Accessibility Contracts in the North West

Accessibility (a11y)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 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 79 94 118
Rank change year-on-year +15 +24 +1
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 41 43 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.08% 1.56% 1.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.13% 8.96% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 26 30
10th Percentile £302 £425 £400
25th Percentile £328 £450 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £478 £544
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% -12.18% +8.75%
75th Percentile £578 £638 £625
90th Percentile £697 £713 £638
England median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -4.65%
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 £18.97 £20.07
% change year-on-year +48.55% -5.46% -19.76%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 271 480 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.77% 17.42% 14.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 265 293
10th Percentile £271 £325 £289
25th Percentile £375 £425 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +2.70%
75th Percentile £587 £598 £588
90th Percentile £700 £694 £650
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 71 32
10th Percentile £13.50 - £24.44
25th Percentile £16.20 £10.95 £30.23
Median hourly rate £30.38 £12.84 £38.55
Median % change year-on-year +136.60% -66.69% +114.17%
75th Percentile £65.31 £26.66 £48.38
90th Percentile £84.33 £43.75 £66.05
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

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 1 May 2025.

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
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 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
Manchester +14 29 £431 -11.99% 53
Cheshire +3 4 £313 -22.24% 12
Merseyside -3 2 - - 5
Lancashire - 2 £700 - 36
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 2 (4.88%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) CMS
2 1 (2.44%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Chatbot
2 2 (4.88%) InVision
2 2 (4.88%) UserZoom
3 1 (2.44%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.20%) Azure
2 4 (9.76%) Figma
2 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.88%) AWS
3 2 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.44%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) dbt
4 1 (2.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) Power BI
2 3 (7.32%) Data Mining
3 2 (4.88%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.88%) Dremio
3 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.44%) Big Data
4 1 (2.44%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.44%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (2.44%) GIS
4 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.44%) Metadata
4 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Jasmine
1 7 (17.07%) Mocha
2 6 (14.63%) Git
3 4 (9.76%) Grunt
3 4 (9.76%) gulp
3 4 (9.76%) Subversion
4 2 (4.88%) Axure RP
4 2 (4.88%) JIRA
4 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (4.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Finance
2 8 (19.51%) Public Sector
3 6 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (14.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (12.20%) Marketing
5 4 (9.76%) Legal
6 2 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Publishing
7 1 (2.44%) Military
7 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) Developer
2 9 (21.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (12.20%) Designer
3 5 (12.20%) UX Designer
4 4 (9.76%) Content Designer
4 4 (9.76%) Data Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Senior
5 3 (7.32%) Lead
6 2 (4.88%) Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Data Scientist
6 2 (4.88%) JavaScript Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Data Analyst
7 1 (2.44%) Delivery Manager
7 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (2.44%) Programme Manager
7 1 (2.44%) Project Manager
7 1 (2.44%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) CSS
1 11 (26.83%) HTML
2 8 (19.51%) Node.js
2 8 (19.51%) Sass
3 7 (17.07%) HTML5
4 5 (12.20%) jQuery
4 5 (12.20%) Mustache
5 3 (7.32%) React
5 3 (7.32%) RESTful
6 2 (4.88%) CSS3
6 2 (4.88%) Jest
6 2 (4.88%) PyTorch
6 2 (4.88%) RxJS
6 2 (4.88%) TensorFlow
7 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.44%) JSON
7 1 (2.44%) Kafka
7 1 (2.44%) Nunjucks
7 1 (2.44%) Playwright
7 1 (2.44%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.32%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.32%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.32%) Social Media
3 2 (4.88%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.76%) Linux
2 3 (7.32%) Mac OS X
2 3 (7.32%) Unix
3 2 (4.88%) Android
3 2 (4.88%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) User Experience
2 13 (31.71%) Agile
3 9 (21.95%) Front End Development
4 8 (19.51%) Mentoring
5 7 (17.07%) Analytics
5 7 (17.07%) UX Design
5 7 (17.07%) Web Accessibility
6 6 (14.63%) Responsive Web Design
6 6 (14.63%) TDD
6 6 (14.63%) Web Development
7 5 (12.20%) Decision-Making
7 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (12.20%) Test Automation
7 5 (12.20%) Web Design
8 4 (9.76%) Data Modelling
8 4 (9.76%) Project Management
8 4 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (9.76%) Strategic Thinking
8 4 (9.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (12.20%) Java
2 5 (12.20%) SQL
3 3 (7.32%) Python
4 2 (4.88%) R
4 2 (4.88%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Degree
1 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.44%) CIMA
2 1 (2.44%) CISM
2 1 (2.44%) CISSP
2 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.44%) PMP
2 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 1 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) WCAG
2 5 (12.20%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.44%) PMO
3 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) Databricks
3 2 (4.88%) Adobe
3 2 (4.88%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (4.88%) SAP
4 1 (2.44%) Hitachi
4 1 (2.44%) Pega
4 1 (2.44%) Salesforce