%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (11.76%) Cypress.io
2 11 (10.78%) JIRA
3 9 (8.82%) Git
4 6 (5.88%) Storybook
5 4 (3.92%) GitLab
5 4 (3.92%) webpack
6 2 (1.96%) Ant
6 2 (1.96%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.96%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.96%) MSBuild
6 2 (1.96%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.96%) Vite
7 1 (0.98%) Capybara
7 1 (0.98%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.98%) JMeter
7 1 (0.98%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.98%) rollup.js
7 1 (0.98%) RSpec
7 1 (0.98%) Selenium
7 1 (0.98%) SpecFlow
General
1 60 (58.82%) Public Sector
2 23 (22.55%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.86%) Finance
4 6 (5.88%) Local Government
5 5 (4.90%) Banking
6 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.96%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.96%) Military
7 2 (1.96%) Publishing
7 2 (1.96%) Retail
8 1 (0.98%) Law
8 1 (0.98%) Legal
8 1 (0.98%) Marketing
8 1 (0.98%) Police
Job Titles
1 37 (36.27%) Developer
2 25 (24.51%) Designer
3 16 (15.69%) Senior
4 12 (11.76%) React Developer
5 11 (10.78%) Lead
6 10 (9.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 10 (9.80%) Interaction Designer
7 8 (7.84%) Senior Developer
7 8 (7.84%) User Researcher
8 6 (5.88%) Content Designer
8 6 (5.88%) Node.js Developer
9 4 (3.92%) Senior Designer
9 4 (3.92%) Service Designer
9 4 (3.92%) Tester
9 4 (3.92%) UI Designer
10 3 (2.94%) Consultant
10 3 (2.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) Lead Consultant
10 3 (2.94%) QA Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (31.37%) React
2 29 (28.43%) CSS
3 27 (26.47%) HTML
4 17 (16.67%) RESTful
5 16 (15.69%) Redux
6 15 (14.71%) HTML5
7 14 (13.73%) CSS3
8 11 (10.78%) Next.js
8 11 (10.78%) Playwright
9 9 (8.82%) Jest
9 9 (8.82%) Node.js
10 7 (6.86%) REST
11 6 (5.88%) .NET
11 6 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
12 5 (4.90%) GraphQL
12 5 (4.90%) Vue
13 4 (3.92%) ASP.NET
13 4 (3.92%) ASP.NET Core
14 3 (2.94%) JSON
14 3 (2.94%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.80%) NHS
2 4 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.94%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.96%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.98%) BYOD
5 1 (0.98%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.98%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.94%) Android
1 3 (2.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (47.06%) Agile
2 33 (32.35%) CI/CD
2 33 (32.35%) User Experience
3 32 (31.37%) User Research
4 26 (25.49%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 23 (22.55%) AI
5 23 (22.55%) Test Automation
6 22 (21.57%) Inclusive Design
7 20 (19.61%) Wireframes
8 19 (18.63%) Analytics
9 18 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (17.65%) UX Design
10 16 (15.69%) Front End Development
10 16 (15.69%) Interaction Design
11 15 (14.71%) Prototyping
11 15 (14.71%) TDD
12 14 (13.73%) DevOps
12 14 (13.73%) Usability Testing
13 13 (12.75%) Responsive Web Design
13 13 (12.75%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 35 (34.31%) TypeScript
2 34 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 10 (9.80%) Python
4 6 (5.88%) C#
5 4 (3.92%) Ruby
6 3 (2.94%) SQL
7 2 (1.96%) Java
8 1 (0.98%) R
8 1 (0.98%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 25 (24.51%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.55%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.90%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.98%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.98%) Degree
6 1 (0.98%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (96.08%) Accessibility
2 9 (8.82%) QA
3 6 (5.88%) GDPR
4 1 (0.98%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (10.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.96%) Terraform
2 1 (0.98%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (4.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.92%) Adobe
3 2 (1.96%) Google
3 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.96%) SAP
4 1 (0.98%) Foundry
4 1 (0.98%) IBM
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle