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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 322 351
Rank change year-on-year -35 +29 +19
Contract jobs citing WCAG 95 45 42
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.47% 0.33% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.41% 1.92% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 29 28
10th Percentile £388 £309 £176
25th Percentile £450 £360 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £440 £488
Median % change year-on-year +20.57% -9.74% -11.36%
75th Percentile £625 £525 £545
90th Percentile £669 £541 £623
England median daily rate £459 £445 £500
% change year-on-year +3.15% -11.00% -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 - £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 3,944 2,339 2,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.39% 17.37% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,684 1,553 1,377
10th Percentile £350 £320 £319
25th Percentile £430 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
England median daily rate £513 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.50% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 52 39
10th Percentile £15.93 £22.99 £18.13
25th Percentile £21.33 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.00 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +7.53% +12.43%
75th Percentile £40.00 £42.87 £50.88
90th Percentile £59.15 £56.45 £73.25
England median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £34.47
% change year-on-year -0.32% -5.70% -12.57%

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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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -32 7 £426 -18.81% 14
South London -6 2 £488 +8.33% 1
West London - 1 £450 - 3
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 14 (14.74%) CMS
2 6 (6.32%) Confluence
3 4 (4.21%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.16%) Headless CMS
5 2 (2.11%) Drupal
6 1 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (1.05%) Kentico
Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Adobe XD
2 4 (4.21%) Sketch
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (30.53%) Figma
2 14 (14.74%) Azure
3 7 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.32%) AWS
4 6 (6.32%) Pendo
5 5 (5.26%) GitHub
5 5 (5.26%) Slack
6 4 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.21%) Miro
7 3 (3.16%) Azure Functions
7 3 (3.16%) Bloomreach
7 3 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.16%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.16%) npm
7 3 (3.16%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.16%) Serverless
7 3 (3.16%) Yarn
8 2 (2.11%) BrowserStack
8 2 (2.11%) GCP
8 2 (2.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.32%) Metadata
2 5 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.21%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (10.53%) Git
1 10 (10.53%) JIRA
2 8 (8.42%) Cypress.io
3 6 (6.32%) Storybook
4 5 (5.26%) webpack
5 3 (3.16%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.16%) GitLab
5 3 (3.16%) MSBuild
5 3 (3.16%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.11%) Ant
6 2 (2.11%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.05%) Capybara
7 1 (1.05%) Gatling
7 1 (1.05%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.05%) JMeter
7 1 (1.05%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.05%) rollup.js
7 1 (1.05%) RSpec
7 1 (1.05%) Selenium
7 1 (1.05%) Vite
General
1 48 (50.53%) Public Sector
2 30 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.53%) Finance
4 8 (8.42%) Banking
5 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.32%) Local Government
6 5 (5.26%) Publishing
7 3 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.16%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.16%) Legal
7 3 (3.16%) Retail
8 2 (2.11%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.11%) Games
8 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Marketing
8 2 (2.11%) Military
9 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (28.42%) Designer
2 23 (24.21%) Developer
3 14 (14.74%) Senior
4 13 (13.68%) Lead
5 9 (9.47%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 9 (9.47%) Interaction Designer
6 8 (8.42%) Content Designer
6 8 (8.42%) React Developer
6 8 (8.42%) User Researcher
7 6 (6.32%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.26%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 5 (5.26%) Senior Designer
9 4 (4.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Service Designer
9 4 (4.21%) UI Designer
9 4 (4.21%) UI Developer
9 4 (4.21%) UI Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Content Manager
10 3 (3.16%) Senior Interaction Designer
10 3 (3.16%) User Experience Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (29.47%) CSS
2 26 (27.37%) React
3 25 (26.32%) HTML
4 15 (15.79%) RESTful
5 13 (13.68%) HTML5
6 12 (12.63%) CSS3
7 11 (11.58%) Redux
8 9 (9.47%) Next.js
8 9 (9.47%) REST
9 7 (7.37%) .NET
9 7 (7.37%) Jest
9 7 (7.37%) Playwright
9 7 (7.37%) Tailwind CSS
10 6 (6.32%) Semantic HTML
11 5 (5.26%) ASP.NET
11 5 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
12 4 (4.21%) AngularJS
12 4 (4.21%) GraphQL
12 4 (4.21%) Node.js
12 4 (4.21%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.58%) NHS
2 6 (6.32%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.21%) Taxonomies
5 3 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.16%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.05%) BYOD
7 1 (1.05%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.05%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.16%) Android
1 3 (3.16%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (54.74%) Agile
2 39 (41.05%) User Experience
3 34 (35.79%) User Research
4 28 (29.47%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 27 (28.42%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (25.26%) CI/CD
7 22 (23.16%) UX Design
7 22 (23.16%) Wireframes
8 20 (21.05%) Inclusive Design
9 19 (20.00%) AI
9 19 (20.00%) Analytics
9 19 (20.00%) Front End Development
9 19 (20.00%) Interaction Design
10 16 (16.84%) Usability Testing
11 15 (15.79%) Prototyping
11 15 (15.79%) Responsive Web Design
11 15 (15.79%) Service Design
12 14 (14.74%) DevOps
12 14 (14.74%) Test Automation
13 13 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.32%) JavaScript
2 23 (24.21%) TypeScript
3 7 (7.37%) Python
4 6 (6.32%) C#
5 2 (2.11%) SQL
6 1 (1.05%) Java
6 1 (1.05%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (25.26%) Security Cleared
2 22 (23.16%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (91.58%) Accessibility
2 7 (7.37%) QA
3 4 (4.21%) GDPR
4 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (3.16%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (7.37%) Adobe
2 5 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.11%) SAP
4 1 (1.05%) Foundry