WCAG Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring WCAG skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WCAG over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 368 407
Rank change year-on-year +65 +39 +40
Contract jobs citing WCAG 33 31 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.60% 0.99% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 43
10th Percentile £335 £338 £387
25th Percentile £381 £403 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year +1.53% -3.41% -7.37%
75th Percentile £490 £538 £544
90th Percentile £500 £575 £638
UK median daily rate £476 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.78% -10.00% +2.56%

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 2,060 3,142 3,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.14% 15.13% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,297 1,830 2,400
10th Percentile £209 £252 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £665 £680 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 309 180
10th Percentile £17.28 £10.95 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.63 £18.21
Median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%
75th Percentile £67.03 £43.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £79.92 £67.38 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WCAG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WCAG in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for WCAG in the UK excluding London

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WCAG in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for WCAG in the UK excluding London

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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 1 May 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
North of England +22 15 £480 +12.94% 16
Scotland +12 9 £400 -0.62% 2
North East +6 8 £480 +6.02% 3
North West - 7 £506 - 8
Midlands +27 6 £410 +2.38% 4
West Midlands - 6 £410 - 2
South West +44 2 £425 -39.29% 9
Wales - 1 - - 1
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (9.09%) R Markdown
1 3 (9.09%) WordPress
2 2 (6.06%) CMS
3 1 (3.03%) Confluence
3 1 (3.03%) Drupal
3 1 (3.03%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.12%) Azure
1 4 (12.12%) Google Analytics
2 3 (9.09%) AWS
2 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.06%) Serverless
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.03%) BrowserStack
4 1 (3.03%) dbt
4 1 (3.03%) Figma
4 1 (3.03%) GitHub
4 1 (3.03%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.03%) DocumentDB
1 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.03%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (3.03%) GIS
1 1 (3.03%) MariaDB
1 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.03%) MySQL
1 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Git
1 7 (21.21%) Jasmine
1 7 (21.21%) Mocha
2 4 (12.12%) Grunt
2 4 (12.12%) gulp
2 4 (12.12%) Subversion
3 2 (6.06%) Storybook
3 2 (6.06%) webpack
4 1 (3.03%) Appium
4 1 (3.03%) Axure RP
4 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.03%) JIRA
4 1 (3.03%) Pa11y
4 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.03%) Vite
General
1 21 (63.64%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Marketing
5 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Electronics
5 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (66.67%) Developer
2 13 (39.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 6 (18.18%) Senior
4 4 (12.12%) JavaScript Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Designer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 3 (9.09%) UX Designer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Designer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior UX Designer
6 2 (6.06%) Web Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Applications Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Management Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (51.52%) Node.js
2 15 (45.45%) HTML
3 14 (42.42%) CSS
4 12 (36.36%) Sass
5 9 (27.27%) Jest
6 7 (21.21%) RESTful
7 6 (18.18%) HTML5
8 5 (15.15%) jQuery
8 5 (15.15%) Mustache
9 4 (12.12%) React
9 4 (12.12%) Shiny
9 4 (12.12%) Web Services
10 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
11 2 (6.06%) Kafka
11 2 (6.06%) Redux
11 2 (6.06%) Vue
12 1 (3.03%) Ionic Framework
12 1 (3.03%) Nunjucks
12 1 (3.03%) Playwright
12 1 (3.03%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.03%) Digital Media
2 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Mac OS X
2 3 (9.09%) Unix
3 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) Front End Development
1 17 (51.52%) User Experience
2 15 (45.45%) Agile
3 12 (36.36%) TDD
4 8 (24.24%) Analytics
4 8 (24.24%) Web Development
5 7 (21.21%) Test Automation
6 6 (18.18%) Responsive Web Design
6 6 (18.18%) UX Design
6 6 (18.18%) Web Accessibility
7 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
7 5 (15.15%) Microservices
7 5 (15.15%) Web Design
7 5 (15.15%) Wireframes
8 4 (12.12%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (12.12%) DevOps
8 4 (12.12%) SEO
8 4 (12.12%) User Research
8 4 (12.12%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 4 (12.12%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 7 (21.21%) Java
3 4 (12.12%) R
4 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.06%) Python
6 1 (3.03%) Bash
6 1 (3.03%) Go
6 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (9.09%) GDPR
2 3 (9.09%) PERC
3 2 (6.06%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (3.03%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Google
2 2 (6.06%) SAP
3 1 (3.03%) Databricks