WCAG Contract Job Trends in the South West

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring WCAG skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 135 150
Rank change year-on-year +20 +15 -
Contract jobs citing WCAG 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.20% 0.080% 0.063%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.97% 0.63% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £333 £589 -
25th Percentile £352 £609 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £663 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.62% - -
75th Percentile £438 £709 -
90th Percentile - £726 -
England median daily rate £460 £475 £519
% change year-on-year -3.16% -8.43% +3.75%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 411 317 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 20.66% 12.62% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 145 272
10th Percentile £235 £234 £350
25th Percentile £353 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -9.09% +6.49%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £653
90th Percentile £706 £696 £750
England median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 57 46
10th Percentile £15.56 £12.24 £33.00
25th Percentile £22.40 £28.00 £39.69
Median hourly rate £33.50 £70.00 £70.91
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% -1.28% +33.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £83.40
90th Percentile £70.75 £74.00 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +51.52%

WCAG
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

WCAG job vacancy trend in the South West

WCAG
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing WCAG.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing WCAG

WCAG
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Devon - 2 £425 -
Wiltshire +11 1 £320 -46.67% 2
Bristol - 1 £375 - 4
WCAG
England

WCAG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (50.00%) Figma
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Storybook
1 2 (50.00%) Vite
1 2 (50.00%) webpack
2 1 (25.00%) Pa11y
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) UI Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) Redux
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Vue
2 2 (50.00%) Zustand
3 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) TypeORM
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience
1 3 (75.00%) UX Design
2 2 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 2 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Wireframes
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker