WCAG Contracts in South Wales

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring WCAG skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WCAG over the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing WCAG 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 1.50% - 0.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.52% - 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £509 - -
25th Percentile £509 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
75th Percentile £529 - -
90th Percentile £530 - -
Wales median daily rate £519 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 42 77 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 15.73% 21.04% 15.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 45 39
10th Percentile £193 £146 £242
25th Percentile £319 £227 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £509 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.88% +1.70% -1.28%
75th Percentile £504 £544 £572
90th Percentile £526 £603 £613
Wales median daily rate £400 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -21.95% +7.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 9
10th Percentile - £15.51 -
25th Percentile - £16.98 -
Median hourly rate £13.08 £23.04 £10.92
Median % change year-on-year -43.22% +110.94% -10.03%
75th Percentile - £42.96 £12.28
90th Percentile £14.23 £48.75 £49.00
Wales median hourly rate £13.08 £27.50 £10.92
% change year-on-year -52.44% +151.83% -12.61%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in South Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for WCAG in South Wales

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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 WCAG within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 25 July 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 - 4 £519 - 2
WCAG
Wales

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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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Software Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (75.00%) Entity Framework
1 3 (75.00%) Jest
1 3 (75.00%) Next.js
1 3 (75.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Case Management
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) CRM
4 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
4 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft