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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 170 208
Rank change year-on-year +26 +38 +27
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 916 490 487
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.85% 1.69% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.11% 10.49% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 312 308
10th Percentile £350 £313 £304
25th Percentile £402 £396 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £630 £600 £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +11.76% -8.11% -3.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 13 32
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.54 £22.75 £14.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £28.18 £18.55
Median % change year-on-year -0.64% +51.91% -20.59%
75th Percentile £61.25 £35.75 £32.05
90th Percentile £71.98 - £49.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.69 £28.18 £14.50
% change year-on-year -19.48% +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 8,248 4,671 5,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.70% 16.09% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,289 2,979 3,746
10th Percentile £342 £268 £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 £614 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 488 188 416
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.88 £13.23
Median hourly rate £36.04 £32.50 £23.30
Median % change year-on-year +10.88% +39.51% -38.70%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.83 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £32.81 £19.18
% change year-on-year +21.91% +71.06% -48.85%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +22 701 £475 - 498
UK excluding London +36 384 £475 +11.76% 375
London -1 328 £475 -5.00% 202
Work from Home +28 300 £449 -5.18% 371
North of England +8 169 £450 -1.10% 113
North West +7 87 £430 -7.53% 57
Midlands -3 73 £450 +10.77% 47
West Midlands -12 62 £450 -2.17% 27
South West +16 59 £475 +18.75% 38
Yorkshire -29 54 £500 +19.05% 41
Scotland +7 42 £550 +18.15% 28
South East -43 34 £500 +16.28% 74
North East -3 32 £450 -2.17% 15
East Midlands -19 10 £445 +38.20% 20
East of England -26 7 £575 +27.78% 30
Wales -22 4 £713 +82.69% 31
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 16

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 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.71%) Confluence
3 32 (3.49%) CMS
4 11 (1.20%) WordPress
5 7 (0.76%) ArcGIS
5 7 (0.76%) 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%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) govService
9 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Kentico
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
9 1 (0.11%) Strapi
9 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 29 (3.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 28 (3.06%) Sketch
3 23 (2.51%) Adobe XD
4 22 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
5 10 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.98%) InVision
7 8 (0.87%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.87%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.66%) UserZoom
10 4 (0.44%) Final Cut Pro
10 4 (0.44%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.44%) Revit
10 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.33%) CapCut
11 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.33%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.33%) Zeplin
12 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
1 150 (16.38%) Azure
2 142 (15.50%) Figma
3 128 (13.97%) AWS
4 75 (8.19%) GitHub
5 53 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
6 51 (5.57%) Power Platform
7 41 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
8 31 (3.38%) GCP
9 25 (2.73%) Serverless
10 19 (2.07%) Miro
11 18 (1.97%) SaaS
12 17 (1.86%) BrowserStack
13 14 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (1.42%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (1.31%) Entra ID
16 10 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (1.09%) Power Automate
17 9 (0.98%) Firebase
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%) 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%) Internet
4 1 (0.11%) SAN
4 1 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.26%) Power BI
2 26 (2.84%) MongoDB
2 26 (2.84%) NoSQL
3 24 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (2.40%) Metadata
4 22 (2.40%) Relational Database
5 13 (1.42%) SQL Server
6 9 (0.98%) GIS
7 8 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.76%) MySQL
9 6 (0.66%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.66%) Spatial Data
10 4 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.44%) Delta Lake
10 4 (0.44%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.33%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.33%) Looker
11 3 (0.33%) Redis
11 3 (0.33%) Tableau
12 2 (0.22%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 77 (8.41%) Git
2 68 (7.42%) JIRA
3 53 (5.79%) Cypress.io
4 49 (5.35%) GitLab
5 46 (5.02%) Selenium
6 37 (4.04%) Jenkins
7 23 (2.51%) REST Assured
8 21 (2.29%) Cucumber
9 20 (2.18%) JUnit
10 18 (1.97%) Gatling
11 17 (1.86%) JMeter
11 17 (1.86%) Postman
12 13 (1.42%) CircleCI
13 11 (1.20%) Gradle
13 11 (1.20%) Serenity BDD
14 10 (1.09%) fastlane
14 10 (1.09%) Xcode
15 9 (0.98%) Axure RP
16 7 (0.76%) IntelliJ
16 7 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 350 (38.21%) Public Sector
2 244 (26.64%) Social Skills
3 85 (9.28%) Finance
4 64 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (3.93%) Banking
7 23 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (2.40%) Marketing
8 22 (2.40%) Military
9 21 (2.29%) Legal
10 19 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (1.97%) Publishing
11 18 (1.97%) Retail
12 12 (1.31%) Local Government
13 7 (0.76%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.44%) Law
15 4 (0.44%) Social Science
16 3 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 224 (24.45%) Designer
2 210 (22.93%) Developer
3 139 (15.17%) Senior
4 80 (8.73%) Lead
5 63 (6.88%) Content Designer
6 59 (6.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 55 (6.00%) User Researcher
8 52 (5.68%) Service Designer
9 48 (5.24%) UX Designer
10 44 (4.80%) Test Engineer
11 43 (4.69%) Analyst
12 35 (3.82%) Full-Stack Developer
12 35 (3.82%) Senior Designer
13 34 (3.71%) Architect
14 31 (3.38%) React Developer
15 30 (3.28%) Senior Developer
15 30 (3.28%) Tester
16 26 (2.84%) Interaction Designer
17 24 (2.62%) Business Analyst
17 24 (2.62%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (15.83%) React
2 103 (11.24%) HTML
3 98 (10.70%) CSS
4 77 (8.41%) REST
4 77 (8.41%) RESTful
5 76 (8.30%) Node.js
6 67 (7.31%) Spring
7 66 (7.21%) Playwright
7 66 (7.21%) Spring Boot
8 44 (4.80%) HTML5
9 42 (4.59%) CSS3
9 42 (4.59%) Jest
10 39 (4.26%) AngularJS
11 34 (3.71%) Redux
12 32 (3.49%) Kafka
13 26 (2.84%) .NET
13 26 (2.84%) Next.js
14 19 (2.07%) GraphQL
15 17 (1.86%) Vue
16 15 (1.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 67 (7.31%) Product Ownership
2 48 (5.24%) Mobile App
3 28 (3.06%) Cloud Native
4 23 (2.51%) NHS
5 20 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.07%) Management Information System
7 17 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.53%) Social Media
9 13 (1.42%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.09%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.09%) Graphic Design
11 10 (1.09%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (0.98%) Taxonomies
13 8 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (0.76%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.06%) Apple iOS
2 21 (2.29%) Android
3 4 (0.44%) Linux
3 4 (0.44%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.33%) Windows
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (50.00%) Agile
2 267 (29.15%) User Experience
3 239 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 217 (23.69%) User Research
5 179 (19.54%) UX Design
6 166 (18.12%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 160 (17.47%) Test Automation
8 154 (16.81%) Service Design
9 151 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 145 (15.83%) DevOps
11 122 (13.32%) Analytics
12 121 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
13 101 (11.03%) Prototyping
14 100 (10.92%) AI
15 89 (9.72%) Decision-Making
16 85 (9.28%) Front End Development
17 83 (9.06%) Microservices
17 83 (9.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 83 (9.06%) Stakeholder Management
18 79 (8.62%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 161 (17.58%) JavaScript
2 139 (15.17%) TypeScript
3 113 (12.34%) Java
4 77 (8.41%) Python
5 55 (6.00%) SQL
6 25 (2.73%) C#
7 19 (2.07%) Ruby
8 17 (1.86%) Kotlin
9 15 (1.64%) Swift
10 11 (1.20%) Scala
11 6 (0.66%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.55%) Objective-C
13 4 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.44%) PHP
14 3 (0.33%) R
15 2 (0.22%) Bicep
15 2 (0.22%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 208 (22.71%) Security Cleared
2 168 (18.34%) SC Cleared
3 71 (7.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 52 (5.68%) Degree
5 10 (1.09%) ISTQB
6 9 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (0.98%) DV Cleared
6 9 (0.98%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.55%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.33%) CCA
10 3 (0.33%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.22%) ACCA
11 2 (0.22%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.22%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.22%) CIMA
11 2 (0.22%) CIPD
11 2 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (28.06%) WCAG
2 83 (9.06%) QA
3 37 (4.04%) Data Quality
4 21 (2.29%) GDPR
5 9 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (0.44%) ISO 19650
7 4 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 4 (0.44%) NCSC
8 3 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.33%) PMO
9 2 (0.22%) GRC
9 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.11%) GLP
10 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.11%) HL7
10 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.11%) WAI
10 1 (0.11%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 79 (8.62%) Docker
2 4 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Firmware
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (6.88%) Kubernetes
2 37 (4.04%) Terraform
3 32 (3.49%) Grafana
4 17 (1.86%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.98%) Argo
5 9 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.55%) Ansible
6 5 (0.55%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.11%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.11%) logstash
7 1 (0.11%) QRadar
7 1 (0.11%) SELinux
7 1 (0.11%) systemd
Vendors
1 75 (8.19%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.44%) Adobe
3 21 (2.29%) Google
4 16 (1.75%) Oracle
4 16 (1.75%) Salesforce
4 16 (1.75%) Splunk
5 14 (1.53%) ServiceNow
6 12 (1.31%) Databricks
7 11 (1.20%) Dynatrace
7 11 (1.20%) Pega
8 8 (0.87%) Red Hat
8 8 (0.87%) Sitecore
9 7 (0.76%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.66%) SAP
11 5 (0.55%) Apple
11 5 (0.55%) Solace
12 4 (0.44%) Autodesk
13 3 (0.33%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.33%) Synthesia
14 2 (0.22%) Checkmarx