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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 329 344
Rank change year-on-year -18 +15 +37
Contract jobs citing WCAG 96 40 48
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 0.30% 0.30%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.53% 1.73% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 23 33
10th Percentile £350 £313 £196
25th Percentile £408 £353 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.70% -15.91%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £538
90th Percentile £670 £553 £613
England median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% -13.55%
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 3,788 2,309 2,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.88% 17.19% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,568 1,552 1,502
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
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 47 44
10th Percentile £18.63 - £17.05
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.15 £21.19
Median hourly rate £33.12 £34.00 £27.26
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +24.72% -0.87%
75th Percentile £41.68 £43.98 £49.06
90th Percentile £65.44 £54.25 £68.31
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.50
% change year-on-year +14.00% +15.05% -21.43%

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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

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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 20 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 20 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 -9 8 £403 -21.46% 6
South London - 2 £488 -
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 10 (10.42%) CMS
2 6 (6.25%) Confluence
3 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.13%) Drupal
5 1 (1.04%) Kentico
5 1 (1.04%) R Markdown
Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Adobe XD
1 3 (3.13%) Sketch
2 1 (1.04%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (28.13%) Figma
2 14 (14.58%) Azure
3 10 (10.42%) AWS
4 8 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.25%) GitHub
5 6 (6.25%) Pendo
6 5 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (5.21%) Slack
7 3 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.13%) GCP
7 3 (3.13%) Miro
8 2 (2.08%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.08%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.08%) npm
8 2 (2.08%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.08%) Serverless
8 2 (2.08%) Yarn
9 1 (1.04%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.17%) Metadata
2 4 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.04%) MySQL
4 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (11.46%) JIRA
2 10 (10.42%) Cypress.io
3 9 (9.38%) Git
4 6 (6.25%) Storybook
5 4 (4.17%) GitLab
5 4 (4.17%) webpack
6 2 (2.08%) Ant
6 2 (2.08%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.08%) MSBuild
6 2 (2.08%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.08%) Vite
7 1 (1.04%) Capybara
7 1 (1.04%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.04%) JMeter
7 1 (1.04%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.04%) rollup.js
7 1 (1.04%) RSpec
7 1 (1.04%) Selenium
7 1 (1.04%) Zephyr
General
1 54 (56.25%) Public Sector
2 24 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.33%) Finance
4 6 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.25%) Local Government
5 5 (5.21%) Banking
6 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Retail
7 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.08%) Military
7 2 (2.08%) Publishing
8 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.04%) Law
8 1 (1.04%) Legal
8 1 (1.04%) Marketing
8 1 (1.04%) Police
8 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (33.33%) Developer
2 26 (27.08%) Designer
3 13 (13.54%) Senior
4 12 (12.50%) React Developer
5 10 (10.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 10 (10.42%) Interaction Designer
5 10 (10.42%) Lead
6 8 (8.33%) User Researcher
7 6 (6.25%) Content Designer
8 5 (5.21%) Senior Designer
8 5 (5.21%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.21%) UI Designer
9 4 (4.17%) Service Designer
10 3 (3.13%) Consultant
10 3 (3.13%) Content Manager
10 3 (3.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.13%) Lead Consultant
10 3 (3.13%) QA Engineer
10 3 (3.13%) Tester
10 3 (3.13%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (30.21%) CSS
1 29 (30.21%) React
2 26 (27.08%) HTML
3 17 (17.71%) RESTful
4 15 (15.63%) HTML5
4 15 (15.63%) Redux
5 14 (14.58%) CSS3
6 9 (9.38%) Next.js
6 9 (9.38%) Playwright
7 8 (8.33%) Jest
8 6 (6.25%) Node.js
8 6 (6.25%) REST
8 6 (6.25%) Tailwind CSS
9 5 (5.21%) .NET
10 4 (4.17%) ASP.NET
10 4 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (4.17%) GraphQL
10 4 (4.17%) Vue
11 3 (3.13%) AngularJS
11 3 (3.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.42%) NHS
2 4 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.04%) BYOD
4 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.04%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Android
1 3 (3.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (50.00%) Agile
2 34 (35.42%) User Experience
3 32 (33.33%) User Research
4 28 (29.17%) CI/CD
5 27 (28.13%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 21 (21.88%) Inclusive Design
6 21 (21.88%) Test Automation
6 21 (21.88%) Wireframes
7 20 (20.83%) AI
8 19 (19.79%) Analytics
8 19 (19.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (18.75%) UX Design
10 17 (17.71%) Front End Development
10 17 (17.71%) Interaction Design
11 16 (16.67%) Prototyping
12 14 (14.58%) Usability Testing
13 13 (13.54%) DevOps
13 13 (13.54%) Responsive Web Design
13 13 (13.54%) Service Design
14 12 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (31.25%) JavaScript
2 28 (29.17%) TypeScript
3 9 (9.38%) Python
4 4 (4.17%) C#
4 4 (4.17%) Ruby
5 3 (3.13%) SQL
6 2 (2.08%) Java
7 1 (1.04%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 23 (23.96%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (5.21%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.04%) Degree
6 1 (1.04%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (93.75%) Accessibility
2 8 (8.33%) QA
3 6 (6.25%) GDPR
4 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (5.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.17%) Adobe
3 2 (2.08%) Google
3 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.08%) SAP
4 1 (1.04%) Foundry
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle