Accessibility Contracts in South Wales

Accessibility (a11y)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 52
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 8 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 3.31% - 1.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.33% - 7.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £314 - £530
25th Percentile £340 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.78%
75th Percentile £419 - £613
90th Percentile £431 - £620
Wales median daily rate £395 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +27.78%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 24 71 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 9.92% 21.19% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 44 48
10th Percentile £167 £141 £244
25th Percentile £242 £313 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.80% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £441 £588 £550
90th Percentile £516 £667 £604
Wales median daily rate £350 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -31.71% +2.50% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 10
10th Percentile - £12.26 -
25th Percentile - £14.15 -
Median hourly rate £15.00 £15.61 £10.92
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +42.93% -12.61%
75th Percentile - £16.98 £11.94
90th Percentile - £19.07 £48.88
Wales median hourly rate £15.00 £15.61 £10.92
% change year-on-year -3.89% +42.93% -14.34%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in South Wales

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in South Wales

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in South Wales

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cardiff - 8 £395 - 11
Accessibility
Wales

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) dbt
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Postman
1 1 (12.50%) Storybook
General
1 3 (37.50%) Multimedia
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Designer
5 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (12.50%) Interaction Designer
5 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Lead
5 1 (12.50%) Lead Designer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Node.js
2 5 (62.50%) CSS
2 5 (62.50%) React
3 3 (37.50%) Jest
3 3 (37.50%) Puppeteer
4 1 (12.50%) Kafka
4 1 (12.50%) Laravel
4 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 6 (75.00%) TDD
3 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) User Experience
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) Coaching
5 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) BDD
6 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
6 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
6 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 1 (12.50%) Pair Programming
6 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
6 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
1 1 (12.50%) WCAG