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

 6 months to
27 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 169 221
Rank change year-on-year +22 +52 +1
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 1,000 555 445
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.89% 1.68% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.09% 9.99% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 707 345 272
10th Percentile £350 £309 £313
25th Percentile £402 £381 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £630 £600 £662
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £430 £463
% change year-on-year +4.65% -7.03% -3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 20
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.67 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.18 £22.75 £18.27
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 £34.80
90th Percentile £74.25 £42.05 £50.50
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 9,020 5,555 5,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.08% 16.86% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,780 3,587 3,409
10th Percentile £338 £281 £296
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £504
Median % change year-on-year - -0.79% -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £714 £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 550 249 351
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.58 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.47 £17.45 £14.42
Median hourly rate £38.86 £27.53 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.16% +10.12% -35.42%
75th Percentile £69.67 £60.00 £53.38
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.78 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.86 £25.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +55.44% - -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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +34 797 £475 +2.70% 503
UK excluding London +37 424 £450 +4.65% 308
London 0 381 £480 -3.52% 254
Work from Home 0 313 £450 -2.17% 251
North of England 0 162 £450 +2.27% 86
Midlands +9 89 £440 +13.55% 41
West Midlands +3 76 £443 +5.67% 28
South West +8 73 £425 +6.25% 34
Yorkshire -9 63 £500 +18.34% 37
North West -27 57 £442 -4.90% 36
Scotland +16 49 £496 +0.46% 11
North East -5 46 £450 +1.12% 15
South East -54 37 £490 +15.29% 100
East Midlands -7 11 £435 +35.09% 13
East of England -15 10 £575 +27.78% 27
Wales -16 8 £425 - 4
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 13

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 48 (4.80%) SharePoint
2 43 (4.30%) CMS
3 42 (4.20%) Confluence
4 18 (1.80%) WordPress
5 10 (1.00%) Drupal
6 9 (0.90%) Apache
7 7 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.50%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.40%) Moodle
10 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.30%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.20%) IIS
12 1 (0.10%) Camunda
12 1 (0.10%) govService
12 1 (0.10%) Mendix
12 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.10%) R Markdown
12 1 (0.10%) Strapi
Applications
1 35 (3.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 23 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (2.00%) Sketch
4 14 (1.40%) Adobe XD
5 11 (1.10%) Chatbot
6 10 (1.00%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.60%) Final Cut Pro
10 5 (0.50%) UserZoom
11 4 (0.40%) Navisworks
11 4 (0.40%) Revit
12 3 (0.30%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.20%) InDesign
13 2 (0.20%) InVision
13 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
14 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.10%) Blender
14 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.30%) 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
1 200 (20.00%) Azure
2 163 (16.30%) AWS
3 144 (14.40%) Figma
4 88 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
5 86 (8.60%) GitHub
6 58 (5.80%) Power Platform
7 48 (4.80%) GitHub Actions
8 43 (4.30%) GCP
9 37 (3.70%) Serverless
10 26 (2.60%) Power Automate
11 23 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
12 21 (2.10%) PowerApps
13 19 (1.90%) SaaS
14 17 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
15 16 (1.60%) Entra ID
16 15 (1.50%) BrowserStack
17 14 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
17 14 (1.40%) Amazon S3
18 13 (1.30%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.90%) 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%) Broadband
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%) DMZ
4 1 (0.10%) DSL
4 1 (0.10%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.10%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.00%) Power BI
2 39 (3.90%) Metadata
2 39 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (3.20%) MongoDB
4 31 (3.10%) NoSQL
5 29 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 23 (2.30%) SQL Server
7 11 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
9 7 (0.70%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.70%) Redis
10 6 (0.60%) GIS
10 6 (0.60%) MySQL
11 5 (0.50%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.50%) Stardog
12 4 (0.40%) Looker
12 4 (0.40%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.40%) Tableau
13 3 (0.30%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 92 (9.20%) Git
2 83 (8.30%) JIRA
3 59 (5.90%) Jenkins
3 59 (5.90%) Selenium
4 54 (5.40%) Cypress.io
5 50 (5.00%) GitLab
6 29 (2.90%) Cucumber
7 26 (2.60%) REST Assured
8 25 (2.50%) Postman
9 24 (2.40%) Gatling
10 23 (2.30%) JUnit
11 16 (1.60%) JMeter
12 15 (1.50%) WebDriver
13 13 (1.30%) Maven
14 12 (1.20%) Gradle
14 12 (1.20%) Xcode
15 11 (1.10%) Serenity BDD
16 10 (1.00%) fastlane
17 9 (0.90%) Vite
17 9 (0.90%) webpack
General
1 392 (39.20%) Public Sector
2 289 (28.90%) Social Skills
3 105 (10.50%) Finance
4 82 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (7.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (3.00%) Marketing
7 28 (2.80%) Banking
8 27 (2.70%) Military
9 26 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (2.30%) Legal
11 22 (2.20%) Retail
12 21 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
13 19 (1.90%) Publishing
14 18 (1.80%) Local Government
15 17 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.60%) Investment Banking
17 5 (0.50%) Games
17 5 (0.50%) Legal Technology
18 4 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
18 4 (0.40%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 252 (25.20%) Developer
2 231 (23.10%) Designer
3 169 (16.90%) Senior
4 103 (10.30%) Lead
5 65 (6.50%) Content Designer
6 62 (6.20%) User Researcher
7 56 (5.60%) Analyst
8 55 (5.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 51 (5.10%) Service Designer
10 47 (4.70%) Senior Developer
11 41 (4.10%) Architect
11 41 (4.10%) Senior Designer
12 37 (3.70%) Java Developer
12 37 (3.70%) React Developer
12 37 (3.70%) Test Engineer
12 37 (3.70%) UX Designer
13 34 (3.40%) UI Designer
14 31 (3.10%) Interaction Designer
15 30 (3.00%) Full-Stack Developer
16 23 (2.30%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (15.70%) React
2 119 (11.90%) CSS
2 119 (11.90%) HTML
3 101 (10.10%) RESTful
4 99 (9.90%) REST
5 86 (8.60%) Node.js
6 71 (7.10%) Spring
7 70 (7.00%) Spring Boot
8 67 (6.70%) Playwright
9 59 (5.90%) HTML5
10 53 (5.30%) CSS3
11 47 (4.70%) Kafka
12 46 (4.60%) Jest
13 38 (3.80%) Redux
14 36 (3.60%) .NET
15 35 (3.50%) JSON
16 32 (3.20%) AngularJS
17 27 (2.70%) Next.js
18 21 (2.10%) GraphQL
19 19 (1.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.80%) Product Ownership
2 53 (5.30%) Mobile App
3 52 (5.20%) Cloud Native
4 32 (3.20%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.90%) NHS
6 26 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (2.60%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (2.00%) Taxonomies
9 19 (1.90%) Data Structures
9 19 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.40%) Graphic Design
12 13 (1.30%) Social Media
12 13 (1.30%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.10%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.90%) Animation
15 9 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.00%) Apple iOS
2 26 (2.60%) Android
3 12 (1.20%) Windows
4 4 (0.40%) Linux
4 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.10%) Unix
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 512 (51.20%) Agile
2 303 (30.30%) CI/CD
3 280 (28.00%) User Experience
4 215 (21.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 207 (20.70%) User Research
6 195 (19.50%) DevOps
7 188 (18.80%) Test Automation
8 183 (18.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 175 (17.50%) UX Design
10 160 (16.00%) Service Design
11 143 (14.30%) Problem-Solving
12 141 (14.10%) Analytics
13 140 (14.00%) AI
14 130 (13.00%) Stakeholder Management
15 113 (11.30%) Microservices
16 110 (11.00%) Decision-Making
16 110 (11.00%) Scrum
17 107 (10.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 106 (10.60%) Prototyping
19 98 (9.80%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 189 (18.90%) JavaScript
2 145 (14.50%) TypeScript
3 125 (12.50%) Java
4 94 (9.40%) Python
5 67 (6.70%) SQL
6 45 (4.50%) C#
7 19 (1.90%) Ruby
8 18 (1.80%) Kotlin
9 17 (1.70%) Swift
10 11 (1.10%) Bicep
10 11 (1.10%) Scala
11 9 (0.90%) PHP
12 6 (0.60%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.60%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.40%) Bash
14 4 (0.40%) Objective-C
14 4 (0.40%) R
15 3 (0.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 255 (25.50%) Security Cleared
2 216 (21.60%) SC Cleared
3 84 (8.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 51 (5.10%) Degree
5 16 (1.60%) ISTQB
5 16 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (0.60%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.40%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.30%) Azure Certification
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 (0.10%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (29.20%) WCAG
2 100 (10.00%) QA
3 36 (3.60%) Data Quality
4 35 (3.50%) GDPR
5 15 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 13 (1.30%) 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%) HL7
10 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.10%) GLP
11 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
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
1 104 (10.40%) Docker
2 5 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) Firmware
3 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 86 (8.60%) Kubernetes
2 58 (5.80%) Terraform
3 32 (3.20%) Grafana
4 19 (1.90%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.80%) Argo
7 7 (0.70%) 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
1 103 (10.30%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.70%) Adobe
3 27 (2.70%) Google
4 25 (2.50%) Oracle
5 18 (1.80%) Salesforce
6 17 (1.70%) Splunk
7 16 (1.60%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.40%) ServiceNow
9 9 (0.90%) Pega
9 9 (0.90%) Sitecore
10 8 (0.80%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.70%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.70%) SAP
12 6 (0.60%) Apple
12 6 (0.60%) Solace
13 4 (0.40%) Autodesk
13 4 (0.40%) Databricks
14 3 (0.30%) Checkmarx
14 3 (0.30%) New Relic
14 3 (0.30%) OpenAI
576 Accessibility jobs Nationwide