Accessibility Contracts in Sheffield

Accessibility (a11y)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 48 45 48
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 2 10 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.63% 2.64% 1.76%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.85% 18.52% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 4
10th Percentile - £391 £342
25th Percentile - £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £458
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -7.10% -16.82%
75th Percentile - £438 £489
90th Percentile - £450 £514
South Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £425 £458
% change year-on-year +41.18% -7.10% -14.49%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 52 54 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 16.30% 14.25% 17.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 39 52
10th Percentile £135 £330 £389
25th Percentile £388 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £564 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £645 £698
South Yorkshire median daily rate £504 £438 £525
% change year-on-year +15.09% -16.67% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.13
25th Percentile - - £18.44
Median hourly rate - - £25.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.96%
75th Percentile - - £32.94
90th Percentile - - £37.18
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £12.75 £25.75
% change year-on-year - -50.49% +13.71%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in Sheffield

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in Sheffield

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet