Accessibility Contracts in the North East

Accessibility (a11y)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 30 41
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 +7
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 5 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.58% 2.17% 2.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.87% 15.22% 18.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile £439 £412 £389
25th Percentile £453 £427 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £453 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.78% -13.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £553 £477 £575
90th Percentile £604 £491 £588
England median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% -2.86%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 46 46 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 14.51% 14.29% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 26 34
10th Percentile £255 £393 £189
25th Percentile £364 £444 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile £598 £588 £574
90th Percentile £650 £625 £588
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £35.25 -
England median hourly rate £38.03 £22.42 £39.80
% change year-on-year +69.63% -43.67% +36.68%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the North East

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the North East

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in the North East over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the North East

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the North East

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the North East region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Tyne and Wear -5 5 £493 +8.78% 27
Accessibility
England

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Miro
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) Coaching
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) User Stories
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG