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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 330 351
Rank change year-on-year -4 +21 +32
Contract jobs citing WCAG 134 43 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.28% 0.088%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.04% 1.61% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 29 10
10th Percentile £363 £360 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -3.11% +2.67%
75th Percentile £500 £490 £575
90th Percentile £585 £527 £591
UK median daily rate £450 £474 £475
% change year-on-year -4.96% -0.32% -11.21%
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 £48.50 - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - +18.42%

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 4,411 2,676 2,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.15% 17.43% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,703 1,686 1,438
10th Percentile £313 £235 £232
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £582
90th Percentile £693 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 498 205 265
10th Percentile £13.86 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.27 £15.50 £13.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.66 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +62.21% -4.29% -27.93%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £86.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £27.59 £26.56
% change year-on-year +41.38% +3.86% -32.93%

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 August 2026.

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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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 10 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 10 August 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 -18 64 £450 -2.17% 9
Yorkshire -24 27 £488 +23.42% 2
Midlands -26 26 £445 -4.81% 3
North East -24 25 £450 -6.25% 1
West Midlands -30 24 £450 -3.74% 3
South West -29 18 £413 +3.13% 4
Scotland -5 12 £493 -0.81% 10
North West -34 12 £425 -10.53% 6
South East -66 9 £450 -14.29% 14
Wales -16 4 £375 -27.71% 5
East of England - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £445 -
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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 13 (9.70%) Confluence
2 10 (7.46%) CMS
3 4 (2.99%) Umbraco
3 4 (2.99%) WordPress
4 3 (2.24%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.49%) Apache
5 2 (1.49%) Drupal
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.75%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.49%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.75%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (6.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (38.06%) Azure
2 39 (29.10%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (20.90%) AWS
4 16 (11.94%) Figma
4 16 (11.94%) GitHub
5 11 (8.21%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (8.21%) Serverless
6 10 (7.46%) Firebase
6 10 (7.46%) Power Automate
7 9 (6.72%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (4.48%) Azure Functions
8 6 (4.48%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (3.73%) Google Analytics
9 5 (3.73%) Google Play
9 5 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.99%) GCP
11 3 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.24%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.96%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.21%) Geospatial Data
3 7 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.48%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.24%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.49%) MySQL
6 2 (1.49%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.49%) ZAP BI
7 1 (0.75%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (20.90%) Git
2 21 (15.67%) Selenium
3 17 (12.69%) Cucumber
3 17 (12.69%) JIRA
4 13 (9.70%) Cypress.io
5 11 (8.21%) MSI
6 10 (7.46%) fastlane
6 10 (7.46%) Jenkins
6 10 (7.46%) Postman
7 9 (6.72%) GitLab
7 9 (6.72%) JUnit
7 9 (6.72%) WebDriver
8 8 (5.97%) Gatling
9 5 (3.73%) Android Studio
9 5 (3.73%) Crashlytics
9 5 (3.73%) Gradle
9 5 (3.73%) Xcode
10 4 (2.99%) SonarQube
11 3 (2.24%) Protractor
11 3 (2.24%) REST Assured
General
1 77 (57.46%) Public Sector
2 41 (30.60%) Social Skills
3 33 (24.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.22%) Finance
6 6 (4.48%) Publishing
7 3 (2.24%) Games
7 3 (2.24%) Legal
7 3 (2.24%) Marketing
7 3 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.49%) Banking
8 2 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.49%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.49%) Retail
9 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 48 (35.82%) Senior
2 45 (33.58%) Developer
3 35 (26.12%) Designer
4 18 (13.43%) Senior Developer
5 16 (11.94%) Content Designer
6 12 (8.96%) Interaction Designer
7 10 (7.46%) Analyst
7 10 (7.46%) Test Analyst
8 9 (6.72%) Quality Engineer
9 8 (5.97%) Lead
9 8 (5.97%) Senior Designer
9 8 (5.97%) UX Designer
10 7 (5.22%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 7 (5.22%) Senior Interaction Designer
11 6 (4.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (4.48%) Lead Test Analyst
11 6 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (4.48%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (4.48%) Senior Test Analyst
11 6 (4.48%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (23.13%) HTML
2 29 (21.64%) CSS
3 28 (20.90%) React
4 27 (20.15%) RESTful
5 24 (17.91%) REST
6 21 (15.67%) HTML5
7 19 (14.18%) .NET
7 19 (14.18%) CSS3
8 13 (9.70%) .NET Core
8 13 (9.70%) .NET Framework
8 13 (9.70%) Gherkin
8 13 (9.70%) Playwright
9 11 (8.21%) ATL
9 11 (8.21%) COM
9 11 (8.21%) GeoJSON
9 11 (8.21%) MFC
9 11 (8.21%) Node.js
9 11 (8.21%) WPF
10 10 (7.46%) Jest
11 8 (5.97%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.69%) Cloud Native
1 17 (12.69%) Product Ownership
2 13 (9.70%) Mobile App
3 12 (8.96%) Onboarding
4 10 (7.46%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (4.48%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.99%) NHS
6 4 (2.99%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.24%) e-Learning
7 3 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.24%) Learning Management System
7 3 (2.24%) SCORM
7 3 (2.24%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.49%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.49%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.75%) Blog
9 1 (0.75%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.21%) Windows
2 5 (3.73%) Android
2 5 (3.73%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.49%) Linux
4 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (73.88%) Agile
2 74 (55.22%) CI/CD
3 61 (45.52%) DevOps
4 60 (44.78%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 52 (38.81%) Test Automation
6 42 (31.34%) User Experience
7 36 (26.87%) UX Design
8 30 (22.39%) OWASP
9 28 (20.90%) Scrum
10 27 (20.15%) Deployment Automation
10 27 (20.15%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (20.15%) TDD
11 26 (19.40%) Prototyping
11 26 (19.40%) User Research
12 25 (18.66%) Microservices
13 24 (17.91%) Analytics
13 24 (17.91%) Infrastructure as Code
14 23 (17.16%) Containerisation
14 23 (17.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (16.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 48 (35.82%) JavaScript
2 30 (22.39%) TypeScript
3 24 (17.91%) Java
4 20 (14.93%) C#
5 17 (12.69%) Python
6 11 (8.21%) Bicep
7 5 (3.73%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.73%) Swift
8 4 (2.99%) PHP
8 4 (2.99%) SQL
9 2 (1.49%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (23.88%) Security Cleared
2 28 (20.90%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.21%) ISTQB
4 6 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (2.99%) Degree
7 2 (1.49%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (95.52%) Accessibility
2 14 (10.45%) GDPR
2 14 (10.45%) QA
3 11 (8.21%) NCSC
4 4 (2.99%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.75%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 29 (21.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (23.88%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.18%) Terraform
3 3 (2.24%) Grafana
3 3 (2.24%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.75%) Ansible
4 1 (0.75%) SELinux
4 1 (0.75%) systemd
Vendors
1 30 (22.39%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.96%) Google
3 10 (7.46%) Dynatrace
4 9 (6.72%) Oracle
5 6 (4.48%) Adobe
6 5 (3.73%) Apple
7 3 (2.24%) Synthesia
8 1 (0.75%) Databricks
8 1 (0.75%) FIS
8 1 (0.75%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow