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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 306 377
Rank change year-on-year -41 +71 +15
Contract jobs citing WCAG 113 41 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.30% 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.74% 1.80% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 27 17
10th Percentile £394 £362 £313
25th Percentile £425 £403 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £460 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £538 £490 £575
90th Percentile £675 £535 -
UK median daily rate £466 £474 £475
% change year-on-year -1.53% -0.32% -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 4,119 2,279 2,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 16.85% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,562 1,438 1,701
10th Percentile £313 £230 £240
25th Percentile £402 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £473 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.70% -0.42% -2.56%
75th Percentile £598 £575 £580
90th Percentile £688 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 466 157 360
10th Percentile £13.86 £14.78 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.79 £12.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £19.34
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +63.60% -45.52%
75th Percentile £67.84 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £84.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £23.80
% change year-on-year +14.00% +32.94% -34.79%

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 25 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 25 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 -34 60 £471 -0.95% 4
Yorkshire -36 24 £500 +18.34% 1
North West -27 19 £500 +5.26% 2
Midlands -46 18 £450 +6.19% 4
North East -25 17 £450 -6.25% 1
West Midlands -46 16 £458 +7.96% 2
Scotland -5 14 £525 +38.16%
South West -37 11 £413 -2.94% 6
South East -57 10 £450 -14.29% 3
Wales -10 2 £775 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £445 - 2
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 (5.31%) CMS
1 6 (5.31%) Confluence
2 4 (3.54%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.77%) Apache
3 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.88%) Drupal
4 1 (0.88%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.88%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (3.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (31.86%) Azure
2 27 (23.89%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (15.04%) GitHub
4 15 (13.27%) AWS
4 15 (13.27%) Figma
5 14 (12.39%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (8.85%) Firebase
7 6 (5.31%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (4.42%) Google Play
8 5 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (4.42%) Power Automate
9 4 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (3.54%) GCP
9 4 (3.54%) Serverless
10 3 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.65%) Google Analytics
10 3 (2.65%) Vyond
11 2 (1.77%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.77%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.08%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.42%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (2.65%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.77%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.77%) Power BI
5 2 (1.77%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.88%) MySQL
6 1 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (15.93%) Git
2 11 (9.73%) Cypress.io
3 10 (8.85%) fastlane
3 10 (8.85%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.85%) Selenium
4 9 (7.96%) JIRA
5 7 (6.19%) Cucumber
6 6 (5.31%) GitLab
6 6 (5.31%) JUnit
7 5 (4.42%) Android Studio
7 5 (4.42%) Crashlytics
7 5 (4.42%) Gradle
7 5 (4.42%) MSI
7 5 (4.42%) Xcode
8 4 (3.54%) Postman
8 4 (3.54%) REST Assured
8 4 (3.54%) WebDriver
9 3 (2.65%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.65%) Mocha
10 2 (1.77%) SonarQube
General
1 60 (53.10%) Public Sector
2 28 (24.78%) Social Skills
3 19 (16.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (6.19%) Finance
5 6 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.42%) Legal
7 4 (3.54%) Publishing
8 3 (2.65%) Games
8 3 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Banking
9 2 (1.77%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.77%) Marketing
10 1 (0.88%) Local Government
10 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (37.17%) Developer
2 34 (30.09%) Senior
3 32 (28.32%) Designer
4 16 (14.16%) Content Designer
5 15 (13.27%) Senior Developer
6 10 (8.85%) Interaction Designer
7 9 (7.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 8 (7.08%) Senior Designer
8 8 (7.08%) Senior Interaction Designer
9 7 (6.19%) UX Designer
10 6 (5.31%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 5 (4.42%) Analyst
11 5 (4.42%) Android Developer
11 5 (4.42%) Architect
11 5 (4.42%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.42%) iOS Developer
11 5 (4.42%) Lead
11 5 (4.42%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (4.42%) Technical Architect
11 5 (4.42%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (23.01%) HTML
2 23 (20.35%) CSS
2 23 (20.35%) React
3 21 (18.58%) RESTful
4 18 (15.93%) REST
5 13 (11.50%) Node.js
6 11 (9.73%) Jest
7 10 (8.85%) AngularJS
7 10 (8.85%) HTML5
8 9 (7.96%) .NET
8 9 (7.96%) Redux
9 8 (7.08%) .NET Core
9 8 (7.08%) .NET Framework
9 8 (7.08%) CSS3
9 8 (7.08%) Playwright
10 7 (6.19%) Spring
10 7 (6.19%) Spring Boot
10 7 (6.19%) Zustand
11 6 (5.31%) Gherkin
11 6 (5.31%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.93%) Product Ownership
2 14 (12.39%) Mobile App
3 8 (7.08%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.31%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.54%) NHS
6 3 (2.65%) e-Learning
6 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.65%) Learning Management System
6 3 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.65%) SCORM
7 2 (1.77%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.77%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.77%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.88%) Blog
8 1 (0.88%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.88%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.31%) Android
1 6 (5.31%) Apple iOS
2 5 (4.42%) Windows
3 1 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (68.14%) Agile
2 61 (53.98%) CI/CD
3 50 (44.25%) DevOps
4 45 (39.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 42 (37.17%) User Experience
6 41 (36.28%) Test Automation
7 36 (31.86%) UX Design
8 35 (30.97%) User Research
9 25 (22.12%) Analytics
10 23 (20.35%) Prototyping
11 21 (18.58%) Deployment Automation
12 20 (17.70%) Scrum
12 20 (17.70%) TDD
13 19 (16.81%) OWASP
14 16 (14.16%) API Development
14 16 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (14.16%) Microservices
15 15 (13.27%) Code Quality
15 15 (13.27%) Design Patterns
15 15 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (31.86%) JavaScript
2 26 (23.01%) TypeScript
3 19 (16.81%) Java
4 13 (11.50%) Python
5 10 (8.85%) C#
6 5 (4.42%) Bicep
6 5 (4.42%) Kotlin
6 5 (4.42%) Swift
7 4 (3.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (14.16%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.62%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.54%) Degree
3 4 (3.54%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.65%) CCA
5 2 (1.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (92.92%) Accessibility
2 9 (7.96%) GDPR
3 8 (7.08%) QA
4 5 (4.42%) NCSC
5 4 (3.54%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.88%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 17 (15.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (16.81%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.85%) Terraform
3 1 (0.88%) SELinux
3 1 (0.88%) systemd
Vendors
1 18 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.85%) Dynatrace
2 10 (8.85%) Google
3 5 (4.42%) Apple
3 5 (4.42%) Oracle
4 4 (3.54%) Adobe
5 3 (2.65%) Synthesia
6 1 (0.88%) Databricks
6 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.88%) Xamarin