Accessibility Contracts in the North of England

Accessibility (a11y)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 116 140
Rank change year-on-year +12 +24 -13
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 63 71 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.89% 1.53% 1.31%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.13% 10.07% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 40 57
10th Percentile £263 £402 £397
25th Percentile £320 £422 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.62% -9.76% +2.50%
75th Percentile £538 £559 £588
90th Percentile £659 £654 £625
England median daily rate £500 £478 £504
% change year-on-year +4.71% -5.18% -4.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
Median hourly rate £24.76 £14.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +70.76% - -
England median hourly rate £28.18 £18.13 £20.07
% change year-on-year +55.43% -9.64% -73.25%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 480 705 760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.44% 15.18% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 398 470
10th Percentile £237 £320 £299
25th Percentile £365 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £575
90th Percentile £673 £679 £638
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 85 41
10th Percentile £13.78 - £17.72
25th Percentile £22.14 £10.95 £29.30
Median hourly rate £24.67 £12.84 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.15% -67.58% +73.89%
75th Percentile £50.06 £26.66 £48.98
90th Percentile £82.07 £48.75 £67.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £22.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.56% -40.00% +27.12%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the North of England

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the North of England

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the North of England

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the North of England

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North West +13 37 £465 -3.13% 91
Yorkshire +10 19 £423 -0.59% 78
North East -3 7 £460 +1.60% 31
Accessibility
England

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (7.94%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) Apache
2 2 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) CMS
3 1 (1.59%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Chatbot
2 2 (3.17%) InVision
2 2 (3.17%) UserZoom
3 1 (1.59%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.05%) Azure
2 8 (12.70%) AWS
3 6 (9.52%) Figma
4 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.35%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.17%) SaaS
6 1 (1.59%) dbt
6 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.59%) Miro
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) HTTP
2 1 (1.59%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) Power BI
2 2 (3.17%) Data Mining
2 2 (3.17%) Dremio
2 2 (3.17%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.59%) Big Data
3 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.59%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.59%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.59%) GIS
3 1 (1.59%) Metadata
3 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (15.87%) Postman
1 10 (15.87%) Selenium
2 9 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 9 (14.29%) JIRA
3 7 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 7 (11.11%) Jasmine
3 7 (11.11%) Mocha
4 6 (9.52%) Git
4 6 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 6 (9.52%) REST Assured
5 5 (7.94%) GitLab
5 5 (7.94%) JMeter
5 5 (7.94%) TestNG
6 4 (6.35%) Grunt
6 4 (6.35%) gulp
6 4 (6.35%) Maven
6 4 (6.35%) SoapUI
6 4 (6.35%) Subversion
7 3 (4.76%) JUnit
8 2 (3.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 10 (15.87%) Finance
3 10 (15.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.35%) Legal
5 4 (6.35%) Marketing
6 3 (4.76%) Law
7 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.59%) Military
8 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (15.87%) Developer
2 7 (11.11%) Analyst
2 7 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 7 (11.11%) Senior
3 6 (9.52%) Test Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) QA Tester
4 5 (7.94%) Tester
5 4 (6.35%) Architect
5 4 (6.35%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Designer
5 4 (6.35%) Lead
5 4 (6.35%) UX Designer
6 3 (4.76%) Content Designer
6 3 (4.76%) IT Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) IT Support
6 3 (4.76%) IT Support Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Support Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) CSS
1 11 (17.46%) HTML
2 8 (12.70%) Node.js
3 6 (9.52%) Playwright
3 6 (9.52%) Sass
4 5 (7.94%) HTML5
4 5 (7.94%) jQuery
4 5 (7.94%) Mustache
5 4 (6.35%) React
5 4 (6.35%) RESTful
6 3 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.76%) JSON
6 3 (4.76%) Semantic HTML
7 2 (3.17%) Ajax
7 2 (3.17%) Jest
7 2 (3.17%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (3.17%) PySpark
7 2 (3.17%) Vue
7 2 (3.17%) XML
8 1 (1.59%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.35%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.76%) Driving Licence
3 3 (4.76%) Social Media
4 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.59%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Linux
2 4 (6.35%) Unix
3 3 (4.76%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.76%) Mac OS X
4 2 (3.17%) Android
5 1 (1.59%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (49.21%) Agile
2 19 (30.16%) User Experience
3 16 (25.40%) Test Automation
4 12 (19.05%) TDD
5 11 (17.46%) CI/CD
6 9 (14.29%) API Testing
6 9 (14.29%) Front End Development
6 9 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 9 (14.29%) Project Management
6 9 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 9 (14.29%) UX Design
7 8 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (12.70%) Decision-Making
7 8 (12.70%) Non-Functional Testing
7 8 (12.70%) Test Scripting
8 7 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (11.11%) Roadmaps
8 7 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (11.11%) Web Accessibility
9 6 (9.52%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 11 (17.46%) Java
3 4 (6.35%) Python
4 3 (4.76%) SQL
5 2 (3.17%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.59%) C#
6 1 (1.59%) R
6 1 (1.59%) Swift
6 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (1.59%) CIMA
4 1 (1.59%) CISM
4 1 (1.59%) CISSP
4 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.59%) PMP
4 1 (1.59%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (23.81%) WCAG
2 8 (12.70%) QA
3 4 (6.35%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.59%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.59%) NCSC
4 1 (1.59%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Ansible
2 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (7.94%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.76%) Databricks
2 3 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.17%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (3.17%) SAP
4 1 (1.59%) Adobe
4 1 (1.59%) Hitachi
4 1 (1.59%) Pega