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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 330 378
Rank change year-on-year +3 +48 +145
Contract jobs citing WCAG 46 47 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.29% 0.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.97% 2.11% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 31 51
10th Percentile £308 £176 £413
25th Percentile £355 £381 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £521 £541 £638
90th Percentile £538 £623 £650
England median daily rate £440 £475 £535
% change year-on-year -7.37% -11.21% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
England median hourly rate - £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 2,332 2,232 3,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.32% 13.69% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,552 1,437 2,312
10th Percentile £325 £333 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 42 35
10th Percentile - £18.13 £16.71
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.80 £19.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £29.81 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% +14.65% +13.20%
75th Percentile £42.75 £49.69 £47.88
90th Percentile £54.35 £71.88 £63.40
England median hourly rate £32.50 £31.62 £37.50
% change year-on-year +2.78% -15.68% +66.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing WCAG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for WCAG 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 +2 8 £500 +5.26% 12
South London - 2 £450 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (15.22%) SharePoint
2 6 (13.04%) Moodle
3 3 (6.52%) Alfresco
3 3 (6.52%) Confluence
4 2 (4.35%) Apache
5 1 (2.17%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (6.52%) Sketch
3 1 (2.17%) Adobe XD
3 1 (2.17%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) AWS
2 11 (23.91%) Figma
3 5 (10.87%) Azure
3 5 (10.87%) GitHub
3 5 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (10.87%) Google Analytics
4 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.52%) BrowserStack
4 3 (6.52%) Canva
4 3 (6.52%) GCP
4 3 (6.52%) SaaS
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.35%) Cloud Run
5 2 (4.35%) Lucidchart
5 2 (4.35%) Miro
5 2 (4.35%) Serverless
6 1 (2.17%) Asana
6 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) DNS
1 5 (10.87%) HTTP
2 4 (8.70%) Internet
3 3 (6.52%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Git
2 6 (13.04%) JIRA
2 6 (13.04%) Vite
2 6 (13.04%) webpack
3 5 (10.87%) Browser DevTools
3 5 (10.87%) Cypress.io
3 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
4 4 (8.70%) Postman
4 4 (8.70%) Selenium
5 3 (6.52%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.35%) Gatling
6 2 (4.35%) GitLab
6 2 (4.35%) Pa11y
6 2 (4.35%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.17%) Ant
7 1 (2.17%) JUnit
7 1 (2.17%) LoadRunner
7 1 (2.17%) Mockito
7 1 (2.17%) Storybook
7 1 (2.17%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.91%) Public Sector
3 9 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (15.22%) Finance
5 6 (13.04%) Marketing
6 4 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.35%) Banking
7 2 (4.35%) Legal
8 1 (2.17%) Electronics
8 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.17%) Multimedia
8 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Publishing
8 1 (2.17%) Retail
8 1 (2.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Developer
2 7 (15.22%) Lead
3 5 (10.87%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 5 (10.87%) Senior
3 5 (10.87%) Web Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) .NET Developer
4 4 (8.70%) Designer
4 4 (8.70%) Test Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Tester
5 3 (6.52%) Coordinator
5 3 (6.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (4.35%) Auditor
6 2 (4.35%) JavaScript Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) QA Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Software Tester
6 2 (4.35%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Test Leader
6 2 (4.35%) UI Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Mobile UX Designer
7 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (32.61%) HTML
2 13 (28.26%) CSS
3 10 (21.74%) React
4 7 (15.22%) AngularJS
4 7 (15.22%) React Native
4 7 (15.22%) Sass
4 7 (15.22%) Vue
5 6 (13.04%) HTML5
5 6 (13.04%) Jest
5 6 (13.04%) Playwright
6 5 (10.87%) .NET
6 5 (10.87%) GatsbyJS
6 5 (10.87%) Next.js
6 5 (10.87%) Parceljs
7 4 (8.70%) Blazor
7 4 (8.70%) Tailwind CSS
8 3 (6.52%) EDI
8 3 (6.52%) Kafka
8 3 (6.52%) REST
9 2 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Marketing Technology
2 3 (6.52%) e-Learning
2 3 (6.52%) Learning Management System
2 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.52%) Video Editing
2 3 (6.52%) VLE
3 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.35%) NHS
4 1 (2.17%) Animation
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.17%) RIA
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.17%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (47.83%) Agile
2 16 (34.78%) CI/CD
3 15 (32.61%) User Experience
4 11 (23.91%) Scrum
4 11 (23.91%) Test Automation
5 9 (19.57%) UX Design
6 8 (17.39%) DevOps
6 8 (17.39%) Responsive Web Design
6 8 (17.39%) Wireframes
7 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (13.04%) Code Quality
8 6 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (13.04%) Digital Marketing
8 6 (13.04%) Inclusive Design
9 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (10.87%) Migration
9 5 (10.87%) Monorepo
9 5 (10.87%) Observability
9 5 (10.87%) Performance Testing
9 5 (10.87%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.78%) JavaScript
2 9 (19.57%) TypeScript
3 6 (13.04%) SQL
4 4 (8.70%) Python
5 3 (6.52%) Java
6 1 (2.17%) Ada
6 1 (2.17%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.17%) C#
6 1 (2.17%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 9 (19.57%) Degree
2 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (95.65%) Accessibility
2 6 (13.04%) QA
3 5 (10.87%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.35%) GDPR
4 2 (4.35%) Section 508
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.22%) Google
3 5 (10.87%) Amplitude
4 4 (8.70%) Adobe
5 3 (6.52%) MuleSoft
5 3 (6.52%) Salesforce
6 2 (4.35%) Siebel
7 1 (2.17%) Apple
7 1 (2.17%) Oracle
7 1 (2.17%) SAP
7 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow