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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 163 220
Rank change year-on-year +17 +57 +22
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 915 509 479
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.83% 1.73% 1.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.94% 10.74% 7.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 323 299
10th Percentile £350 £313 £305
25th Percentile £404 £375 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £635 £600 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +11.76% -8.11% -3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 32
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.62 £22.75 £14.50
Median hourly rate £26.19 £28.18 £18.55
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +51.91% -20.59%
75th Percentile £45.38 £35.75 £32.05
90th Percentile £74.28 - £49.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.48 £28.18 £14.50
% change year-on-year -41.54% +94.34% -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 8,367 4,738 5,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.74% 16.10% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,363 3,010 3,749
10th Percentile £344 £275 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year - -1.77% -3.05%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £717 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 495 194 430
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.56 £21.31 £13.18
Median hourly rate £36.07 £32.50 £23.30
Median % change year-on-year +10.98% +39.51% -39.82%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.35 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £19.17
% change year-on-year +23.08% +69.54% -50.27%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +21 699 £475 - 383
UK excluding London +42 377 £475 +11.76% 295
London -6 334 £475 -5.00% 152
Work from Home +12 296 £450 -3.23% 243
North of England +8 160 £455 - 79
North West +8 78 £442 -5.05% 36
Midlands -15 69 £450 +10.77% 37
South West +18 61 £475 +18.75% 28
West Midlands -16 58 £450 -2.17% 21
Yorkshire -21 53 £500 +18.34% 33
Scotland +9 45 £550 +18.15% 19
South East -54 35 £500 +8.70% 95
North East -11 33 £450 -2.17% 14
East Midlands -17 10 £445 +38.20% 16
East of England -22 7 £575 +27.78% 24
Wales -19 4 £713 +82.69% 15
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 4

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 43 (4.70%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.83%) Confluence
3 31 (3.39%) CMS
4 10 (1.09%) WordPress
5 7 (0.77%) ArcGIS
5 7 (0.77%) Drupal
6 6 (0.66%) Apache
7 4 (0.44%) Moodle
8 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.22%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) govService
9 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
9 1 (0.11%) Strapi
9 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 32 (3.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 24 (2.62%) Sketch
3 22 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (1.97%) Adobe XD
5 10 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.98%) Adobe After Effects
6 9 (0.98%) InVision
7 8 (0.87%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
9 6 (0.66%) UserZoom
10 5 (0.55%) Final Cut Pro
11 4 (0.44%) Navisworks
11 4 (0.44%) Revit
11 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.33%) CapCut
12 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
12 3 (0.33%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.33%) Zeplin
13 2 (0.22%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.11%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.11%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.11%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 152 (16.61%) Azure
2 141 (15.41%) Figma
3 132 (14.43%) AWS
4 75 (8.20%) GitHub
5 59 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (5.25%) Power Platform
7 42 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
8 34 (3.72%) GCP
9 25 (2.73%) Serverless
10 19 (2.08%) Miro
11 18 (1.97%) SaaS
12 17 (1.86%) BrowserStack
13 14 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
13 14 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (1.42%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.31%) Entra ID
16 11 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (1.09%) Power Automate
18 9 (0.98%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.09%) Intranet
2 4 (0.44%) 5G
2 4 (0.44%) LTE
2 4 (0.44%) 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 36 (3.93%) Power BI
2 29 (3.17%) NoSQL
2 29 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (2.84%) MongoDB
4 24 (2.62%) Relational Database
5 22 (2.40%) Metadata
6 12 (1.31%) SQL Server
7 9 (0.98%) GIS
8 7 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.66%) MySQL
9 6 (0.66%) Spatial Data
10 5 (0.55%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.55%) Redis
11 4 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.44%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.33%) Tableau
13 2 (0.22%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.22%) MS Access
13 2 (0.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 76 (8.31%) Git
2 71 (7.76%) JIRA
3 49 (5.36%) Cypress.io
4 45 (4.92%) Selenium
5 44 (4.81%) GitLab
6 43 (4.70%) Jenkins
7 23 (2.51%) REST Assured
8 21 (2.30%) Cucumber
9 20 (2.19%) JUnit
10 18 (1.97%) Gatling
11 17 (1.86%) JMeter
11 17 (1.86%) Postman
12 11 (1.20%) CircleCI
12 11 (1.20%) Serenity BDD
13 10 (1.09%) Gradle
14 9 (0.98%) Axure RP
14 9 (0.98%) fastlane
14 9 (0.98%) Xcode
15 8 (0.87%) Maven
16 7 (0.77%) webpack
General
1 354 (38.69%) Public Sector
2 245 (26.78%) Social Skills
3 87 (9.51%) Finance
4 59 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (4.04%) Banking
7 22 (2.40%) Military
7 22 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (2.30%) Legal
8 21 (2.30%) Marketing
9 19 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (1.97%) Publishing
11 17 (1.86%) Retail
12 13 (1.42%) Local Government
13 7 (0.77%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.44%) Law
15 4 (0.44%) Legal Technology
15 4 (0.44%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 227 (24.81%) Designer
2 216 (23.61%) Developer
3 140 (15.30%) Senior
4 78 (8.52%) Lead
5 64 (6.99%) Content Designer
6 58 (6.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 56 (6.12%) User Researcher
8 52 (5.68%) Service Designer
9 48 (5.25%) UX Designer
10 41 (4.48%) Analyst
10 41 (4.48%) Test Engineer
11 36 (3.93%) Senior Designer
12 34 (3.72%) Full-Stack Developer
12 34 (3.72%) Senior Developer
13 32 (3.50%) Architect
14 31 (3.39%) React Developer
15 30 (3.28%) Tester
16 26 (2.84%) Interaction Designer
17 25 (2.73%) Java Developer
17 25 (2.73%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (15.52%) React
2 100 (10.93%) HTML
3 95 (10.38%) CSS
4 80 (8.74%) REST
5 78 (8.52%) RESTful
6 77 (8.42%) Node.js
7 69 (7.54%) Spring
8 68 (7.43%) Spring Boot
9 63 (6.89%) Playwright
10 44 (4.81%) HTML5
11 41 (4.48%) CSS3
12 40 (4.37%) Jest
13 34 (3.72%) AngularJS
13 34 (3.72%) Redux
14 32 (3.50%) Kafka
15 28 (3.06%) .NET
16 27 (2.95%) Next.js
17 17 (1.86%) Vue
18 16 (1.75%) GraphQL
19 14 (1.53%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 65 (7.10%) Product Ownership
2 49 (5.36%) Mobile App
3 32 (3.50%) Cloud Native
4 23 (2.51%) NHS
5 22 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.97%) Management Information System
8 15 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.53%) Social Media
10 13 (1.42%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.20%) Graphic Design
13 10 (1.09%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (1.09%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.98%) Taxonomies
15 8 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (0.87%) Animation
15 8 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.73%) Apple iOS
2 20 (2.19%) Android
3 6 (0.66%) Windows
4 4 (0.44%) Linux
4 4 (0.44%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (50.27%) Agile
2 258 (28.20%) User Experience
3 240 (26.23%) CI/CD
4 216 (23.61%) User Research
5 177 (19.34%) UX Design
6 174 (19.02%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 160 (17.49%) Test Automation
8 155 (16.94%) Service Design
9 152 (16.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 150 (16.39%) DevOps
11 121 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
12 114 (12.46%) Analytics
13 104 (11.37%) Prototyping
14 103 (11.26%) AI
15 91 (9.95%) Microservices
16 89 (9.73%) Decision-Making
17 85 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
18 84 (9.18%) Front End Development
19 82 (8.96%) Scrum
19 82 (8.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 160 (17.49%) JavaScript
2 139 (15.19%) TypeScript
3 116 (12.68%) Java
4 81 (8.85%) Python
5 55 (6.01%) SQL
6 30 (3.28%) C#
7 19 (2.08%) Ruby
8 14 (1.53%) Kotlin
9 13 (1.42%) Swift
10 11 (1.20%) Scala
11 6 (0.66%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.55%) Bicep
13 3 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.33%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.33%) PHP
14 2 (0.22%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.22%) R
14 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.11%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 215 (23.50%) Security Cleared
2 177 (19.34%) SC Cleared
3 72 (7.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 48 (5.25%) Degree
5 9 (0.98%) DV Cleared
5 9 (0.98%) ISTQB
6 7 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.55%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.55%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.33%) CCA
10 2 (0.22%) ACCA
10 2 (0.22%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.22%) CIMA
10 2 (0.22%) CIPD
10 2 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.22%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.22%) PMP
11 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (28.09%) WCAG
2 82 (8.96%) QA
3 32 (3.50%) Data Quality
4 20 (2.19%) GDPR
5 9 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.77%) NCSC
7 5 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.44%) ISO 19650
8 4 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.33%) PMO
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 85 (9.29%) Docker
2 4 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Firmware
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (6.99%) Kubernetes
2 42 (4.59%) Terraform
3 29 (3.17%) Grafana
4 17 (1.86%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.98%) Argo
5 9 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.66%) Ansible
7 5 (0.55%) 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 77 (8.42%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.12%) Adobe
3 21 (2.30%) Google
4 17 (1.86%) Oracle
4 17 (1.86%) Salesforce
5 16 (1.75%) Splunk
6 14 (1.53%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.31%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.20%) Pega
9 8 (0.87%) Databricks
9 8 (0.87%) Red Hat
9 8 (0.87%) Sitecore
10 6 (0.66%) SAP
11 5 (0.55%) Apple
11 5 (0.55%) Solace
12 4 (0.44%) Autodesk
13 3 (0.33%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.33%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.33%) Synthesia
14 2 (0.22%) New Relic