WCAG Contracts in the North of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for WCAG skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WCAG over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 200 219
Rank change year-on-year +25 +19 -58
Contract jobs citing WCAG 12 16 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.25% 0.28% 0.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.64% 2.02% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 19
10th Percentile £403 £405 £200
25th Percentile £413 £433 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £510 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +54.55%
75th Percentile £450 £549 £500
90th Percentile £501 £584 £552
England median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +16.28%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

WCAG 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 of England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 733 793 942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.52% 13.68% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 485 670
10th Percentile £325 £288 £185
25th Percentile £413 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% +1.69%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 40 57
10th Percentile - £17.61 £11.36
25th Percentile £10.95 £29.30 £12.02
Median hourly rate £12.84 £39.80 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -67.74% +112.83% +7.78%
75th Percentile £26.66 £49.43 £32.77
90th Percentile £48.75 £68.30 £51.17
England median hourly rate £22.34 £39.60 £27.50
% change year-on-year -43.59% +44.00% +30.95%

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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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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 3 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
Yorkshire +19 9 £425 -19.05%
North East +17 2 £453 -9.45%
North West +15 1 - - 1
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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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe XD
1 1 (8.33%) InVision
1 1 (8.33%) Sketch
1 1 (8.33%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Figma
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) JMeter
1 7 (58.33%) Selenium
2 1 (8.33%) Axure RP
General
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Senior
1 4 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Designer
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Tester
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Content Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer in Test
4 1 (8.33%) Interaction Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer in Test
4 1 (8.33%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Interaction Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
1 8 (66.67%) User Stories
2 7 (58.33%) Test Scripting
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) SDET
3 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 2 (16.67%) Product Backlog
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) User Research
4 2 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (8.33%) Backlog Management
5 1 (8.33%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (8.33%) Design Thinking
5 1 (8.33%) Prototyping
5 1 (8.33%) Storytelling
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Debt
5 1 (8.33%) User Journey Map
5 1 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (91.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe