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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 156 215
Rank change year-on-year +7 +59 +2
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 1,035 621 438
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.89% 1.90% 1.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.76% 11.04% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 729 405 263
10th Percentile £350 £309 £276
25th Percentile £408 £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 19 11
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.25 £18.13
25th Percentile £14.22 £22.75 £21.49
Median hourly rate £21.32 £33.46 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.29% +28.69% +30.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £35.75 £32.35
90th Percentile £69.39 £41.35 £33.07
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.06 £22.75 £25.36
% change year-on-year -33.80% -10.29% +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 9,623 5,625 5,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.62% 17.25% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,064 3,606 2,960
10th Percentile £325 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £605 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £706 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.89% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 644 267 245
10th Percentile £13.89 £13.60 £12.75
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% -23.61%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.63 £62.24
90th Percentile £74.80 £80.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.40 £27.53 £27.50
% change year-on-year +17.67% +0.11% -31.25%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -2 824 £470 - 1,842
UK excluding London +29 477 £450 +5.88% 1,129
London -36 361 £516 +5.36% 902
Work from Home -2 297 £450 -4.05% 1,110
North of England -41 154 £450 +7.46% 270
Midlands +53 144 £440 -0.56% 131
West Midlands +48 131 £443 -3.80% 86
South West 0 67 £425 +6.25% 148
Yorkshire -17 57 £488 +18.90% 88
North West -59 50 £450 +9.09% 137
Scotland -16 49 £402 -15.37% 132
North East -5 48 £438 -2.23% 47
South East -52 37 £470 +3.30% 208
East of England -19 15 £575 +4.55% 151
East Midlands -9 11 £435 +35.09% 45
Wales -10 9 £375 -27.71% 24
Northern Ireland +5 3 £638 - 82

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 63 (6.09%) CMS
2 55 (5.31%) SharePoint
3 48 (4.64%) Confluence
4 27 (2.61%) WordPress
5 10 (0.97%) Drupal
6 9 (0.87%) Apache
7 8 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.68%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.58%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.39%) ColdFusion
10 4 (0.39%) Moodle
11 3 (0.29%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.097%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.097%) Documentum
12 1 (0.097%) IIS
12 1 (0.097%) Kentico
12 1 (0.097%) Mendix
12 1 (0.097%) nginx
12 1 (0.097%) WebLogic
Applications
1 28 (2.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 23 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.55%) Sketch
4 11 (1.06%) Adobe XD
4 11 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.87%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
7 7 (0.68%) Final Cut Pro
8 6 (0.58%) UserZoom
9 5 (0.48%) 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 (0.19%) MS Visio
12 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.19%) Trello
13 1 (0.097%) Blender
13 1 (0.097%) InVision
Business Applications
1 23 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.097%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.097%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.097%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.097%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.097%) Primavera
4 1 (0.097%) Shopify
4 1 (0.097%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 207 (20.00%) Azure
2 189 (18.26%) AWS
3 143 (13.82%) Figma
4 113 (10.92%) GitHub
5 98 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
6 69 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 63 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
8 49 (4.73%) Serverless
9 46 (4.44%) GCP
10 44 (4.25%) Power Automate
11 40 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
12 25 (2.42%) PowerApps
13 24 (2.32%) Miro
14 22 (2.13%) Azure Functions
15 21 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
16 18 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
17 16 (1.55%) Amazon S3
17 16 (1.55%) Entra ID
18 15 (1.45%) SaaS
19 13 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.58%) Intranet
2 4 (0.39%) NAS
3 2 (0.19%) Broadband
3 2 (0.19%) Internet
3 2 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.097%) DMZ
4 1 (0.097%) HTTP
4 1 (0.097%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.097%) Network Security
4 1 (0.097%) SAN
4 1 (0.097%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (4.44%) MongoDB
3 45 (4.35%) Metadata
4 37 (3.57%) Power BI
5 35 (3.38%) SQL Server
6 32 (3.09%) Relational Database
7 22 (2.13%) NoSQL
8 16 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (1.16%) Geospatial Data
10 10 (0.97%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.87%) Redis
12 7 (0.68%) Tableau
13 6 (0.58%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.48%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.48%) Stardog
15 4 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.39%) Delta Lake
15 4 (0.39%) GIS
15 4 (0.39%) Looker
15 4 (0.39%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 147 (14.20%) Git
2 84 (8.12%) Selenium
3 80 (7.73%) JIRA
4 73 (7.05%) Jenkins
5 67 (6.47%) GitLab
6 64 (6.18%) Cucumber
7 53 (5.12%) Cypress.io
7 53 (5.12%) JUnit
8 41 (3.96%) Gatling
9 29 (2.80%) Postman
10 23 (2.22%) REST Assured
11 22 (2.13%) SonarQube
12 18 (1.74%) JMeter
12 18 (1.74%) WebDriver
13 16 (1.55%) Maven
13 16 (1.55%) Storybook
14 14 (1.35%) Mockito
15 12 (1.16%) Gradle
15 12 (1.16%) Xcode
16 11 (1.06%) MSI
General
1 431 (41.64%) Public Sector
2 344 (33.24%) Social Skills
3 108 (10.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 106 (10.24%) Finance
5 92 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (3.77%) Marketing
7 31 (3.00%) Military
8 29 (2.80%) Legal
8 29 (2.80%) Local Government
9 26 (2.51%) Banking
9 26 (2.51%) Publishing
10 24 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (2.32%) Retail
11 22 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.58%) Games
14 5 (0.48%) Automotive
14 5 (0.48%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.48%) Legal Technology
15 4 (0.39%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 259 (25.02%) Developer
2 218 (21.06%) Designer
3 179 (17.29%) Senior
4 117 (11.30%) Lead
5 68 (6.57%) Content Designer
6 65 (6.28%) User Researcher
7 54 (5.22%) Analyst
8 52 (5.02%) Senior Developer
9 51 (4.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 49 (4.73%) Java Developer
11 46 (4.44%) Service Designer
12 40 (3.86%) Architect
13 35 (3.38%) Senior Designer
14 34 (3.29%) Test Engineer
15 32 (3.09%) UX Designer
16 31 (3.00%) UI Designer
17 29 (2.80%) Interaction Designer
17 29 (2.80%) Lead Developer
18 28 (2.71%) React Developer
19 26 (2.51%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (15.07%) React
2 135 (13.04%) HTML
3 129 (12.46%) CSS
4 125 (12.08%) REST
5 108 (10.43%) RESTful
6 94 (9.08%) Node.js
7 90 (8.70%) Playwright
8 89 (8.60%) Spring
9 73 (7.05%) Spring Boot
10 67 (6.47%) Terraform
11 63 (6.09%) HTML5
12 55 (5.31%) JSON
13 53 (5.12%) CSS3
14 49 (4.73%) Jest
15 44 (4.25%) Kafka
16 42 (4.06%) .NET
17 37 (3.57%) Gherkin
18 29 (2.80%) AngularJS
18 29 (2.80%) Redux
19 25 (2.42%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 84 (8.12%) Product Ownership
2 69 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 55 (5.31%) Mobile App
4 44 (4.25%) Management Information System
5 37 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.90%) Taxonomies
7 28 (2.71%) NHS
8 27 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.26%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.26%) Graphic Design
13 12 (1.16%) Data Structures
14 11 (1.06%) Animation
14 11 (1.06%) Blog
14 11 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
15 10 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 31 (3.00%) Android
2 28 (2.71%) Apple iOS
3 16 (1.55%) Windows
4 5 (0.48%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.29%) Linux
6 2 (0.19%) AIX
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.097%) Rocky
7 1 (0.097%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 563 (54.40%) Agile
2 350 (33.82%) CI/CD
3 272 (26.28%) User Experience
4 243 (23.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 230 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 228 (22.03%) Test Automation
7 215 (20.77%) DevOps
8 214 (20.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 214 (20.68%) User Research
9 162 (15.65%) AI
10 161 (15.56%) UX Design
11 155 (14.98%) Service Design
12 154 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
13 153 (14.78%) Analytics
14 149 (14.40%) Scrum
15 144 (13.91%) Microservices
16 130 (12.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 110 (10.63%) Mentoring
18 108 (10.43%) Decision-Making
19 107 (10.34%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 226 (21.84%) JavaScript
2 150 (14.49%) Java
3 141 (13.62%) TypeScript
4 82 (7.92%) Python
5 71 (6.86%) SQL
6 60 (5.80%) C#
7 20 (1.93%) Kotlin
7 20 (1.93%) Ruby
8 15 (1.45%) Scala
9 14 (1.35%) Swift
10 12 (1.16%) Bicep
11 9 (0.87%) PHP
12 7 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.58%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.48%) Bash
14 5 (0.48%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.39%) CFML
15 4 (0.39%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.39%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 291 (28.12%) Security Cleared
2 246 (23.77%) SC Cleared
3 113 (10.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 49 (4.73%) Degree
5 33 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.35%) ISTQB
8 10 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 5 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.29%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.19%) ACCA
12 2 (0.19%) CCA
12 2 (0.19%) CIMA
12 2 (0.19%) CIPD
12 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.19%) PMP
13 1 (0.097%) CAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 301 (29.08%) WCAG
2 132 (12.75%) QA
3 51 (4.93%) Data Quality
4 41 (3.96%) GDPR
5 22 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (1.16%) NCSC
7 4 (0.39%) ISO 19650
7 4 (0.39%) PMO
8 3 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.19%) HL7
9 2 (0.19%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.097%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.097%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.097%) GRC
10 1 (0.097%) IEC 62304
10 1 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.097%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.097%) WAI
10 1 (0.097%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 119 (11.50%) Docker
2 5 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.097%) Firmware
5 1 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 112 (10.82%) Kubernetes
2 40 (3.86%) Grafana
3 14 (1.35%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.77%) Argo
5 8 (0.77%) Kibana
6 5 (0.48%) Ansible
7 2 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.097%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.097%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.097%) Puppet
8 1 (0.097%) SELinux
8 1 (0.097%) systemd
Vendors
1 125 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.12%) Adobe
3 32 (3.09%) Oracle
4 28 (2.71%) Google
5 18 (1.74%) Splunk
6 17 (1.64%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.45%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.16%) Salesforce
9 9 (0.87%) Red Hat
9 9 (0.87%) Sitecore
10 8 (0.77%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.58%) Databricks
11 6 (0.58%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.48%) dotdigital
12 5 (0.48%) SAP
12 5 (0.48%) TikTok
13 4 (0.39%) Apple
13 4 (0.39%) Autodesk
14 3 (0.29%) Foundry
14 3 (0.29%) Solace