Accessibility Contracts in the North West

Accessibility (a11y)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Accessibility skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Accessibility over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 120 111
Rank change year-on-year +24 -9 -1
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 42 40 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.57% 1.28% 1.76%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.09% 8.81% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 32 50
10th Percentile £433 £392 £245
25th Percentile £450 £420 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £641 £625 £567
90th Percentile £723 £636 £650
England median daily rate £478 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -6.83% -2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 11
10th Percentile £10.57 - £65.00
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate £14.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £79.25
90th Percentile £61.50 - £81.00
England median hourly rate £18.13 £20.07 £75.00
% change year-on-year -9.64% -73.25% +194.12%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

Accessibility is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 462 454 558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.25% 14.52% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 292 401
10th Percentile £325 £300 £213
25th Percentile £425 £392 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% +2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £578 £588
90th Percentile £694 £650 £663
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 32 45
10th Percentile - £28.76 £11.36
25th Percentile £10.95 £30.54 £12.02
Median hourly rate £12.84 £41.05 £32.37
Median % change year-on-year -68.72% +26.81% +115.80%
75th Percentile £26.66 £48.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £78.70 £77.50
England median hourly rate £22.50 £38.55 £28.81
% change year-on-year -41.63% +33.81% +37.19%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the North West

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the North West

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the North West

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the North West

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Accessibility in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Accessibility in the North West

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Manchester +19 31 £513 - 15
Merseyside - 9 £450 - 4
Cheshire +8 1 £403 -10.56% 7
Accessibility
England

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Aareon QL
2 1 (2.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (7.14%) GitHub
3 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (4.76%) BrowserStack
3 2 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (4.76%) IaaS
3 2 (4.76%) PaaS
3 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.76%) SaaS
3 2 (4.76%) Serverless
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (2.38%) Azure
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.38%) SpeedCurve
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.38%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Cypress.io
2 2 (4.76%) GitLab
2 2 (4.76%) Selenium
2 2 (4.76%) TestCafe
3 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.38%) Gatling
3 1 (2.38%) GoCD
3 1 (2.38%) Pa11y
3 1 (2.38%) Postman
3 1 (2.38%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Finance
4 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Legal
6 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Test Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Senior
3 7 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Architect
5 5 (11.90%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (9.52%) Telephony Architect
7 3 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (7.14%) Tester
8 2 (4.76%) Automation Tester
8 2 (4.76%) Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) IT Support
8 2 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Android Developer
9 1 (2.38%) Designer
9 1 (2.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 1 (2.38%) Interaction Designer
9 1 (2.38%) Senior Designer
9 1 (2.38%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 1 (2.38%) Senior Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) React
2 2 (4.76%) AWS CDK
2 2 (4.76%) Playwright
3 1 (2.38%) .NET
3 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.38%) CSS
3 1 (2.38%) CSS3
3 1 (2.38%) D3.js
3 1 (2.38%) Jest
3 1 (2.38%) Next.js
3 1 (2.38%) Node.js
3 1 (2.38%) Sass
3 1 (2.38%) Vue
3 1 (2.38%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.14%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Android
1 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 12 (28.57%) Agile
2 12 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (16.67%) Load Testing
3 7 (16.67%) Security Testing
3 7 (16.67%) Technical Debt
4 6 (14.29%) Exploratory Testing
5 5 (11.90%) Budgeting
5 5 (11.90%) Business Strategy
5 5 (11.90%) Customer Experience
5 5 (11.90%) Data Privacy
5 5 (11.90%) DevOps
5 5 (11.90%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (11.90%) Migration
6 4 (9.52%) Active Listening
6 4 (9.52%) Analytical Thinking
6 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (9.52%) Non-Functional Testing
6 4 (9.52%) User Experience
6 4 (9.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
1 4 (9.52%) Python
1 4 (9.52%) SQL
2 3 (7.14%) C#
2 3 (7.14%) Java
3 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.38%) PHP
4 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) Degree
3 2 (4.76%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.76%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Grafana
1 3 (7.14%) Kibana
2 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.14%) Aareon
3 1 (2.38%) Databricks
3 1 (2.38%) Mitel
3 1 (2.38%) Remedy