Accessibility Contracts in the South East

Accessibility (a11y)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 151 169 184
Rank change year-on-year +18 +15 +28
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 8 36 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.27% 0.65% 0.65%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.56% 4.34% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 31
10th Percentile £213 £369 £313
25th Percentile £255 £375 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £436 £388
Median % change year-on-year -25.50% +12.58% -28.24%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £495
90th Percentile £605 £553 £538
England median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.32 -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.97 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.97% - -
75th Percentile £23.00 £19.62 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.18 £18.97 £20.07
% change year-on-year +48.55% -5.46% -19.76%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 512 830 886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.01% 14.93% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 435 563
10th Percentile £200 £232 £200
25th Percentile £363 £361 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 65 43
10th Percentile £21.32 £10.82 £18.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £15.38 £19.00
Median hourly rate £46.30 £27.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.36% -11.29% +47.44%
75th Percentile £62.24 £48.75 £51.94
90th Percentile £77.27 £65.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the South East

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the South East

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the South East

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the South East

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the South East 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
Thames Valley +26 3 £258 -42.78% 37
Hampshire +23 2 - - 13
Surrey +16 2 - - 15
Berkshire +15 2 £325 -35.00% 23
Oxfordshire +5 1 £190 -57.78% 7
East Sussex -2 1 £650 - 10
Accessibility
England

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (12.50%) CMS
1 1 (12.50%) Headless CMS
1 1 (12.50%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (12.50%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Figma
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
1 2 (25.00%) SpecFlow
1 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Email Marketing Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Email Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
2 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
2 3 (37.50%) React
2 3 (37.50%) RESTful
2 3 (37.50%) Vue
3 2 (25.00%) Bootstrap
3 2 (25.00%) YAML
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
1 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
2 2 (25.00%) Adaptive Web Design
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Insurtech
2 2 (25.00%) Line Management
2 2 (25.00%) Product Backlog
2 2 (25.00%) Progressive Web App
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) SOLID
2 2 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Debt
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) User Experience
2 2 (25.00%) UX Design
2 2 (25.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe