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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 171 221
Rank change year-on-year +25 +50 0
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 1,004 549 448
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.90% 1.68% 1.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.08% 9.98% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 708 341 273
10th Percentile £350 £308 £313
25th Percentile £402 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £630 £600 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £430 £463
% change year-on-year +4.65% -7.03% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 21
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.67 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.18 £22.75 £18.13
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.75 £24.84
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +23.79% +6.34%
75th Percentile £55.13 £35.75 £33.07
90th Percentile £74.25 £42.05 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.48 £24.34 £18.97
% change year-on-year -32.31% +28.31% +13.12%

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 9,059 5,502 5,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.10% 16.82% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,810 3,549 3,462
10th Percentile £338 £281 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year - -0.10% -4.67%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £623
90th Percentile £700 £715 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 247 359
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.56 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.49 £17.48 £14.41
Median hourly rate £38.86 £27.64 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.59% +10.56% -34.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.12 £54.18
90th Percentile £82.25 £84.15 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.86 £25.08 £25.00
% change year-on-year +54.98% +0.30% -28.57%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +33 798 £475 +2.15% 484
UK excluding London +41 423 £450 +4.65% 294
London +4 381 £480 -4.00% 249
Work from Home +1 317 £450 -2.17% 245
North of England -4 162 £450 +2.27% 93
Midlands +9 89 £440 +10.00% 36
West Midlands +1 76 £443 +4.12% 27
South West +16 73 £425 +9.68% 36
Yorkshire -13 63 £500 +18.34% 43
North West -31 57 £442 -4.90% 41
Scotland +2 48 £496 +0.46% 10
North East -7 46 £450 +1.12% 13
South East -52 37 £490 +15.29% 92
East Midlands -9 11 £435 +35.09% 9
East of England -14 10 £575 +27.78% 21
Wales -18 8 £425 - 4
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 11

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 48 (4.78%) SharePoint
2 42 (4.18%) CMS
2 42 (4.18%) Confluence
3 18 (1.79%) WordPress
4 10 (1.00%) Drupal
5 9 (0.90%) Apache
6 7 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.50%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.40%) Moodle
9 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.30%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.20%) IIS
11 1 (0.100%) Camunda
11 1 (0.100%) govService
11 1 (0.100%) Mendix
11 1 (0.100%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.100%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.100%) Strapi
Applications
1 35 (3.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 23 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.99%) Sketch
4 14 (1.39%) Adobe XD
5 11 (1.10%) Chatbot
6 10 (1.00%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.60%) Final Cut Pro
10 5 (0.50%) UserZoom
11 4 (0.40%) Navisworks
11 4 (0.40%) Revit
12 3 (0.30%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.20%) InDesign
13 2 (0.20%) InVision
13 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
14 1 (0.100%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.100%) Blender
14 1 (0.100%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.100%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.100%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.100%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.100%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.100%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.100%) Shopify
5 1 (0.100%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.100%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.100%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 200 (19.92%) Azure
2 163 (16.24%) AWS
3 144 (14.34%) Figma
4 88 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
5 86 (8.57%) GitHub
6 58 (5.78%) Power Platform
7 48 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
8 43 (4.28%) GCP
9 37 (3.69%) Serverless
10 26 (2.59%) Power Automate
11 23 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
12 21 (2.09%) PowerApps
13 19 (1.89%) SaaS
14 17 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
15 16 (1.59%) Entra ID
16 15 (1.49%) BrowserStack
17 14 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
17 14 (1.39%) Amazon S3
18 13 (1.29%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.90%) Intranet
2 4 (0.40%) 5G
2 4 (0.40%) LTE
2 4 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.20%) 5G NR
3 2 (0.20%) Broadband
3 2 (0.20%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Internet
3 2 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.20%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.100%) DMZ
4 1 (0.100%) DSL
4 1 (0.100%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.100%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (3.98%) Power BI
2 39 (3.88%) Metadata
2 39 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (3.19%) MongoDB
4 31 (3.09%) NoSQL
5 29 (2.89%) Relational Database
6 23 (2.29%) SQL Server
7 11 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
9 7 (0.70%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.70%) Redis
10 6 (0.60%) GIS
10 6 (0.60%) MySQL
11 5 (0.50%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.50%) Stardog
12 4 (0.40%) Looker
12 4 (0.40%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.40%) Tableau
13 3 (0.30%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 93 (9.26%) Git
2 83 (8.27%) JIRA
3 59 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 59 (5.88%) Selenium
4 54 (5.38%) Cypress.io
5 50 (4.98%) GitLab
6 29 (2.89%) Cucumber
7 26 (2.59%) REST Assured
8 25 (2.49%) Postman
9 24 (2.39%) Gatling
10 23 (2.29%) JUnit
11 16 (1.59%) JMeter
12 15 (1.49%) WebDriver
13 13 (1.29%) Maven
14 12 (1.20%) Gradle
14 12 (1.20%) Xcode
15 11 (1.10%) Serenity BDD
16 10 (1.00%) fastlane
17 9 (0.90%) Vite
17 9 (0.90%) webpack
General
1 393 (39.14%) Public Sector
2 288 (28.69%) Social Skills
3 105 (10.46%) Finance
4 82 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (2.89%) Marketing
7 28 (2.79%) Banking
8 27 (2.69%) Military
9 26 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (2.29%) Legal
11 22 (2.19%) Retail
12 21 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.79%) Local Government
13 18 (1.79%) Publishing
14 17 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.60%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.50%) Games
16 5 (0.50%) Legal Technology
17 4 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.40%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 254 (25.30%) Developer
2 229 (22.81%) Designer
3 169 (16.83%) Senior
4 105 (10.46%) Lead
5 64 (6.37%) Content Designer
5 64 (6.37%) User Researcher
6 57 (5.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 56 (5.58%) Analyst
8 50 (4.98%) Service Designer
9 47 (4.68%) Senior Developer
10 41 (4.08%) Architect
10 41 (4.08%) Senior Designer
11 37 (3.69%) Java Developer
11 37 (3.69%) React Developer
11 37 (3.69%) Test Engineer
11 37 (3.69%) UX Designer
12 34 (3.39%) UI Designer
13 31 (3.09%) Interaction Designer
14 30 (2.99%) Full-Stack Developer
15 23 (2.29%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (15.74%) React
2 120 (11.95%) CSS
2 120 (11.95%) HTML
3 101 (10.06%) RESTful
4 100 (9.96%) REST
5 86 (8.57%) Node.js
6 71 (7.07%) Spring
7 70 (6.97%) Spring Boot
8 68 (6.77%) Playwright
9 60 (5.98%) HTML5
10 54 (5.38%) CSS3
11 47 (4.68%) Kafka
12 46 (4.58%) Jest
13 38 (3.78%) Redux
14 36 (3.59%) .NET
15 35 (3.49%) JSON
16 33 (3.29%) AngularJS
17 27 (2.69%) Next.js
18 21 (2.09%) GraphQL
19 19 (1.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.77%) Product Ownership
2 53 (5.28%) Mobile App
3 52 (5.18%) Cloud Native
4 32 (3.19%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.89%) NHS
6 26 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (2.59%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (1.99%) Taxonomies
9 19 (1.89%) Data Structures
9 19 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.39%) Graphic Design
11 14 (1.39%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.29%) Social Media
13 12 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.10%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.90%) Animation
15 9 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.99%) Apple iOS
2 26 (2.59%) Android
3 12 (1.20%) Windows
4 4 (0.40%) Linux
4 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.100%) Unix
5 1 (0.100%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 513 (51.10%) Agile
2 305 (30.38%) CI/CD
3 280 (27.89%) User Experience
4 213 (21.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 209 (20.82%) User Research
6 195 (19.42%) DevOps
7 188 (18.73%) Test Automation
8 183 (18.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 175 (17.43%) UX Design
10 159 (15.84%) Service Design
11 144 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
12 140 (13.94%) AI
12 140 (13.94%) Analytics
13 129 (12.85%) Stakeholder Management
14 113 (11.25%) Microservices
15 110 (10.96%) Decision-Making
15 110 (10.96%) Scrum
16 107 (10.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 106 (10.56%) Prototyping
18 98 (9.76%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 191 (19.02%) JavaScript
2 147 (14.64%) TypeScript
3 125 (12.45%) Java
4 94 (9.36%) Python
5 67 (6.67%) SQL
6 45 (4.48%) C#
7 19 (1.89%) Ruby
8 18 (1.79%) Kotlin
9 17 (1.69%) Swift
10 11 (1.10%) Bicep
10 11 (1.10%) Scala
11 9 (0.90%) PHP
12 6 (0.60%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.60%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.40%) Bash
14 4 (0.40%) Objective-C
14 4 (0.40%) R
15 3 (0.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 257 (25.60%) Security Cleared
2 218 (21.71%) SC Cleared
3 86 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 51 (5.08%) Degree
5 16 (1.59%) ISTQB
5 16 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (1.29%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (0.60%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.40%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.30%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.20%) ACCA
12 2 (0.20%) CCA
12 2 (0.20%) CIMA
12 2 (0.20%) CIPD
12 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.20%) PMP
13 1 (0.100%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (29.18%) WCAG
2 101 (10.06%) QA
3 36 (3.59%) Data Quality
4 35 (3.49%) GDPR
5 15 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
6 13 (1.29%) NCSC
7 5 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.40%) ISO 19650
8 4 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 4 (0.40%) PMO
9 3 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.20%) GRC
10 2 (0.20%) HL7
10 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.100%) GLP
11 1 (0.100%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.100%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.100%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.100%) WAI
11 1 (0.100%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 104 (10.36%) Docker
2 5 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.100%) Firmware
3 1 (0.100%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 86 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 58 (5.78%) Terraform
3 32 (3.19%) Grafana
4 19 (1.89%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.80%) Argo
7 7 (0.70%) Kibana
8 5 (0.50%) Ansible
9 1 (0.100%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.100%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.100%) logstash
9 1 (0.100%) QRadar
9 1 (0.100%) SELinux
9 1 (0.100%) systemd
Vendors
1 103 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.68%) Adobe
3 26 (2.59%) Google
4 25 (2.49%) Oracle
5 18 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 17 (1.69%) Splunk
7 16 (1.59%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.10%) Pega
10 9 (0.90%) Sitecore
11 8 (0.80%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.70%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.70%) SAP
13 6 (0.60%) Apple
13 6 (0.60%) Solace
14 4 (0.40%) Autodesk
14 4 (0.40%) Databricks
15 3 (0.30%) Checkmarx
15 3 (0.30%) New Relic
15 3 (0.30%) OpenAI