Accessibility Contract Job Trends

Accessibility (a11y)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Accessibility skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 152 213
Rank change year-on-year 0 +61 +3
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 999 605 438
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.83% 1.83% 1.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.44% 10.74% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 716 387 265
10th Percentile £350 £303 £295
25th Percentile £406 £393 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £468 £494
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -5.36% -1.20%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £577
90th Percentile £620 £600 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £494
% change year-on-year +5.88% -13.97% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 13
10th Percentile £14.00 £20.25 £18.13
25th Percentile £14.11 £25.00 £24.84
Median hourly rate £16.35 £31.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.10% +18.87% +32.50%
75th Percentile £31.91 £35.75 £33.07
90th Percentile £67.98 £37.50 £46.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.47 £26.59 £25.93
% change year-on-year -45.58% +2.55% +49.15%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

Accessibility 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,570 5,631 5,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.56% 17.07% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,049 3,600 3,090
10th Percentile £325 £300 £285
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% -3.29%
75th Percentile £600 £605 £627
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +2.63% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 612 264 264
10th Percentile £13.88 £13.60 £12.28
25th Percentile £16.88 £16.92 £15.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +12.44% -23.77%
75th Percentile £67.89 £60.31 £57.81
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.90 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £26.50 £25.60
% change year-on-year +24.53% +3.52% -24.58%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Accessibility relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Accessibility job vacancy trend in the UK

Accessibility
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Accessibility.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Accessibility.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Accessibility over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the UK over the 6 months to 10 September 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
England +5 797 £464 +0.78% 891
UK excluding London +22 457 £450 +5.88% 542
London -27 356 £500 +2.04% 471
Work from Home -13 288 £450 -2.17% 545
North of England -25 158 £450 +6.51% 106
Midlands +26 121 £437 +4.36% 72
West Midlands +32 108 £437 +2.82% 49
South West -5 67 £425 +6.25% 78
Yorkshire -20 57 £492 +20.00% 43
North East -8 51 £450 +1.12% 21
North West -60 51 £439 +5.15% 46
Scotland -25 50 £420 -9.78% 49
South East -52 36 £470 +4.44% 143
East of England -23 15 £575 +15.00% 81
East Midlands -9 11 £435 +35.09% 23
Wales -9 8 £375 -27.71% 11
Northern Ireland +6 3 £638 - 25

Accessibility
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 55 (5.51%) CMS
2 52 (5.21%) SharePoint
3 49 (4.90%) Confluence
4 23 (2.30%) WordPress
5 10 (1.00%) Drupal
6 7 (0.70%) Apache
7 6 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.50%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.50%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.50%) Moodle
9 4 (0.40%) ColdFusion
10 3 (0.30%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.10%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.10%) Camunda
11 1 (0.10%) IIS
11 1 (0.10%) Kentico
11 1 (0.10%) Mendix
11 1 (0.10%) nginx
11 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (3.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 24 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.60%) Sketch
4 11 (1.10%) Adobe XD
5 10 (1.00%) Adobe After Effects
6 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.70%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.70%) Final Cut Pro
7 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.60%) UserZoom
9 4 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.40%) Navisworks
9 4 (0.40%) Revit
10 3 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.30%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
11 2 (0.20%) Trello
12 1 (0.10%) InDesign
12 1 (0.10%) InVision
Business Applications
1 17 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.10%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.10%) Primavera
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.10%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 199 (19.92%) Azure
2 172 (17.22%) AWS
3 142 (14.21%) Figma
4 98 (9.81%) GitHub
5 91 (9.11%) Azure DevOps
6 69 (6.91%) Power Platform
7 58 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
8 42 (4.20%) Serverless
9 41 (4.10%) GCP
10 39 (3.90%) Power Automate
11 32 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
12 27 (2.70%) PowerApps
13 23 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
13 23 (2.30%) Miro
14 17 (1.70%) SaaS
15 16 (1.60%) Azure Functions
16 15 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
16 15 (1.50%) Entra ID
17 13 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
17 13 (1.30%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.80%) Intranet
2 2 (0.20%) Broadband
2 2 (0.20%) Internet
2 2 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.10%) DMZ
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
3 1 (0.10%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.10%) Network Security
3 1 (0.10%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (4.50%) Metadata
3 41 (4.10%) MongoDB
3 41 (4.10%) Power BI
4 30 (3.00%) Relational Database
5 27 (2.70%) SQL Server
6 26 (2.60%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (1.20%) Geospatial Data
9 7 (0.70%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.70%) Redis
9 7 (0.70%) Tableau
10 6 (0.60%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.50%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.50%) MySQL
11 5 (0.50%) Stardog
12 4 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.40%) GIS
12 4 (0.40%) Looker
12 4 (0.40%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 127 (12.71%) Git
2 79 (7.91%) JIRA
3 68 (6.81%) Jenkins
4 65 (6.51%) Selenium
5 54 (5.41%) GitLab
6 50 (5.01%) Cypress.io
7 46 (4.60%) Cucumber
8 40 (4.00%) JUnit
9 31 (3.10%) Gatling
10 25 (2.50%) Postman
11 21 (2.10%) REST Assured
12 17 (1.70%) JMeter
13 16 (1.60%) Maven
13 16 (1.60%) WebDriver
14 15 (1.50%) SonarQube
15 14 (1.40%) Storybook
16 13 (1.30%) Mockito
17 12 (1.20%) Gradle
17 12 (1.20%) Xcode
18 11 (1.10%) MSI
General
1 413 (41.34%) Public Sector
2 308 (30.83%) Social Skills
3 107 (10.71%) Finance
4 106 (10.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 85 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (3.40%) Marketing
7 28 (2.80%) Military
7 28 (2.80%) Publishing
8 26 (2.60%) Banking
8 26 (2.60%) Local Government
9 25 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (2.40%) Legal
11 23 (2.30%) Retail
12 21 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.50%) Automotive
14 5 (0.50%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.50%) Legal Technology
15 4 (0.40%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 261 (26.13%) Developer
2 213 (21.32%) Designer
3 171 (17.12%) Senior
4 99 (9.91%) Lead
5 67 (6.71%) Content Designer
6 58 (5.81%) User Researcher
7 54 (5.41%) Analyst
7 54 (5.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 51 (5.11%) Senior Developer
9 44 (4.40%) Service Designer
10 42 (4.20%) Java Developer
11 40 (4.00%) Architect
12 37 (3.70%) Senior Designer
13 33 (3.30%) UI Designer
14 32 (3.20%) UX Designer
15 30 (3.00%) React Developer
15 30 (3.00%) Test Engineer
16 28 (2.80%) Interaction Designer
17 24 (2.40%) Full-Stack Developer
18 23 (2.30%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (15.72%) React
2 139 (13.91%) HTML
3 131 (13.11%) CSS
4 117 (11.71%) REST
5 106 (10.61%) RESTful
6 93 (9.31%) Node.js
7 77 (7.71%) Spring
8 72 (7.21%) Playwright
9 70 (7.01%) Spring Boot
10 65 (6.51%) HTML5
11 63 (6.31%) Terraform
12 56 (5.61%) CSS3
13 48 (4.80%) Jest
14 47 (4.70%) JSON
15 42 (4.20%) Kafka
16 36 (3.60%) .NET
17 33 (3.30%) Redux
18 30 (3.00%) AngularJS
19 26 (2.60%) Gherkin
20 25 (2.50%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 84 (8.41%) Product Ownership
2 63 (6.31%) Cloud Native
3 52 (5.21%) Mobile App
4 39 (3.90%) Onboarding
5 35 (3.50%) Management Information System
6 29 (2.90%) NHS
7 27 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (2.60%) Taxonomies
9 21 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.50%) Graphic Design
13 13 (1.30%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.30%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.10%) Animation
15 10 (1.00%) AI Agents
15 10 (1.00%) Blog
15 10 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
16 9 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.00%) Android
2 29 (2.90%) Apple iOS
3 15 (1.50%) Windows
4 5 (0.50%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.20%) Linux
6 1 (0.10%) AIX
6 1 (0.10%) Unix
6 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (53.35%) Agile
2 326 (32.63%) CI/CD
3 273 (27.33%) User Experience
4 232 (23.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 209 (20.92%) Test Automation
6 204 (20.42%) DevOps
7 200 (20.02%) User Research
8 199 (19.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 190 (19.02%) Stakeholder Management
10 163 (16.32%) UX Design
11 156 (15.62%) Analytics
12 150 (15.02%) AI
13 148 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
14 146 (14.61%) Service Design
15 143 (14.31%) Scrum
16 126 (12.61%) Microservices
17 121 (12.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 103 (10.31%) Decision-Making
19 96 (9.61%) Prototyping
20 93 (9.31%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 216 (21.62%) JavaScript
2 138 (13.81%) TypeScript
3 132 (13.21%) Java
4 82 (8.21%) Python
5 69 (6.91%) SQL
6 50 (5.01%) C#
7 22 (2.20%) Kotlin
8 21 (2.10%) Ruby
9 16 (1.60%) Scala
9 16 (1.60%) Swift
10 12 (1.20%) Bicep
11 9 (0.90%) PHP
12 6 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.60%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.50%) R
13 5 (0.50%) SPARQL
14 4 (0.40%) Bash
14 4 (0.40%) CFML
14 4 (0.40%) Objective-C
14 4 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 267 (26.73%) Security Cleared
2 223 (22.32%) SC Cleared
3 102 (10.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 48 (4.80%) Degree
5 26 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.30%) ISTQB
8 10 (1.00%) Master's Degree
9 9 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 5 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.40%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.30%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.30%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.30%) PMP
13 2 (0.20%) ACCA
13 2 (0.20%) CCA
13 2 (0.20%) CIMA
13 2 (0.20%) CIPD
14 1 (0.10%) CAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 297 (29.73%) WCAG
2 119 (11.91%) QA
3 45 (4.50%) Data Quality
4 37 (3.70%) GDPR
5 18 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
6 14 (1.40%) NCSC
7 4 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.40%) ISO 19650
7 4 (0.40%) PMO
8 3 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.20%) HL7
9 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.10%) GLP
10 1 (0.10%) IEC 62304
10 1 (0.10%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.10%) WAI
10 1 (0.10%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 109 (10.91%) Docker
2 5 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 100 (10.01%) Kubernetes
2 38 (3.80%) Grafana
3 14 (1.40%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.80%) Argo
5 8 (0.80%) Kibana
6 5 (0.50%) Ansible
7 2 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.10%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.10%) SELinux
8 1 (0.10%) systemd
Vendors
1 119 (11.91%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.31%) Adobe
3 30 (3.00%) Google
4 29 (2.90%) Oracle
5 19 (1.90%) ServiceNow
6 16 (1.60%) Dynatrace
6 16 (1.60%) Splunk
7 12 (1.20%) Salesforce
8 9 (0.90%) Sitecore
9 8 (0.80%) MuleSoft
9 8 (0.80%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.70%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.60%) SAP
12 5 (0.50%) Apple
13 4 (0.40%) Autodesk
13 4 (0.40%) Databricks
13 4 (0.40%) Solace
14 3 (0.30%) Foundry
14 3 (0.30%) New Relic
14 3 (0.30%) TikTok