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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 166 225
Rank change year-on-year +15 +59 +3
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 926 523 471
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.82% 1.73% 1.08%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.79% 10.58% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 332 292
10th Percentile £350 £310 £281
25th Percentile £406 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £630 £600 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +10.59% -8.11% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 15 29
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.20 £13.90
25th Percentile £15.62 £22.75 £14.27
Median hourly rate £26.19 £30.00 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +65.47% -22.39%
75th Percentile £44.75 £35.75 £31.71
90th Percentile £74.28 - £42.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £20.84 £14.50
% change year-on-year -23.22% +43.72% -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 8,584 4,943 5,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.87% 16.34% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,498 3,166 3,714
10th Percentile £340 £275 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
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 £723 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 201 432
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.09 £11.06
25th Percentile £19.24 £18.50 £13.30
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +32.94% -36.53%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £50.27
90th Percentile £82.22 £83.41 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £31.57 £19.50
% change year-on-year +25.14% +61.87% -45.07%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +12 714 £475 +1.71% 376
UK excluding London +16 367 £470 +10.59% 269
London +3 354 £475 -5.00% 166
Work from Home 0 293 £450 -2.17% 212
North of England -6 143 £455 - 76
Midlands -10 75 £450 +16.13% 52
West Midlands -12 64 £450 +5.88% 24
South West +14 63 £450 +12.50% 32
North West -23 62 £450 -3.07% 31
Yorkshire -17 52 £525 +24.26% 36
Scotland +2 42 £538 +8.81% 8
South East -40 35 £500 +25.00% 64
North East -7 33 £450 -2.17% 9
East Midlands -4 10 £445 +38.20% 28
East of England -26 9 £575 +27.78% 16
Wales -16 4 £713 +80.38% 12
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 13

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 (5.08%) SharePoint
2 36 (3.89%) Confluence
3 31 (3.35%) CMS
4 13 (1.40%) WordPress
5 8 (0.86%) Apache
6 7 (0.76%) Drupal
7 5 (0.54%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.43%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.43%) Moodle
9 2 (0.22%) IIS
9 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) govService
10 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Mendix
10 1 (0.11%) nginx
10 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.11%) Strapi
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 33 (3.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 23 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (2.16%) Sketch
4 14 (1.51%) Adobe XD
5 10 (1.08%) Adobe After Effects
6 9 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.86%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.65%) Final Cut Pro
9 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
9 6 (0.65%) UserZoom
10 5 (0.54%) InVision
11 4 (0.43%) Navisworks
11 4 (0.43%) Revit
12 3 (0.32%) CapCut
12 3 (0.32%) MS Visio
12 3 (0.32%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.22%) InDesign
14 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 7 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.22%) 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
1 169 (18.25%) Azure
2 143 (15.44%) AWS
3 135 (14.58%) Figma
4 77 (8.32%) GitHub
5 70 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
6 50 (5.40%) Power Platform
7 43 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
8 41 (4.43%) GCP
9 27 (2.92%) Serverless
10 19 (2.05%) SaaS
11 17 (1.84%) BrowserStack
11 17 (1.84%) Power Automate
12 16 (1.73%) PowerApps
13 15 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
13 15 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (1.51%) Miro
15 11 (1.19%) Entra ID
15 11 (1.19%) npm
16 10 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (1.08%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.08%) Intranet
2 4 (0.43%) 5G
2 4 (0.43%) LTE
2 4 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.22%) 5G NR
3 2 (0.22%) HTTP
3 2 (0.22%) Internet
3 2 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.22%) 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 37 (4.00%) Power BI
2 33 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (3.35%) NoSQL
4 28 (3.02%) Metadata
4 28 (3.02%) MongoDB
5 26 (2.81%) Relational Database
6 16 (1.73%) SQL Server
7 8 (0.86%) GIS
8 7 (0.76%) Redis
9 6 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.54%) MySQL
10 5 (0.54%) Spatial Data
11 4 (0.43%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.43%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.43%) Stardog
12 3 (0.32%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.32%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.32%) Semantic Layer
12 3 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 81 (8.75%) Git
2 74 (7.99%) JIRA
3 54 (5.83%) Selenium
4 53 (5.72%) Cypress.io
5 50 (5.40%) Jenkins
6 47 (5.08%) GitLab
7 26 (2.81%) Cucumber
8 25 (2.70%) REST Assured
9 22 (2.38%) JUnit
10 20 (2.16%) Gatling
10 20 (2.16%) Postman
11 17 (1.84%) JMeter
12 12 (1.30%) Xcode
13 11 (1.19%) Gradle
13 11 (1.19%) Serenity BDD
14 10 (1.08%) fastlane
14 10 (1.08%) Maven
14 10 (1.08%) WebDriver
15 9 (0.97%) CircleCI
16 8 (0.86%) Vite
General
1 357 (38.55%) Public Sector
2 254 (27.43%) Social Skills
3 91 (9.83%) Finance
4 69 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (6.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (3.78%) Banking
7 24 (2.59%) Legal
8 22 (2.38%) Marketing
8 22 (2.38%) Military
9 20 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (2.05%) Retail
11 18 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (1.84%) Publishing
13 13 (1.40%) Local Government
14 7 (0.76%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.54%) Legal Technology
16 4 (0.43%) Automotive
16 4 (0.43%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 225 (24.30%) Developer
2 218 (23.54%) Designer
3 137 (14.79%) Senior
4 86 (9.29%) Lead
5 62 (6.70%) Content Designer
6 55 (5.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 53 (5.72%) User Researcher
8 51 (5.51%) Service Designer
9 48 (5.18%) Analyst
10 40 (4.32%) Test Engineer
10 40 (4.32%) UX Designer
11 37 (4.00%) Senior Designer
12 36 (3.89%) Architect
13 33 (3.56%) Senior Developer
14 32 (3.46%) React Developer
15 30 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
16 29 (3.13%) Java Developer
17 28 (3.02%) Tester
17 28 (3.02%) UI Designer
18 23 (2.48%) Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (15.33%) React
2 102 (11.02%) HTML
3 97 (10.48%) CSS
4 89 (9.61%) RESTful
5 87 (9.40%) REST
6 77 (8.32%) Node.js
7 68 (7.34%) Spring
8 67 (7.24%) Playwright
8 67 (7.24%) Spring Boot
9 45 (4.86%) HTML5
10 41 (4.43%) CSS3
10 41 (4.43%) Jest
11 39 (4.21%) Kafka
12 35 (3.78%) Redux
13 33 (3.56%) AngularJS
14 30 (3.24%) .NET
15 24 (2.59%) JSON
15 24 (2.59%) Next.js
16 19 (2.05%) GraphQL
17 17 (1.84%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 70 (7.56%) Product Ownership
2 48 (5.18%) Mobile App
3 35 (3.78%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.81%) Onboarding
5 24 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 23 (2.48%) NHS
7 22 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.73%) Taxonomies
11 14 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.51%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.51%) Social Media
12 13 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.30%) Graphic Design
14 10 (1.08%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
15 9 (0.97%) Animation
16 8 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.02%) Apple iOS
2 22 (2.38%) Android
3 9 (0.97%) Windows
4 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.32%) Linux
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (50.32%) Agile
2 261 (28.19%) CI/CD
3 253 (27.32%) User Experience
4 198 (21.38%) User Research
5 172 (18.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 171 (18.47%) Test Automation
7 170 (18.36%) DevOps
7 170 (18.36%) UX Design
8 159 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 146 (15.77%) Service Design
10 129 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
11 114 (12.31%) Analytics
12 112 (12.10%) AI
13 99 (10.69%) Microservices
14 97 (10.48%) Prototyping
15 96 (10.37%) Decision-Making
15 96 (10.37%) Stakeholder Management
16 92 (9.94%) Scrum
17 87 (9.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 81 (8.75%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 167 (18.03%) JavaScript
2 139 (15.01%) TypeScript
3 119 (12.85%) Java
4 78 (8.42%) Python
5 59 (6.37%) SQL
6 38 (4.10%) C#
7 20 (2.16%) Ruby
8 16 (1.73%) Swift
9 15 (1.62%) Kotlin
10 11 (1.19%) Scala
11 7 (0.76%) Bicep
12 5 (0.54%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.54%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.54%) SPARQL
13 4 (0.43%) Objective-C
13 4 (0.43%) PHP
14 3 (0.32%) Bash
14 3 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.32%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.22%) Go
Qualifications
1 225 (24.30%) Security Cleared
2 193 (20.84%) SC Cleared
3 72 (7.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 49 (5.29%) Degree
5 12 (1.30%) ISTQB
6 10 (1.08%) DV Cleared
7 9 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.54%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.54%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.22%) ACCA
11 2 (0.22%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.22%) CCA
11 2 (0.22%) CIMA
11 2 (0.22%) CIPD
11 2 (0.22%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.22%) PMP
12 1 (0.11%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (27.32%) WCAG
2 87 (9.40%) QA
3 34 (3.67%) Data Quality
4 24 (2.59%) GDPR
5 11 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (0.97%) NCSC
7 5 (0.54%) 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 (0.22%) GRC
10 2 (0.22%) 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 90 (9.72%) Docker
2 4 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Firmware
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 71 (7.67%) Kubernetes
2 47 (5.08%) Terraform
3 27 (2.92%) Grafana
4 16 (1.73%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.86%) Argo
7 5 (0.54%) Ansible
7 5 (0.54%) 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 (8.86%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.72%) Adobe
3 22 (2.38%) Google
4 21 (2.27%) Oracle
5 17 (1.84%) Salesforce
5 17 (1.84%) Splunk
6 15 (1.62%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.40%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.19%) Pega
9 9 (0.97%) Sitecore
10 8 (0.86%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.76%) SAP
12 6 (0.65%) Apple
12 6 (0.65%) Databricks
13 5 (0.54%) Solace
14 4 (0.43%) Autodesk
14 4 (0.43%) MuleSoft
15 3 (0.32%) Checkmarx
15 3 (0.32%) New Relic
15 3 (0.32%) OpenAI