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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 165 209
Rank change year-on-year +19 +44 +23
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 902 488 488
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.85% 1.70% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.07% 10.54% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 645 309 311
10th Percentile £350 £313 £306
25th Percentile £402 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £635 £600 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £440 £463
% change year-on-year +7.95% -4.86% -3.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 14 31
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.71 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.54 £22.75 £14.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £29.09 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +60.45% -22.39%
75th Percentile £61.25 £35.75 £31.71
90th Percentile £71.98 - £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.69 £28.18 £14.50
% change year-on-year -19.48% +94.34% -13.54%

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 8,151 4,630 6,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.69% 16.09% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,216 2,966 3,787
10th Percentile £340 £263 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 180 408
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.99
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.02 £13.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.66 £22.42
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% +45.65% -40.21%
75th Percentile £67.50 £66.09 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.13 £80.28 £69.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £32.96 £18.97
% change year-on-year +21.36% +73.75% -49.41%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 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
England +19 688 £475 - 520
UK excluding London +43 380 £475 +7.95% 401
London -11 319 £475 -5.00% 212
Work from Home +28 297 £450 -4.87% 744
North of England +4 166 £450 -1.64% 109
North West +10 86 £428 -10.00% 54
Midlands -2 73 £450 +5.88% 44
West Midlands -10 62 £450 -3.74% 26
South West +18 59 £475 +11.76% 40
Yorkshire -25 54 £500 +19.05% 38
Scotland +11 41 £550 +16.77% 28
South East -43 34 £500 +16.28% 82
North East -8 30 £450 -2.17% 17
East Midlands -22 10 £445 +38.20% 18
East of England -30 7 £575 +27.78% 39
Wales -17 4 £713 +80.38% 36
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 26

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 43 (4.77%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.66%) Confluence
3 31 (3.44%) CMS
4 11 (1.22%) WordPress
5 7 (0.78%) ArcGIS
5 7 (0.78%) Drupal
6 6 (0.67%) Apache
7 4 (0.44%) Moodle
8 3 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.22%) IIS
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) govService
10 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Kentico
10 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.11%) Strapi
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 28 (3.10%) Sketch
2 27 (2.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 24 (2.66%) Adobe XD
4 23 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
5 10 (1.11%) InVision
5 10 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.89%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.89%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
7 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.67%) UserZoom
9 4 (0.44%) Navisworks
9 4 (0.44%) Revit
9 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.33%) CapCut
10 3 (0.33%) Final Cut Pro
10 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.33%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.33%) Zeplin
11 2 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.11%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.11%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.11%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 147 (16.30%) Azure
2 141 (15.63%) Figma
3 122 (13.53%) AWS
4 70 (7.76%) GitHub
5 52 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
5 52 (5.76%) Power Platform
6 37 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (3.44%) GCP
8 25 (2.77%) Serverless
9 19 (2.11%) Miro
10 18 (2.00%) SaaS
11 17 (1.88%) BrowserStack
12 14 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (1.44%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.33%) Entra ID
15 11 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (1.11%) Power Automate
17 9 (1.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.11%) Intranet
2 4 (0.44%) 5G
2 4 (0.44%) LTE
2 4 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.22%) 5G NR
3 2 (0.22%) HTTP
3 2 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.22%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.11%) DMZ
4 1 (0.11%) DSL
4 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.11%) Internet
4 1 (0.11%) SAN
4 1 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.43%) Power BI
2 26 (2.88%) NoSQL
3 25 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (2.66%) MongoDB
5 21 (2.33%) Relational Database
6 20 (2.22%) Metadata
7 14 (1.55%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.89%) GIS
10 7 (0.78%) MySQL
11 6 (0.67%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.55%) Spatial Data
13 4 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.44%) Delta Lake
13 4 (0.44%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.33%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.33%) Looker
14 3 (0.33%) Redis
14 3 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
14 3 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 72 (7.98%) Git
2 67 (7.43%) JIRA
3 52 (5.76%) Cypress.io
4 49 (5.43%) GitLab
5 45 (4.99%) Selenium
6 34 (3.77%) Jenkins
7 23 (2.55%) REST Assured
8 21 (2.33%) Cucumber
9 19 (2.11%) JUnit
10 18 (2.00%) Gatling
11 17 (1.88%) JMeter
11 17 (1.88%) Postman
12 12 (1.33%) CircleCI
13 11 (1.22%) Serenity BDD
14 10 (1.11%) Axure RP
14 10 (1.11%) Gradle
15 9 (1.00%) fastlane
16 7 (0.78%) Storybook
16 7 (0.78%) Xcode
17 6 (0.67%) IntelliJ
General
1 343 (38.03%) Public Sector
2 234 (25.94%) Social Skills
3 84 (9.31%) Finance
4 61 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (3.77%) Banking
7 22 (2.44%) Marketing
7 22 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (2.33%) Military
9 20 (2.22%) Legal
10 19 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.00%) Publishing
12 16 (1.77%) Retail
13 12 (1.33%) Local Government
14 7 (0.78%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.44%) Law
16 4 (0.44%) Social Science
17 3 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 222 (24.61%) Designer
2 202 (22.39%) Developer
3 138 (15.30%) Senior
4 76 (8.43%) Lead
5 62 (6.87%) Content Designer
6 61 (6.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 54 (5.99%) User Researcher
8 53 (5.88%) Service Designer
9 47 (5.21%) UX Designer
10 44 (4.88%) Test Engineer
11 42 (4.66%) Analyst
12 34 (3.77%) Architect
12 34 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
12 34 (3.77%) Senior Designer
13 31 (3.44%) Senior Developer
14 30 (3.33%) React Developer
14 30 (3.33%) Tester
15 26 (2.88%) Interaction Designer
16 23 (2.55%) Business Analyst
17 22 (2.44%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (15.74%) React
2 102 (11.31%) HTML
3 96 (10.64%) CSS
4 74 (8.20%) Node.js
4 74 (8.20%) RESTful
5 73 (8.09%) REST
6 65 (7.21%) Playwright
7 62 (6.87%) Spring
8 61 (6.76%) Spring Boot
9 43 (4.77%) HTML5
10 42 (4.66%) CSS3
11 38 (4.21%) AngularJS
11 38 (4.21%) Jest
12 32 (3.55%) Redux
13 28 (3.10%) Kafka
14 26 (2.88%) .NET
15 25 (2.77%) Next.js
16 18 (2.00%) GraphQL
17 17 (1.88%) Vue
18 15 (1.66%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 65 (7.21%) Product Ownership
2 46 (5.10%) Mobile App
3 26 (2.88%) Cloud Native
4 23 (2.55%) NHS
5 20 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 19 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.00%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.55%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.55%) Social Media
9 10 (1.11%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.11%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.00%) Graphic Design
11 8 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (0.89%) Taxonomies
12 7 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.67%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.77%) Apple iOS
2 21 (2.33%) Android
3 4 (0.44%) Linux
3 4 (0.44%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.33%) Windows
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (49.67%) Agile
2 262 (29.05%) User Experience
3 231 (25.61%) CI/CD
4 218 (24.17%) User Research
5 174 (19.29%) UX Design
6 166 (18.40%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 155 (17.18%) Test Automation
8 153 (16.96%) Service Design
9 149 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 141 (15.63%) DevOps
11 121 (13.41%) Analytics
12 114 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
13 102 (11.31%) Prototyping
14 99 (10.98%) AI
15 90 (9.98%) Decision-Making
16 87 (9.65%) Front End Development
17 84 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
18 83 (9.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 79 (8.76%) Inclusive Design
19 79 (8.76%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 155 (17.18%) JavaScript
2 136 (15.08%) TypeScript
3 107 (11.86%) Java
4 76 (8.43%) Python
5 56 (6.21%) SQL
6 25 (2.77%) C#
7 17 (1.88%) Kotlin
7 17 (1.88%) Ruby
8 12 (1.33%) Swift
9 11 (1.22%) Scala
10 5 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.55%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.44%) Objective-C
11 4 (0.44%) PHP
12 3 (0.33%) R
13 2 (0.22%) Bicep
13 2 (0.22%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.11%) C++
14 1 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 206 (22.84%) Security Cleared
2 169 (18.74%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 51 (5.65%) Degree
5 10 (1.11%) ISTQB
6 9 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.00%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.44%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.44%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.33%) CCA
10 2 (0.22%) ACCA
10 2 (0.22%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.22%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.22%) CIMA
10 2 (0.22%) CIPD
10 2 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 256 (28.38%) WCAG
2 78 (8.65%) QA
3 37 (4.10%) Data Quality
4 21 (2.33%) GDPR
5 9 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.44%) ISO 19650
7 4 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 4 (0.44%) NCSC
8 3 (0.33%) PMO
9 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.11%) GLP
10 1 (0.11%) GRC
10 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.11%) HL7
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.11%) WAI
10 1 (0.11%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 76 (8.43%) Docker
2 4 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Firmware
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (6.54%) Kubernetes
2 34 (3.77%) Terraform
3 31 (3.44%) Grafana
4 16 (1.77%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.00%) Argo
5 9 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.44%) Ansible
6 4 (0.44%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.11%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.11%) logstash
7 1 (0.11%) QRadar
7 1 (0.11%) SELinux
7 1 (0.11%) systemd
Vendors
1 75 (8.31%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.43%) Adobe
3 21 (2.33%) Google
4 15 (1.66%) Salesforce
4 15 (1.66%) Splunk
5 14 (1.55%) Oracle
5 14 (1.55%) ServiceNow
6 12 (1.33%) Databricks
7 11 (1.22%) Pega
8 9 (1.00%) Dynatrace
9 8 (0.89%) Red Hat
9 8 (0.89%) Sitecore
10 6 (0.67%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.67%) SAP
11 5 (0.55%) Solace
12 4 (0.44%) Apple
12 4 (0.44%) Autodesk
13 3 (0.33%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.33%) Synthesia
14 2 (0.22%) Sony