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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 207 218
Rank change year-on-year +59 +11 +25
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 715 419 522
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.03% 1.16% 1.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.49% 8.75% 7.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 258 411
10th Percentile £313 £291 £340
25th Percentile £400 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £490
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.82% -6.67%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £576
90th Percentile £625 £688 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £428 £494 £461
% change year-on-year -13.46% +7.16% -9.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 15
10th Percentile £13.25 £22.58 £16.10
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.36 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £26.50 £19.47
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +36.11% -17.98%
75th Percentile £35.75 £31.62 £31.17
90th Percentile £37.50 £33.07 £35.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.50 £25.93 £17.50
% change year-on-year -20.94% +48.17% -22.86%

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 6,221 4,791 6,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.68% 13.22% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,991 2,793 4,453
10th Percentile £305 £275 £310
25th Percentile £402 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £610 £625 £645
90th Percentile £700 £730 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £472 £500
% change year-on-year +0.64% -5.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 311 216 253
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.26 £14.63
25th Percentile £16.61 £15.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.57 £26.93 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -25.21% +45.45%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.14 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.45% -33.75% +88.95%

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 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 12 November 2025.

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 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 +79 573 £473 -5.50% 683
London +73 315 £493 -1.50% 332
UK excluding London +35 288 £428 -13.46% 406
Work from Home +38 239 £497 +3.98% 387
North of England +29 137 £413 -17.50% 95
North West +9 72 £400 -20.00% 62
Scotland +11 49 £475 +0.90% 28
Yorkshire +8 47 £443 -17.29% 21
Midlands -8 36 £445 +15.73% 50
West Midlands +1 34 £445 +6.97% 28
South West +23 32 £425 -31.31% 60
North East +2 19 £448 +6.55% 13
South East -10 19 £452 -13.90% 127
East of England -11 9 £550 -3.51% 32
Wales 0 8 £519 +22.06% 10
East Midlands -20 2 - - 21
Northern Ireland -5 1 - - 8

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 37 (5.17%) CMS
2 28 (3.92%) SharePoint
3 23 (3.22%) Confluence
4 9 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.12%) Apache
5 8 (1.12%) Moodle
6 7 (0.98%) WordPress
7 6 (0.84%) Drupal
8 4 (0.56%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.42%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.28%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.28%) nginx
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
11 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 35 (4.90%) Sketch
2 25 (3.50%) Adobe XD
3 22 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 11 (1.54%) Chatbot
6 11 (1.54%) InVision
7 8 (1.12%) Zeplin
8 7 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.84%) Adobe Captivate
10 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.42%) Camtasia
11 3 (0.42%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.42%) Snagit
12 2 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.28%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.28%) Navisworks
12 2 (0.28%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.14%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.14%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.14%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP PLM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.14%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP SRM
3 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 142 (19.86%) Azure
2 118 (16.50%) AWS
3 98 (13.71%) Figma
4 59 (8.25%) Power Platform
5 43 (6.01%) GitHub
6 42 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (4.06%) GCP
7 29 (4.06%) Serverless
8 22 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (2.80%) Miro
10 19 (2.66%) Amazon S3
10 19 (2.66%) Google Analytics
10 19 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (2.24%) SaaS
12 15 (2.10%) PowerApps
13 14 (1.96%) npm
14 13 (1.82%) Power Automate
15 12 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
16 9 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.96%) HTTP
2 8 (1.12%) DNS
2 8 (1.12%) Internet
3 4 (0.56%) Firewall
3 4 (0.56%) SMS
4 3 (0.42%) WebEx
5 2 (0.28%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.28%) DHCP
5 2 (0.28%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.28%) Intranet
5 2 (0.28%) LAN
5 2 (0.28%) VoIP
5 2 (0.28%) VPN
5 2 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.14%) DKIM
6 1 (0.14%) DMARC
6 1 (0.14%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (6.43%) Power BI
2 24 (3.36%) NoSQL
3 23 (3.22%) MongoDB
4 22 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (2.80%) SQL Server
6 16 (2.24%) Metadata
6 16 (2.24%) Redis
7 14 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (1.96%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.54%) BigQuery
8 11 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.98%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.98%) Looker
10 6 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.84%) Tableau
11 5 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.56%) Big Data
12 4 (0.56%) MySQL
12 4 (0.56%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 86 (12.03%) Git
2 63 (8.81%) Cypress.io
3 51 (7.13%) JIRA
4 35 (4.90%) Jenkins
5 33 (4.62%) Selenium
6 31 (4.34%) Postman
7 30 (4.20%) GitLab
8 26 (3.64%) webpack
9 25 (3.50%) Cucumber
10 19 (2.66%) Axure RP
11 18 (2.52%) REST Assured
12 16 (2.24%) JUnit
13 13 (1.82%) JMeter
14 12 (1.68%) Xcode
15 11 (1.54%) SonarQube
16 9 (1.26%) Appium
17 8 (1.12%) Gradle
17 8 (1.12%) gulp
17 8 (1.12%) Maven
17 8 (1.12%) Storybook
General
1 210 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 177 (24.76%) Public Sector
3 115 (16.08%) Finance
4 65 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (7.97%) Banking
5 57 (7.97%) Marketing
6 26 (3.64%) Publishing
7 25 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (2.10%) Legal
11 14 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.54%) Retail
13 10 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.26%) Local Government
14 9 (1.26%) Military
14 9 (1.26%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.12%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.98%) Brand Awareness
17 6 (0.84%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 161 (22.52%) Developer
2 142 (19.86%) Designer
3 98 (13.71%) Senior
4 73 (10.21%) Lead
5 43 (6.01%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 43 (6.01%) Service Designer
6 39 (5.45%) UX Designer
7 33 (4.62%) Analyst
8 30 (4.20%) Architect
9 29 (4.06%) Test Engineer
9 29 (4.06%) Tester
10 28 (3.92%) Senior Developer
11 21 (2.94%) User Researcher
12 18 (2.52%) Java Developer
12 18 (2.52%) React Developer
13 16 (2.24%) Senior Designer
14 15 (2.10%) Content Designer
15 14 (1.96%) Product Designer
15 14 (1.96%) Project Leader
16 13 (1.82%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (17.34%) HTML
1 124 (17.34%) React
2 115 (16.08%) CSS
3 64 (8.95%) Node.js
4 62 (8.67%) RESTful
5 55 (7.69%) Jest
6 51 (7.13%) REST
7 42 (5.87%) .NET
7 42 (5.87%) HTML5
7 42 (5.87%) Playwright
8 38 (5.31%) AngularJS
9 33 (4.62%) Next.js
10 30 (4.20%) JSON
11 28 (3.92%) CSS3
12 26 (3.64%) Redux
13 25 (3.50%) Spring Boot
14 24 (3.36%) Sass
15 22 (3.08%) React Native
15 22 (3.08%) Spring
16 21 (2.94%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 67 (9.37%) Mobile App
2 60 (8.39%) Product Ownership
3 32 (4.48%) Onboarding
4 19 (2.66%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.10%) Web Conferencing
6 14 (1.96%) Low-Code
7 13 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (1.82%) Data Structures
7 13 (1.82%) Learning Management System
7 13 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.82%) NHS
8 9 (1.26%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.12%) e-Learning
10 7 (0.98%) Reinsurance
10 7 (0.98%) Social Media
11 6 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.84%) W3C
12 5 (0.70%) Client/Server
12 5 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.70%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 52 (7.27%) Android
2 50 (6.99%) Apple iOS
3 9 (1.26%) Windows
4 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.28%) Linux
5 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.28%) Unix
5 2 (0.28%) VMS
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (46.85%) Agile
2 222 (31.05%) User Experience
3 174 (24.34%) CI/CD
4 131 (18.32%) Test Automation
5 128 (17.90%) DevOps
6 123 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
7 121 (16.92%) UX Design
8 98 (13.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 95 (13.29%) Analytics
10 93 (13.01%) Front End Development
10 93 (13.01%) User Research
11 92 (12.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 88 (12.31%) Service Design
13 74 (10.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 62 (8.67%) AI
14 62 (8.67%) Roadmaps
15 60 (8.39%) Inclusive Design
15 60 (8.39%) Mentoring
16 59 (8.25%) Usability Testing
17 56 (7.83%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 126 (17.62%) JavaScript
2 100 (13.99%) TypeScript
3 88 (12.31%) Java
4 80 (11.19%) SQL
5 62 (8.67%) Python
6 25 (3.50%) C#
7 16 (2.24%) Kotlin
8 14 (1.96%) Swift
9 7 (0.98%) PHP
10 6 (0.84%) Scala
11 5 (0.70%) R
12 4 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.56%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.42%) Bash
13 3 (0.42%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.42%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.28%) Dart
14 2 (0.28%) Go
15 1 (0.14%) Rust
15 1 (0.14%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 136 (19.02%) Security Cleared
2 112 (15.66%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.71%) Degree
4 41 (5.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (1.40%) ISTQB
6 9 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
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%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (21.12%) WCAG
2 108 (15.10%) QA
3 44 (6.15%) Data Quality
4 21 (2.94%) GDPR
5 7 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (0.70%) PMO
7 4 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.28%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) Section 508
9 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.14%) GxP
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (9.65%) Docker
2 9 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.08%) Terraform
3 16 (2.24%) Grafana
4 12 (1.68%) Ansible
5 6 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.28%) Kibana
7 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.28%) SCCM
8 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.14%) logstash
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 90 (12.59%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.13%) Adobe
3 37 (5.17%) Google
4 16 (2.24%) Salesforce
4 16 (2.24%) ServiceNow
5 14 (1.96%) Oracle
6 10 (1.40%) SAP
6 10 (1.40%) Splunk
7 7 (0.98%) Hotjar
7 7 (0.98%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.84%) Hopewiser
8 6 (0.84%) OneTrust
8 6 (0.84%) Perforce
9 5 (0.70%) Apple
9 5 (0.70%) Databricks
10 4 (0.56%) Amplitude
10 4 (0.56%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.56%) Sitecore
10 4 (0.56%) Xamarin
11 3 (0.42%) Optimizely