Accessibility Contracts in the Thames Valley

Accessibility (a11y)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Accessibility skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Accessibility over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 129 153
Rank change year-on-year +6 +24 -44
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 20 19 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.75% 0.65% 0.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.26% 4.38% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 6
10th Percentile £250 £346 £430
25th Percentile £363 £363 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -15.74% +53.59%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £600
90th Percentile £523 - £644
South East median daily rate £436 £388 £550
% change year-on-year +12.58% -29.55% +22.22%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

Accessibility is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 470 434 540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.59% 14.77% 15.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 262 342
10th Percentile £180 £252 £225
25th Percentile £315 £400 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £600 £675 £625
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 15 15
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.50 £11.39
25th Percentile £22.94 £19.75 £13.16
Median hourly rate £27.50 £23.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% +9.52% -0.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £38.00 £21.28
90th Percentile £68.84 £65.66 £25.30
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £31.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -11.29% +47.27% -17.45%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Berkshire +11 18 £500 +25.00% 5
Buckinghamshire +15 1 £175 -65.69% 5
Oxfordshire +1 1 £450 +25.00% 3
Accessibility
South East

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Figma
3 1 (5.00%) npm
3 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.00%) rollup.js
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
2 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 10 (50.00%) Marketing
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Law
2 5 (25.00%) Legal
2 5 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Local Government
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Creative Designer
1 8 (40.00%) Designer
2 5 (25.00%) Development Manager
2 5 (25.00%) Operations Manager
2 5 (25.00%) Systems Development Manager
3 4 (20.00%) Creative Director
4 3 (15.00%) Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Designer
5 2 (10.00%) QA Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) UI Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Automation Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) CSS
2 1 (5.00%) Enzyme
2 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.00%) Jest
2 1 (5.00%) Next.js
2 1 (5.00%) Playwright
2 1 (5.00%) React
2 1 (5.00%) Redux
2 1 (5.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.00%) NHS
3 1 (5.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (40.00%) Storytelling
2 8 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 7 (35.00%) Project Management
4 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (25.00%) Business Continuity
5 5 (25.00%) Information Security
6 3 (15.00%) Agile
6 3 (15.00%) User Experience
7 2 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (10.00%) Coaching
7 2 (10.00%) DevOps
7 2 (10.00%) Scrum
7 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (10.00%) UX Design
7 2 (10.00%) Wireframes
8 1 (5.00%) Black-Box Testing
8 1 (5.00%) Software Testing
8 1 (5.00%) Visualisation
8 1 (5.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
2 2 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Adobe
2 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (25.00%) Reuters
4 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft