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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 168 190
Rank change year-on-year +24 +22 +62
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 861 488 530
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.82% 1.67% 1.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.79% 10.66% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 309 361
10th Percentile £350 £311 £325
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £551 £550 £573
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £428 £463
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.57% -6.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 15 35
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.18 £22.75 £14.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.18 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% +55.43% -22.39%
75th Percentile £61.25 £32.88 £29.14
90th Percentile £73.13 £53.30 £46.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.69 £27.35 £14.50
% change year-on-year -17.04% +88.62% -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 7,980 4,580 6,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.84% 15.64% 14.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,154 2,924 3,938
10th Percentile £336 £265 £296
25th Percentile £413 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 464 178 385
10th Percentile £14.32 £18.18 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.33 £13.18
Median hourly rate £33.98 £34.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +65.48% -44.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £79.60 £83.03 £67.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £46.30 £18.00
% change year-on-year -22.25% +157.22% -48.57%

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 3 May 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 May 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 May 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 +15 643 £475 -5.00% 367
UK excluding London +31 354 £475 +11.11% 247
Work from Home +33 298 £450 -4.26% 186
London -13 297 £475 -7.32% 159
North of England +9 151 £475 +4.40% 56
North West 0 81 £415 -8.79% 26
Midlands -28 64 £450 +10.77% 47
West Midlands -20 56 £450 -2.17% 25
South West +10 55 £425 +6.25% 32
Yorkshire -17 49 £538 +95.45% 21
Scotland +4 40 £550 +15.73% 19
South East -33 35 £500 +5.26% 68
North East 0 24 £452 -8.22% 10
East of England -35 9 £575 +27.78% 27
East Midlands -31 7 £445 +38.20% 22
Wales -16 5 £650 +64.56% 9
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 2

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 37 (4.30%) Confluence
2 34 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 26 (3.02%) CMS
4 8 (0.93%) ArcGIS
5 7 (0.81%) Apache
6 6 (0.70%) Drupal
7 4 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.46%) Moodle
8 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.23%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Camunda
9 1 (0.12%) govService
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
9 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
9 1 (0.12%) Strapi
9 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (3.48%) Sketch
2 29 (3.37%) Adobe XD
3 24 (2.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 22 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
5 15 (1.74%) InVision
6 11 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (1.16%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.81%) Adobe After Effects
8 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.70%) Zeplin
10 5 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.46%) Navisworks
11 4 (0.46%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.46%) Revit
11 4 (0.46%) UserZoom
12 3 (0.35%) CapCut
12 3 (0.35%) InDesign
12 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
12 3 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.12%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.12%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.12%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.12%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.12%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.12%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 139 (16.14%) Figma
2 133 (15.45%) Azure
3 119 (13.82%) AWS
4 59 (6.85%) GitHub
5 52 (6.04%) Power Platform
6 42 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (3.95%) GCP
8 31 (3.60%) Serverless
9 29 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (2.56%) Miro
11 19 (2.21%) SaaS
12 16 (1.86%) BrowserStack
13 15 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (1.51%) Google Analytics
14 13 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
15 12 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
16 11 (1.28%) PowerApps
17 10 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.28%) Intranet
2 4 (0.46%) 5G
2 4 (0.46%) LTE
2 4 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (0.35%) HTTP
3 3 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.23%) 5G NR
4 2 (0.23%) DNS
4 2 (0.23%) SSL
4 2 (0.23%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.12%) DSL
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
5 1 (0.12%) SMS
5 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.11%) Power BI
2 28 (3.25%) NoSQL
3 23 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (2.32%) MongoDB
5 19 (2.21%) Metadata
6 18 (2.09%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.51%) SQL Server
8 8 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.93%) GIS
9 6 (0.70%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.70%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.70%) Looker
9 6 (0.70%) MySQL
10 5 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.58%) Spatial Data
11 4 (0.46%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.46%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.46%) Redis
11 4 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 80 (9.29%) Git
2 70 (8.13%) JIRA
3 52 (6.04%) Cypress.io
4 48 (5.57%) GitLab
5 33 (3.83%) Selenium
6 21 (2.44%) Jenkins
7 18 (2.09%) JUnit
8 17 (1.97%) JMeter
9 16 (1.86%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.86%) Postman
10 15 (1.74%) Axure RP
11 13 (1.51%) REST Assured
12 12 (1.39%) CircleCI
12 12 (1.39%) Gatling
13 8 (0.93%) Storybook
14 7 (0.81%) Gradle
15 6 (0.70%) Mocha
15 6 (0.70%) Vite
15 6 (0.70%) webpack
16 5 (0.58%) Bitbucket
General
1 308 (35.77%) Public Sector
2 226 (26.25%) Social Skills
3 80 (9.29%) Finance
4 65 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (3.72%) Banking
6 30 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (2.44%) Marketing
7 21 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
7 21 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (2.44%) Publishing
8 19 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
8 19 (2.21%) Legal
9 15 (1.74%) Military
10 14 (1.63%) Retail
11 12 (1.39%) Local Government
12 6 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.70%) Games
13 5 (0.58%) Advertising
13 5 (0.58%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 220 (25.55%) Designer
2 194 (22.53%) Developer
3 126 (14.63%) Senior
4 68 (7.90%) Lead
5 63 (7.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 59 (6.85%) Service Designer
7 56 (6.50%) Content Designer
8 54 (6.27%) User Researcher
9 46 (5.34%) UX Designer
10 45 (5.23%) Analyst
11 37 (4.30%) Test Engineer
12 35 (4.07%) Full-Stack Developer
13 34 (3.95%) Tester
14 32 (3.72%) React Developer
14 32 (3.72%) Senior Developer
15 30 (3.48%) Senior Designer
16 29 (3.37%) Architect
17 26 (3.02%) Interaction Designer
18 23 (2.67%) Business Analyst
19 19 (2.21%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (16.72%) React
2 99 (11.50%) HTML
3 94 (10.92%) CSS
4 72 (8.36%) RESTful
5 71 (8.25%) Node.js
6 69 (8.01%) REST
7 57 (6.62%) Spring
8 56 (6.50%) Playwright
9 54 (6.27%) Spring Boot
10 42 (4.88%) Jest
11 40 (4.65%) CSS3
11 40 (4.65%) HTML5
12 38 (4.41%) AngularJS
13 36 (4.18%) Redux
14 35 (4.07%) Next.js
15 26 (3.02%) .NET
16 22 (2.56%) Kafka
17 21 (2.44%) Vue
18 20 (2.32%) GraphQL
19 14 (1.63%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 64 (7.43%) Product Ownership
2 49 (5.69%) Mobile App
3 26 (3.02%) Cloud Native
4 21 (2.44%) NHS
5 18 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (2.09%) Onboarding
6 17 (1.97%) Management Information System
7 16 (1.86%) Social Media
8 13 (1.51%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.05%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.05%) Taxonomies
11 8 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (0.93%) e-Learning
11 8 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (0.93%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (0.81%) Graphic Design
12 7 (0.81%) Learning Management System
13 6 (0.70%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.21%) Apple iOS
2 18 (2.09%) Android
3 8 (0.93%) Linux
4 4 (0.46%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.23%) Windows
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (51.22%) Agile
2 259 (30.08%) User Experience
3 227 (26.36%) User Research
4 201 (23.34%) CI/CD
5 163 (18.93%) Service Design
6 162 (18.82%) UX Design
7 160 (18.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 141 (16.38%) Test Automation
9 136 (15.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 132 (15.33%) DevOps
11 118 (13.70%) Analytics
12 109 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
13 95 (11.03%) Prototyping
14 93 (10.80%) Decision-Making
15 91 (10.57%) AI
16 90 (10.45%) Front End Development
17 82 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 81 (9.41%) Interaction Design
19 80 (9.29%) Usability Testing
20 78 (9.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 149 (17.31%) JavaScript
2 143 (16.61%) TypeScript
3 93 (10.80%) Java
4 81 (9.41%) Python
5 57 (6.62%) SQL
6 22 (2.56%) C#
7 15 (1.74%) Ruby
8 12 (1.39%) Kotlin
8 12 (1.39%) Scala
9 6 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.70%) Swift
10 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.35%) PHP
11 3 (0.35%) R
12 2 (0.23%) Bicep
12 2 (0.23%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.12%) Bash
13 1 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.12%) VB6
Qualifications
1 194 (22.53%) Security Cleared
2 162 (18.82%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 45 (5.23%) Degree
5 10 (1.16%) ISTQB
6 9 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.05%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.58%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.58%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.35%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.35%) CCA
9 3 (0.35%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.23%) ACCA
10 2 (0.23%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.23%) CIMA
10 2 (0.23%) CISSP
10 2 (0.23%) ISEB
10 2 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (27.41%) WCAG
2 82 (9.52%) QA
3 41 (4.76%) Data Quality
4 20 (2.32%) GDPR
5 6 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.46%) ISO 19650
7 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 4 (0.46%) NCSC
8 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.23%) GRC
9 2 (0.23%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.23%) PMO
10 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.12%) IFRS
10 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.12%) WAI
System Software
1 74 (8.59%) Docker
2 4 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 66 (7.67%) Kubernetes
2 30 (3.48%) Terraform
3 20 (2.32%) Grafana
4 9 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.58%) Ansible
6 4 (0.46%) Kibana
7 3 (0.35%) Argo
7 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.12%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.12%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.12%) logstash
8 1 (0.12%) QRadar
8 1 (0.12%) SELinux
8 1 (0.12%) systemd
8 1 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 75 (8.71%) Microsoft
2 63 (7.32%) Adobe
3 23 (2.67%) Google
4 14 (1.63%) Salesforce
5 13 (1.51%) Databricks
5 13 (1.51%) Oracle
6 12 (1.39%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.28%) Pega
7 11 (1.28%) Splunk
8 7 (0.81%) SAP
9 6 (0.70%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.58%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.58%) Solace
11 4 (0.46%) Autodesk
11 4 (0.46%) Optimizely
12 3 (0.35%) Braze
12 3 (0.35%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.35%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.35%) Synthesia
12 3 (0.35%) Xamarin