WCAG Contracts in London

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring WCAG skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WCAG over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 351 420 533
Rank change year-on-year +69 +113 -101
Contract jobs citing WCAG 49 62 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.28% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.01% 1.84% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 41 43
10th Percentile £350 £325 £400
25th Percentile £409 £488 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% +1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £534 £638 £631
90th Percentile £623 £650 £735
England median daily rate £450 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £29.12
75th Percentile - - £31.06
90th Percentile - - £32.22
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £28.43
% change year-on-year - - +16.02%

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 2,435 3,374 4,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.77% 13.42% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,709 2,468 3,429
10th Percentile £350 £355 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 39 85
10th Percentile £13.29 £19.39 £20.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.24 £24.71
Median hourly rate £24.18 £26.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -41.57% +121.89%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.88 £49.25
90th Percentile £56.00 £80.50 £68.25
England median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WCAG in London.

Daily rate trend for WCAG in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCAG in London over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WCAG in London.

Hourly rate trend for WCAG in London

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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 21 June 2024. 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 +42 10 £450 -15.89%
West London - 5 £350 -
East London - 1 £450 -
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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 21 (42.86%) CMS
2 1 (2.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.04%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.04%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.04%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 23 (46.94%) Azure
2 22 (44.90%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (40.82%) Azure Monitor
4 18 (36.73%) Azure Pipelines
5 16 (32.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 16 (32.65%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (16.33%) GCP
7 4 (8.16%) AWS
7 4 (8.16%) Figma
8 3 (6.12%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (6.12%) GitHub
9 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
9 2 (4.08%) Miro
10 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
10 1 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.04%) Azure Functions
10 1 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (2.04%) PaaS
10 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (46.94%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (46.94%) Git
2 5 (10.20%) SpecFlow
3 3 (6.12%) Axure RP
3 3 (6.12%) Balsamiq
3 3 (6.12%) JMeter
3 3 (6.12%) Postman
3 3 (6.12%) Selenium
4 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 14 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 11 (22.45%) Back Office
3 3 (6.12%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.12%) Wearables
4 2 (4.08%) Finance
4 2 (4.08%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Law
5 1 (2.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (59.18%) Developer
2 19 (38.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 18 (36.73%) Senior
4 15 (30.61%) Senior Developer
5 11 (22.45%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Designer
6 4 (8.16%) Lead
6 4 (8.16%) Service Designer
6 4 (8.16%) Test Leader
7 3 (6.12%) Angular Developer
7 3 (6.12%) C# Developer
7 3 (6.12%) UX Specialist
8 2 (4.08%) .NET Developer
8 2 (4.08%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (4.08%) QA Specialist
8 2 (4.08%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Senior C# .NET Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Senior C# Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (55.10%) CSS
2 24 (48.98%) HTML
3 23 (46.94%) .NET
3 23 (46.94%) .NET Core
4 19 (38.78%) React
5 14 (28.57%) ASP.NET
5 14 (28.57%) jQuery
6 11 (22.45%) ASP.NET MVC
7 10 (20.41%) REST
8 9 (18.37%) AngularJS
9 5 (10.20%) Playwright
9 5 (10.20%) SAML
9 5 (10.20%) Tailwind CSS
10 3 (6.12%) NgRx
10 3 (6.12%) RxJS
11 2 (4.08%) Vuex
11 2 (4.08%) XML
11 2 (4.08%) XML Schema
11 2 (4.08%) YAML
12 1 (2.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (32.65%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.08%) CCTV
3 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (59.18%) Agile
2 25 (51.02%) DevOps
3 22 (44.90%) Front End Development
3 22 (44.90%) TDD
4 21 (42.86%) API Management
4 21 (42.86%) OO
4 21 (42.86%) OOD
5 14 (28.57%) Clean Code
6 13 (26.53%) MVC
6 13 (26.53%) User Experience
7 11 (22.45%) CI/CD
8 8 (16.33%) Migration
9 7 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (12.24%) User Research
10 6 (12.24%) UX Design
11 5 (10.20%) Data Science
11 5 (10.20%) Service Design
11 5 (10.20%) Usability Testing
11 5 (10.20%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 28 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 25 (51.02%) TypeScript
3 23 (46.94%) C#
4 16 (32.65%) Bicep
5 6 (12.24%) SQL
6 1 (2.04%) Ada
6 1 (2.04%) Java
6 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.04%) Python
6 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.20%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (75.51%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.12%) QA
3 2 (4.08%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (32.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (36.73%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) Google
3 4 (8.16%) Adobe
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle