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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 169 219
Rank change year-on-year +26 +50 +8
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 977 535 486
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.86% 1.66% 1.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.98% 10.11% 8.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 337 299
10th Percentile £350 £309 £313
25th Percentile £404 £375 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £544 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £600 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £440 £463
% change year-on-year +2.27% -4.86% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 28
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.18 £13.86
25th Percentile £16.00 £22.75 £14.20
Median hourly rate £27.00 £30.00 £18.55
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +61.73% -20.59%
75th Percentile £53.25 £35.75 £32.05
90th Percentile £74.60 - £43.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.48 £20.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year -19.63% +41.38% -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 8,901 5,291 5,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.96% 16.38% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,704 3,397 3,690
10th Percentile £338 £281 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £623
90th Percentile £700 £725 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 223 432
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.78 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.50 £13.52
Median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £24.09
Median % change year-on-year +20.23% +24.53% -38.89%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.97 £83.32 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £28.18 £24.00
% change year-on-year +37.40% +17.42% -36.00%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +23 769 £475 +2.15% 639
UK excluding London +35 390 £450 +2.27% 420
London -2 385 £475 -5.00% 282
Work from Home +12 312 £450 -2.17% 359
North of England -6 152 £450 -1.10% 109
Midlands -3 80 £445 +14.84% 51
South West +16 68 £425 +3.03% 65
West Midlands -13 68 £447 +5.18% 24
North West -13 63 £450 -2.07% 47
Yorkshire -14 59 £500 +17.65% 42
Scotland +5 43 £513 +3.74% 27
South East -38 35 £500 +17.65% 102
North East -7 34 £450 -2.17% 20
East Midlands -8 11 £435 +35.09% 25
East of England -20 9 £575 +27.78% 51
Wales -14 7 £475 +20.25% 10
Northern Ireland +5 2 - - 9

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 48 (4.91%) SharePoint
2 41 (4.20%) Confluence
3 35 (3.58%) CMS
4 14 (1.43%) WordPress
5 8 (0.82%) Apache
5 8 (0.82%) Drupal
6 6 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.41%) Moodle
8 3 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.20%) IIS
9 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.10%) Camunda
10 1 (0.10%) govService
10 1 (0.10%) Mendix
10 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.10%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.10%) Strapi
Applications
1 33 (3.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 23 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (2.05%) Sketch
4 15 (1.54%) Adobe XD
5 11 (1.13%) Chatbot
6 10 (1.02%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.61%) Final Cut Pro
9 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
9 6 (0.61%) UserZoom
10 4 (0.41%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.41%) Revit
11 3 (0.31%) InVision
11 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.31%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.20%) InDesign
12 2 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.10%) Blender
Business Applications
1 8 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.41%) 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
1 189 (19.34%) Azure
2 146 (14.94%) AWS
3 143 (14.64%) Figma
4 81 (8.29%) GitHub
5 80 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (5.83%) Power Platform
7 46 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
8 40 (4.09%) GCP
9 28 (2.87%) Serverless
10 20 (2.05%) Power Automate
11 19 (1.94%) SaaS
12 18 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (1.84%) PowerApps
13 15 (1.54%) BrowserStack
13 15 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (1.43%) Entra ID
15 13 (1.33%) Miro
16 11 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (1.13%) npm
17 10 (1.02%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.02%) Intranet
2 4 (0.41%) 5G
2 4 (0.41%) LTE
2 4 (0.41%) 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 (4.20%) Power BI
2 33 (3.38%) Metadata
3 32 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (3.07%) NoSQL
5 27 (2.76%) MongoDB
6 26 (2.66%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.64%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
10 7 (0.72%) GIS
10 7 (0.72%) Redis
11 6 (0.61%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.51%) MySQL
12 5 (0.51%) Tableau
13 4 (0.41%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.41%) Looker
13 4 (0.41%) Spatial Data
13 4 (0.41%) Stardog
14 3 (0.31%) Neo4j
14 3 (0.31%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 81 (8.29%) JIRA
2 80 (8.19%) Git
3 56 (5.73%) Cypress.io
4 54 (5.53%) Selenium
5 51 (5.22%) Jenkins
6 47 (4.81%) GitLab
7 26 (2.66%) REST Assured
8 25 (2.56%) Cucumber
9 22 (2.25%) JUnit
10 21 (2.15%) Gatling
10 21 (2.15%) Postman
11 16 (1.64%) JMeter
12 12 (1.23%) WebDriver
12 12 (1.23%) Xcode
13 11 (1.13%) Gradle
13 11 (1.13%) Serenity BDD
14 10 (1.02%) fastlane
14 10 (1.02%) Maven
15 9 (0.92%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.92%) webpack
General
1 373 (38.18%) Public Sector
2 268 (27.43%) Social Skills
3 102 (10.44%) Finance
4 73 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (3.38%) Banking
7 30 (3.07%) Marketing
8 26 (2.66%) Military
9 24 (2.46%) Legal
10 22 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (2.15%) Retail
12 20 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (1.74%) Publishing
15 13 (1.33%) Local Government
16 7 (0.72%) Investment Banking
17 5 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.51%) Legal Technology
18 4 (0.41%) Automotive
18 4 (0.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 241 (24.67%) Developer
2 229 (23.44%) Designer
3 152 (15.56%) Senior
4 95 (9.72%) Lead
5 65 (6.65%) Content Designer
6 59 (6.04%) User Researcher
7 57 (5.83%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 54 (5.53%) Analyst
9 52 (5.32%) Service Designer
10 40 (4.09%) Senior Designer
10 40 (4.09%) UX Designer
11 39 (3.99%) Architect
11 39 (3.99%) Senior Developer
11 39 (3.99%) Test Engineer
12 37 (3.79%) React Developer
13 32 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
13 32 (3.28%) Java Developer
13 32 (3.28%) UI Designer
14 29 (2.97%) Interaction Designer
15 27 (2.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (15.86%) React
2 106 (10.85%) HTML
3 103 (10.54%) CSS
4 93 (9.52%) RESTful
5 90 (9.21%) REST
6 79 (8.09%) Node.js
7 71 (7.27%) Spring
8 70 (7.16%) Spring Boot
9 68 (6.96%) Playwright
10 49 (5.02%) HTML5
11 45 (4.61%) Jest
12 44 (4.50%) CSS3
13 40 (4.09%) Kafka
14 38 (3.89%) Redux
15 33 (3.38%) AngularJS
16 30 (3.07%) .NET
17 29 (2.97%) JSON
18 28 (2.87%) Next.js
19 19 (1.94%) GraphQL
20 17 (1.74%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 74 (7.57%) Product Ownership
2 51 (5.22%) Mobile App
3 39 (3.99%) Cloud Native
4 31 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.87%) NHS
6 24 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (2.46%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (1.84%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.84%) Taxonomies
9 14 (1.43%) Graphic Design
9 14 (1.43%) Social Media
10 13 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.33%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.13%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (0.92%) Animation
13 9 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.87%) Apple iOS
2 23 (2.35%) Android
3 11 (1.13%) Windows
4 4 (0.41%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.31%) Linux
6 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (50.15%) Agile
2 277 (28.35%) CI/CD
3 276 (28.25%) User Experience
4 209 (21.39%) User Research
5 195 (19.96%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 187 (19.14%) DevOps
7 183 (18.73%) UX Design
8 178 (18.22%) Test Automation
9 167 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 153 (15.66%) Service Design
11 131 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
12 130 (13.31%) Analytics
13 124 (12.69%) AI
14 106 (10.85%) Decision-Making
14 106 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
15 105 (10.75%) Microservices
16 104 (10.64%) Prototyping
17 100 (10.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 98 (10.03%) Scrum
19 86 (8.80%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 177 (18.12%) JavaScript
2 147 (15.05%) TypeScript
3 126 (12.90%) Java
4 90 (9.21%) Python
5 64 (6.55%) SQL
6 40 (4.09%) C#
7 19 (1.94%) Ruby
8 16 (1.64%) Kotlin
8 16 (1.64%) Swift
9 11 (1.13%) Scala
10 9 (0.92%) Bicep
11 5 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.51%) PHP
11 5 (0.51%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.51%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.51%) SPARQL
12 4 (0.41%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.31%) Bash
13 3 (0.31%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 239 (24.46%) Security Cleared
2 204 (20.88%) SC Cleared
3 81 (8.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 50 (5.12%) Degree
5 14 (1.43%) ISTQB
6 12 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 12 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.51%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (0.51%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.31%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.20%) ACCA
10 2 (0.20%) CCA
10 2 (0.20%) CIMA
10 2 (0.20%) CIPD
10 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.20%) PMP
11 1 (0.10%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (27.12%) WCAG
2 94 (9.62%) QA
3 35 (3.58%) Data Quality
4 26 (2.66%) GDPR
5 13 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 11 (1.13%) NCSC
7 5 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.41%) ISO 19650
8 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 4 (0.41%) PMO
9 3 (0.31%) 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 93 (9.52%) Docker
2 4 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) Firmware
3 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (7.68%) Kubernetes
2 50 (5.12%) Terraform
3 28 (2.87%) Grafana
4 17 (1.74%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.82%) 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 93 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.83%) Adobe
3 22 (2.25%) Google
4 21 (2.15%) Oracle
5 18 (1.84%) Salesforce
6 17 (1.74%) Splunk
7 15 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.43%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.13%) Pega
10 9 (0.92%) Sitecore
11 8 (0.82%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.72%) SAP
13 6 (0.61%) Apple
13 6 (0.61%) Solace
14 5 (0.51%) Databricks
15 4 (0.41%) Autodesk
15 4 (0.41%) MuleSoft
16 3 (0.31%) Checkmarx
16 3 (0.31%) New Relic
16 3 (0.31%) OpenAI