WCAG Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring WCAG skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 300 384
Rank change year-on-year -41 +84 +28
Contract jobs citing WCAG 89 32 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.25% 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.47% 1.57% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 19 22
10th Percentile £360 £335 £319
25th Percentile £410 £381 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £432 £425
Median % change year-on-year +21.09% +1.53% -8.60%
75th Percentile £573 £490 £534
90th Percentile £658 £533 £574
UK median daily rate £475 £476 £425
% change year-on-year -0.21% +12.00% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.00 - -
Median hourly rate £27.00 - -
75th Percentile £28.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,608 2,037 3,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.29% 16.21% 15.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,278 1,312 1,915
10th Percentile £311 £205 £250
25th Percentile £402 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% +2.11%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £677
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 139 307
10th Percentile £14.45 £16.25 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £12.83
Median hourly rate £31.00 £32.00 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +75.15% -49.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.38 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £32.00 £21.38
% change year-on-year -4.44% +49.69% -46.56%

WCAG
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WCAG relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

WCAG job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

WCAG
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WCAG.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WCAG

WCAG
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCAG in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in the UK excluding London

WCAG
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WCAG.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WCAG

WCAG
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 March 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
North of England -27 54 £520 +16.53% 12
North West -18 23 £500 -1.23% 5
Yorkshire -36 19 £575 - 1
West Midlands -47 17 £512 +25.03% 3
Midlands -55 17 £512 +25.03% 3
North East -3 13 £475 +14.46% 6
Scotland +1 9 £538 +23.21% 3
South East - 8 £454 - 11
South West -21 3 £413 -31.25% 5
Wales -8 2 £775 - 1
WCAG
UK

WCAG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (3.37%) CMS
2 2 (2.25%) Drupal
3 1 (1.12%) Confluence
3 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Adobe XD
1 4 (4.49%) Sketch
2 2 (2.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.12%) InVision
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.97%) AWS
2 15 (16.85%) Figma
3 12 (13.48%) Azure
4 11 (12.36%) GitHub
5 10 (11.24%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (6.74%) Serverless
7 5 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.49%) npm
9 3 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (3.37%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.37%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.25%) Firebase
10 2 (2.25%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.25%) Vyond
11 1 (1.12%) Azure API Management
11 1 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.12%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (1.12%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.99%) NoSQL
2 6 (6.74%) Redis
3 3 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.37%) Power BI
3 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.25%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.12%) MS Access
5 1 (1.12%) MySQL
5 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (26.97%) Git
2 17 (19.10%) GitLab
3 14 (15.73%) Cypress.io
4 13 (14.61%) JUnit
5 11 (12.36%) Mocha
5 11 (12.36%) Selenium
6 10 (11.24%) Cucumber
7 8 (8.99%) Mockito
8 7 (7.87%) CircleCI
9 6 (6.74%) Maven
10 5 (5.62%) JIRA
11 4 (4.49%) ESLint
12 3 (3.37%) Jenkins
12 3 (3.37%) SonarQube
13 2 (2.25%) Axure RP
13 2 (2.25%) fastlane
13 2 (2.25%) Vite
14 1 (1.12%) Crashlytics
14 1 (1.12%) REST Assured
14 1 (1.12%) Storybook
General
1 37 (41.57%) Public Sector
2 21 (23.60%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.99%) Publishing
4 5 (5.62%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.49%) Legal
6 3 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Banking
6 3 (3.37%) Finance
6 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.25%) Games
7 2 (2.25%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Local Government
8 1 (1.12%) Military
8 1 (1.12%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 37 (41.57%) Developer
2 28 (31.46%) Designer
2 28 (31.46%) Senior
3 16 (17.98%) Senior Developer
4 15 (16.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 11 (12.36%) Interaction Designer
6 10 (11.24%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 9 (10.11%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (10.11%) Senior Designer
7 9 (10.11%) UX Designer
8 7 (7.87%) Senior Interaction Designer
9 6 (6.74%) Content Designer
10 5 (5.62%) Java Developer
11 4 (4.49%) Lead
11 4 (4.49%) React Developer
11 4 (4.49%) Test Engineer
12 3 (3.37%) UI Designer
12 3 (3.37%) UI/UX Designer
12 3 (3.37%) User Researcher
13 2 (2.25%) Lead UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (40.45%) React
2 30 (33.71%) HTML
3 24 (26.97%) Node.js
4 22 (24.72%) CSS
5 18 (20.22%) Spring
6 17 (19.10%) Jest
7 16 (17.98%) Playwright
7 16 (17.98%) Spring Boot
8 14 (15.73%) REST
9 9 (10.11%) AngularJS
9 9 (10.11%) Redux
9 9 (10.11%) RESTful
9 9 (10.11%) Zustand
10 7 (7.87%) Gherkin
10 7 (7.87%) HTML5
11 6 (6.74%) CSS3
11 6 (6.74%) React Native
12 5 (5.62%) Express.js
12 5 (5.62%) OpenID
12 5 (5.62%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.24%) Mobile App
2 9 (10.11%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.37%) Blog
3 3 (3.37%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.25%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.25%) Learning Management System
4 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.25%) SCORM
5 1 (1.12%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.12%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.12%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.12%) NHS
5 1 (1.12%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.62%) Android
1 5 (5.62%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (75.28%) Agile
2 40 (44.94%) CI/CD
3 36 (40.45%) User Research
4 31 (34.83%) User Experience
5 26 (29.21%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 24 (26.97%) Test Automation
6 24 (26.97%) UX Design
7 23 (25.84%) Microservices
8 22 (24.72%) DevOps
9 20 (22.47%) Front End Development
9 20 (22.47%) Prototyping
10 15 (16.85%) Analytics
10 15 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (14.61%) Code Quality
11 13 (14.61%) Design Patterns
12 12 (13.48%) Scrum
12 12 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (13.48%) Wireframes
13 11 (12.36%) Performance Optimisation
13 11 (12.36%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 34 (38.20%) JavaScript
2 26 (29.21%) TypeScript
3 20 (22.47%) Java
4 9 (10.11%) SQL
5 7 (7.87%) Python
6 1 (1.12%) C#
6 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.12%) Swift
Qualifications
1 12 (13.48%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.87%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.62%) Degree
4 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.25%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.12%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (83.15%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.49%) QA
System Software
1 14 (15.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (16.85%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.62%) Grafana
2 5 (5.62%) Kibana
3 1 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (6.74%) Adobe
2 5 (5.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.62%) Oracle
3 4 (4.49%) Xamarin
4 3 (3.37%) Google
4 3 (3.37%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.25%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.25%) Synthesia
6 1 (1.12%) Apple
6 1 (1.12%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.12%) Salesforce