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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 166 174
Rank change year-on-year +26 +8 +42
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 13 36 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.44% 0.66% 0.74%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.58% 4.62% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 35
10th Percentile £283 £368 £313
25th Percentile £348 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -23.61%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £538
90th Percentile £614 £556 £600
England median daily rate £500 £478 £513
% change year-on-year +4.71% -6.83% -2.38%
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 £18.13 £20.07
% change year-on-year +55.43% -9.64% -73.25%

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 504 779 856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.95% 14.21% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 427 541
10th Percentile £200 £250 £200
25th Percentile £362 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% +2.11%
75th Percentile £590 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £640 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 65 45
10th Percentile £20.75 £10.82 £16.49
25th Percentile £24.66 £15.38 £18.25
Median hourly rate £46.30 £26.68 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.54% +11.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £62.24 £48.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £79.27 £65.00 £64.04
England median hourly rate £38.03 £22.42 £38.55
% change year-on-year +69.63% -41.84% +32.38%

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 14 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 14 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 +22 8 £475 +5.56% 44
Berkshire +14 4 £575 +15.00% 28
Hampshire +24 2 - - 25
Buckinghamshire +13 2 £475 +171.43% 9
Surrey +11 2 - - 14
Oxfordshire +4 2 £276 -38.61% 11
East Sussex -3 1 £650 - 8
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 (7.69%) CMS
1 1 (7.69%) Headless CMS
1 1 (7.69%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (7.69%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Figma
2 4 (30.77%) SaaS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Cypress.io
2 2 (15.38%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (15.38%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) Selenium
2 2 (15.38%) SpecFlow
2 2 (15.38%) UI Automator
2 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) React Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Salesforce Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Front-End Developer
2 2 (15.38%) UI Developer
2 2 (15.38%) UI/UX Developer
2 2 (15.38%) UX Developer
3 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Designer
3 1 (7.69%) Email Marketing Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Email Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Product Designer
3 1 (7.69%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) React
2 6 (46.15%) CSS
2 6 (46.15%) HTML
3 5 (38.46%) AngularJS
3 5 (38.46%) RESTful
3 5 (38.46%) Vue
4 2 (15.38%) Ajax
4 2 (15.38%) Apollo GraphQL
4 2 (15.38%) Bootstrap
4 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
4 2 (15.38%) JSON
4 2 (15.38%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (15.38%) Playwright
4 2 (15.38%) Semantic HTML
4 2 (15.38%) XML
4 2 (15.38%) YAML
5 1 (7.69%) .NET
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
5 1 (7.69%) Spring
5 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Front End Development
1 7 (53.85%) User Experience
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
3 4 (30.77%) UX Design
3 4 (30.77%) Wireframes
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Adaptive Web Design
5 2 (15.38%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Design Thinking
5 2 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Insurtech
5 2 (15.38%) Product Backlog
5 2 (15.38%) Progressive Web App
5 2 (15.38%) Sprint Retrospective
5 2 (15.38%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) WCAG
2 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat