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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 329 367
Rank change year-on-year -13 +38 +21
Contract jobs citing WCAG 123 39 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.26% 0.098%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.85% 1.55% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 27 12
10th Percentile £365 £356 £378
25th Percentile £406 £383 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £465
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -8.60% -2.87%
75th Percentile £525 £489 £575
90th Percentile £631 £494 -
UK median daily rate £461 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +0.27% -3.16% -10.38%
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 4,319 2,515 2,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 16.99% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,657 1,597 1,658
10th Percentile £313 £235 £232
25th Percentile £402 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -4.90%
75th Percentile £590 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 192 338
10th Percentile £13.86 £13.50 £11.03
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.50 £13.27
Median hourly rate £38.72 £26.93 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +43.81% +11.35% -30.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £58.44
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.70 £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

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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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -29 63 £470 +0.59% 19
Yorkshire -24 27 £500 +23.46% 7
North East -25 19 £450 -6.25% 7
Midlands -43 19 £435 +2.65% 3
North West -34 17 £488 +2.63% 6
West Midlands -47 17 £426 +0.53% 3
South West -31 15 £413 -2.94% 9
Scotland -4 14 £525 +38.16% 1
South East -58 10 £450 -14.29% 12
Wales -9 4 £625 - 4
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 (7.32%) Confluence
2 6 (4.88%) CMS
3 3 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.44%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.63%) Apache
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.81%) Drupal
5 1 (0.81%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.81%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.63%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.81%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (4.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (34.15%) Azure
2 33 (26.83%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (14.63%) AWS
4 16 (13.01%) Figma
4 16 (13.01%) GitHub
5 13 (10.57%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (8.13%) Firebase
7 7 (5.69%) Power Automate
8 6 (4.88%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (4.07%) Google Play
9 5 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (4.07%) Serverless
10 4 (3.25%) GCP
11 3 (2.44%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.44%) Google Analytics
11 3 (2.44%) Vyond
12 2 (1.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.32%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.50%) Geospatial Data
3 6 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.44%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.63%) Power BI
5 2 (1.63%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.81%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.81%) MySQL
6 1 (0.81%) Redis
6 1 (0.81%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 22 (17.89%) Git
2 13 (10.57%) JIRA
2 13 (10.57%) Selenium
3 12 (9.76%) Cypress.io
4 10 (8.13%) fastlane
4 10 (8.13%) Jenkins
5 9 (7.32%) Cucumber
6 8 (6.50%) MSI
7 7 (5.69%) Postman
8 6 (4.88%) GitLab
8 6 (4.88%) JUnit
8 6 (4.88%) WebDriver
9 5 (4.07%) Android Studio
9 5 (4.07%) Crashlytics
9 5 (4.07%) Gradle
9 5 (4.07%) Xcode
10 4 (3.25%) REST Assured
11 3 (2.44%) Gatling
11 3 (2.44%) Protractor
12 2 (1.63%) CircleCI
General
1 67 (54.47%) Public Sector
2 29 (23.58%) Social Skills
3 24 (19.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.50%) Finance
5 5 (4.07%) Legal
6 4 (3.25%) Publishing
7 3 (2.44%) Games
7 3 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.63%) Banking
8 2 (1.63%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.63%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.63%) Marketing
9 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.81%) Local Government
9 1 (0.81%) Military
9 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (34.96%) Developer
2 41 (33.33%) Senior
3 34 (27.64%) Designer
4 16 (13.01%) Content Designer
4 16 (13.01%) Senior Developer
5 12 (9.76%) Interaction Designer
6 9 (7.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 9 (7.32%) Senior Designer
6 9 (7.32%) Senior Interaction Designer
7 7 (5.69%) Analyst
7 7 (5.69%) Test Analyst
7 7 (5.69%) UX Designer
8 6 (4.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 6 (4.88%) Lead
8 6 (4.88%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 5 (4.07%) Android Developer
9 5 (4.07%) iOS Developer
9 5 (4.07%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (3.25%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (23.58%) HTML
2 26 (21.14%) CSS
3 25 (20.33%) React
4 24 (19.51%) RESTful
5 22 (17.89%) REST
6 15 (12.20%) HTML5
7 14 (11.38%) Node.js
8 13 (10.57%) CSS3
9 12 (9.76%) .NET
10 11 (8.94%) Jest
11 10 (8.13%) .NET Core
11 10 (8.13%) .NET Framework
11 10 (8.13%) Playwright
12 9 (7.32%) AngularJS
13 8 (6.50%) ATL
13 8 (6.50%) COM
13 8 (6.50%) Gherkin
13 8 (6.50%) MFC
13 8 (6.50%) Redux
13 8 (6.50%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.01%) Product Ownership
2 12 (9.76%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.76%) Mobile App
3 9 (7.32%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.69%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.25%) NHS
6 3 (2.44%) e-Learning
6 3 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.44%) Learning Management System
6 3 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.44%) SCORM
6 3 (2.44%) Taxonomies
6 3 (2.44%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.63%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.63%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.81%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.81%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.50%) Windows
2 5 (4.07%) Android
2 5 (4.07%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (69.92%) Agile
2 67 (54.47%) CI/CD
3 55 (44.72%) DevOps
4 54 (43.90%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 47 (38.21%) Test Automation
6 43 (34.96%) User Experience
7 36 (29.27%) UX Design
8 34 (27.64%) User Research
9 26 (21.14%) Analytics
10 24 (19.51%) Deployment Automation
10 24 (19.51%) Prototyping
11 22 (17.89%) OWASP
11 22 (17.89%) Scrum
11 22 (17.89%) TDD
12 19 (15.45%) API Development
12 19 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (14.63%) Microservices
13 18 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (13.82%) Design Patterns
14 17 (13.82%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 41 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 30 (24.39%) TypeScript
3 20 (16.26%) Java
4 16 (13.01%) Python
5 13 (10.57%) C#
6 8 (6.50%) Bicep
7 5 (4.07%) Kotlin
7 5 (4.07%) Swift
8 4 (3.25%) SQL
9 1 (0.81%) PHP
9 1 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (17.89%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.50%) ISTQB
4 5 (4.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.25%) Degree
6 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.63%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (94.31%) Accessibility
2 11 (8.94%) GDPR
3 9 (7.32%) QA
4 8 (6.50%) NCSC
5 4 (3.25%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.81%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 21 (17.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (19.51%) Kubernetes
2 13 (10.57%) Terraform
3 1 (0.81%) SELinux
3 1 (0.81%) systemd
Vendors
1 23 (18.70%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.13%) Dynatrace
2 10 (8.13%) Google
3 6 (4.88%) Oracle
4 5 (4.07%) Adobe
4 5 (4.07%) Apple
5 3 (2.44%) Synthesia
6 1 (0.81%) Databricks
6 1 (0.81%) FIS
6 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow