Accessibility Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Accessibility (a11y)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 21 39
Rank change year-on-year -4 +18 -2
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 8 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.76% 4.52% 2.03%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.53% 19.57% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £376 £412 £403
25th Percentile £421 £427 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £453 £461
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -1.84% -24.69%
75th Percentile £493 £477 £525
90th Percentile £570 £491 £570
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £453 £461
% change year-on-year +1.60% -1.84% -24.69%

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 34 46 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 15.96% 23.12% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 26 23
10th Percentile £375 £344 £327
25th Percentile £426 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.75% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £527 £514 £561
90th Percentile £634 £588 £596
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -8.00% +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £14.63 £17.50
25th Percentile - £19.44 £18.19
Median hourly rate - £35.25 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year - +78.48% +12.86%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £29.06
90th Percentile - - £32.88
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate - £35.25 £19.75
% change year-on-year - +78.48% +25.40%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in Newcastle upon Tyne

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in Newcastle upon Tyne

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in Newcastle upon Tyne

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Miro
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Postman
3 1 (12.50%) REST Assured
3 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Publishing
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (25.00%) Technical Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Content Designer
2 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Designer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) Semantic HTML
1 1 (12.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Defect Management
3 3 (37.50%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (25.00%) BDD
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Refactoring
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (25.00%) User Research
5 1 (12.50%) Business Process Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
1 2 (25.00%) WCAG
2 1 (12.50%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (12.50%) NCSC