Accessibility Contracts in Manchester

Accessibility (a11y)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Accessibility skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Accessibility over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 64 86
Rank change year-on-year +14 +22 +20
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 29 32 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.13% 2.11% 1.69%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.17% 13.11% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 24 26
10th Percentile £265 £433 £400
25th Percentile £343 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.99% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £566 £641 £622
90th Percentile £627 £723 £631
North West median daily rate £453 £478 £544
% change year-on-year -5.24% -12.18% +8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £61.25 -
North West median hourly rate £24.76 £14.50 -
% change year-on-year +70.76% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Manchester

Accessibility 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 137 244 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.79% 16.08% 15.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 151 191
10th Percentile £360 £375 £320
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £594
90th Percentile £708 £713 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 5
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.84 £11.85
25th Percentile £16.11 £13.19 £13.50
Median hourly rate £22.63 £37.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.07% +65.03% +80.00%
75th Percentile £55.06 £68.78 £39.60
90th Percentile £76.25 £72.14 £63.84
North West median hourly rate £30.38 £12.84 £38.55
% change year-on-year +136.60% -66.69% +114.17%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in Manchester

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in Manchester

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in Manchester

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in Manchester

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.34%) Azure
1 3 (10.34%) Figma
1 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.45%) AWS
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (3.45%) dbt
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Data Mining
1 3 (10.34%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.45%) Big Data
3 1 (3.45%) Data Vault
3 1 (3.45%) Dremio
3 1 (3.45%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (3.45%) GIS
3 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.45%) Metadata
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Git
1 6 (20.69%) Jasmine
1 6 (20.69%) Mocha
2 4 (13.79%) Grunt
2 4 (13.79%) gulp
2 4 (13.79%) Subversion
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Legal
3 3 (10.34%) Marketing
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (13.79%) Content Designer
3 4 (13.79%) Designer
3 4 (13.79%) UX Designer
4 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Lead
4 3 (10.34%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Data Scientist
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Data Architect
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Principal Architect
6 1 (3.45%) SAP Manager
6 1 (3.45%) SAP Project Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) Node.js
2 5 (17.24%) CSS
2 5 (17.24%) HTML
2 5 (17.24%) HTML5
2 5 (17.24%) jQuery
2 5 (17.24%) Mustache
2 5 (17.24%) Sass
3 2 (6.90%) PyTorch
3 2 (6.90%) TensorFlow
4 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.45%) Jest
4 1 (3.45%) Kafka
4 1 (3.45%) Playwright
4 1 (3.45%) React
4 1 (3.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.34%) Mobile App
2 3 (10.34%) Social Media
3 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
2 3 (10.34%) Mac OS X
2 3 (10.34%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) User Experience
2 9 (31.03%) Agile
3 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
4 6 (20.69%) Responsive Web Design
4 6 (20.69%) Web Accessibility
5 5 (17.24%) Decision-Making
5 5 (17.24%) Front End Development
5 5 (17.24%) Test Automation
5 5 (17.24%) Web Design
6 4 (13.79%) Analytics
6 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (13.79%) TDD
6 4 (13.79%) UX Design
7 3 (10.34%) Customer Insight
7 3 (10.34%) Data Governance
7 3 (10.34%) Data Protection
7 3 (10.34%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (10.34%) Machine Learning
7 3 (10.34%) Product Marketing
7 3 (10.34%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) JavaScript
2 5 (17.24%) Java
3 4 (13.79%) SQL
4 3 (10.34%) Python
5 2 (6.90%) R
6 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.45%) CIMA
2 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.45%) PMP
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) WCAG
2 5 (17.24%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) PMO
3 1 (3.45%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Databricks
2 2 (6.90%) SAP
3 1 (3.45%) Hitachi
3 1 (3.45%) Pega
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce