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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 155 214
Rank change year-on-year +3 +59 +9
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 1,020 626 438
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.86% 1.90% 1.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.57% 11.01% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 723 406 259
10th Percentile £350 £306 £279
25th Percentile £406 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £576
90th Percentile £625 £600 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.04% +5.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 13
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.75 £18.13
25th Percentile £14.22 £22.75 £24.84
Median hourly rate £21.32 £32.48 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.37% +22.57% +47.22%
75th Percentile £45.00 £35.75 £33.07
90th Percentile £69.80 £39.43 £46.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.06 £25.00 £25.93
% change year-on-year -39.76% -3.59% +48.17%

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 9,650 5,687 5,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.59% 17.23% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,075 3,644 3,020
10th Percentile £325 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% -0.99% -3.81%
75th Percentile £600 £607 £625
90th Percentile £700 £706 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 637 269 250
10th Percentile £13.90 £13.60 £12.42
25th Percentile £16.60 £16.92 £15.23
Median hourly rate £32.40 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% +9.09% -22.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £61.99
90th Percentile £75.40 £80.55 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.40 £27.86 £27.50
% change year-on-year +16.28% +1.31% -25.17%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -4 812 £470 +0.11% 2,075
UK excluding London +23 465 £450 +5.88% 1,283
London -31 360 £514 +4.31% 1,042
Work from Home -1 296 £450 -3.90% 1,288
North of England -24 153 £450 +7.46% 296
Midlands +44 139 £440 +3.53% 153
West Midlands +48 126 £443 +4.12% 99
South West +2 67 £425 +6.25% 155
Yorkshire -16 56 £492 +20.00% 101
North West -62 50 £450 +9.09% 149
Scotland -19 49 £406 -16.12% 145
North East -10 48 £438 -2.78% 51
South East -59 32 £463 +1.65% 252
East of England -26 15 £575 +4.55% 174
East Midlands -3 11 £435 +35.09% 54
Wales -11 8 £375 -27.71% 31
Northern Ireland +5 3 £638 - 102

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 58 (5.69%) CMS
2 54 (5.29%) SharePoint
3 48 (4.71%) Confluence
4 24 (2.35%) WordPress
5 10 (0.98%) Drupal
6 9 (0.88%) Apache
7 8 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.69%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.49%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.39%) ColdFusion
11 4 (0.39%) Moodle
12 3 (0.29%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.098%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.098%) Documentum
13 1 (0.098%) govService
13 1 (0.098%) Kentico
13 1 (0.098%) Mendix
13 1 (0.098%) nginx
13 1 (0.098%) R Markdown
Applications
1 27 (2.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 23 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.67%) Sketch
4 12 (1.18%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.88%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (0.69%) Final Cut Pro
9 6 (0.59%) UserZoom
10 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.39%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.39%) Navisworks
11 4 (0.39%) Revit
12 3 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
13 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.20%) Trello
14 1 (0.098%) Blender
14 1 (0.098%) InVision
Business Applications
1 23 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.098%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.098%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.098%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.098%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.098%) Primavera
4 1 (0.098%) Shopify
4 1 (0.098%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 204 (20.00%) Azure
2 183 (17.94%) AWS
3 140 (13.73%) Figma
4 107 (10.49%) GitHub
5 97 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
6 70 (6.86%) Power Platform
7 59 (5.78%) GitHub Actions
8 49 (4.80%) Serverless
9 44 (4.31%) GCP
9 44 (4.31%) Power Automate
10 40 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (2.45%) PowerApps
12 24 (2.35%) Miro
13 22 (2.16%) Azure Functions
14 21 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
15 17 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (1.57%) SaaS
17 15 (1.47%) Amazon S3
17 15 (1.47%) Entra ID
18 13 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.59%) Intranet
2 3 (0.29%) NAS
3 2 (0.20%) Broadband
3 2 (0.20%) Internet
3 2 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.098%) DMZ
4 1 (0.098%) HTTP
4 1 (0.098%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.098%) Network Security
4 1 (0.098%) SAN
4 1 (0.098%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (4.51%) MongoDB
3 45 (4.41%) Metadata
4 38 (3.73%) Power BI
5 34 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 31 (3.04%) Relational Database
7 23 (2.25%) NoSQL
8 16 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
10 10 (0.98%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.88%) Redis
12 7 (0.69%) Tableau
13 6 (0.59%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.49%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.49%) Stardog
15 4 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.39%) Delta Lake
15 4 (0.39%) Looker
15 4 (0.39%) Neo4j
15 4 (0.39%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 141 (13.82%) Git
2 81 (7.94%) Selenium
3 79 (7.75%) JIRA
4 69 (6.76%) Jenkins
5 64 (6.27%) GitLab
6 60 (5.88%) Cucumber
7 51 (5.00%) Cypress.io
8 50 (4.90%) JUnit
9 40 (3.92%) Gatling
10 29 (2.84%) Postman
11 22 (2.16%) REST Assured
12 21 (2.06%) SonarQube
13 18 (1.76%) JMeter
13 18 (1.76%) WebDriver
14 16 (1.57%) Maven
14 16 (1.57%) Storybook
15 13 (1.27%) Mockito
16 11 (1.08%) Gradle
16 11 (1.08%) MSI
16 11 (1.08%) Xcode
General
1 429 (42.06%) Public Sector
2 340 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 107 (10.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 106 (10.39%) Finance
5 88 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (3.63%) Marketing
7 30 (2.94%) Military
8 29 (2.84%) Legal
8 29 (2.84%) Local Government
9 26 (2.55%) Publishing
10 24 (2.35%) Banking
10 24 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (2.35%) Retail
11 23 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.59%) Games
14 5 (0.49%) Automotive
14 5 (0.49%) Legal Technology
15 4 (0.39%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.39%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 258 (25.29%) Developer
2 216 (21.18%) Designer
3 176 (17.25%) Senior
4 118 (11.57%) Lead
5 67 (6.57%) Content Designer
6 65 (6.37%) User Researcher
7 54 (5.29%) Analyst
8 51 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 51 (5.00%) Senior Developer
9 48 (4.71%) Java Developer
10 47 (4.61%) Service Designer
11 40 (3.92%) Architect
12 35 (3.43%) Senior Designer
13 32 (3.14%) Test Engineer
13 32 (3.14%) UX Designer
14 31 (3.04%) UI Designer
15 29 (2.84%) Lead Developer
16 28 (2.75%) Interaction Designer
16 28 (2.75%) React Developer
17 24 (2.35%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (15.00%) React
2 134 (13.14%) HTML
3 128 (12.55%) CSS
4 122 (11.96%) REST
5 103 (10.10%) RESTful
6 93 (9.12%) Node.js
7 87 (8.53%) Spring
8 86 (8.43%) Playwright
9 72 (7.06%) Spring Boot
10 64 (6.27%) Terraform
11 62 (6.08%) HTML5
12 55 (5.39%) JSON
13 52 (5.10%) CSS3
14 48 (4.71%) Jest
15 45 (4.41%) Kafka
16 41 (4.02%) .NET
17 35 (3.43%) Gherkin
18 29 (2.84%) Redux
19 27 (2.65%) AngularJS
20 24 (2.35%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 82 (8.04%) Product Ownership
2 67 (6.57%) Cloud Native
3 53 (5.20%) Mobile App
4 43 (4.22%) Management Information System
5 37 (3.63%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.94%) Taxonomies
7 27 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (2.65%) NHS
8 20 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.57%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.27%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.27%) Graphic Design
12 11 (1.08%) Animation
12 11 (1.08%) Blog
13 10 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.94%) Android
2 27 (2.65%) Apple iOS
3 15 (1.47%) Windows
4 5 (0.49%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.20%) Linux
6 1 (0.098%) AIX
6 1 (0.098%) Unix
6 1 (0.098%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 553 (54.22%) Agile
2 339 (33.24%) CI/CD
3 268 (26.27%) User Experience
4 243 (23.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 227 (22.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 221 (21.67%) Test Automation
7 212 (20.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 212 (20.78%) DevOps
8 211 (20.69%) User Research
9 161 (15.78%) UX Design
10 158 (15.49%) AI
11 157 (15.39%) Service Design
12 150 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
13 149 (14.61%) Analytics
14 144 (14.12%) Scrum
15 138 (13.53%) Microservices
16 129 (12.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 111 (10.88%) Decision-Making
18 106 (10.39%) Mentoring
19 104 (10.20%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 224 (21.96%) JavaScript
2 145 (14.22%) Java
3 138 (13.53%) TypeScript
4 82 (8.04%) Python
5 70 (6.86%) SQL
6 59 (5.78%) C#
7 19 (1.86%) Kotlin
8 18 (1.76%) Ruby
9 16 (1.57%) Scala
10 13 (1.27%) Swift
11 12 (1.18%) Bicep
12 9 (0.88%) PHP
13 7 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.59%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.49%) R
15 5 (0.49%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.39%) Bash
16 4 (0.39%) CFML
16 4 (0.39%) Objective-C
16 4 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 289 (28.33%) Security Cleared
2 243 (23.82%) SC Cleared
3 108 (10.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 48 (4.71%) Degree
5 33 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.57%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.37%) ISTQB
8 10 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 9 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.59%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.29%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.20%) ACCA
13 2 (0.20%) CCA
13 2 (0.20%) CIMA
13 2 (0.20%) CIPD
13 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.20%) PMP
14 1 (0.098%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 299 (29.31%) WCAG
2 126 (12.35%) QA
3 51 (5.00%) Data Quality
4 41 (4.02%) GDPR
5 22 (2.16%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (1.18%) NCSC
7 4 (0.39%) ISO 19650
7 4 (0.39%) PMO
8 3 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.20%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.098%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.098%) GLP
10 1 (0.098%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.098%) GRC
10 1 (0.098%) HL7
10 1 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.098%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.098%) WAI
10 1 (0.098%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 115 (11.27%) Docker
2 5 (0.49%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.098%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 110 (10.78%) Kubernetes
2 39 (3.82%) Grafana
3 14 (1.37%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.78%) Argo
5 8 (0.78%) Kibana
6 5 (0.49%) Ansible
7 2 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.098%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.098%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.098%) SELinux
8 1 (0.098%) systemd
Vendors
1 123 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.10%) Adobe
3 31 (3.04%) Oracle
4 25 (2.45%) Google
5 17 (1.67%) ServiceNow
5 17 (1.67%) Splunk
6 14 (1.37%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.27%) Salesforce
8 9 (0.88%) Sitecore
9 8 (0.78%) MuleSoft
9 8 (0.78%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.69%) Databricks
11 6 (0.59%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.49%) SAP
13 4 (0.39%) Apple
13 4 (0.39%) Autodesk
13 4 (0.39%) dotdigital
13 4 (0.39%) TikTok
14 3 (0.29%) Checkmarx
14 3 (0.29%) Solace