WCAG Contract Job Trends in the North East

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East 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 40 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Contract jobs citing WCAG 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 2.37% - 0.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.50% - 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £409 - -
25th Percentile £420 - £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 - £473
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.57%
75th Percentile £469 - £484
90th Percentile £513 - -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% -1.44%

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 64 41 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 18.99% 14.70% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 15 29
10th Percentile £300 £153 £372
25th Percentile £413 £284 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £350 £405
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -13.58% -27.68%
75th Percentile £550 £419 £495
90th Percentile £638 £500 £501
England median daily rate £500 £510 £540
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.56% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 8
10th Percentile £19.60 £15.30 £16.03
25th Percentile £28.94 £15.50 £16.81
Median hourly rate £48.00 £16.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -15.79% +8.57%
75th Percentile £53.25 £16.50 £23.19
90th Percentile £54.30 £20.50 £32.53
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.79 £36.00
% change year-on-year -8.49% -8.93% +41.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

WCAG job vacancy trend in the North East

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Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing WCAG

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCAG in the North East over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 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
Tyne and Wear - 8 £448 - 2
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (12.50%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Heroku
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
1 3 (37.50%) REST Assured
1 3 (37.50%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) Mocha
3 1 (12.50%) Axure RP
3 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
3 1 (12.50%) JMeter
3 1 (12.50%) Postman
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Designer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Content Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Interaction Designer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) QA Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
1 3 (37.50%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) Express.js
2 2 (25.00%) Jest
2 2 (25.00%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) React
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) WireMock
3 1 (12.50%) Framer.js
3 1 (12.50%) Playwright
3 1 (12.50%) Semantic HTML
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) BDD
2 5 (62.50%) TDD
3 4 (50.00%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) API Testing
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Coaching
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Progressive Enhancement
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) User Experience
4 3 (37.50%) User Research
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 2 (25.00%) Open Source
5 2 (25.00%) Prototyping
5 2 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker