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

 6 months to
28 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 169 198
Rank change year-on-year +23 +29 +55
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 900 478 500
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.84% 1.67% 1.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.10% 10.49% 8.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 645 302 331
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £402 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £578
90th Percentile £638 £600 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £453 £464
% change year-on-year +4.97% -2.43% -4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 14 30
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.71 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.54 £22.75 £14.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £29.09 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +60.45% -22.39%
75th Percentile £61.25 £35.75 £30.42
90th Percentile £71.98 - £50.50
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 8,110 4,557 6,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.61% 15.91% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,211 2,927 3,827
10th Percentile £340 £263 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year - -1.67% -3.14%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £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 480 175 396
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.37 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.18
Median hourly rate £36.04 £32.50 £21.06
Median % change year-on-year +10.88% +54.34% -39.84%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £45.94
90th Percentile £82.03 £80.00 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £18.27
% change year-on-year +23.08% +77.89% -45.27%

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 28 May 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 May 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 May 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 +17 684 £475 - 367
UK excluding London +42 376 £475 +4.97% 249
London 0 319 £475 -5.00% 155
Work from Home +26 298 £450 -4.47% 205
North of England +7 162 £450 -1.64% 64
North West +9 86 £428 -10.00% 31
Midlands -10 71 £450 +5.88% 34
South West +19 60 £475 +7.04% 28
West Midlands -15 60 £450 -3.74% 16
Yorkshire -26 52 £550 +30.95% 21
Scotland +11 42 £550 +16.76% 12
South East -37 33 £500 +16.28% 63
North East -8 28 £450 -2.17% 13
East Midlands -21 10 £445 +38.20% 18
East of England -28 8 £575 +27.78% 28
Wales -20 4 £713 +80.38% 13
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 10

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 (4.78%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.78%) Confluence
3 30 (3.33%) CMS
4 11 (1.22%) WordPress
5 7 (0.78%) ArcGIS
5 7 (0.78%) Drupal
6 6 (0.67%) Apache
7 4 (0.44%) Moodle
8 3 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) govService
10 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Kentico
10 1 (0.11%) nginx
10 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.11%) Strapi
10 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 29 (3.22%) Sketch
2 27 (3.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 25 (2.78%) Adobe XD
4 23 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
5 11 (1.22%) InVision
6 10 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.89%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.89%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.67%) UserZoom
10 4 (0.44%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.44%) Revit
10 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.33%) CapCut
11 3 (0.33%) Final Cut Pro
11 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.33%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.33%) Zeplin
12 2 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
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
1 144 (16.00%) Azure
2 143 (15.89%) Figma
3 123 (13.67%) AWS
4 70 (7.78%) GitHub
5 52 (5.78%) Power Platform
6 48 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
8 31 (3.44%) GCP
9 27 (3.00%) Serverless
10 21 (2.33%) Miro
11 18 (2.00%) SaaS
12 17 (1.89%) BrowserStack
13 12 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (1.22%) Entra ID
14 11 (1.22%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.11%) npm
16 9 (1.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.11%) Intranet
2 4 (0.44%) 5G
2 4 (0.44%) LTE
2 4 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.22%) 5G NR
4 2 (0.22%) DNS
4 2 (0.22%) HTTP
4 2 (0.22%) SSL
4 2 (0.22%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.11%) DSL
5 1 (0.11%) Internet
5 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.67%) Power BI
2 27 (3.00%) NoSQL
3 25 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 24 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (2.22%) Relational Database
6 19 (2.11%) Metadata
7 13 (1.44%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.89%) GIS
10 7 (0.78%) MySQL
11 6 (0.67%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.56%) Spatial Data
13 4 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.44%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.44%) Delta Lake
13 4 (0.44%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.44%) Looker
13 4 (0.44%) Redis
13 4 (0.44%) Tableau
14 3 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 74 (8.22%) Git
2 66 (7.33%) JIRA
3 52 (5.78%) Cypress.io
4 51 (5.67%) GitLab
5 45 (5.00%) Selenium
6 33 (3.67%) Jenkins
7 23 (2.56%) REST Assured
8 20 (2.22%) Cucumber
9 19 (2.11%) JUnit
10 18 (2.00%) Gatling
11 17 (1.89%) JMeter
11 17 (1.89%) Postman
12 12 (1.33%) CircleCI
13 11 (1.22%) Axure RP
13 11 (1.22%) Serenity BDD
14 9 (1.00%) Gradle
15 8 (0.89%) fastlane
15 8 (0.89%) Storybook
16 7 (0.78%) Xcode
17 6 (0.67%) IntelliJ
General
1 339 (37.67%) Public Sector
2 234 (26.00%) Social Skills
3 87 (9.67%) Finance
4 61 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (3.78%) Banking
7 22 (2.44%) Marketing
8 21 (2.33%) Military
8 21 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
9 20 (2.22%) Legal
10 19 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.00%) Publishing
12 15 (1.67%) Retail
13 12 (1.33%) Local Government
14 7 (0.78%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.44%) Games
16 4 (0.44%) Law
16 4 (0.44%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 220 (24.44%) Designer
2 201 (22.33%) Developer
3 133 (14.78%) Senior
4 76 (8.44%) Lead
5 61 (6.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 59 (6.56%) Content Designer
7 55 (6.11%) User Researcher
8 53 (5.89%) Service Designer
9 46 (5.11%) UX Designer
10 44 (4.89%) Test Engineer
11 43 (4.78%) Analyst
12 35 (3.89%) Full-Stack Developer
13 34 (3.78%) Architect
13 34 (3.78%) Senior Designer
14 30 (3.33%) React Developer
14 30 (3.33%) Senior Developer
14 30 (3.33%) Tester
15 28 (3.11%) Interaction Designer
16 23 (2.56%) Business Analyst
17 22 (2.44%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (15.89%) React
2 101 (11.22%) HTML
3 95 (10.56%) CSS
4 76 (8.44%) RESTful
5 75 (8.33%) Node.js
6 72 (8.00%) REST
7 65 (7.22%) Playwright
8 63 (7.00%) Spring
9 62 (6.89%) Spring Boot
10 41 (4.56%) HTML5
11 40 (4.44%) CSS3
11 40 (4.44%) Jest
12 37 (4.11%) AngularJS
13 34 (3.78%) Redux
14 30 (3.33%) Kafka
15 27 (3.00%) .NET
16 26 (2.89%) Next.js
17 19 (2.11%) GraphQL
18 17 (1.89%) Vue
19 13 (1.44%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 64 (7.11%) Product Ownership
2 44 (4.89%) Mobile App
3 25 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 23 (2.56%) NHS
5 20 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 19 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (1.78%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.56%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.56%) Social Media
9 10 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.11%) Graphic Design
9 10 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.11%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.00%) Algorithms
11 8 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (0.89%) e-Learning
11 8 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (0.78%) Learning Management System
12 7 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.67%) Apple iOS
2 19 (2.11%) Android
3 7 (0.78%) Linux
4 4 (0.44%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (49.56%) Agile
2 264 (29.33%) User Experience
3 227 (25.22%) CI/CD
4 221 (24.56%) User Research
5 171 (19.00%) UX Design
6 163 (18.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 154 (17.11%) Test Automation
8 153 (17.00%) Service Design
9 147 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 140 (15.56%) DevOps
11 121 (13.44%) Analytics
12 112 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
13 102 (11.33%) Prototyping
14 99 (11.00%) AI
15 92 (10.22%) Decision-Making
16 87 (9.67%) Front End Development
17 83 (9.22%) Stakeholder Management
18 81 (9.00%) Interaction Design
19 79 (8.78%) Inclusive Design
20 78 (8.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 150 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 138 (15.33%) TypeScript
3 106 (11.78%) Java
4 77 (8.56%) Python
5 55 (6.11%) SQL
6 23 (2.56%) C#
7 19 (2.11%) Ruby
8 16 (1.78%) Kotlin
9 12 (1.33%) Swift
10 11 (1.22%) Scala
11 6 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.56%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.44%) Objective-C
13 4 (0.44%) PHP
14 3 (0.33%) R
15 2 (0.22%) Bicep
15 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 207 (23.00%) Security Cleared
2 169 (18.78%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 51 (5.67%) Degree
5 10 (1.11%) ISTQB
6 9 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.00%) DV Cleared
7 8 (0.89%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.44%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.44%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.33%) CCA
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
1 251 (27.89%) WCAG
2 77 (8.56%) QA
3 39 (4.33%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.11%) GDPR
5 8 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.44%) ISO 19650
7 4 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 4 (0.44%) NCSC
8 3 (0.33%) PMO
9 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.11%) GLP
9 1 (0.11%) GRC
9 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.11%) HL7
9 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.11%) WAI
9 1 (0.11%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 76 (8.44%) Docker
2 3 (0.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (6.78%) Kubernetes
2 34 (3.78%) Terraform
3 31 (3.44%) Grafana
4 16 (1.78%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.00%) Argo
5 9 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.44%) Ansible
6 4 (0.44%) 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 73 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.78%) Adobe
3 21 (2.33%) Google
4 16 (1.78%) Splunk
5 15 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.56%) Oracle
7 13 (1.44%) Databricks
8 12 (1.33%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.22%) Pega
10 8 (0.89%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.89%) Red Hat
10 8 (0.89%) Sitecore
11 6 (0.67%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.67%) SAP
12 5 (0.56%) Solace
13 4 (0.44%) Apple
13 4 (0.44%) Autodesk
14 3 (0.33%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.33%) Synthesia
15 2 (0.22%) Sony
421 Accessibility jobs Nationwide