WCAG Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring WCAG skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 118 130
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 +42
Contract jobs citing WCAG 5 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.31% 0.16% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.85% 0.82% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £494 £468 £350
25th Percentile £495 £477 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £511 £498
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% +2.76% +12.24%
75th Percentile £498 £552 £511
90th Percentile £499 £566 £523
UK median daily rate £475 £474 £519
% change year-on-year +0.26% -8.67% +3.75%

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 271 364 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.97% 19.58% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 228 317
10th Percentile £244 £192 £180
25th Percentile £404 £324 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £460
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -2.17% -3.97%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £530
90th Percentile £575 £590 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 3
10th Percentile £13.93 - £13.43
25th Percentile £15.55 £13.52 £13.83
Median hourly rate £40.00 £14.98 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +167.02% +3.31% -20.33%
75th Percentile £61.88 £15.23 £38.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £26.86 £52.90
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.67 £36.00
% change year-on-year +8.42% -23.14% +44.61%

WCAG
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WCAG relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

WCAG job vacancy trend in Scotland

WCAG
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing WCAG.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing WCAG

WCAG
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 15 October 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 +9 2 £500 -9.09% 4
Glasgow -15 2 £493 +4.34%
WCAG
UK

WCAG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Appium
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) webpack
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Storybook
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Designer
3 1 (20.00%) React Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior UX Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (20.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) CSS3
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) HTML5
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) Redux
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) Vue
2 1 (20.00%) Ionic Framework
2 1 (20.00%) Jest
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) React Native
2 1 (20.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (20.00%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) SOLID
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) UX Design
3 1 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
3 1 (20.00%) Service Design
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (20.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Dundas
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce