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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 166 221
Rank change year-on-year +18 +55 +4
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 935 521 471
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.82% 1.68% 1.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.80% 10.28% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 331 290
10th Percentile £350 £310 £312
25th Percentile £405 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £549 £575
90th Percentile £625 £600 £664
UK excluding London median daily rate £454 £428 £465
% change year-on-year +6.14% -8.06% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 29
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.69 £13.90
25th Percentile £15.62 £22.13 £14.27
Median hourly rate £26.19 £29.09 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year -9.97% +60.45% -22.39%
75th Percentile £44.75 £35.75 £31.71
90th Percentile £74.28 - £42.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £20.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year -21.95% +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 8,659 5,068 5,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.83% 16.37% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,537 3,252 3,690
10th Percentile £340 £279 £282
25th Percentile £413 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £475
% change year-on-year +5.70% -0.42% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 533 211 433
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.78 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.50 £13.50
Median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +20.23% +26.05% -38.52%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.52 £83.41 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.07 £28.18 £21.64
% change year-on-year +28.00% +30.22% -42.29%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +24 731 £475 +2.15% 546
UK excluding London +12 369 £454 +6.14% 322
London -4 365 £475 -5.00% 272
Work from Home -1 292 £450 -2.17% 298
North of England -5 145 £450 -1.10% 101
Midlands +3 76 £447 +15.35% 60
West Midlands -10 65 £450 +5.88% 30
South West +15 64 £425 +6.25% 29
North West -23 62 £450 -2.07% 43
Yorkshire -14 54 £500 +17.65% 47
Scotland +1 40 £525 +6.28% 15
South East -41 34 £500 +25.00% 80
North East -6 33 £450 -2.17% 14
East Midlands -14 10 £445 +38.20% 30
East of England -17 9 £575 +27.78% 24
Wales -15 5 £650 +64.56% 7
Northern Ireland 0 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 47 (5.03%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.06%) Confluence
3 33 (3.53%) CMS
4 13 (1.39%) WordPress
5 8 (0.86%) Apache
5 8 (0.86%) Drupal
6 5 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.43%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.43%) Moodle
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.21%) IIS
8 2 (0.21%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) Kentico
9 1 (0.11%) Mendix
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
9 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 32 (3.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 23 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.03%) Sketch
4 13 (1.39%) Adobe XD
5 11 (1.18%) Chatbot
6 10 (1.07%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.64%) Final Cut Pro
9 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
9 6 (0.64%) UserZoom
10 4 (0.43%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.43%) Revit
11 3 (0.32%) InVision
11 3 (0.32%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.32%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.21%) CapCut
12 2 (0.21%) InDesign
12 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.11%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 7 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.11%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.11%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.11%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 175 (18.72%) Azure
2 144 (15.40%) AWS
3 132 (14.12%) Figma
4 77 (8.24%) GitHub
5 72 (7.70%) Azure DevOps
6 51 (5.45%) Power Platform
7 44 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
8 40 (4.28%) GCP
9 27 (2.89%) Serverless
10 18 (1.93%) SaaS
11 17 (1.82%) Power Automate
12 16 (1.71%) BrowserStack
12 16 (1.71%) PowerApps
13 15 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
13 15 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (1.28%) Entra ID
14 12 (1.28%) Miro
15 11 (1.18%) npm
16 10 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (1.07%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.07%) Intranet
2 4 (0.43%) 5G
2 4 (0.43%) LTE
2 4 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.21%) 5G NR
3 2 (0.21%) HTTP
3 2 (0.21%) Internet
3 2 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.21%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.11%) DMZ
4 1 (0.11%) DSL
4 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.06%) Power BI
2 31 (3.32%) Metadata
2 31 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (3.21%) NoSQL
4 27 (2.89%) MongoDB
5 26 (2.78%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.60%) SQL Server
7 8 (0.86%) Geospatial Data
8 7 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.75%) GIS
8 7 (0.75%) Redis
9 5 (0.53%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.53%) MySQL
10 4 (0.43%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.43%) Spatial Data
10 4 (0.43%) Stardog
10 4 (0.43%) Tableau
11 3 (0.32%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.32%) Looker
11 3 (0.32%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 82 (8.77%) Git
2 75 (8.02%) JIRA
3 54 (5.78%) Cypress.io
4 52 (5.56%) Selenium
5 50 (5.35%) Jenkins
6 46 (4.92%) GitLab
7 25 (2.67%) Cucumber
7 25 (2.67%) REST Assured
8 22 (2.35%) JUnit
9 20 (2.14%) Gatling
10 19 (2.03%) Postman
11 16 (1.71%) JMeter
12 12 (1.28%) Xcode
13 11 (1.18%) Gradle
13 11 (1.18%) Serenity BDD
14 10 (1.07%) fastlane
14 10 (1.07%) Maven
15 9 (0.96%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.96%) Vite
15 9 (0.96%) WebDriver
General
1 357 (38.18%) Public Sector
2 256 (27.38%) Social Skills
3 94 (10.05%) Finance
4 67 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (3.42%) Banking
7 25 (2.67%) Marketing
8 24 (2.57%) Legal
9 23 (2.46%) Military
10 21 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (2.14%) Retail
12 19 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (1.82%) Publishing
15 13 (1.39%) Local Government
16 7 (0.75%) Investment Banking
17 5 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.53%) Legal Technology
18 4 (0.43%) Automotive
18 4 (0.43%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 233 (24.92%) Developer
2 219 (23.42%) Designer
3 140 (14.97%) Senior
4 91 (9.73%) Lead
5 64 (6.84%) Content Designer
6 57 (6.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 53 (5.67%) User Researcher
8 51 (5.45%) Service Designer
9 48 (5.13%) Analyst
10 38 (4.06%) Senior Designer
10 38 (4.06%) Test Engineer
11 37 (3.96%) Architect
11 37 (3.96%) UX Designer
12 36 (3.85%) Senior Developer
13 34 (3.64%) React Developer
14 33 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
15 32 (3.42%) Java Developer
16 29 (3.10%) UI Designer
17 26 (2.78%) Interaction Designer
17 26 (2.78%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (15.83%) React
2 104 (11.12%) HTML
3 101 (10.80%) CSS
4 93 (9.95%) RESTful
5 87 (9.30%) REST
6 78 (8.34%) Node.js
7 70 (7.49%) Spring
8 69 (7.38%) Spring Boot
9 67 (7.17%) Playwright
10 47 (5.03%) HTML5
11 43 (4.60%) CSS3
11 43 (4.60%) Jest
12 39 (4.17%) Kafka
13 37 (3.96%) Redux
14 32 (3.42%) AngularJS
15 31 (3.32%) .NET
16 26 (2.78%) Next.js
17 25 (2.67%) JSON
18 19 (2.03%) GraphQL
19 17 (1.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 72 (7.70%) Product Ownership
2 49 (5.24%) Mobile App
3 38 (4.06%) Cloud Native
4 29 (3.10%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.89%) NHS
6 23 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.46%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.93%) Taxonomies
9 15 (1.60%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.39%) Graphic Design
11 13 (1.39%) Social Media
11 13 (1.39%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (1.07%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (0.96%) Animation
15 8 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.99%) Apple iOS
2 23 (2.46%) Android
3 11 (1.18%) Windows
4 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.32%) Linux
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (50.16%) Agile
2 268 (28.66%) CI/CD
3 257 (27.49%) User Experience
4 198 (21.18%) User Research
5 181 (19.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 175 (18.72%) DevOps
7 174 (18.61%) UX Design
8 171 (18.29%) Test Automation
9 159 (17.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 145 (15.51%) Service Design
11 128 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
12 118 (12.62%) Analytics
13 116 (12.41%) AI
14 103 (11.02%) Microservices
15 98 (10.48%) Decision-Making
15 98 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
16 96 (10.27%) Prototyping
17 93 (9.95%) Scrum
18 90 (9.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 82 (8.77%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 171 (18.29%) JavaScript
2 142 (15.19%) TypeScript
3 121 (12.94%) Java
4 84 (8.98%) Python
5 60 (6.42%) SQL
6 38 (4.06%) C#
7 19 (2.03%) Ruby
8 16 (1.71%) Kotlin
8 16 (1.71%) Swift
9 11 (1.18%) Scala
10 9 (0.96%) Bicep
11 5 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.53%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.53%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.53%) SPARQL
12 4 (0.43%) Objective-C
12 4 (0.43%) PHP
13 3 (0.32%) Bash
13 3 (0.32%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 227 (24.28%) Security Cleared
2 193 (20.64%) SC Cleared
3 77 (8.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 49 (5.24%) Degree
5 12 (1.28%) ISTQB
6 10 (1.07%) DV Cleared
7 9 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.53%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.53%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.21%) ACCA
11 2 (0.21%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.21%) CCA
11 2 (0.21%) CIMA
11 2 (0.21%) CIPD
11 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.21%) PMP
12 1 (0.11%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (27.27%) WCAG
2 87 (9.30%) QA
3 34 (3.64%) Data Quality
4 25 (2.67%) GDPR
5 12 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
6 11 (1.18%) NCSC
7 5 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.43%) ISO 19650
8 4 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 4 (0.43%) PMO
9 3 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.21%) GRC
10 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.11%) GLP
11 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.11%) HL7
11 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.11%) WAI
11 1 (0.11%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 93 (9.95%) Docker
2 4 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Firmware
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (7.91%) Kubernetes
2 51 (5.45%) Terraform
3 27 (2.89%) Grafana
4 16 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.86%) Argo
7 5 (0.53%) Ansible
7 5 (0.53%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.11%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.11%) logstash
8 1 (0.11%) QRadar
8 1 (0.11%) SELinux
8 1 (0.11%) systemd
Vendors
1 82 (8.77%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.56%) Adobe
3 22 (2.35%) Google
4 21 (2.25%) Oracle
5 18 (1.93%) Salesforce
6 17 (1.82%) Splunk
7 15 (1.60%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.39%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.18%) Pega
10 9 (0.96%) Sitecore
11 8 (0.86%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.75%) SAP
13 6 (0.64%) Apple
14 5 (0.53%) Databricks
14 5 (0.53%) Solace
15 4 (0.43%) Autodesk
15 4 (0.43%) MuleSoft
16 3 (0.32%) Checkmarx
16 3 (0.32%) New Relic
16 3 (0.32%) OpenAI