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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 319 339
Rank change year-on-year -8 +20 +74
Contract jobs citing WCAG 91 32 50
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.71% 1.64% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 20 33
10th Percentile £350 £348 £350
25th Percentile £400 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £547 £528 £538
90th Percentile £668 £639 £623
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 - £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 3,362 1,953 2,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.22% 16.14% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,249 1,293 1,714
10th Percentile £350 £317 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £527 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -4.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -0.79% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 26 66
10th Percentile £19.35 £20.63 £13.49
25th Percentile £23.25 £22.39 £18.03
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +42.68% -7.89%
75th Percentile £48.21 £41.82 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.75 £60.00 £55.63
England median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +1.45% +44.96% -44.00%

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

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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 5 June 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 June 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 -3 10 £381 -25.76% 3
South London - 2 £480 - 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 8 (8.79%) CMS
2 5 (5.49%) Confluence
2 5 (5.49%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.30%) Drupal
4 1 (1.10%) Kentico
4 1 (1.10%) R Markdown
Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Adobe XD
1 4 (4.40%) Sketch
2 2 (2.20%) InVision
2 2 (2.20%) Zeplin
3 1 (1.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (24.18%) Figma
2 16 (17.58%) Azure
3 11 (12.09%) AWS
4 8 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.69%) GitHub
6 6 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.40%) Slack
8 3 (3.30%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.30%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (3.30%) npm
8 3 (3.30%) Serverless
8 3 (3.30%) Yarn
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.20%) GCP
9 2 (2.20%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.30%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.30%) NoSQL
1 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.10%) Metadata
3 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (13.19%) Cypress.io
2 11 (12.09%) JIRA
3 8 (8.79%) Git
4 3 (3.30%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.30%) MSBuild
4 3 (3.30%) Storybook
4 3 (3.30%) TeamCity
4 3 (3.30%) webpack
5 2 (2.20%) Ant
5 2 (2.20%) Axure RP
5 2 (2.20%) GitLab
5 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.20%) JMeter
5 2 (2.20%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.10%) Gatling
6 1 (1.10%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.10%) Selenium
6 1 (1.10%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.10%) TestRail
6 1 (1.10%) Zephyr
General
1 47 (51.65%) Public Sector
2 13 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Finance
4 6 (6.59%) Banking
5 5 (5.49%) Local Government
6 4 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.30%) Marketing
8 2 (2.20%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.20%) Legal
8 2 (2.20%) Military
8 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Publishing
8 2 (2.20%) Retail
9 1 (1.10%) Law
9 1 (1.10%) Police
9 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (35.16%) Developer
2 29 (31.87%) Designer
3 13 (14.29%) Senior
4 12 (13.19%) React Developer
5 9 (9.89%) Interaction Designer
6 8 (8.79%) Lead
7 7 (7.69%) Content Designer
8 6 (6.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 6 (6.59%) Node.js Developer
8 6 (6.59%) Service Designer
8 6 (6.59%) Tester
9 5 (5.49%) Senior Designer
9 5 (5.49%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.49%) UX Designer
10 4 (4.40%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 4 (4.40%) Senior Interaction Designer
11 3 (3.30%) Lead Consultant
11 3 (3.30%) Mobile Designer
11 3 (3.30%) QA Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) User Experience Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (32.97%) React
2 22 (24.18%) HTML
3 21 (23.08%) CSS
4 14 (15.38%) Redux
4 14 (15.38%) RESTful
5 12 (13.19%) CSS3
5 12 (13.19%) HTML5
6 9 (9.89%) Playwright
6 9 (9.89%) REST
7 8 (8.79%) .NET
7 8 (8.79%) Jest
8 7 (7.69%) Next.js
8 7 (7.69%) Node.js
9 5 (5.49%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (4.40%) AngularJS
10 4 (4.40%) ASP.NET
10 4 (4.40%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (4.40%) GraphQL
10 4 (4.40%) JWT
10 4 (4.40%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.49%) NHS
2 3 (3.30%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.20%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.10%) BYOD
4 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.10%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.10%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.10%) PMI
4 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.30%) Android
1 3 (3.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (49.45%) Agile
2 29 (31.87%) User Experience
3 24 (26.37%) CI/CD
3 24 (26.37%) User Research
4 22 (24.18%) UX Design
5 19 (20.88%) Test Automation
6 18 (19.78%) Inclusive Design
7 17 (18.68%) Wireframes
8 16 (17.58%) AI
9 15 (16.48%) Interaction Design
9 15 (16.48%) Prototyping
9 15 (16.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 14 (15.38%) Analytics
11 13 (14.29%) Service Design
12 12 (13.19%) Responsive Web Design
13 10 (10.99%) Containerisation
13 10 (10.99%) DevOps
13 10 (10.99%) Usability Testing
14 9 (9.89%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
14 9 (9.89%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 36 (39.56%) TypeScript
2 27 (29.67%) JavaScript
3 10 (10.99%) C#
4 6 (6.59%) Python
5 3 (3.30%) Ruby
6 1 (1.10%) Java
6 1 (1.10%) R
6 1 (1.10%) SPARQL
6 1 (1.10%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (20.88%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.68%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.40%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.30%) Degree
4 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.10%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (93.41%) Accessibility
2 9 (9.89%) QA
3 5 (5.49%) GDPR
4 1 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (9.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (4.40%) Adobe
1 4 (4.40%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.20%) Google
2 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
2 2 (2.20%) SAP
3 1 (1.10%) IBM
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle