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

 6 months to
15 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 171 213
Rank change year-on-year +31 +42 +12
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 991 531 486
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.88% 1.64% 1.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.11% 9.93% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 333 303
10th Percentile £350 £308 £313
25th Percentile £403 £375 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £544 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £600 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £430 £464
% change year-on-year +4.65% -7.28% -2.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 18 26
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.67 £13.76
25th Percentile £16.00 £22.75 £14.07
Median hourly rate £27.00 £30.75 £18.97
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +62.10% -18.79%
75th Percentile £53.25 £35.75 £32.73
90th Percentile £74.60 £42.05 £45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.48 £24.34 £14.39
% change year-on-year -32.31% +69.20% -14.22%

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 8,917 5,349 5,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 16.48% 13.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,710 3,433 3,638
10th Percentile £340 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £620
90th Percentile £700 £717 £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 549 235 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.66 £11.66
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.17 £13.52
Median hourly rate £38.72 £30.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +29.07% +24.07% -38.66%
75th Percentile £68.75 £62.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £82.98 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £27.53 £24.18
% change year-on-year +45.30% +13.85% -30.91%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +28 784 £475 +1.60% 521
UK excluding London +30 405 £450 +4.65% 460
London +9 386 £475 -5.00% 174
Work from Home +5 318 £450 -2.17% 410
North of England +2 159 £450 -0.55% 125
Midlands +5 84 £446 +15.10% 65
West Midlands -10 71 £447 +5.18% 33
South West +16 68 £425 +3.03% 38
Yorkshire -14 64 £500 +17.65% 47
North West -19 63 £450 -1.59% 61
Scotland +9 46 £500 +1.21% 43
North East -12 36 £450 -2.17% 21
South East -46 36 £495 +16.47% 119
East Midlands -7 11 £435 +35.09% 32
East of England -18 9 £575 +27.78% 44
Wales -11 7 £475 +20.25% 17
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 22

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 49 (4.94%) SharePoint
2 43 (4.34%) Confluence
3 38 (3.83%) CMS
4 15 (1.51%) WordPress
5 8 (0.81%) Apache
5 8 (0.81%) Drupal
6 6 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.40%) Moodle
8 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.20%) IIS
9 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.10%) Camunda
10 1 (0.10%) govService
10 1 (0.10%) Kentico
10 1 (0.10%) Mendix
10 1 (0.10%) nginx
10 1 (0.10%) R Markdown
Applications
1 33 (3.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 23 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (2.12%) Sketch
4 14 (1.41%) Adobe XD
5 11 (1.11%) Chatbot
6 10 (1.01%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.61%) Final Cut Pro
9 6 (0.61%) UserZoom
10 4 (0.40%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.40%) Revit
11 3 (0.30%) InVision
11 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.30%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.20%) InDesign
13 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.10%) Blender
13 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.10%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.10%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 192 (19.37%) Azure
2 154 (15.54%) AWS
3 142 (14.33%) Figma
4 85 (8.58%) Azure DevOps
5 82 (8.27%) GitHub
6 57 (5.75%) Power Platform
7 45 (4.54%) GitHub Actions
8 42 (4.24%) GCP
9 29 (2.93%) Serverless
10 22 (2.22%) Power Automate
11 19 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (1.92%) PowerApps
11 19 (1.92%) SaaS
12 16 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (1.51%) BrowserStack
13 15 (1.51%) Entra ID
14 14 (1.41%) Miro
15 12 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (1.11%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.01%) 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%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Internet
3 2 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.20%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.10%) Broadband
4 1 (0.10%) DMZ
4 1 (0.10%) DSL
4 1 (0.10%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.10%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (4.14%) Power BI
2 35 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (3.33%) Metadata
4 31 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 30 (3.03%) MongoDB
6 28 (2.83%) Relational Database
7 22 (2.22%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
10 7 (0.71%) Redis
11 6 (0.61%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.61%) GIS
12 5 (0.50%) MySQL
12 5 (0.50%) Tableau
13 4 (0.40%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.40%) Looker
13 4 (0.40%) Stardog
14 3 (0.30%) Neo4j
14 3 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
14 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 84 (8.48%) JIRA
2 83 (8.38%) Git
3 57 (5.75%) Selenium
4 55 (5.55%) Cypress.io
5 53 (5.35%) Jenkins
6 49 (4.94%) GitLab
7 27 (2.72%) Cucumber
8 26 (2.62%) REST Assured
9 23 (2.32%) Gatling
9 23 (2.32%) JUnit
9 23 (2.32%) Postman
10 16 (1.61%) JMeter
11 13 (1.31%) WebDriver
12 12 (1.21%) Gradle
12 12 (1.21%) Xcode
13 11 (1.11%) Maven
13 11 (1.11%) Serenity BDD
14 10 (1.01%) fastlane
15 9 (0.91%) Vite
15 9 (0.91%) webpack
General
1 382 (38.55%) Public Sector
2 279 (28.15%) Social Skills
3 102 (10.29%) Finance
4 77 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (3.03%) Marketing
7 29 (2.93%) Banking
8 26 (2.62%) Military
9 24 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (2.42%) Legal
10 21 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (2.12%) Retail
11 20 (2.02%) Publishing
12 18 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.41%) Local Government
14 7 (0.71%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.50%) Legal Technology
16 4 (0.40%) Games
16 4 (0.40%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 244 (24.62%) Developer
2 232 (23.41%) Designer
3 159 (16.04%) Senior
4 99 (9.99%) Lead
5 67 (6.76%) Content Designer
6 59 (5.95%) User Researcher
7 56 (5.65%) Analyst
7 56 (5.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 53 (5.35%) Service Designer
9 44 (4.44%) Senior Developer
10 39 (3.94%) Architect
10 39 (3.94%) Senior Designer
10 39 (3.94%) Test Engineer
10 39 (3.94%) UX Designer
11 37 (3.73%) React Developer
12 33 (3.33%) Java Developer
13 32 (3.23%) UI Designer
14 30 (3.03%) Interaction Designer
15 29 (2.93%) Full-Stack Developer
16 27 (2.72%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (15.74%) React
2 109 (11.00%) HTML
3 107 (10.80%) CSS
4 94 (9.49%) RESTful
5 88 (8.88%) REST
6 81 (8.17%) Node.js
7 70 (7.06%) Spring
8 69 (6.96%) Spring Boot
9 68 (6.86%) Playwright
10 49 (4.94%) HTML5
11 44 (4.44%) CSS3
11 44 (4.44%) Jest
12 42 (4.24%) Kafka
13 37 (3.73%) Redux
14 35 (3.53%) .NET
15 31 (3.13%) JSON
16 30 (3.03%) AngularJS
17 29 (2.93%) Next.js
18 18 (1.82%) GraphQL
19 17 (1.72%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 75 (7.57%) Product Ownership
2 51 (5.15%) Mobile App
3 44 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 32 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.83%) NHS
6 25 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (2.42%) Management Information System
8 21 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (1.92%) Taxonomies
10 18 (1.82%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.41%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.31%) Graphic Design
13 12 (1.21%) Social Media
14 11 (1.11%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
15 9 (0.91%) Animation
15 9 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.03%) Apple iOS
2 25 (2.52%) Android
3 12 (1.21%) Windows
4 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.30%) Linux
6 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (50.66%) Agile
2 288 (29.06%) CI/CD
3 274 (27.65%) User Experience
4 212 (21.39%) User Research
5 202 (20.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 191 (19.27%) DevOps
7 186 (18.77%) Test Automation
8 178 (17.96%) UX Design
9 172 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 159 (16.04%) Service Design
11 136 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
12 132 (13.32%) Analytics
13 127 (12.82%) AI
14 116 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
15 106 (10.70%) Decision-Making
16 105 (10.60%) Microservices
16 105 (10.60%) Prototyping
17 102 (10.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 100 (10.09%) Scrum
19 88 (8.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 179 (18.06%) JavaScript
2 147 (14.83%) TypeScript
3 126 (12.71%) Java
4 93 (9.38%) Python
5 64 (6.46%) SQL
6 41 (4.14%) C#
7 19 (1.92%) Ruby
8 16 (1.61%) Kotlin
8 16 (1.61%) Swift
9 11 (1.11%) Scala
10 10 (1.01%) Bicep
11 6 (0.61%) PHP
12 5 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.50%) SPARQL
13 4 (0.40%) Objective-C
13 4 (0.40%) R
14 3 (0.30%) Bash
14 3 (0.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 248 (25.03%) Security Cleared
2 213 (21.49%) SC Cleared
3 82 (8.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 49 (4.94%) Degree
5 16 (1.61%) ISTQB
6 12 (1.21%) DV Cleared
6 12 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (0.61%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.50%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.30%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.20%) ACCA
11 2 (0.20%) CCA
11 2 (0.20%) CIMA
11 2 (0.20%) CIPD
11 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.20%) PMP
12 1 (0.10%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (27.55%) WCAG
2 100 (10.09%) QA
3 36 (3.63%) Data Quality
4 28 (2.83%) GDPR
5 13 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (1.21%) 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%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.10%) GLP
11 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.10%) HL7
11 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.10%) WAI
11 1 (0.10%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 97 (9.79%) Docker
2 5 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) Firmware
3 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (7.97%) Kubernetes
2 51 (5.15%) Terraform
3 29 (2.93%) Grafana
4 17 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.81%) Argo
7 6 (0.61%) Kibana
8 5 (0.50%) Ansible
9 1 (0.10%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.10%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.10%) logstash
9 1 (0.10%) QRadar
9 1 (0.10%) SELinux
9 1 (0.10%) systemd
Vendors
1 97 (9.79%) Microsoft
2 54 (5.45%) Adobe
3 25 (2.52%) Google
4 23 (2.32%) Oracle
5 18 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 17 (1.72%) Splunk
7 16 (1.61%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.41%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.11%) Pega
10 9 (0.91%) Sitecore
11 8 (0.81%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.71%) SAP
13 6 (0.61%) Apple
13 6 (0.61%) Solace
14 5 (0.50%) Databricks
15 4 (0.40%) Autodesk
15 4 (0.40%) MuleSoft
16 3 (0.30%) Checkmarx
16 3 (0.30%) New Relic
16 3 (0.30%) OpenAI
633 Accessibility jobs Nationwide