Accessibility Contracts in Scotland

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 87 52 61
Rank change year-on-year -35 +9 +10
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 29 80 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.78% 3.61% 4.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.21% 19.18% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 61 108
10th Percentile £290 £219 £405
25th Percentile £400 £415 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -5.13% -2.50%
75th Percentile £501 £508 £538
90th Percentile £571 £575 £589
UK median daily rate £484 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +4.54% -7.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £15.19 -
25th Percentile £26.32 £15.34 -
Median hourly rate £27.35 £15.70 -
Median % change year-on-year +74.26% - -
75th Percentile £28.38 £17.06 -
90th Percentile - £17.46 -
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £17.72 £23.36
% change year-on-year +59.03% -24.14% +11.82%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 284 417 568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.48% 18.81% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 259 479
10th Percentile £192 £191 £213
25th Percentile £363 £326 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £528 £538 £550
90th Percentile £605 £610 £639
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 3
10th Percentile £18.53 £15.32 £26.25
25th Percentile £21.90 £16.18 £34.30
Median hourly rate £27.35 £18.27 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year +49.70% -61.72% +44.64%
75th Percentile £49.19 £51.28 £50.74
90th Percentile £75.28 £60.75 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in Scotland

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in Scotland

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in Scotland

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in Scotland

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh -19 19 £475 +3.54% 8
Glasgow -9 8 £512 +5.25% 10
West Lothian +13 1 £188 -
Stirling - 1 - -
Accessibility
UK

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.90%) CMS
3 1 (3.45%) Drupal
3 1 (3.45%) GeoServer
3 1 (3.45%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.90%) Photoshop
2 1 (3.45%) Adobe XD
2 1 (3.45%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.45%) Sketch
2 1 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) AWS
2 7 (24.14%) Azure
3 6 (20.69%) Serverless
4 5 (17.24%) Amazon S3
4 5 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (17.24%) Power Platform
5 4 (13.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (13.79%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (10.34%) Figma
6 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (6.90%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (6.90%) Google Analytics
7 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.45%) BrowserStack
8 1 (3.45%) GCP
8 1 (3.45%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
1 2 (6.90%) LAN
1 2 (6.90%) WLAN
2 1 (3.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.45%) GIS
3 1 (3.45%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.45%) MySQL
3 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.45%) OLAP
3 1 (3.45%) Power BI
3 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) GitLab
2 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) Appium
3 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.45%) Storybook
3 1 (3.45%) webpack
General
1 20 (68.97%) Public Sector
2 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Back Office
5 2 (6.90%) Marketing
5 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Developer
2 4 (13.79%) Designer
2 4 (13.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 4 (13.79%) Senior
2 4 (13.79%) UX Designer
3 3 (10.34%) Communications Officer
3 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Angular Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) IT Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Designer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Service Designer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior UX Designer
4 2 (6.90%) Service Designer
4 2 (6.90%) User Researcher
4 2 (6.90%) UX Service Designer
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Lead
5 1 (3.45%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) Node.js
2 7 (24.14%) HTML
3 6 (20.69%) CSS
3 6 (20.69%) REST
4 5 (17.24%) AngularJS
4 5 (17.24%) AWS CDK
5 4 (13.79%) Express.js
5 4 (13.79%) React
6 3 (10.34%) PostGIS
7 2 (6.90%) RESTful
7 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
7 2 (6.90%) Vue
8 1 (3.45%) CSS3
8 1 (3.45%) Ionic Framework
8 1 (3.45%) Jest
8 1 (3.45%) Next.js
8 1 (3.45%) Playwright
8 1 (3.45%) React Native
8 1 (3.45%) Redux
8 1 (3.45%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) Blog
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Social Media
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) Digital Media
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Unix
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
1 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Agile
1 13 (44.83%) CI/CD
1 13 (44.83%) User Experience
2 8 (27.59%) DevOps
2 8 (27.59%) User Research
3 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (24.14%) Service Design
3 7 (24.14%) Usability Testing
3 7 (24.14%) UX Design
4 6 (20.69%) Analytics
4 6 (20.69%) Inclusive Design
4 6 (20.69%) Microservices
4 6 (20.69%) Wireframes
5 5 (17.24%) Code Coverage
5 5 (17.24%) Code Quality
5 5 (17.24%) Data Security
5 5 (17.24%) Scrum
6 4 (13.79%) Migration
6 4 (13.79%) Project Management
6 4 (13.79%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) JavaScript
2 8 (27.59%) TypeScript
3 6 (20.69%) Python
4 3 (10.34%) Java
4 3 (10.34%) SQL
5 1 (3.45%) Bash
5 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (20.69%) WCAG
3 2 (6.90%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.45%) GDPR
4 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Terraform
2 3 (10.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) Avaya
2 2 (6.90%) Extreme Networks
2 2 (6.90%) Fortinet
2 2 (6.90%) Google
2 2 (6.90%) Twitter
3 1 (3.45%) Adobe
3 1 (3.45%) Databricks
3 1 (3.45%) Genesys
3 1 (3.45%) Hitachi
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Pega
3 1 (3.45%) SAP