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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 165 222
Rank change year-on-year +15 +57 -5
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 981 552 443
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.87% 1.68% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.92% 9.94% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 342 275
10th Percentile £350 £308 £313
25th Percentile £403 £377 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £600 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 18
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.67 £14.62
25th Percentile £16.18 £22.75 £18.18
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.75 £25.70
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +19.65% +10.02%
75th Percentile £55.13 £35.75 £33.07
90th Percentile £74.25 £42.05 £51.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.48 £24.34 £18.97
% change year-on-year -32.31% +28.31% +13.12%

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 8,980 5,553 5,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.09% 16.92% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,740 3,586 3,387
10th Percentile £338 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year - -1.19% -3.62%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £623
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £471 £475
% change year-on-year +6.27% -0.94% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 249 343
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.58 £11.15
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.45 £14.49
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £25.60
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% +6.84% -32.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £54.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.78 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £24.66 £25.00
% change year-on-year +62.21% -1.36% -28.57%

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 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 29 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 29 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 +2.43% 536
UK excluding London +33 415 £450 - 321
London +3 376 £488 -2.01% 273
Work from Home -10 303 £450 -2.17% 276
North of England -2 156 £450 - 89
Midlands +1 87 £440 +13.55% 40
South West +11 74 £425 +6.25% 37
West Midlands -5 74 £443 +5.67% 25
Yorkshire -10 61 £500 +19.05% 33
North West -33 52 £450 -4.66% 42
Scotland 0 47 £493 -0.30% 15
North East -11 45 £450 +1.12% 15
South East -49 36 £483 +13.53% 98
East Midlands -7 11 £435 +35.09% 15
East of England -14 10 £575 +27.78% 31
Wales -16 8 £425 -7.36% 7
Northern Ireland -1 2 - - 12

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 (4.99%) SharePoint
2 42 (4.28%) CMS
3 41 (4.18%) Confluence
4 18 (1.83%) WordPress
5 10 (1.02%) Drupal
6 7 (0.71%) Apache
7 5 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.51%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.41%) Moodle
9 3 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.31%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.20%) IIS
11 1 (0.10%) Camunda
11 1 (0.10%) Kentico
11 1 (0.10%) Mendix
11 1 (0.10%) nginx
11 1 (0.10%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 34 (3.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 23 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (2.04%) Sketch
4 14 (1.43%) Adobe XD
5 11 (1.12%) Chatbot
6 10 (1.02%) Adobe After Effects
7 7 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.61%) Final Cut Pro
8 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
9 5 (0.51%) UserZoom
10 4 (0.41%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.41%) Revit
11 3 (0.31%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.20%) InDesign
12 2 (0.20%) InVision
12 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
13 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.10%) Blender
13 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.10%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.10%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.10%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 201 (20.49%) Azure
2 158 (16.11%) AWS
3 143 (14.58%) Figma
4 87 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
5 84 (8.56%) GitHub
6 60 (6.12%) Power Platform
7 48 (4.89%) GitHub Actions
8 43 (4.38%) GCP
9 36 (3.67%) Serverless
10 28 (2.85%) Power Automate
11 23 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (2.34%) PowerApps
12 19 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (1.73%) Entra ID
13 17 (1.73%) SaaS
14 15 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (1.33%) Miro
16 12 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (1.22%) Amazon S3
17 11 (1.12%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.92%) Intranet
2 4 (0.41%) 5G
2 4 (0.41%) LTE
2 4 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.20%) 5G NR
3 2 (0.20%) Broadband
3 2 (0.20%) Internet
3 2 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.20%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.10%) DMZ
4 1 (0.10%) DSL
4 1 (0.10%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.10%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.28%) Power BI
2 41 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (3.98%) Metadata
4 31 (3.16%) NoSQL
5 28 (2.85%) MongoDB
6 27 (2.75%) Relational Database
7 23 (2.34%) SQL Server
8 11 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
10 7 (0.71%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.71%) Redis
11 6 (0.61%) GIS
11 6 (0.61%) MySQL
12 5 (0.51%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.51%) Stardog
12 5 (0.51%) Tableau
13 4 (0.41%) Looker
13 4 (0.41%) Neo4j
14 3 (0.31%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.31%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 94 (9.58%) Git
2 83 (8.46%) JIRA
3 55 (5.61%) Jenkins
4 53 (5.40%) Selenium
5 51 (5.20%) Cypress.io
6 45 (4.59%) GitLab
7 29 (2.96%) Cucumber
8 25 (2.55%) JUnit
9 23 (2.34%) Postman
10 20 (2.04%) Gatling
10 20 (2.04%) REST Assured
11 14 (1.43%) WebDriver
12 13 (1.33%) Maven
13 12 (1.22%) Gradle
13 12 (1.22%) JMeter
13 12 (1.22%) Xcode
14 10 (1.02%) fastlane
15 9 (0.92%) Storybook
15 9 (0.92%) Vite
15 9 (0.92%) webpack
General
1 385 (39.25%) Public Sector
2 277 (28.24%) Social Skills
3 105 (10.70%) Finance
4 81 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (3.06%) Banking
7 29 (2.96%) Marketing
8 26 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (2.65%) Military
9 22 (2.24%) Legal
9 22 (2.24%) Retail
10 21 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (1.94%) Publishing
12 18 (1.83%) Local Government
13 15 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.61%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.51%) Games
15 5 (0.51%) Legal Technology
16 4 (0.41%) Automotive
16 4 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 255 (25.99%) Developer
2 225 (22.94%) Designer
3 169 (17.23%) Senior
4 95 (9.68%) Lead
5 64 (6.52%) Content Designer
6 61 (6.22%) User Researcher
7 56 (5.71%) Analyst
8 55 (5.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 48 (4.89%) Senior Developer
9 48 (4.89%) Service Designer
10 42 (4.28%) Architect
11 40 (4.08%) Java Developer
11 40 (4.08%) Senior Designer
12 37 (3.77%) UI Designer
12 37 (3.77%) UX Designer
13 35 (3.57%) React Developer
14 31 (3.16%) Test Engineer
15 30 (3.06%) Full-Stack Developer
15 30 (3.06%) Interaction Designer
16 23 (2.34%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (15.80%) React
2 118 (12.03%) CSS
2 118 (12.03%) HTML
3 103 (10.50%) RESTful
4 98 (9.99%) REST
5 86 (8.77%) Node.js
6 69 (7.03%) Spring
7 68 (6.93%) Spring Boot
8 59 (6.01%) HTML5
9 58 (5.91%) Playwright
10 53 (5.40%) CSS3
11 46 (4.69%) Jest
12 45 (4.59%) Kafka
13 38 (3.87%) Redux
14 36 (3.67%) JSON
15 35 (3.57%) .NET
16 32 (3.26%) AngularJS
17 27 (2.75%) Next.js
18 21 (2.14%) GraphQL
19 19 (1.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.95%) Product Ownership
2 55 (5.61%) Cloud Native
3 54 (5.50%) Mobile App
4 32 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.06%) NHS
6 27 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (2.65%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (1.94%) Taxonomies
10 18 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.63%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.53%) Graphic Design
14 13 (1.33%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
16 11 (1.12%) Social Media
17 9 (0.92%) Algorithms
17 9 (0.92%) Animation
17 9 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.06%) Apple iOS
2 28 (2.85%) Android
3 12 (1.22%) Windows
4 4 (0.41%) Linux
4 4 (0.41%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.10%) Unix
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (51.17%) Agile
2 299 (30.48%) CI/CD
3 276 (28.13%) User Experience
4 210 (21.41%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 197 (20.08%) User Research
6 192 (19.57%) DevOps
7 182 (18.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 182 (18.55%) Test Automation
8 175 (17.84%) UX Design
9 153 (15.60%) Service Design
10 142 (14.48%) Analytics
10 142 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
11 141 (14.37%) AI
12 130 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
13 110 (11.21%) Microservices
14 109 (11.11%) Decision-Making
15 108 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 107 (10.91%) Scrum
17 106 (10.81%) Prototyping
18 96 (9.79%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 188 (19.16%) JavaScript
2 143 (14.58%) TypeScript
3 122 (12.44%) Java
4 92 (9.38%) Python
5 70 (7.14%) SQL
6 43 (4.38%) C#
7 20 (2.04%) Kotlin
8 19 (1.94%) Ruby
9 17 (1.73%) Swift
10 11 (1.12%) Scala
11 10 (1.02%) Bicep
12 9 (0.92%) PHP
13 6 (0.61%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.61%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.51%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.41%) Bash
15 4 (0.41%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.41%) R
16 3 (0.31%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 252 (25.69%) Security Cleared
2 214 (21.81%) SC Cleared
3 81 (8.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 50 (5.10%) Degree
5 16 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (1.53%) ISTQB
7 14 (1.43%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 6 (0.61%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.41%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.31%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.20%) ACCA
13 2 (0.20%) CCA
13 2 (0.20%) CIMA
13 2 (0.20%) CIPD
13 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.20%) PMP
14 1 (0.10%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (29.36%) WCAG
2 99 (10.09%) QA
3 39 (3.98%) Data Quality
4 34 (3.47%) GDPR
5 15 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 13 (1.33%) NCSC
7 5 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.41%) ISO 19650
8 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 4 (0.41%) PMO
9 2 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.20%) GRC
9 2 (0.20%) HL7
9 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.10%) IEC 62304
10 1 (0.10%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.10%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 101 (10.30%) Docker
2 6 (0.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) Firmware
3 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 85 (8.66%) Kubernetes
2 58 (5.91%) Terraform
3 26 (2.65%) Grafana
4 15 (1.53%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.82%) Argo
7 7 (0.71%) Kibana
8 5 (0.51%) 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
1 102 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.71%) Adobe
3 27 (2.75%) Oracle
4 26 (2.65%) Google
5 16 (1.63%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.53%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.53%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.33%) Splunk
8 9 (0.92%) Sitecore
9 8 (0.82%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.71%) MuleSoft
10 7 (0.71%) Pega
10 7 (0.71%) SAP
11 6 (0.61%) Apple
11 6 (0.61%) Solace
12 4 (0.41%) Autodesk
12 4 (0.41%) Databricks
13 3 (0.31%) Checkmarx
13 3 (0.31%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.31%) Synthesia