WCAG Contracts in Scotland

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring WCAG skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WCAG 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 107 119 143
Rank change year-on-year +12 +24 +17
Contract jobs citing WCAG 9 10 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.55% 0.45% 0.70%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.17% 2.40% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 18
10th Percentile £298 £219 £399
25th Percentile £360 £242 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £403 £420
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% -4.17% -11.58%
75th Percentile £500 £551 £450
90th Percentile £509 £575 £480
UK median daily rate £476 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.78% -10.00% +2.56%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

WCAG 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%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for WCAG in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in Scotland

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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 WCAG 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 +3 6 £380 +16.92% 1
Glasgow +4 3 £511 +6.35%
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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 (33.33%) WordPress
2 2 (22.22%) CMS
3 1 (11.11%) Drupal
3 1 (11.11%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Google Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) BrowserStack
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) MariaDB
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Appium
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) Storybook
1 1 (11.11%) webpack
General
1 6 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Web Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Content Editor
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (11.11%) Management Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) React Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Content Editor
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Service Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior UX Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Service Designer
3 1 (11.11%) UX Designer
3 1 (11.11%) UX Service Designer
3 1 (11.11%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) RESTful
1 4 (44.44%) Web Services
2 3 (33.33%) Node.js
3 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 1 (11.11%) CSS
4 1 (11.11%) CSS3
4 1 (11.11%) HTML5
4 1 (11.11%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (11.11%) Jest
4 1 (11.11%) Playwright
4 1 (11.11%) React
4 1 (11.11%) React Native
4 1 (11.11%) Redux
4 1 (11.11%) Vitest
4 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Digital Media
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) SEO
2 4 (44.44%) User Experience
2 4 (44.44%) Web Development
3 3 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) Service Design
3 3 (33.33%) UX Design
3 3 (33.33%) Wireframes
4 2 (22.22%) A/B Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Content Management
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Data Security
4 2 (22.22%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 2 (22.22%) Information Governance
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (22.22%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (33.33%) PERC
3 2 (22.22%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Google