WCAG Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring WCAG skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WCAG 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 2.15% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £565 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £540 £410 -
% change year-on-year +31.75% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 84 10 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 25.85% 8.06% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 9 1
10th Percentile £291 £306 -
25th Percentile £492 £308 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £315 £480
Median % change year-on-year +64.84% -34.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £540 £369 £495
90th Percentile £587 £505 -
West Midlands median daily rate £511 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +3.13% -1.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £12.33 - -
25th Percentile £12.52 - -
Median hourly rate £12.75 - -
75th Percentile £12.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £16.13 £15.45 £25.00
% change year-on-year +4.44% -38.22% +25.00%

WCAG
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

WCAG job vacancy trend in Shropshire

WCAG
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing WCAG

WCAG
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 12 December 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
Telford - 6 £540 - 5
WCAG
West Midlands

WCAG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Cucumber
1 6 (85.71%) Git
1 6 (85.71%) GitLab
1 6 (85.71%) JUnit
1 6 (85.71%) Selenium
2 5 (71.43%) Maven
2 5 (71.43%) Mockito
3 1 (14.29%) Gatling
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Playwright
1 7 (100.00%) React
2 6 (85.71%) JSON
2 6 (85.71%) OAuth
2 6 (85.71%) OAuth2
3 5 (71.43%) Gherkin
3 5 (71.43%) GraalVM
3 5 (71.43%) HTML
3 5 (71.43%) JDBC
3 5 (71.43%) JPA
3 5 (71.43%) OpenID
3 5 (71.43%) Spring
3 5 (71.43%) Spring Boot
4 2 (28.57%) .NET
4 2 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (14.29%) CSS
5 1 (14.29%) Jest
5 1 (14.29%) RESTful
5 1 (14.29%) Sass
5 1 (14.29%) Spring.NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Coaching
2 6 (85.71%) Scrum
2 6 (85.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (71.43%) Microservices
3 5 (71.43%) OO
3 5 (71.43%) OOD
3 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Data Mapping
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Data Transformation
4 2 (28.57%) Logical Data Model
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Physical Data Model
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Software Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (71.43%) Grafana
2 5 (71.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle