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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 310 360
Rank change year-on-year -28 +50 +25
Contract jobs citing WCAG 109 41 30
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.31% 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.77% 1.88% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 26 21
10th Percentile £400 £361 £313
25th Percentile £425 £402 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.98% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £544 £490 £575
90th Percentile £675 £544 -
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.00 - -
Median hourly rate £27.00 - -
75th Percentile £28.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 - £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 3,934 2,186 2,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.58% 16.67% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,447 1,365 1,731
10th Percentile £315 £230 £250
25th Percentile £402 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -2.26%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £586
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 151 343
10th Percentile £13.95 £15.09 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.77 £12.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.81 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +21.91% +71.06% -48.85%
75th Percentile £67.50 £68.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £82.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year +10.77% +38.30% -37.75%

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 7 June 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
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 7 June 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 -31 64 £494 +3.95% 10
Yorkshire -36 25 £525 +24.26% 2
North West -28 24 £500 +5.26% 6
Midlands -37 17 £450 +6.19% 4
North East -15 15 £450 -6.25% 2
West Midlands -47 15 £475 +12.09% 1
Scotland -2 13 £525 +38.16% 1
South East -50 10 £450 -14.29% 5
South West -25 5 £413 -2.94% 6
Wales -15 2 £775 - 3
East Midlands - 1 £445 - 3
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 6 (5.50%) CMS
2 4 (3.67%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.83%) Apache
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.92%) Confluence
4 1 (0.92%) Drupal
4 1 (0.92%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Adobe XD
1 4 (3.67%) Sketch
2 3 (2.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (23.85%) Azure
2 18 (16.51%) Figma
2 18 (16.51%) GitHub
3 17 (15.60%) GitHub Actions
4 16 (14.68%) AWS
4 16 (14.68%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.34%) Firebase
6 6 (5.50%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (4.59%) GCP
8 4 (3.67%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.67%) Google Play
8 4 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.75%) Vyond
10 2 (1.83%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.83%) npm
10 2 (1.83%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.83%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.83%) Serverless
11 1 (0.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (3.67%) SQL Server
1 4 (3.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (2.75%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.83%) Power BI
3 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.92%) MS Access
4 1 (0.92%) MySQL
4 1 (0.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (18.35%) Git
2 11 (10.09%) Cypress.io
3 9 (8.26%) GitLab
4 8 (7.34%) fastlane
4 8 (7.34%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.34%) JUnit
5 7 (6.42%) CircleCI
6 6 (5.50%) Mocha
7 5 (4.59%) Selenium
8 4 (3.67%) Android Studio
8 4 (3.67%) Crashlytics
8 4 (3.67%) Cucumber
8 4 (3.67%) Gradle
8 4 (3.67%) JIRA
8 4 (3.67%) REST Assured
8 4 (3.67%) Xcode
9 2 (1.83%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.83%) Vite
10 1 (0.92%) ESLint
10 1 (0.92%) Storybook
General
1 55 (50.46%) Public Sector
2 25 (22.94%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (6.42%) Finance
5 5 (4.59%) Legal
6 4 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.67%) Publishing
7 3 (2.75%) Games
7 3 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Banking
8 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.83%) Marketing
9 1 (0.92%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (35.78%) Developer
2 34 (31.19%) Designer
3 29 (26.61%) Senior
4 15 (13.76%) Content Designer
5 12 (11.01%) Senior Developer
6 11 (10.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 10 (9.17%) Interaction Designer
8 9 (8.26%) UX Designer
9 8 (7.34%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (7.34%) Senior Designer
10 7 (6.42%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 7 (6.42%) Senior Interaction Designer
11 5 (4.59%) Architect
11 5 (4.59%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (4.59%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 4 (3.67%) iOS Developer
12 4 (3.67%) Lead
12 4 (3.67%) UI/UX Designer
12 4 (3.67%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (25.69%) React
2 25 (22.94%) HTML
3 22 (20.18%) CSS
4 18 (16.51%) Node.js
5 17 (15.60%) REST
6 16 (14.68%) RESTful
7 14 (12.84%) AngularJS
7 14 (12.84%) Jest
8 11 (10.09%) Playwright
9 10 (9.17%) Spring
9 10 (9.17%) Spring Boot
10 9 (8.26%) Redux
11 8 (7.34%) HTML5
11 8 (7.34%) Zustand
12 7 (6.42%) CSS3
13 6 (5.50%) Semantic HTML
14 4 (3.67%) Core Data
14 4 (3.67%) iOS SDK
14 4 (3.67%) Jetpack Compose
14 4 (3.67%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.68%) Product Ownership
2 14 (12.84%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.67%) e-Learning
3 4 (3.67%) NHS
4 3 (2.75%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.75%) Learning Management System
4 3 (2.75%) SCORM
5 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.83%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.92%) Blog
6 1 (0.92%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.92%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.92%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.59%) Android
1 5 (4.59%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (67.89%) Agile
2 60 (55.05%) CI/CD
3 47 (43.12%) User Experience
4 43 (39.45%) DevOps
5 40 (36.70%) User Research
6 39 (35.78%) UX Design
7 34 (31.19%) Test Automation
8 33 (30.28%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 24 (22.02%) Prototyping
10 23 (21.10%) Analytics
11 19 (17.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (15.60%) Responsive Web Design
13 16 (14.68%) TDD
14 15 (13.76%) Deployment Automation
14 15 (13.76%) Front End Development
14 15 (13.76%) Microservices
14 15 (13.76%) Scrum
15 14 (12.84%) Code Quality
16 13 (11.93%) Inclusive Design
16 13 (11.93%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 37 (33.94%) JavaScript
2 26 (23.85%) TypeScript
3 19 (17.43%) Java
4 9 (8.26%) Python
5 4 (3.67%) Kotlin
5 4 (3.67%) SQL
5 4 (3.67%) Swift
6 3 (2.75%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (11.93%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.34%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.50%) Degree
4 4 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.75%) CCA
6 2 (1.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (93.58%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.50%) QA
3 5 (4.59%) GDPR
4 4 (3.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.92%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 13 (11.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (11.93%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.50%) Terraform
3 1 (0.92%) SELinux
3 1 (0.92%) systemd
Vendors
1 10 (9.17%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.34%) Dynatrace
2 8 (7.34%) Google
3 7 (6.42%) Adobe
4 4 (3.67%) Apple
4 4 (3.67%) Oracle
5 3 (2.75%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.75%) Synthesia
6 1 (0.92%) Databricks
6 1 (0.92%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.92%) Xamarin