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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 164 217
Rank change year-on-year +21 +53 +7
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 988 534 470
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.88% 1.64% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.06% 9.90% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 700 336 290
10th Percentile £350 £307 £313
25th Percentile £405 £375 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year - -0.52% -4.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £630 £600 £651
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £428 £463
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.57% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 18 25
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.67 £13.71
25th Percentile £16.00 £22.75 £14.27
Median hourly rate £27.00 £30.75 £18.97
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +62.10% -18.79%
75th Percentile £53.25 £35.75 £33.07
90th Percentile £74.60 £42.05 £46.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.48 £24.34 £15.12
% change year-on-year -32.31% +60.98% -9.84%

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 8,930 5,392 5,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.96% 16.58% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,710 3,472 3,594
10th Percentile £338 £279 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £615
90th Percentile £700 £716 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 541 240 403
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.59 £11.48
25th Percentile £19.22 £17.75 £13.69
Median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +20.23% +24.07% -38.66%
75th Percentile £69.00 £62.24 £51.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.30 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £26.93 £24.18
% change year-on-year +43.81% +11.35% -30.91%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +32 784 £475 +1.88% 357
UK excluding London +44 407 £450 +5.26% 252
London -2 385 £480 -4.00% 153
Work from Home +6 314 £450 -2.17% 199
North of England 0 157 £470 +4.44% 81
Midlands +4 85 £445 +14.84% 38
West Midlands -4 72 £447 +5.18% 21
South West +9 70 £425 +3.03% 25
Yorkshire -3 64 £500 +17.65% 44
North West -26 60 £450 -1.10% 30
Scotland +9 47 £500 +1.21% 8
North East -11 37 £450 -2.17% 12
South East -46 36 £495 +16.47% 84
East Midlands -9 11 £435 +35.09% 17
East of England -18 9 £575 +27.78% 18
Wales -12 7 £475 +20.25% 5
Northern Ireland 0 2 - - 4

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 49 (4.96%) SharePoint
2 42 (4.25%) Confluence
3 41 (4.15%) CMS
4 15 (1.52%) WordPress
5 9 (0.91%) Drupal
6 8 (0.81%) Apache
7 6 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.40%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.40%) Moodle
9 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.20%) IIS
10 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.10%) govService
11 1 (0.10%) Kentico
11 1 (0.10%) nginx
11 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.10%) Strapi
11 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 34 (3.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 23 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (2.23%) Sketch
4 15 (1.52%) Adobe XD
5 11 (1.11%) Chatbot
6 10 (1.01%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.61%) Final Cut Pro
9 6 (0.61%) UserZoom
10 4 (0.40%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.40%) Revit
11 3 (0.30%) InVision
11 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.30%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.20%) InDesign
13 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.10%) Blender
13 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.10%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.10%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 194 (19.64%) Azure
2 155 (15.69%) AWS
3 143 (14.47%) Figma
4 86 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 83 (8.40%) GitHub
6 57 (5.77%) Power Platform
7 45 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
8 42 (4.25%) GCP
9 29 (2.94%) Serverless
10 22 (2.23%) Power Automate
11 19 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (1.92%) PowerApps
12 18 (1.82%) SaaS
13 16 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
14 15 (1.52%) BrowserStack
14 15 (1.52%) Entra ID
15 14 (1.42%) Miro
16 12 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (1.11%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.01%) Intranet
2 4 (0.40%) 5G
2 4 (0.40%) LTE
2 4 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.20%) 5G NR
3 2 (0.20%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Internet
3 2 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.20%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.10%) Broadband
4 1 (0.10%) DMZ
4 1 (0.10%) DSL
4 1 (0.10%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.10%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (4.15%) Power BI
2 36 (3.64%) Metadata
3 35 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (3.14%) NoSQL
5 30 (3.04%) MongoDB
6 27 (2.73%) Relational Database
7 21 (2.13%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
10 7 (0.71%) Redis
11 6 (0.61%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.61%) GIS
12 5 (0.51%) MySQL
12 5 (0.51%) Tableau
13 4 (0.40%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.40%) Looker
13 4 (0.40%) Stardog
14 3 (0.30%) Neo4j
14 3 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
14 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 87 (8.81%) Git
2 83 (8.40%) JIRA
3 55 (5.57%) Selenium
4 54 (5.47%) Jenkins
5 53 (5.36%) Cypress.io
6 49 (4.96%) GitLab
7 27 (2.73%) Cucumber
8 26 (2.63%) REST Assured
9 23 (2.33%) Gatling
9 23 (2.33%) JUnit
9 23 (2.33%) Postman
10 16 (1.62%) JMeter
11 12 (1.21%) Gradle
11 12 (1.21%) Maven
11 12 (1.21%) WebDriver
11 12 (1.21%) Xcode
12 11 (1.11%) Serenity BDD
13 10 (1.01%) fastlane
14 9 (0.91%) Vite
14 9 (0.91%) webpack
General
1 379 (38.36%) Public Sector
2 274 (27.73%) Social Skills
3 102 (10.32%) Finance
4 80 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (3.04%) Marketing
7 29 (2.94%) Banking
8 26 (2.63%) Military
9 24 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (2.43%) Legal
10 23 (2.33%) Retail
11 22 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (2.02%) Publishing
13 17 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.52%) Local Government
15 7 (0.71%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.51%) Legal Technology
17 4 (0.40%) Automotive
17 4 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.40%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 242 (24.49%) Developer
2 232 (23.48%) Designer
3 160 (16.19%) Senior
4 101 (10.22%) Lead
5 67 (6.78%) Content Designer
6 59 (5.97%) User Researcher
7 56 (5.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 55 (5.57%) Analyst
9 53 (5.36%) Service Designer
10 45 (4.55%) Senior Developer
11 39 (3.95%) Architect
11 39 (3.95%) Senior Designer
11 39 (3.95%) Test Engineer
12 37 (3.74%) UX Designer
13 35 (3.54%) React Developer
14 34 (3.44%) Java Developer
15 33 (3.34%) UI Designer
16 30 (3.04%) Interaction Designer
17 29 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
18 25 (2.53%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (15.79%) React
2 112 (11.34%) HTML
3 110 (11.13%) CSS
4 94 (9.51%) RESTful
5 91 (9.21%) REST
6 82 (8.30%) Node.js
7 71 (7.19%) Spring
8 70 (7.09%) Spring Boot
9 66 (6.68%) Playwright
10 53 (5.36%) HTML5
11 48 (4.86%) CSS3
12 43 (4.35%) Jest
13 42 (4.25%) Kafka
14 37 (3.74%) Redux
15 34 (3.44%) .NET
16 31 (3.14%) AngularJS
16 31 (3.14%) JSON
17 28 (2.83%) Next.js
18 19 (1.92%) GraphQL
18 19 (1.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 74 (7.49%) Product Ownership
2 50 (5.06%) Mobile App
3 44 (4.45%) Cloud Native
4 32 (3.24%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.94%) NHS
6 25 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (2.43%) Management Information System
8 21 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (1.92%) Taxonomies
10 18 (1.82%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.42%) Graphic Design
12 13 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.32%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.21%) Social Media
14 11 (1.11%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
15 9 (0.91%) Animation
15 9 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.94%) Apple iOS
2 24 (2.43%) Android
3 12 (1.21%) Windows
4 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.30%) Linux
6 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (50.30%) Agile
2 289 (29.25%) CI/CD
3 278 (28.14%) User Experience
4 211 (21.36%) User Research
5 201 (20.34%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 191 (19.33%) DevOps
7 186 (18.83%) Test Automation
8 177 (17.91%) UX Design
9 176 (17.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 158 (15.99%) Service Design
11 138 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
12 136 (13.77%) Analytics
13 130 (13.16%) AI
14 119 (12.04%) Stakeholder Management
15 107 (10.83%) Microservices
16 106 (10.73%) Decision-Making
17 103 (10.43%) Prototyping
18 101 (10.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 100 (10.12%) Scrum
20 88 (8.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 179 (18.12%) JavaScript
2 146 (14.78%) TypeScript
3 125 (12.65%) Java
4 94 (9.51%) Python
5 65 (6.58%) SQL
6 39 (3.95%) C#
7 19 (1.92%) Ruby
8 16 (1.62%) Kotlin
8 16 (1.62%) Swift
9 11 (1.11%) Scala
10 10 (1.01%) Bicep
11 6 (0.61%) PHP
12 5 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.51%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.51%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.51%) SPARQL
13 4 (0.40%) Objective-C
13 4 (0.40%) R
14 3 (0.30%) Bash
14 3 (0.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 245 (24.80%) Security Cleared
2 209 (21.15%) SC Cleared
3 79 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 51 (5.16%) Degree
5 15 (1.52%) ISTQB
6 12 (1.21%) DV Cleared
6 12 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (0.61%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.40%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.30%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.20%) ACCA
12 2 (0.20%) CCA
12 2 (0.20%) CIMA
12 2 (0.20%) CIPD
12 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.20%) PMP
13 1 (0.10%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (27.83%) WCAG
2 98 (9.92%) QA
3 37 (3.74%) Data Quality
4 28 (2.83%) GDPR
5 13 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (1.21%) NCSC
7 5 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.40%) ISO 19650
8 4 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 4 (0.40%) PMO
9 3 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.20%) GRC
10 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.10%) GLP
11 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.10%) HL7
11 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.10%) WAI
11 1 (0.10%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 98 (9.92%) Docker
2 4 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) Firmware
3 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 52 (5.26%) Terraform
3 29 (2.94%) Grafana
4 17 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.81%) Argo
7 6 (0.61%) Kibana
8 5 (0.51%) Ansible
9 1 (0.10%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.10%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.10%) logstash
9 1 (0.10%) QRadar
9 1 (0.10%) SELinux
9 1 (0.10%) systemd
Vendors
1 98 (9.92%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.67%) Adobe
3 24 (2.43%) Google
4 23 (2.33%) Oracle
5 17 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 17 (1.72%) Splunk
6 14 (1.42%) Dynatrace
6 14 (1.42%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.11%) Pega
8 9 (0.91%) Sitecore
9 8 (0.81%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.71%) SAP
11 6 (0.61%) Apple
11 6 (0.61%) Solace
12 5 (0.51%) Databricks
12 5 (0.51%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.40%) Autodesk
14 3 (0.30%) Checkmarx
14 3 (0.30%) New Relic
14 3 (0.30%) OpenAI