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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 165 222
Rank change year-on-year +19 +57 -5
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 994 552 443
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.88% 1.68% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.96% 9.94% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 707 342 275
10th Percentile £350 £308 £313
25th Percentile £405 £377 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £548 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £600 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 18
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.67 £14.62
25th Percentile £16.18 £22.75 £18.18
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.75 £25.70
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +19.65% +10.02%
75th Percentile £55.13 £35.75 £33.07
90th Percentile £74.25 £42.05 £51.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.48 £24.34 £18.97
% change year-on-year -32.31% +28.31% +13.12%

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 9,068 5,553 5,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.12% 16.92% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,808 3,586 3,387
10th Percentile £337 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year - -1.19% -3.62%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £623
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £471 £475
% change year-on-year +6.27% -0.94% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 249 343
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.58 £11.15
25th Percentile £19.47 £17.45 £14.49
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £25.60
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% +6.84% -32.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £54.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.78 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £24.66 £25.00
% change year-on-year +62.21% -1.36% -28.57%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +30 795 £475 +2.43% 563
UK excluding London +42 420 £450 - 347
London +1 382 £496 -0.40% 277
Work from Home -9 306 £450 -2.17% 292
North of England -3 156 £450 - 87
Midlands +3 91 £445 +14.84% 41
West Midlands -6 78 £447 +6.75% 25
South West +12 74 £425 +6.25% 48
Yorkshire -14 61 £500 +19.05% 34
North West -35 52 £450 -4.66% 40
Scotland +5 48 £479 -3.09% 18
North East -9 45 £450 +1.12% 14
South East -51 36 £483 +13.53% 108
East Midlands -6 11 £435 +35.09% 16
East of England -11 10 £575 +27.78% 35
Wales -17 8 £425 -7.36% 7
Northern Ireland -2 2 - - 12

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 (4.93%) SharePoint
2 42 (4.23%) CMS
2 42 (4.23%) Confluence
3 18 (1.81%) WordPress
4 10 (1.01%) Drupal
5 7 (0.70%) Apache
6 5 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.40%) Moodle
8 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.30%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.20%) IIS
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 34 (3.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 23 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (2.01%) Sketch
4 14 (1.41%) Adobe XD
5 11 (1.11%) Chatbot
6 10 (1.01%) Adobe After Effects
7 7 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.60%) Final Cut Pro
8 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
9 5 (0.50%) UserZoom
10 4 (0.40%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.40%) Revit
11 3 (0.30%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.20%) InDesign
12 2 (0.20%) InVision
12 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
13 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.10%) Blender
13 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.10%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.10%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.10%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 203 (20.42%) Azure
2 165 (16.60%) AWS
3 145 (14.59%) Figma
4 88 (8.85%) GitHub
5 87 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (6.14%) Power Platform
7 48 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
8 44 (4.43%) GCP
9 36 (3.62%) Serverless
10 28 (2.82%) Power Automate
11 23 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (2.31%) PowerApps
12 19 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
13 18 (1.81%) Entra ID
14 17 (1.71%) SaaS
15 15 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (1.31%) Miro
17 12 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
17 12 (1.21%) Amazon S3
18 11 (1.11%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.91%) 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%) Broadband
3 2 (0.20%) Internet
3 2 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.20%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.10%) DMZ
4 1 (0.10%) DSL
4 1 (0.10%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.10%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (4.33%) Power BI
2 41 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (4.02%) Metadata
4 31 (3.12%) NoSQL
5 30 (3.02%) MongoDB
6 28 (2.82%) Relational Database
7 23 (2.31%) SQL Server
8 12 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
10 8 (0.80%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.70%) Redis
12 6 (0.60%) GIS
12 6 (0.60%) MySQL
12 6 (0.60%) Tableau
13 5 (0.50%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.50%) Stardog
14 4 (0.40%) Looker
14 4 (0.40%) Neo4j
15 3 (0.30%) DynamoDB
15 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 102 (10.26%) Git
2 84 (8.45%) JIRA
3 57 (5.73%) Jenkins
3 57 (5.73%) Selenium
4 51 (5.13%) Cypress.io
4 51 (5.13%) GitLab
5 33 (3.32%) Cucumber
6 29 (2.92%) JUnit
7 24 (2.41%) Gatling
8 23 (2.31%) Postman
9 20 (2.01%) REST Assured
10 14 (1.41%) WebDriver
11 13 (1.31%) Maven
12 12 (1.21%) Gradle
12 12 (1.21%) JMeter
12 12 (1.21%) Xcode
13 10 (1.01%) fastlane
13 10 (1.01%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.91%) Storybook
14 9 (0.91%) webpack
General
1 392 (39.44%) Public Sector
2 282 (28.37%) Social Skills
3 106 (10.66%) Finance
4 81 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (3.12%) Banking
7 30 (3.02%) Marketing
8 26 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (2.62%) Military
9 22 (2.21%) Legal
9 22 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (2.21%) Retail
10 19 (1.91%) Publishing
11 18 (1.81%) Local Government
12 15 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.60%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.50%) Games
14 5 (0.50%) Legal Technology
15 4 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.40%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 259 (26.06%) Developer
2 226 (22.74%) Designer
3 171 (17.20%) Senior
4 96 (9.66%) Lead
5 64 (6.44%) Content Designer
6 62 (6.24%) User Researcher
7 58 (5.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 57 (5.73%) Analyst
9 49 (4.93%) Senior Developer
10 48 (4.83%) Service Designer
11 42 (4.23%) Architect
12 41 (4.12%) Senior Designer
13 40 (4.02%) Java Developer
14 37 (3.72%) UI Designer
14 37 (3.72%) UX Designer
15 35 (3.52%) React Developer
16 31 (3.12%) Interaction Designer
16 31 (3.12%) Test Engineer
17 30 (3.02%) Full-Stack Developer
18 23 (2.31%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (16.10%) React
2 121 (12.17%) CSS
2 121 (12.17%) HTML
3 104 (10.46%) RESTful
4 99 (9.96%) REST
5 88 (8.85%) Node.js
6 72 (7.24%) Spring
7 68 (6.84%) Spring Boot
8 63 (6.34%) Playwright
9 61 (6.14%) HTML5
10 55 (5.53%) CSS3
11 47 (4.73%) Jest
12 45 (4.53%) Kafka
13 39 (3.92%) JSON
14 38 (3.82%) Redux
15 37 (3.72%) .NET
16 32 (3.22%) AngularJS
17 28 (2.82%) Next.js
18 21 (2.11%) GraphQL
19 19 (1.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.85%) Product Ownership
2 56 (5.63%) Mobile App
3 55 (5.53%) Cloud Native
4 33 (3.32%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.02%) NHS
6 27 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (2.62%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (1.91%) Taxonomies
10 18 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.71%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (1.51%) Graphic Design
13 13 (1.31%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (1.11%) Social Media
16 10 (1.01%) Animation
17 9 (0.91%) Algorithms
17 9 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.02%) Apple iOS
2 29 (2.92%) Android
3 12 (1.21%) Windows
4 4 (0.40%) Linux
4 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.10%) Unix
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 511 (51.41%) Agile
2 307 (30.89%) CI/CD
3 279 (28.07%) User Experience
4 213 (21.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 199 (20.02%) User Research
6 193 (19.42%) DevOps
7 187 (18.81%) Test Automation
8 186 (18.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 175 (17.61%) UX Design
10 154 (15.49%) Service Design
11 143 (14.39%) Analytics
12 142 (14.29%) AI
12 142 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
13 139 (13.98%) Stakeholder Management
14 112 (11.27%) Microservices
14 112 (11.27%) Scrum
15 109 (10.97%) Decision-Making
15 109 (10.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 106 (10.66%) Prototyping
17 98 (9.86%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 193 (19.42%) JavaScript
2 144 (14.49%) TypeScript
3 126 (12.68%) Java
4 92 (9.26%) Python
5 71 (7.14%) SQL
6 43 (4.33%) C#
7 21 (2.11%) Kotlin
8 19 (1.91%) Ruby
9 17 (1.71%) Swift
10 11 (1.11%) Scala
11 10 (1.01%) Bicep
12 9 (0.91%) PHP
13 6 (0.60%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.60%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.50%) R
15 4 (0.40%) Bash
15 4 (0.40%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.30%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 255 (25.65%) Security Cleared
2 216 (21.73%) SC Cleared
3 84 (8.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 50 (5.03%) Degree
5 16 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (1.51%) ISTQB
7 14 (1.41%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 6 (0.60%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.40%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.30%) Azure Certification
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 (0.10%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 295 (29.68%) WCAG
2 103 (10.36%) QA
3 40 (4.02%) Data Quality
4 35 (3.52%) GDPR
5 15 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
6 13 (1.31%) NCSC
7 5 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.40%) ISO 19650
8 4 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 4 (0.40%) PMO
9 2 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.20%) GRC
9 2 (0.20%) HL7
9 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.10%) IEC 62304
10 1 (0.10%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.10%) WAI
System Software
1 105 (10.56%) Docker
2 6 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) Firmware
3 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 89 (8.95%) Kubernetes
2 58 (5.84%) Terraform
3 26 (2.62%) Grafana
4 15 (1.51%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.80%) Argo
7 7 (0.70%) Kibana
8 5 (0.50%) 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
1 103 (10.36%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.63%) Adobe
3 29 (2.92%) Oracle
4 27 (2.72%) Google
5 16 (1.61%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.51%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.51%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.31%) Splunk
8 9 (0.91%) Sitecore
9 8 (0.80%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.70%) MuleSoft
10 7 (0.70%) Pega
10 7 (0.70%) SAP
11 6 (0.60%) Apple
11 6 (0.60%) Solace
12 4 (0.40%) Autodesk
12 4 (0.40%) Databricks
13 3 (0.30%) Checkmarx
13 3 (0.30%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.30%) Sparx