Accessibility Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Accessibility (a11y)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Accessibility skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 59 78
Rank change year-on-year +23 +19 +34
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 62 24 20
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 5.30% 2.21% 1.31%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 31.79% 17.14% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 16 16
10th Percentile £300 £338 £438
25th Percentile £314 £422 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £456 £534 £600
90th Percentile £600 £644 £713
North West median daily rate £400 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £53.00 - -
25th Percentile £53.75 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.50 - -
90th Percentile £67.40 - -
North West median hourly rate £59.25 £24.76 £35.50
% change year-on-year +139.30% -30.25% -

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 195 140 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.68% 12.92% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 90 136
10th Percentile £313 £331 £325
25th Percentile £361 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £581 £522 £600
90th Percentile £676 £650 £706
North West median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 2
10th Percentile £53.50 £14.03 £21.13
25th Percentile £53.75 £16.11 £28.44
Median hourly rate £61.00 £22.63 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year +169.61% -44.48% +114.47%
75th Percentile £70.00 £29.38 £52.94
90th Percentile £72.75 £29.75 £60.18
North West median hourly rate £56.25 £23.14 £28.30
% change year-on-year +143.14% -18.25% -45.50%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Accessibility relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Accessibility job vacancy trend in Manchester

Accessibility
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Accessibility.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in Manchester over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in Manchester

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Accessibility.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Accessibility in Manchester over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Accessibility in Manchester

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Salford +2 1 £500 - 1
Accessibility
North West

Accessibility
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 5 (8.06%) CMS
1 5 (8.06%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Apache
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (9.68%) Sketch
3 1 (1.61%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.19%) Azure
2 13 (20.97%) Power Platform
3 12 (19.35%) Figma
4 8 (12.90%) GCP
5 7 (11.29%) Google Tag Manager
6 6 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (9.68%) Google Analytics
7 5 (8.06%) Power Automate
8 4 (6.45%) AWS
8 4 (6.45%) GitHub
8 4 (6.45%) Miro
8 4 (6.45%) PowerApps
9 3 (4.84%) Slack
9 3 (4.84%) Smartsheet
10 2 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.23%) npm
11 1 (1.61%) Amazon Bedrock
11 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.61%) Serverless
11 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.97%) Power BI
2 7 (11.29%) BigQuery
2 7 (11.29%) Looker
3 2 (3.23%) Redis
4 1 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.61%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.61%) Mixpanel
4 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (17.74%) GitLab
2 6 (9.68%) Gradle
2 6 (9.68%) JIRA
3 5 (8.06%) Cypress.io
4 4 (6.45%) Git
4 4 (6.45%) IntelliJ
5 3 (4.84%) Xcode
6 2 (3.23%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.23%) fastlane
6 2 (3.23%) Storybook
6 2 (3.23%) XCTest
7 1 (1.61%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.61%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (1.61%) JUnit
7 1 (1.61%) Mocha
General
1 23 (37.10%) Public Sector
2 22 (35.48%) Social Skills
3 14 (22.58%) Finance
4 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.84%) Games
5 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.23%) Legal
6 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Military
6 1 (1.61%) Publishing
6 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (24.19%) Developer
2 11 (17.74%) Designer
3 8 (12.90%) Analyst
4 7 (11.29%) Automation Specialist
4 7 (11.29%) Support Specialist
5 5 (8.06%) Senior
5 5 (8.06%) Test Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Content Designer
6 4 (6.45%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Performance Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) UX Designer
7 3 (4.84%) Backend Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Games Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Java Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Operations Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.74%) REST
2 7 (11.29%) GraphQL
2 7 (11.29%) Node.js
2 7 (11.29%) React
2 7 (11.29%) Spring
2 7 (11.29%) Spring Boot
3 6 (9.68%) HTML
3 6 (9.68%) JSON
4 5 (8.06%) Jest
4 5 (8.06%) Next.js
5 4 (6.45%) HTML5 Canvas
5 4 (6.45%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (6.45%) Playwright
5 4 (6.45%) WebSockets
6 3 (4.84%) Express.js
6 3 (4.84%) Redux
6 3 (4.84%) Zustand
7 2 (3.23%) Nunjucks
7 2 (3.23%) Retrofit
7 2 (3.23%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Low-Code
2 6 (9.68%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.23%) Educational Technology
3 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.23%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.06%) Apple iOS
2 4 (6.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (51.61%) User Experience
2 27 (43.55%) Agile
3 17 (27.42%) Test Automation
4 14 (22.58%) Analytics
5 13 (20.97%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (20.97%) CI/CD
5 13 (20.97%) User Research
5 13 (20.97%) Validation
6 12 (19.35%) DevOps
7 10 (16.13%) Service Design
8 8 (12.90%) Data Privacy
8 8 (12.90%) Interaction Design
8 8 (12.90%) Risk Management
8 8 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (12.90%) UX Design
9 7 (11.29%) Actionable Insight
9 7 (11.29%) Business Process Analysis
9 7 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (11.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 7 (11.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.74%) Java
2 8 (12.90%) Python
2 8 (12.90%) TypeScript
3 6 (9.68%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.06%) Kotlin
5 4 (6.45%) SQL
6 2 (3.23%) Objective-C
6 2 (3.23%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (6.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (24.19%) QA
2 10 (16.13%) WCAG
3 7 (11.29%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (11.29%) Ansible
2 6 (9.68%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.06%) Grafana
4 2 (3.23%) Terraform
5 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.29%) Google
2 7 (11.29%) ServiceNow
3 6 (9.68%) Hopewiser