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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 78 70
Rank change year-on-year -6 -8 -7
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 34 37 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.00% 1.99% 3.59%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.23% 10.82% 17.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 30 85
10th Percentile £208 £218 £363
25th Percentile £460 £340 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year +9.67% -6.05% -4.20%
75th Percentile £500 £491 £508
90th Percentile £577 £576 £548
UK median daily rate £475 £484 £500
% change year-on-year -1.81% -3.25% -1.38%

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 278 342 521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.39% 18.44% 20.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 214 402
10th Percentile £200 £179 £178
25th Percentile £368 £280 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £470
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -9.62% +2.90%
75th Percentile £529 £500 £538
90th Percentile £575 £600 £590
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 20 5
10th Percentile £14.23 - £13.70
25th Percentile £15.77 £13.52 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.94 £14.98 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% -31.13% -1.14%
75th Percentile £36.60 £18.07 £47.73
90th Percentile £64.63 £19.20 £56.59
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £26.62 £35.75
% change year-on-year +5.86% -25.54% +43.00%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +3 23 £494 +12.27% 21
Glasgow -15 7 £572 +39.39% 16
West Lothian 0 2 £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 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) GeoServer
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.94%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.94%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.94%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) AWS
2 10 (29.41%) Serverless
3 9 (26.47%) Amazon S3
3 9 (26.47%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (20.59%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (17.65%) Azure
6 3 (8.82%) Azure AI
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.94%) BrowserStack
8 1 (2.94%) Dagster
8 1 (2.94%) Figma
8 1 (2.94%) GCP
8 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
1 2 (5.88%) Internet
1 2 (5.88%) LAN
1 2 (5.88%) WLAN
2 1 (2.94%) HTTP
2 1 (2.94%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (8.82%) Metadata
3 3 (8.82%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (5.88%) MariaDB
4 2 (5.88%) MySQL
5 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.94%) GIS
5 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Cypress.io
2 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.88%) Appium
3 2 (5.88%) Git
3 2 (5.88%) webpack
4 1 (2.94%) JUnit
4 1 (2.94%) Selenium
4 1 (2.94%) Storybook
General
1 25 (73.53%) Public Sector
2 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Legal
4 3 (8.82%) Marketing
5 1 (2.94%) Back Office
5 1 (2.94%) Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Finance
5 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Developer
2 6 (17.65%) Senior
3 4 (11.76%) Architect
3 4 (11.76%) Lead
3 4 (11.76%) Technical Leader
4 3 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Designer
4 3 (8.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (8.82%) IT Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Senior Designer
4 3 (8.82%) Senior UX Designer
4 3 (8.82%) Technical Architect
4 3 (8.82%) UX Designer
5 2 (5.88%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Service Designer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior User Researcher
5 2 (5.88%) Service Designer
5 2 (5.88%) User Researcher
5 2 (5.88%) UX Service Designer
6 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (41.18%) React
2 9 (26.47%) AWS CDK
2 9 (26.47%) CSS
2 9 (26.47%) HTML
3 7 (20.59%) Node.js
3 7 (20.59%) RESTful
4 4 (11.76%) .NET
4 4 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 4 (11.76%) Spring Boot
5 3 (8.82%) Next.js
5 3 (8.82%) REST
5 3 (8.82%) Spring
5 3 (8.82%) Vue
6 2 (5.88%) CSS3
6 2 (5.88%) HTML5
6 2 (5.88%) Jest
6 2 (5.88%) OAuth
6 2 (5.88%) Redux
7 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.94%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.94%) Photography
4 1 (2.94%) Social Media
4 1 (2.94%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Unix
1 3 (8.82%) Windows
1 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.94%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Agile
2 17 (50.00%) User Experience
3 14 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 11 (32.35%) Service Design
5 10 (29.41%) DevOps
5 10 (29.41%) Mentoring
5 10 (29.41%) Microservices
6 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (26.47%) UX Design
7 7 (20.59%) Coaching
7 7 (20.59%) Project Management
7 7 (20.59%) Usability Testing
8 6 (17.65%) Analytics
8 6 (17.65%) Roadmaps
8 6 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (17.65%) User Research
8 6 (17.65%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 5 (14.71%) Architecture Roadmap
9 5 (14.71%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) TypeScript
2 10 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 9 (26.47%) Python
4 6 (17.65%) Java
5 4 (11.76%) SQL
6 3 (8.82%) C#
7 2 (5.88%) Bash
7 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) Disclosure Scotland
1 7 (20.59%) WCAG
2 2 (5.88%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Grafana
2 2 (5.88%) Terraform
3 1 (2.94%) Ansible
3 1 (2.94%) Kibana
3 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.94%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle
2 3 (8.82%) OpenAI
3 2 (5.88%) Adobe
3 2 (5.88%) Avaya
3 2 (5.88%) Extreme Networks
3 2 (5.88%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.94%) dotdigital
4 1 (2.94%) Dundas
4 1 (2.94%) Facebook
4 1 (2.94%) Genesys
4 1 (2.94%) Instagram
4 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.94%) Twitter