Accessibility Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Accessibility (a11y)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 32 30 27
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 16 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 5.02% 3.13% 0.60%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.00% 16.67% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 1
10th Percentile £305 £334 -
25th Percentile £392 £366 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £420 £473
Median % change year-on-year +8.10% -11.11% -19.57%
75th Percentile £513 £460 £484
90th Percentile £524 £485 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £454 £420 £473
% change year-on-year +8.10% -11.11% -19.57%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 64 36 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 20.06% 18.75% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 18 14
10th Percentile £300 £226 £402
25th Percentile £406 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £356 £475
Median % change year-on-year +30.81% -24.96% -16.71%
75th Percentile £538 £497 £501
90th Percentile £575 £650 £606
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £466 £366 £475
% change year-on-year +27.24% -22.85% -17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile £25.82 - -
25th Percentile £44.50 £15.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £16.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +228.13% - -
75th Percentile £55.00 £16.50 £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £52.50 £16.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year +228.13% - -

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Accessibility job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Accessibility
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Accessibility.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in Newcastle upon Tyne

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Accessibility.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
1 4 (25.00%) GitHub
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) Heroku
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (18.75%) Redis
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
1 4 (25.00%) Selenium
2 3 (18.75%) JMeter
2 3 (18.75%) Mocha
2 3 (18.75%) Postman
3 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
3 2 (12.50%) Gatling
3 2 (12.50%) REST Assured
3 2 (12.50%) TestRail
4 1 (6.25%) Axure RP
General
1 8 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Designer
3 3 (18.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Test Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Tester
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Manual Tester
4 2 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) QA Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) QA Test Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Service Designer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Tester
4 2 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) HTML CSS Developer
5 1 (6.25%) QA Automation Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Open Source Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) React
2 3 (18.75%) CSS
2 3 (18.75%) HTML
2 3 (18.75%) Jest
2 3 (18.75%) Playwright
2 3 (18.75%) REST
2 3 (18.75%) Spring
2 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
3 2 (12.50%) Express.js
3 2 (12.50%) Gherkin
3 2 (12.50%) Next.js
3 2 (12.50%) Node.js
4 1 (6.25%) Framer.js
4 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) Swagger
4 1 (6.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) BDD
4 5 (31.25%) Microservices
4 5 (31.25%) TDD
4 5 (31.25%) User Research
4 5 (31.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 4 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (25.00%) API Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Performance Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (18.75%) Front End Development
6 3 (18.75%) Open Source
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Progressive Enhancement
6 3 (18.75%) Regression Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Scrum
6 3 (18.75%) Service Design
6 3 (18.75%) Software Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 2 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
3 2 (12.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) WCAG
2 4 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes