WCAG Contracts in the North of England

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 172 188
Rank change year-on-year +28 +16 +38
Contract jobs citing WCAG 21 11 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.64% 0.24% 0.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.44% 1.55% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 15
10th Percentile £408 £400 £405
25th Percentile £420 £413 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £510
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -16.67% +23.64%
75th Percentile £490 £450 £549
90th Percentile - £503 £584
England median daily rate £475 £450 £560
% change year-on-year +5.56% -19.64% +12.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 473 709 759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.32% 15.32% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 400 471
10th Percentile £235 £320 £288
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 £596 £575
90th Percentile £675 £676 £640
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 85 40
10th Percentile £13.78 - £18.20
25th Percentile £22.14 £10.95 £29.30
Median hourly rate £24.67 £12.84 £39.80
Median % change year-on-year +92.15% -67.74% +74.77%
75th Percentile £50.06 £26.66 £49.08
90th Percentile £82.07 £48.75 £68.30
England median hourly rate £35.00 £22.42 £40.00
% change year-on-year +56.11% -43.95% +37.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for WCAG in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCAG in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for WCAG in the North of England

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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 WCAG within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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 +16 9 £475 - 10
North East +4 7 £480 +6.02% 3
Yorkshire +11 5 £425 - 17
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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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Figma
1 2 (9.52%) SaaS
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (4.76%) Miro
2 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) DocumentDB
1 1 (4.76%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (4.76%) GIS
1 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Jasmine
1 7 (33.33%) Mocha
2 5 (23.81%) Cucumber
2 5 (23.81%) Cypress.io
2 5 (23.81%) Git
2 5 (23.81%) GitLab
2 5 (23.81%) Jenkins
2 5 (23.81%) JMeter
2 5 (23.81%) Postman
2 5 (23.81%) REST Assured
2 5 (23.81%) Selenium
2 5 (23.81%) TestNG
3 4 (19.05%) Grunt
3 4 (19.05%) gulp
3 4 (19.05%) Maven
3 4 (19.05%) Subversion
4 3 (14.29%) JUnit
5 2 (9.52%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (9.52%) UI Automator
6 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (47.62%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Electronics
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Developer
2 11 (52.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (23.81%) Test Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior
5 3 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Salesforce Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) UI Developer
6 2 (9.52%) UI/UX Developer
6 2 (9.52%) UX Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Agile Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.76%) HTML Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Linux Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (61.90%) CSS
1 13 (61.90%) HTML
2 12 (57.14%) Node.js
3 11 (52.38%) Sass
4 7 (33.33%) Jest
5 5 (23.81%) HTML5
5 5 (23.81%) jQuery
5 5 (23.81%) Mustache
5 5 (23.81%) Playwright
6 4 (19.05%) React
7 3 (14.29%) AngularJS
7 3 (14.29%) JSON
7 3 (14.29%) Semantic HTML
8 2 (9.52%) Ajax
8 2 (9.52%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (9.52%) RESTful
8 2 (9.52%) Vue
8 2 (9.52%) XML
9 1 (4.76%) Kafka
9 1 (4.76%) Nunjucks
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Mac OS X
2 3 (14.29%) Unix
3 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) TDD
2 13 (61.90%) Front End Development
3 12 (57.14%) User Experience
4 10 (47.62%) Agile
5 9 (42.86%) Test Automation
6 6 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
6 6 (28.57%) Web Accessibility
7 5 (23.81%) API Testing
7 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
7 5 (23.81%) Web Design
8 4 (19.05%) Web Development
9 3 (14.29%) BDD
9 3 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
9 3 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
9 3 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (14.29%) Test Planning
9 3 (14.29%) Test Scripting
10 2 (9.52%) Open Source
10 2 (9.52%) Performance Engineering
10 2 (9.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 18 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 10 (47.62%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (71.43%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.76%) SAP