WCAG Contracts in the North East

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring WCAG skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WCAG over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 36 56
Rank change year-on-year +6 +20 -6
Contract jobs citing WCAG 8 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 2.50% 0.59% 0.71%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.18% 4.08% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £335 £412 £420
25th Percentile £398 £427 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% -9.45% -23.08%
75th Percentile £490 £477 £550
90th Percentile - £491 £580
England median daily rate £475 £450 £528
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.69% +5.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 44 49 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 13.75% 14.50% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 29 42
10th Percentile £335 £379 £232
25th Percentile £371 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £628 £588 £586
90th Percentile £740 £610 £600
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 £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for WCAG in the North East

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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 WCAG within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 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 +1 8 £480 +6.02% 3
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England

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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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (12.50%) Miro
1 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) DocumentDB
1 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (87.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Electronics
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (25.00%) Marketing
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 6 (75.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) CSS
1 6 (75.00%) HTML
1 6 (75.00%) Jest
1 6 (75.00%) Node.js
1 6 (75.00%) Sass
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Front End Development
1 6 (75.00%) TDD
2 4 (50.00%) User Experience
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (12.50%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Business Process Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) Epics
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Sprint Review
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) UML
4 1 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) SAP