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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 204 216
Rank change year-on-year +57 +12 +34
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 716 462 524
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.99% 1.27% 1.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.31% 9.25% 7.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 279 414
10th Percentile £313 £291 £340
25th Percentile £400 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £550 £576 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £491 £463
% change year-on-year -13.44% +6.16% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 16
10th Percentile - £21.00 £15.42
25th Percentile £18.25 £24.76 £17.41
Median hourly rate £25.00 £26.00 £18.74
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +38.78% -17.41%
75th Percentile £34.48 £31.62 £30.90
90th Percentile £45.20 £58.61 £35.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.75 £24.76 £17.50
% change year-on-year -8.12% +41.49% -7.35%

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 6,330 4,993 6,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.56% 13.70% 14.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,066 2,907 4,382
10th Percentile £311 £266 £313
25th Percentile £404 £384 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £601 £625 £645
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 226 242
10th Percentile £13.60 £13.52 £15.26
25th Percentile £17.58 £17.53 £20.70
Median hourly rate £26.31 £26.75 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% -27.21% +53.13%
75th Percentile £61.09 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.96 £70.00 £83.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.82 £26.50 £42.25
% change year-on-year -13.89% -37.28% +101.19%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Top 16 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 29 November 2025. 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 +64 576 £475 -5.00% 326
London +70 317 £490 -2.00% 146
UK excluding London +26 282 £425 -13.44% 296
Work from Home +32 232 £487 +2.42% 165
North of England +21 137 £413 -13.61% 50
North West +7 74 £400 -11.11% 23
Yorkshire +10 47 £500 -6.54% 16
Scotland +2 44 £475 +1.28% 13
Midlands -15 37 £428 +6.88% 41
South West +24 36 £418 -25.78% 34
West Midlands +2 35 £428 +2.76% 27
North East +3 17 £450 +7.14% 13
South East -18 14 £454 -13.52% 139
East of England -12 9 £550 -3.51% 18
Wales +3 8 £519 +22.06% 5
East Midlands -21 2 - - 14

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 36 (5.03%) CMS
2 31 (4.33%) SharePoint
3 25 (3.49%) Confluence
4 9 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.12%) Apache
5 8 (1.12%) Moodle
6 7 (0.98%) WordPress
7 5 (0.70%) Drupal
8 4 (0.56%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.42%) Alfresco
9 3 (0.42%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.28%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.28%) nginx
10 2 (0.28%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) SAS
11 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (4.61%) Sketch
2 25 (3.49%) Adobe XD
3 21 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 11 (1.54%) Chatbot
6 10 (1.40%) InVision
7 8 (1.12%) Zeplin
8 7 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.84%) Adobe Captivate
9 6 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.42%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.42%) Camtasia
11 3 (0.42%) Snagit
12 2 (0.28%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.28%) InDesign
12 2 (0.28%) Navisworks
12 2 (0.28%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.28%) SAP EWM
2 2 (0.28%) SAP GTS
2 2 (0.28%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.28%) SAP MM
2 2 (0.28%) SAP PP
2 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.28%) SAP SCM
2 2 (0.28%) SAP SRM
3 1 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP PLM
3 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 133 (18.58%) Azure
2 112 (15.64%) AWS
3 107 (14.94%) Figma
4 61 (8.52%) Power Platform
5 44 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (6.01%) GitHub
7 32 (4.47%) Serverless
8 30 (4.19%) GCP
9 24 (3.35%) Miro
10 23 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (3.07%) Google Analytics
12 20 (2.79%) Amazon S3
12 20 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (2.65%) SaaS
14 16 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
15 15 (2.09%) npm
16 14 (1.96%) PowerApps
17 13 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
18 12 (1.68%) Power Automate
19 10 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.82%) HTTP
2 8 (1.12%) Internet
3 7 (0.98%) DNS
4 4 (0.56%) Firewall
4 4 (0.56%) SMS
5 3 (0.42%) WebEx
6 2 (0.28%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.28%) DHCP
6 2 (0.28%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.28%) Intranet
6 2 (0.28%) LAN
6 2 (0.28%) VoIP
6 2 (0.28%) VPN
6 2 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.14%) DKIM
7 1 (0.14%) DMARC
7 1 (0.14%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (6.84%) Power BI
2 25 (3.49%) MongoDB
2 25 (3.49%) NoSQL
3 23 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (2.93%) SQL Server
5 17 (2.37%) Metadata
5 17 (2.37%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.23%) Redis
7 13 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (1.68%) BigQuery
9 11 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.26%) Looker
11 6 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.84%) Tableau
12 4 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.56%) Big Data
12 4 (0.56%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.56%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.56%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 81 (11.31%) Git
2 59 (8.24%) Cypress.io
3 54 (7.54%) JIRA
4 27 (3.77%) Jenkins
5 26 (3.63%) GitLab
6 25 (3.49%) Selenium
6 25 (3.49%) webpack
7 24 (3.35%) Postman
8 18 (2.51%) Axure RP
8 18 (2.51%) Cucumber
9 12 (1.68%) Appium
9 12 (1.68%) JUnit
9 12 (1.68%) Xcode
10 11 (1.54%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.40%) JMeter
12 9 (1.26%) REST Assured
12 9 (1.26%) Storybook
13 8 (1.12%) Gradle
13 8 (1.12%) gulp
13 8 (1.12%) Vite
General
1 217 (30.31%) Social Skills
2 179 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 117 (16.34%) Finance
4 65 (9.08%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (7.54%) Marketing
6 52 (7.26%) Banking
7 28 (3.91%) Publishing
8 26 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (2.37%) Legal
10 17 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.68%) Retail
13 10 (1.40%) Military
13 10 (1.40%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.26%) Local Government
15 8 (1.12%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.98%) Brand Awareness
17 6 (0.84%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 163 (22.77%) Developer
2 148 (20.67%) Designer
3 95 (13.27%) Senior
4 79 (11.03%) Lead
5 45 (6.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 43 (6.01%) Service Designer
7 40 (5.59%) UX Designer
8 33 (4.61%) Analyst
9 32 (4.47%) Tester
10 28 (3.91%) Senior Developer
11 27 (3.77%) Architect
12 26 (3.63%) Test Engineer
13 22 (3.07%) User Researcher
14 20 (2.79%) React Developer
15 17 (2.37%) Content Designer
15 17 (2.37%) Java Developer
16 16 (2.23%) Senior Designer
17 15 (2.09%) Full-Stack Developer
18 14 (1.96%) Digital Designer
18 14 (1.96%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (18.30%) React
2 114 (15.92%) HTML
3 109 (15.22%) CSS
4 63 (8.80%) Node.js
5 61 (8.52%) RESTful
6 59 (8.24%) Jest
7 54 (7.54%) REST
8 44 (6.15%) .NET
9 41 (5.73%) Next.js
10 39 (5.45%) HTML5
11 38 (5.31%) Playwright
12 32 (4.47%) AngularJS
13 30 (4.19%) JSON
14 29 (4.05%) Redux
15 26 (3.63%) CSS3
15 26 (3.63%) Spring Boot
16 24 (3.35%) Spring
17 23 (3.21%) React Native
18 22 (3.07%) OAuth
18 22 (3.07%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.50%) Mobile App
2 60 (8.38%) Product Ownership
3 31 (4.33%) Onboarding
4 17 (2.37%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.23%) NHS
6 14 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 14 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (1.96%) Low-Code
7 13 (1.82%) Learning Management System
8 12 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.68%) Web Conferencing
9 8 (1.12%) e-Learning
9 8 (1.12%) Reinsurance
9 8 (1.12%) Social Media
10 7 (0.98%) Algorithms
11 6 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.84%) W3C
12 5 (0.70%) Client/Server
12 5 (0.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 53 (7.40%) Android
2 52 (7.26%) Apple iOS
3 9 (1.26%) Windows
4 3 (0.42%) Linux
4 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.28%) VMS
6 1 (0.14%) Unix
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (46.09%) Agile
2 225 (31.42%) User Experience
3 169 (23.60%) CI/CD
4 133 (18.58%) Test Automation
5 129 (18.02%) DevOps
6 118 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
6 118 (16.48%) UX Design
7 104 (14.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 98 (13.69%) User Research
9 96 (13.41%) Front End Development
10 95 (13.27%) Analytics
10 95 (13.27%) Service Design
11 92 (12.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 78 (10.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 66 (9.22%) Inclusive Design
14 61 (8.52%) AI
14 61 (8.52%) Roadmaps
15 60 (8.38%) Usability Testing
16 57 (7.96%) Mentoring
17 56 (7.82%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 120 (16.76%) JavaScript
2 105 (14.66%) TypeScript
3 79 (11.03%) SQL
4 76 (10.61%) Java
5 59 (8.24%) Python
6 26 (3.63%) C#
7 12 (1.68%) Kotlin
7 12 (1.68%) Swift
8 5 (0.70%) PHP
8 5 (0.70%) Scala
9 4 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.56%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.42%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.28%) Bash
11 2 (0.28%) Dart
11 2 (0.28%) Go
11 2 (0.28%) R
12 1 (0.14%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.14%) Rust
12 1 (0.14%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 132 (18.44%) Security Cleared
2 112 (15.64%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.42%) Degree
4 41 (5.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (1.54%) ISTQB
6 9 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.28%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.28%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.28%) HNC
11 2 (0.28%) HND
11 2 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.28%) MCP
12 1 (0.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (20.39%) WCAG
2 111 (15.50%) QA
3 42 (5.87%) Data Quality
4 22 (3.07%) GDPR
5 6 (0.84%) PMO
6 5 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.42%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.28%) Section 508
9 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.14%) FIPS 140-2
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 62 (8.66%) Docker
2 9 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (5.73%) Kubernetes
2 23 (3.21%) Terraform
3 18 (2.51%) Grafana
4 12 (1.68%) Ansible
5 6 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (0.42%) Kibana
8 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.28%) SCCM
9 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.14%) logstash
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 92 (12.85%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.12%) Adobe
3 36 (5.03%) Google
4 18 (2.51%) ServiceNow
5 16 (2.23%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.09%) Oracle
7 12 (1.68%) Splunk
8 11 (1.54%) SAP
9 7 (0.98%) OneTrust
10 6 (0.84%) Hopewiser
10 6 (0.84%) Hotjar
10 6 (0.84%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.84%) Optimizely
10 6 (0.84%) Perforce
11 5 (0.70%) Apple
11 5 (0.70%) Databricks
12 4 (0.56%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.56%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.56%) Xamarin
13 3 (0.42%) Marketo