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

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 55 41
Rank change year-on-year -9 -14 +16
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 5 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.90% 0.47% 2.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.26% 6.06% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £349 £225 £338
25th Percentile £355 £263 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 £325 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -38.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £428 £388 £600
90th Percentile £531 £425 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £364 £325 £525
% change year-on-year +12.00% -38.10% -4.55%

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 95 33 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 17.12% 7.82% 14.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 24 32
10th Percentile £260 £215 £354
25th Percentile £338 £432 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £506 £569
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% -11.03% +13.75%
75th Percentile £525 £622 £617
90th Percentile £599 £643 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £503 £550
% change year-on-year -5.47% -8.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.14%
75th Percentile - - £22.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £20.50
% change year-on-year - - +3.04%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in Sheffield over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) Babel
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) webpack
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) Postman
3 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) React Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) React
1 3 (60.00%) Redux
1 3 (60.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Bootstrap
2 2 (40.00%) CSS3
2 2 (40.00%) DOM
2 2 (40.00%) HTML5
2 2 (40.00%) Jest
2 2 (40.00%) lodash
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (20.00%) Compass CSS Framework
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (60.00%) Atomic Design
2 3 (60.00%) Sprint Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 3 (60.00%) Story Points
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) Wireframes
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Code Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Community of Practice
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) GoldenSource
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft