WCAG Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring WCAG skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WCAG 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.19% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £381 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - -
75th Percentile £394 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £410 -
% change year-on-year +22.10% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 22 4 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 26.19% 6.35% 16.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 8
10th Percentile £319 - £319
25th Percentile £387 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% - -1.04%
75th Percentile £442 £519 £534
90th Percentile £455 £538 £701
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - £12.19
25th Percentile £19.50 - £14.08
Median hourly rate £20.00 - £15.90
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.05%
75th Percentile £20.50 - £29.38
90th Percentile - - £52.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £16.00 £28.18 £14.00
% change year-on-year -43.22% +101.29% -24.32%

WCAG
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 16 April 2026. 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £388 -
WCAG
West Midlands

WCAG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft