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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 348 389
Rank change year-on-year +16 +41 +50
Contract jobs citing WCAG 64 16 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.096% 0.096%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.10% 0.68% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 12 16
10th Percentile £350 £410 £325
25th Percentile £385 £451 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £513 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.12% +20.59% -15.00%
75th Percentile £535 £575 £496
90th Percentile £565 £589 £523
UK median daily rate £457 £476 £500
% change year-on-year -3.99% -4.80% -

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 3,050 2,361 3,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.53% 14.16% 15.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,921 1,315 1,943
10th Percentile £268 £213 £260
25th Percentile £385 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £471 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% -5.90% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 183 200
10th Percentile £13.47 £12.49 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.06 £15.00 £18.90
Median hourly rate £22.14 £26.50 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.45% -27.89% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £54.18 £70.12
90th Percentile £79.97 £70.00 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £27.43 £35.63
% change year-on-year -8.30% -23.03% +45.43%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 -7 40 £420 -16.00% 25
Yorkshire -16 18 £390 -15.22% 8
North West -11 12 £420 -23.64% 14
North East 0 11 £454 +29.71% 3
West Midlands -19 9 £540 +25.03% 2
Midlands -21 9 £540 +25.03% 3
South West +5 5 £375 -37.50% 11
Scotland -3 4 £493 -0.60% 6
Wales - 4 £519 -
South East +5 3 £454 -13.52% 20
East of England - 1 £550 - 2
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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 (3.13%) Confluence
1 2 (3.13%) Drupal
2 1 (1.56%) CMS
2 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Sketch
2 2 (3.13%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.56%) InVision
3 1 (1.56%) Marvel
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.56%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 24 (37.50%) AWS
2 11 (17.19%) Azure
3 8 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
3 8 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (12.50%) Serverless
4 6 (9.38%) Figma
5 4 (6.25%) npm
6 3 (4.69%) Miro
7 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.13%) Slack
7 2 (3.13%) Smartsheet
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.56%) GitHub
8 1 (1.56%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.56%) Heroku
8 1 (1.56%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.63%) Redis
2 5 (7.81%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.69%) DocumentDB
3 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.13%) MariaDB
4 2 (3.13%) MySQL
4 2 (3.13%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.56%) Power BI
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (28.13%) Git
2 17 (26.56%) Cucumber
2 17 (26.56%) Selenium
3 15 (23.44%) Cypress.io
3 15 (23.44%) GitLab
4 10 (15.63%) Maven
5 8 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 8 (12.50%) JUnit
5 8 (12.50%) Mockito
6 7 (10.94%) REST Assured
7 5 (7.81%) JMeter
7 5 (7.81%) Mocha
7 5 (7.81%) Postman
8 4 (6.25%) JIRA
8 4 (6.25%) SonarQube
8 4 (6.25%) TestNG
9 3 (4.69%) ESLint
9 3 (4.69%) webpack
10 2 (3.13%) Axure RP
11 1 (1.56%) Gatling
General
1 27 (42.19%) Public Sector
2 20 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.81%) Publishing
4 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (3.13%) Legal
4 2 (3.13%) Military
4 2 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Banking
5 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 21 (32.81%) Developer
2 16 (25.00%) Senior
3 13 (20.31%) Test Engineer
4 11 (17.19%) Designer
4 11 (17.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 8 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 6 (9.38%) Lead
7 5 (7.81%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 5 (7.81%) UX Designer
8 3 (4.69%) AWS Software Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.69%) React Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Technical Leader
9 2 (3.13%) Backend Developer
9 2 (3.13%) Operations Manager
9 2 (3.13%) Senior Designer
9 2 (3.13%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (3.13%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (46.88%) React
2 20 (31.25%) Node.js
3 19 (29.69%) HTML
4 15 (23.44%) Jest
5 14 (21.88%) Playwright
6 13 (20.31%) CSS
7 9 (14.06%) Spring
7 9 (14.06%) Spring Boot
8 8 (12.50%) REST
9 7 (10.94%) .NET
9 7 (10.94%) Express.js
10 6 (9.38%) AngularJS
10 6 (9.38%) JSON
10 6 (9.38%) Next.js
10 6 (9.38%) OAuth
10 6 (9.38%) OAuth2
10 6 (9.38%) Redux
11 5 (7.81%) Gherkin
11 5 (7.81%) GraalVM
11 5 (7.81%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.69%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.13%) Blog
3 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.56%) NHS
4 1 (1.56%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Android
1 3 (4.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (71.88%) Agile
2 27 (42.19%) CI/CD
3 23 (35.94%) Microservices
4 17 (26.56%) Front End Development
4 17 (26.56%) Test Automation
5 16 (25.00%) User Experience
6 14 (21.88%) Scrum
6 14 (21.88%) Software Engineering
7 13 (20.31%) TDD
8 12 (18.75%) DevOps
9 11 (17.19%) BDD
9 11 (17.19%) Mentoring
9 11 (17.19%) UX Design
10 10 (15.63%) Coaching
10 10 (15.63%) Code Quality
10 10 (15.63%) End-to-End Testing
10 10 (15.63%) Test Strategy
10 10 (15.63%) User Research
11 9 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (14.06%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 21 (32.81%) Java
1 21 (32.81%) JavaScript
2 17 (26.56%) TypeScript
3 11 (17.19%) SQL
4 2 (3.13%) Bash
4 2 (3.13%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (20.31%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (76.56%) Accessibility
2 13 (20.31%) QA
3 1 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 20 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.38%) Grafana
3 5 (7.81%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (4.69%) Adobe
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft
1 3 (4.69%) Oracle
1 3 (4.69%) Xamarin
2 1 (1.56%) Dundas
2 1 (1.56%) Google
2 1 (1.56%) Hotjar
2 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.56%) Splunk