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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 150 208
Rank change year-on-year -3 +58 +14
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 1,023 626 439
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.88% 1.91% 1.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.70% 11.06% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 723 406 263
10th Percentile £350 £309 £276
25th Percentile £406 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £579
90th Percentile £625 £600 £686
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 11
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.75 £18.13
25th Percentile £14.22 £22.75 £21.49
Median hourly rate £21.32 £32.48 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.37% +24.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £35.75 £32.35
90th Percentile £69.39 £39.43 £33.07
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.06 £25.00 £25.36
% change year-on-year -39.76% -1.42% +42.87%

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 9,565 5,658 5,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.59% 17.24% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,026 3,627 2,987
10th Percentile £325 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £603 £605 £625
90th Percentile £700 £702 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 641 269 246
10th Percentile £13.92 £13.60 £12.59
25th Percentile £16.60 £16.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.40 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% +9.09% -22.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £62.24
90th Percentile £74.32 £80.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.40 £27.53 £27.50
% change year-on-year +17.67% +0.11% -26.67%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +6 814 £470 - 1,849
UK excluding London +23 470 £450 +5.88% 1,131
London -28 357 £516 +4.29% 903
Work from Home -7 293 £450 -3.90% 1,122
North of England -30 151 £450 +7.14% 270
Midlands +49 141 £443 - 125
West Midlands +43 128 £445 -3.26% 78
South West +3 67 £425 +6.25% 146
Yorkshire -19 55 £490 +19.45% 87
North West -64 50 £450 +9.09% 140
Scotland -17 48 £406 -14.53% 133
North East -6 47 £425 -5.56% 44
South East -43 37 £470 +3.30% 218
East of England -14 15 £575 +4.55% 151
East Midlands -7 11 £435 +35.09% 47
Wales -11 9 £375 -27.71% 27
Northern Ireland +5 3 £638 - 77

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 61 (5.96%) CMS
2 54 (5.28%) SharePoint
3 48 (4.69%) Confluence
4 25 (2.44%) WordPress
5 10 (0.98%) Drupal
6 9 (0.88%) Apache
7 8 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.68%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.59%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.39%) ColdFusion
10 4 (0.39%) Moodle
11 3 (0.29%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.098%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.098%) Documentum
12 1 (0.098%) IIS
12 1 (0.098%) Kentico
12 1 (0.098%) Mendix
12 1 (0.098%) nginx
12 1 (0.098%) WebLogic
Applications
1 28 (2.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 23 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.56%) Sketch
4 11 (1.08%) Adobe XD
4 11 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.88%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
7 7 (0.68%) Final Cut Pro
8 6 (0.59%) UserZoom
9 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (0.39%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.39%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.39%) Revit
11 3 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
12 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.20%) Trello
13 1 (0.098%) Blender
13 1 (0.098%) InVision
Business Applications
1 23 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.098%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.098%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.098%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.098%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.098%) Primavera
4 1 (0.098%) Shopify
4 1 (0.098%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 204 (19.94%) Azure
2 186 (18.18%) AWS
3 139 (13.59%) Figma
4 110 (10.75%) GitHub
5 97 (9.48%) Azure DevOps
6 69 (6.74%) Power Platform
7 62 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
8 49 (4.79%) Serverless
9 45 (4.40%) GCP
10 44 (4.30%) Power Automate
11 40 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
12 25 (2.44%) PowerApps
13 24 (2.35%) Miro
14 22 (2.15%) Azure Functions
15 21 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
16 18 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
17 16 (1.56%) Amazon S3
18 15 (1.47%) Entra ID
18 15 (1.47%) SaaS
19 13 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.59%) Intranet
2 4 (0.39%) NAS
3 2 (0.20%) Broadband
3 2 (0.20%) Internet
3 2 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.098%) DMZ
4 1 (0.098%) HTTP
4 1 (0.098%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.098%) Network Security
4 1 (0.098%) SAN
4 1 (0.098%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (4.50%) MongoDB
1 46 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (4.40%) Metadata
3 37 (3.62%) Power BI
4 35 (3.42%) SQL Server
5 31 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 22 (2.15%) NoSQL
7 16 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (1.17%) Geospatial Data
9 10 (0.98%) Data Lake
10 9 (0.88%) Redis
11 7 (0.68%) Tableau
12 6 (0.59%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.49%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.49%) Stardog
14 4 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.39%) Delta Lake
14 4 (0.39%) GIS
14 4 (0.39%) Looker
14 4 (0.39%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 143 (13.98%) Git
2 81 (7.92%) Selenium
3 79 (7.72%) JIRA
4 72 (7.04%) Jenkins
5 65 (6.35%) GitLab
6 61 (5.96%) Cucumber
7 53 (5.18%) Cypress.io
8 50 (4.89%) JUnit
9 40 (3.91%) Gatling
10 29 (2.83%) Postman
11 22 (2.15%) REST Assured
12 20 (1.96%) SonarQube
13 18 (1.76%) JMeter
13 18 (1.76%) WebDriver
14 16 (1.56%) Maven
14 16 (1.56%) Storybook
15 13 (1.27%) Mockito
16 12 (1.17%) Gradle
16 12 (1.17%) Xcode
17 11 (1.08%) MSI
General
1 429 (41.94%) Public Sector
2 340 (33.24%) Social Skills
3 108 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 106 (10.36%) Finance
5 92 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (3.81%) Marketing
7 31 (3.03%) Military
8 29 (2.83%) Legal
8 29 (2.83%) Local Government
9 26 (2.54%) Publishing
10 25 (2.44%) Banking
11 24 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
11 24 (2.35%) Retail
12 22 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.59%) Games
15 5 (0.49%) Automotive
15 5 (0.49%) Legal Technology
16 4 (0.39%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.39%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 257 (25.12%) Developer
2 215 (21.02%) Designer
3 178 (17.40%) Senior
4 117 (11.44%) Lead
5 67 (6.55%) Content Designer
6 65 (6.35%) User Researcher
7 53 (5.18%) Analyst
8 52 (5.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 52 (5.08%) Senior Developer
9 48 (4.69%) Java Developer
10 46 (4.50%) Service Designer
11 40 (3.91%) Architect
12 35 (3.42%) Senior Designer
13 33 (3.23%) Test Engineer
14 32 (3.13%) UX Designer
15 31 (3.03%) UI Designer
16 29 (2.83%) Lead Developer
17 28 (2.74%) React Developer
18 27 (2.64%) Interaction Designer
19 24 (2.35%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (15.05%) React
2 134 (13.10%) HTML
3 128 (12.51%) CSS
4 123 (12.02%) REST
5 105 (10.26%) RESTful
6 93 (9.09%) Node.js
7 88 (8.60%) Playwright
8 86 (8.41%) Spring
9 71 (6.94%) Spring Boot
10 66 (6.45%) Terraform
11 63 (6.16%) HTML5
12 55 (5.38%) JSON
13 53 (5.18%) CSS3
14 49 (4.79%) Jest
15 44 (4.30%) Kafka
16 41 (4.01%) .NET
17 35 (3.42%) Gherkin
18 29 (2.83%) Redux
19 28 (2.74%) AngularJS
20 25 (2.44%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 84 (8.21%) Product Ownership
2 68 (6.65%) Cloud Native
3 54 (5.28%) Mobile App
4 44 (4.30%) Management Information System
5 37 (3.62%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.93%) Taxonomies
7 28 (2.74%) NHS
8 27 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.56%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.27%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.27%) Graphic Design
13 12 (1.17%) Data Structures
14 11 (1.08%) Animation
14 11 (1.08%) Blog
15 10 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
15 10 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 31 (3.03%) Android
2 28 (2.74%) Apple iOS
3 16 (1.56%) Windows
4 5 (0.49%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.29%) Linux
6 2 (0.20%) AIX
6 2 (0.20%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.098%) Rocky
7 1 (0.098%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 556 (54.35%) Agile
2 344 (33.63%) CI/CD
3 266 (26.00%) User Experience
4 242 (23.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 225 (21.99%) Stakeholder Management
6 223 (21.80%) Test Automation
7 213 (20.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 212 (20.72%) DevOps
9 210 (20.53%) User Research
10 160 (15.64%) AI
11 158 (15.44%) UX Design
12 155 (15.15%) Service Design
13 154 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
14 151 (14.76%) Analytics
15 146 (14.27%) Scrum
16 140 (13.69%) Microservices
17 129 (12.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 109 (10.65%) Mentoring
19 108 (10.56%) Decision-Making
20 103 (10.07%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 226 (22.09%) JavaScript
2 146 (14.27%) Java
3 139 (13.59%) TypeScript
4 81 (7.92%) Python
5 69 (6.74%) SQL
6 59 (5.77%) C#
7 20 (1.96%) Kotlin
7 20 (1.96%) Ruby
8 16 (1.56%) Scala
9 14 (1.37%) Swift
10 12 (1.17%) Bicep
11 9 (0.88%) PHP
12 7 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.59%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.49%) Bash
14 5 (0.49%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.39%) CFML
15 4 (0.39%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.39%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 288 (28.15%) Security Cleared
2 243 (23.75%) SC Cleared
3 110 (10.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 49 (4.79%) Degree
5 33 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.56%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.37%) ISTQB
8 10 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.59%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 5 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.29%) DBS Check
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 (0.098%) CAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (28.93%) WCAG
2 130 (12.71%) QA
3 51 (4.99%) Data Quality
4 40 (3.91%) GDPR
5 22 (2.15%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (1.17%) NCSC
7 4 (0.39%) ISO 19650
7 4 (0.39%) PMO
8 3 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.20%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.098%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.098%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.098%) GRC
10 1 (0.098%) HL7
10 1 (0.098%) IEC 62304
10 1 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.098%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.098%) WAI
10 1 (0.098%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 115 (11.24%) Docker
2 5 (0.49%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.098%) Firmware
5 1 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 110 (10.75%) Kubernetes
2 40 (3.91%) Grafana
3 14 (1.37%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.78%) Argo
5 8 (0.78%) Kibana
6 5 (0.49%) Ansible
7 2 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.098%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.098%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.098%) Puppet
8 1 (0.098%) SELinux
8 1 (0.098%) systemd
Vendors
1 125 (12.22%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.18%) Adobe
3 31 (3.03%) Oracle
4 27 (2.64%) Google
5 18 (1.76%) Splunk
6 17 (1.66%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.47%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.17%) Salesforce
9 9 (0.88%) Red Hat
9 9 (0.88%) Sitecore
10 8 (0.78%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.59%) Databricks
11 6 (0.59%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.49%) dotdigital
12 5 (0.49%) SAP
12 5 (0.49%) TikTok
13 4 (0.39%) Apple
13 4 (0.39%) Autodesk
14 3 (0.29%) Foundry
14 3 (0.29%) Solace