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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 328 377
Rank change year-on-year -16 +49 +21
Contract jobs citing WCAG 121 36 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.24% 0.096%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.78% 1.45% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 25 12
10th Percentile £373 £361 £378
25th Percentile £406 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £465
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -1.08% -4.62%
75th Percentile £538 £490 £575
90th Percentile £670 £496 -
UK median daily rate £459 £466 £475
% change year-on-year -1.56% -1.89% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £30.15 - -
25th Percentile £36.38 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £61.38 - -
90th Percentile £68.05 - -
UK median hourly rate £27.00 - £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 4,354 2,484 2,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.10% 16.84% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,692 1,569 1,677
10th Percentile £313 £235 £234
25th Percentile £402 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £471 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -0.83% -5.00%
75th Percentile £592 £575 £580
90th Percentile £688 £650 £669
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 492 186 356
10th Percentile £13.96 £13.50 £11.07
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.02 £13.45
Median hourly rate £38.72 £27.44 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +41.11% +13.48% -33.75%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £55.63
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.21 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +20.23% +24.07% -38.66%

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 11 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing WCAG in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for WCAG in the UK excluding London

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 11 July 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 61 £470 -1.05% 11
Yorkshire -30 26 £500 +18.34% 3
North East -21 18 £450 -6.25% 4
Midlands -45 18 £445 +5.01% 2
North West -36 17 £488 +2.63% 4
West Midlands -54 16 £450 +6.19% 2
South West -23 15 £413 -2.94% 4
Scotland -2 14 £525 +38.16% 1
South East -55 11 £450 -14.29% 12
Wales -11 4 £625 - 3
East Midlands - 1 £445 -
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 9 (7.44%) Confluence
2 7 (5.79%) CMS
3 4 (3.31%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.65%) Apache
4 2 (1.65%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.83%) Drupal
5 1 (0.83%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.83%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.65%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.83%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (33.88%) Azure
2 32 (26.45%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (14.05%) AWS
4 16 (13.22%) Figma
4 16 (13.22%) GitHub
5 13 (10.74%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (8.26%) Firebase
7 6 (4.96%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (4.96%) Power Automate
8 5 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (4.13%) Google Play
8 5 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (4.13%) Serverless
9 4 (3.31%) GCP
10 3 (2.48%) Azure Functions
10 3 (2.48%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.48%) Google Analytics
10 3 (2.48%) Vyond
11 2 (1.65%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.44%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.61%) Geospatial Data
3 6 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.48%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.48%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.65%) Power BI
6 2 (1.65%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.83%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.83%) MySQL
7 1 (0.83%) Redis
7 1 (0.83%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 21 (17.36%) Git
2 13 (10.74%) JIRA
3 12 (9.92%) Selenium
4 11 (9.09%) Cypress.io
5 10 (8.26%) fastlane
5 10 (8.26%) Jenkins
6 9 (7.44%) Cucumber
7 8 (6.61%) MSI
8 6 (4.96%) GitLab
8 6 (4.96%) JUnit
8 6 (4.96%) Postman
9 5 (4.13%) Android Studio
9 5 (4.13%) Crashlytics
9 5 (4.13%) Gradle
9 5 (4.13%) WebDriver
9 5 (4.13%) Xcode
10 4 (3.31%) REST Assured
11 3 (2.48%) Gatling
12 2 (1.65%) CircleCI
12 2 (1.65%) Protractor
General
1 64 (52.89%) Public Sector
2 29 (23.97%) Social Skills
3 23 (19.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (6.61%) Finance
5 7 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.13%) Legal
6 5 (4.13%) Publishing
7 3 (2.48%) Games
7 3 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.65%) Banking
8 2 (1.65%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.65%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.65%) Marketing
9 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.83%) Local Government
9 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (37.19%) Developer
2 40 (33.06%) Senior
3 34 (28.10%) Designer
4 17 (14.05%) Senior Developer
5 16 (13.22%) Content Designer
6 12 (9.92%) Interaction Designer
7 9 (7.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 9 (7.44%) Senior Designer
7 9 (7.44%) Senior Interaction Designer
8 7 (5.79%) UX Designer
9 6 (4.96%) Analyst
9 6 (4.96%) Lead
9 6 (4.96%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 6 (4.96%) Test Analyst
10 5 (4.13%) Android Developer
10 5 (4.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 5 (4.13%) iOS Developer
10 5 (4.13%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (3.31%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.31%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (23.97%) HTML
2 26 (21.49%) CSS
3 24 (19.83%) React
3 24 (19.83%) RESTful
4 21 (17.36%) REST
5 14 (11.57%) HTML5
6 13 (10.74%) .NET
6 13 (10.74%) Node.js
7 12 (9.92%) CSS3
8 11 (9.09%) .NET Core
8 11 (9.09%) .NET Framework
8 11 (9.09%) Jest
9 10 (8.26%) AngularJS
10 9 (7.44%) Playwright
10 9 (7.44%) Redux
11 8 (6.61%) ATL
11 8 (6.61%) COM
11 8 (6.61%) GeoJSON
11 8 (6.61%) MFC
11 8 (6.61%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.05%) Product Ownership
2 13 (10.74%) Mobile App
3 11 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 9 (7.44%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.79%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.31%) NHS
7 3 (2.48%) e-Learning
7 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.48%) Learning Management System
7 3 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.48%) SCORM
8 2 (1.65%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.65%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.65%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.65%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.83%) Blog
9 1 (0.83%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.83%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.61%) Windows
2 6 (4.96%) Android
2 6 (4.96%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (70.25%) Agile
2 67 (55.37%) CI/CD
3 55 (45.45%) DevOps
4 52 (42.98%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 46 (38.02%) Test Automation
6 42 (34.71%) User Experience
7 36 (29.75%) UX Design
8 34 (28.10%) User Research
9 25 (20.66%) Analytics
9 25 (20.66%) Prototyping
10 24 (19.83%) Deployment Automation
11 23 (19.01%) OWASP
12 22 (18.18%) TDD
13 21 (17.36%) Scrum
14 19 (15.70%) API Development
15 18 (14.88%) Design Patterns
15 18 (14.88%) Microservices
16 17 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (14.05%) Infrastructure as Code
16 17 (14.05%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (33.88%) JavaScript
2 29 (23.97%) TypeScript
3 20 (16.53%) Java
4 16 (13.22%) Python
5 14 (11.57%) C#
6 8 (6.61%) Bicep
7 5 (4.13%) Kotlin
7 5 (4.13%) Swift
8 4 (3.31%) SQL
9 1 (0.83%) PHP
9 1 (0.83%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (17.36%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.88%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.79%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.31%) Degree
4 4 (3.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.65%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (93.39%) Accessibility
2 10 (8.26%) GDPR
3 9 (7.44%) QA
4 8 (6.61%) NCSC
5 4 (3.31%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.83%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 21 (17.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (19.83%) Kubernetes
2 13 (10.74%) Terraform
3 1 (0.83%) SELinux
3 1 (0.83%) systemd
Vendors
1 22 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.26%) Dynatrace
2 10 (8.26%) Google
3 6 (4.96%) Oracle
4 5 (4.13%) Adobe
4 5 (4.13%) Apple
5 3 (2.48%) Synthesia
6 1 (0.83%) Databricks
6 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.83%) Xamarin