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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 343 391
Rank change year-on-year 0 +48 +49
Contract jobs citing WCAG 56 17 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.86% 0.72% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 12 18
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £385 £402 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £484 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.66% +13.94% -15.00%
75th Percentile £550 £521 £499
90th Percentile £567 £585 £532
UK median daily rate £454 £473 £500
% change year-on-year -3.92% -5.50% -

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 3,008 2,366 3,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.84% 14.93% 15.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,905 1,343 1,923
10th Percentile £275 £211 £257
25th Percentile £400 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 164 189
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.26 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.49 £25.48 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.68% -28.23% +69.05%
75th Percentile £61.09 £54.52 £70.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £69.25 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £26.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -5.09% -25.35% +56.49%

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

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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 10 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in the UK excluding London

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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

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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 10 December 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 -11 37 £423 +9.74% 14
Yorkshire -29 14 £390 -15.22% 3
North East +7 12 £454 +29.71% 4
North West -6 12 £420 - 7
West Midlands -20 8 £540 +31.75% 5
Midlands -26 8 £540 +31.75% 7
Wales - 4 £519 -
South West -10 3 £320 -46.67% 4
South East -12 3 £454 -13.52% 4
Scotland +3 2 £493 -0.60%
East of England - 1 £550 -
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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 2 (3.57%) Confluence
1 2 (3.57%) Drupal
2 1 (1.79%) CMS
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Sketch
2 2 (3.57%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.79%) InVision
3 1 (1.79%) Marvel
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.79%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 23 (41.07%) AWS
2 9 (16.07%) Azure
3 8 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (14.29%) Serverless
4 7 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (8.93%) Figma
6 4 (7.14%) npm
7 3 (5.36%) Miro
8 2 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.57%) GitHub
8 2 (3.57%) Slack
8 2 (3.57%) Smartsheet
9 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.79%) Google Analytics
9 1 (1.79%) Heroku
9 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.79%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.86%) Redis
2 6 (10.71%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.36%) DocumentDB
3 3 (5.36%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.79%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.79%) MySQL
5 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.79%) Power BI
5 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (30.36%) Git
2 13 (23.21%) Cucumber
2 13 (23.21%) Selenium
3 11 (19.64%) Cypress.io
3 11 (19.64%) GitLab
4 8 (14.29%) Mockito
5 6 (10.71%) JUnit
5 6 (10.71%) Maven
6 5 (8.93%) Mocha
7 4 (7.14%) JIRA
7 4 (7.14%) SonarQube
8 3 (5.36%) ESLint
8 3 (5.36%) Jenkins
8 3 (5.36%) REST Assured
9 2 (3.57%) Axure RP
10 1 (1.79%) Appium
10 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.79%) Gatling
10 1 (1.79%) JMeter
10 1 (1.79%) webpack
General
1 25 (44.64%) Public Sector
2 19 (33.93%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Publishing
4 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Legal
4 2 (3.57%) Military
4 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Banking
5 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 21 (37.50%) Developer
2 13 (23.21%) Senior
3 10 (17.86%) Designer
3 10 (17.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 9 (16.07%) Test Engineer
5 8 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 5 (8.93%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Lead
6 5 (8.93%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 4 (7.14%) UX Designer
8 3 (5.36%) AWS Software Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.36%) React Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Backend Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Content Designer
9 2 (3.57%) Operations Manager
9 2 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (48.21%) React
2 17 (30.36%) HTML
2 17 (30.36%) Node.js
3 15 (26.79%) Jest
4 11 (19.64%) CSS
5 10 (17.86%) Playwright
5 10 (17.86%) Spring Boot
6 9 (16.07%) Spring
7 8 (14.29%) REST
8 7 (12.50%) Express.js
8 7 (12.50%) Next.js
9 6 (10.71%) .NET
9 6 (10.71%) JSON
9 6 (10.71%) OAuth
9 6 (10.71%) OAuth2
10 5 (8.93%) Gherkin
10 5 (8.93%) JDBC
10 5 (8.93%) JPA
10 5 (8.93%) OpenID
10 5 (8.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.36%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.57%) Blog
3 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) Android
1 3 (5.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (67.86%) Agile
2 21 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 21 (37.50%) Microservices
3 15 (26.79%) Front End Development
4 14 (25.00%) User Experience
5 13 (23.21%) Scrum
5 13 (23.21%) Test Automation
6 12 (21.43%) DevOps
6 12 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 10 (17.86%) End-to-End Testing
8 9 (16.07%) Coaching
8 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (16.07%) User Research
8 9 (16.07%) UX Design
9 8 (14.29%) BDD
9 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (14.29%) Open Source
9 8 (14.29%) TDD
9 8 (14.29%) Test Strategy
9 8 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.57%) Java
2 15 (26.79%) JavaScript
2 15 (26.79%) TypeScript
3 11 (19.64%) SQL
4 1 (1.79%) Bash
4 1 (1.79%) Python
4 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (73.21%) Accessibility
2 12 (21.43%) QA
System Software
1 13 (23.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.71%) Grafana
3 5 (8.93%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (5.36%) Adobe
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle
1 3 (5.36%) Xamarin
2 1 (1.79%) Dundas
2 1 (1.79%) Google
2 1 (1.79%) Hotjar
2 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.79%) Splunk