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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 326 367
Rank change year-on-year +13 +41 +135
Contract jobs citing WCAG 81 33 33
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 0.24% 0.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.80% 1.70% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 27 26
10th Percentile £320 £309 £331
25th Percentile £400 £398 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +8.11% -6.33%
75th Percentile £525 £611 £523
90th Percentile £570 £638 £644
England median daily rate £475 £475 £425
% change year-on-year - +11.76% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
England median hourly rate £23.00 - -

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 2,896 1,938 2,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.64% 14.37% 13.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,925 1,186 1,809
10th Percentile £350 £300 £363
25th Percentile £416 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £662 £688
90th Percentile £750 £799 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 28 58
10th Percentile £18.23 £19.44 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.11 £22.27 £19.58
Median hourly rate £26.34 £37.00 £31.61
Median % change year-on-year -28.81% +17.07% -9.70%
75th Percentile £35.13 £79.60 £47.75
90th Percentile £78.38 £94.13 £61.75
England median hourly rate £24.19 £30.00 £26.45
% change year-on-year -19.37% +13.42% -24.43%

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

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

WCAG
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCAG in London over the 6 months to 18 February 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 18 February 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 0 13 £513 +2.50% 2
South London - 3 £475 -
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 4 (4.94%) CMS
1 4 (4.94%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.70%) Confluence
3 2 (2.47%) Magnolia
3 2 (2.47%) WordPress
4 1 (1.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 8 (9.88%) Adobe XD
1 8 (9.88%) Sketch
2 4 (4.94%) InVision
3 2 (2.47%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (2.47%) Trello
3 2 (2.47%) Zeplin
4 1 (1.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (22.22%) Figma
2 17 (20.99%) Azure
3 14 (17.28%) GitHub
4 13 (16.05%) AWS
5 8 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.17%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.94%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.94%) Serverless
8 3 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.70%) Asana
8 3 (3.70%) GCP
8 3 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (3.70%) Miro
8 3 (3.70%) SaaS
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.47%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.47%) Lucidchart
9 2 (2.47%) npm
9 2 (2.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) DNS
1 1 (1.23%) HTTP
1 1 (1.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.47%) Power BI
3 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (16.05%) Git
2 12 (14.81%) Cypress.io
3 11 (13.58%) JIRA
4 8 (9.88%) webpack
5 6 (7.41%) Axure RP
6 4 (4.94%) Selenium
7 3 (3.70%) ESLint
7 3 (3.70%) rollup.js
7 3 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (3.70%) Vite
8 2 (2.47%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.47%) gulp
8 2 (2.47%) Jasmine
8 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
8 2 (2.47%) Pa11y
8 2 (2.47%) Postman
8 2 (2.47%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.23%) Mockito
9 1 (1.23%) MSBuild
General
1 24 (29.63%) Public Sector
2 22 (27.16%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.11%) Finance
5 4 (4.94%) Marketing
6 3 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.70%) Legal
7 2 (2.47%) Banking
7 2 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.47%) Local Government
7 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.47%) Publishing
7 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.23%) Military
8 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (34.57%) Developer
2 17 (20.99%) Designer
3 15 (18.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 12 (14.81%) Senior
5 6 (7.41%) Lead
5 6 (7.41%) UX Designer
6 5 (6.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 5 (6.17%) Tester
7 4 (4.94%) Senior Designer
7 4 (4.94%) Senior Developer
7 4 (4.94%) Service Designer
7 4 (4.94%) Test Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Analyst
8 3 (3.70%) Content Designer
8 3 (3.70%) Interaction Designer
8 3 (3.70%) Node.js Developer
9 2 (2.47%) Senior Interaction Designer
9 2 (2.47%) Senior UX Designer
9 2 (2.47%) UI/UX Designer
9 2 (2.47%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (34.57%) React
2 19 (23.46%) CSS
3 17 (20.99%) HTML
4 13 (16.05%) Jest
5 12 (14.81%) REST
6 9 (11.11%) AngularJS
6 9 (11.11%) Playwright
6 9 (11.11%) RESTful
6 9 (11.11%) Vue
7 8 (9.88%) HTML5
7 8 (9.88%) Node.js
8 7 (8.64%) Next.js
9 6 (7.41%) .NET
9 6 (7.41%) Sass
10 5 (6.17%) CSS3
10 5 (6.17%) OAuth
11 4 (4.94%) D3.js
11 4 (4.94%) GraphQL
11 4 (4.94%) OAuth2
11 4 (4.94%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.70%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.47%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.47%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.47%) PMI
3 2 (2.47%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.23%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.23%) NHS
4 1 (1.23%) Replication
4 1 (1.23%) RIA
4 1 (1.23%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.23%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.23%) Android
1 1 (1.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (56.79%) Agile
2 30 (37.04%) User Experience
3 27 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 23 (28.40%) User Research
5 20 (24.69%) UX Design
6 19 (23.46%) Front End Development
7 18 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 17 (20.99%) AI
8 17 (20.99%) Responsive Web Design
9 16 (19.75%) Wireframes
10 15 (18.52%) Inclusive Design
11 14 (17.28%) Test Automation
12 12 (14.81%) DevOps
12 12 (14.81%) Journey Map
13 11 (13.58%) Analytics
13 11 (13.58%) Service Design
14 10 (12.35%) Prototyping
14 10 (12.35%) Usability Testing
15 9 (11.11%) Containerisation
15 9 (11.11%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 29 (35.80%) TypeScript
2 24 (29.63%) JavaScript
3 6 (7.41%) C#
4 4 (4.94%) Python
5 3 (3.70%) Java
6 2 (2.47%) Apex Code
6 2 (2.47%) SQL
7 1 (1.23%) SPARQL
7 1 (1.23%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (24.69%) Security Cleared
2 16 (19.75%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.88%) Degree
4 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.47%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.23%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (90.12%) Accessibility
2 7 (8.64%) QA
3 4 (4.94%) GDPR
4 2 (2.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (9.88%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (11.11%) Adobe
1 9 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.17%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.23%) Amplitude
4 1 (1.23%) Apple
4 1 (1.23%) DevExpress
4 1 (1.23%) Genesys
4 1 (1.23%) Google
4 1 (1.23%) IBM
4 1 (1.23%) Telerik