WCAG Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring WCAG skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WCAG 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.31% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £565 - -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% -1.44%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 510 393 395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.63% 14.79% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 244 270
10th Percentile £313 £243 £299
25th Percentile £400 £348 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +9.59%
75th Percentile £562 £588 £575
90th Percentile £650 £684 £688
England median daily rate £500 £510 £540
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.56% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 20 22
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.00 £14.75
25th Percentile £16.10 £14.70 £18.25
Median hourly rate £20.83 £21.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% -21.82% +39.84%
75th Percentile £30.00 £43.88 £33.82
90th Percentile £37.02 £52.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.79 £36.00
% change year-on-year -8.49% -8.93% +41.18%

WCAG
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

WCAG job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing WCAG.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing WCAG

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
West Midlands - 9 £540 - 3
WCAG
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (11.11%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 6 (66.67%) Git
1 6 (66.67%) GitLab
1 6 (66.67%) JUnit
1 6 (66.67%) Selenium
2 5 (55.56%) Maven
2 5 (55.56%) Mockito
3 1 (11.11%) Gatling
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
3 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Lead
5 1 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) React
2 7 (77.78%) Playwright
3 6 (66.67%) HTML
3 6 (66.67%) JSON
3 6 (66.67%) OAuth
3 6 (66.67%) OAuth2
3 6 (66.67%) Spring
4 5 (55.56%) Gherkin
4 5 (55.56%) GraalVM
4 5 (55.56%) JDBC
4 5 (55.56%) JPA
4 5 (55.56%) OpenID
4 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
5 3 (33.33%) .NET
6 2 (22.22%) CSS
6 2 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (22.22%) Sass
7 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
7 1 (11.11%) Node.js
7 1 (11.11%) Spring.NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) Scrum
3 6 (66.67%) Coaching
3 6 (66.67%) Microservices
3 6 (66.67%) OO
3 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 6 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (55.56%) OOD
5 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (22.22%) BDD
6 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
6 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
6 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
6 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (22.22%) Logical Data Model
6 2 (22.22%) Physical Data Model
6 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 5 (55.56%) Grafana
2 5 (55.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle