Accessibility Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Accessibility (a11y)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 24 39
Rank change year-on-year -2 +15 -2
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 8 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.39% 3.83% 1.89%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.51% 19.15% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £376 £412 £403
25th Percentile £421 £427 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £453 £461
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -1.84% -24.69%
75th Percentile £493 £477 £525
90th Percentile £570 £491 £570
North East median daily rate £460 £453 £461
% change year-on-year +1.60% -1.84% -24.69%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 41 47 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 17.37% 20.00% 15.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 26 24
10th Percentile £225 £344 £218
25th Percentile £393 £406 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £530 £514 £556
90th Percentile £638 £588 £594
North East median daily rate £460 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -8.00% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £14.63 £17.50
25th Percentile - £19.44 £18.19
Median hourly rate - £35.25 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year - +78.48% +25.40%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £29.06
90th Percentile - - £32.88
North East median hourly rate - £35.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year - +80.77% +11.43%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in Tyne and Wear

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in Tyne and Wear

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in Tyne and Wear

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in Tyne and Wear

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -4 8 £460 +1.60% 13
Accessibility
North East

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Miro
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Postman
3 1 (12.50%) REST Assured
3 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Publishing
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (25.00%) Technical Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Content Designer
2 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Designer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) Semantic HTML
1 1 (12.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Defect Management
3 3 (37.50%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (25.00%) BDD
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Refactoring
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (25.00%) User Research
5 1 (12.50%) Business Process Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
1 2 (25.00%) WCAG
2 1 (12.50%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (12.50%) NCSC