Accessibility Contracts

Accessibility (a11y)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Accessibility skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Accessibility over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 196 254
Rank change year-on-year +27 +58 -45
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 481 528 635
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.65% 1.21% 1.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.55% 8.45% 7.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 362 464
10th Percentile £311 £325 £350
25th Percentile £383 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £570 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £463 £488
% change year-on-year -7.03% -5.27% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 34 5
10th Percentile £21.00 £14.00 -
25th Percentile £22.75 £14.50 £16.77
Median hourly rate £28.18 £18.35 £23.36
Median % change year-on-year +53.61% -21.47% +11.82%
75th Percentile £32.88 £31.71 £27.75
90th Percentile £53.30 £53.50 £33.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.35 £14.50 £16.77
% change year-on-year +88.62% -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 4,558 6,250 7,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 14.34% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,921 3,951 5,482
10th Percentile £265 £295 £275
25th Percentile £400 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 383 225
10th Percentile £18.04 £10.95 £13.21
25th Percentile £22.21 £13.18 £18.70
Median hourly rate £34.50 £21.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -44.00% +33.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £83.01 £67.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Accessibility over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 +49 363 £500 +5.26% 757
London +44 231 £506 +2.53% 393
Work from Home +18 186 £475 +2.70% 457
UK excluding London +5 153 £430 -7.03% 413
North of England +17 61 £455 -1.62% 126
North West +9 41 £453 -5.24% 70
Scotland -37 29 £480 +3.68% 22
Midlands +37 23 £425 +3.66% 57
South West +42 19 £400 -31.03% 51
West Midlands +25 18 £468 +14.02% 37
Yorkshire +9 16 £275 -35.29% 42
Wales - 9 £395 - 16
South East +15 8 £325 -25.50% 101
East of England +38 7 £450 -35.71% 31
East Midlands +14 5 £322 -19.50% 20
North East -3 4 £493 +8.78% 18
Northern Ireland -8 2 - - 18

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 31 (6.44%) Confluence
2 21 (4.37%) CMS
3 9 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.66%) Apache
4 8 (1.66%) Drupal
5 7 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.25%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.83%) nginx
8 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.62%) R Markdown
9 2 (0.42%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.42%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.42%) WordPress
10 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.21%) Camunda
10 1 (0.21%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.21%) Moodle
10 1 (0.21%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (4.57%) Sketch
2 19 (3.95%) Adobe XD
3 11 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.87%) Trello
5 8 (1.66%) Chatbot
5 8 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (1.04%) InVision
6 5 (1.04%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.62%) Acrobat
7 3 (0.62%) Adobe After Effects
7 3 (0.62%) CINEMA 4D
7 3 (0.62%) Final Cut Pro
8 2 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.42%) Blender
8 2 (0.42%) Camtasia
8 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.42%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.83%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.83%) Shopify
3 4 (0.83%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.42%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.42%) SAP PLM
4 2 (0.42%) SAP PS
4 2 (0.42%) SAP SRM
4 2 (0.42%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.21%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.21%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.21%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.21%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.21%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.21%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.21%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 98 (20.37%) Azure
2 60 (12.47%) AWS
3 58 (12.06%) Figma
4 39 (8.11%) Power Platform
5 18 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (3.74%) GitHub
6 17 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (3.33%) GCP
8 14 (2.91%) Miro
9 13 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (2.70%) Serverless
10 11 (2.29%) SaaS
11 8 (1.66%) Google Analytics
12 7 (1.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.46%) Snowflake
13 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.25%) Internet
1 6 (1.25%) Intranet
2 4 (0.83%) HTTP
2 4 (0.83%) NAS
2 4 (0.83%) SAN
3 2 (0.42%) Firewall
3 2 (0.42%) LAN
3 2 (0.42%) WLAN
4 1 (0.21%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.44%) Power BI
2 21 (4.37%) NoSQL
3 19 (3.95%) SQL Server
4 15 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.29%) Tableau
7 10 (2.08%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.08%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.46%) Metadata
8 7 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.04%) FileMaker
9 5 (1.04%) MySQL
10 4 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (0.83%) Big Data
10 4 (0.83%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.83%) InfluxDB
10 4 (0.83%) Qlik Sense
10 4 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (9.98%) JIRA
2 44 (9.15%) Git
3 29 (6.03%) Cypress.io
4 19 (3.95%) Postman
5 14 (2.91%) Cucumber
6 12 (2.49%) Jasmine
7 11 (2.29%) Axure RP
7 11 (2.29%) Selenium
8 10 (2.08%) Jenkins
9 9 (1.87%) GitLab
10 8 (1.66%) Grunt
10 8 (1.66%) JMeter
10 8 (1.66%) Mocha
10 8 (1.66%) NUnit
10 8 (1.66%) webpack
11 7 (1.46%) gulp
11 7 (1.46%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.46%) SoapUI
12 6 (1.25%) Subversion
13 5 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 159 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 149 (30.98%) Public Sector
3 83 (17.26%) Finance
4 60 (12.47%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (9.77%) Marketing
6 18 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (3.33%) Local Government
8 14 (2.91%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.70%) Banking
10 12 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (2.08%) Legal
11 10 (2.08%) Retail
11 10 (2.08%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.66%) Multimedia
13 7 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.46%) Electronics
13 7 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 106 (22.04%) Developer
2 72 (14.97%) Designer
3 68 (14.14%) Senior
4 34 (7.07%) Lead
5 29 (6.03%) Analyst
6 27 (5.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 26 (5.41%) UX Designer
8 24 (4.99%) Senior Developer
9 23 (4.78%) Data Engineer
10 19 (3.95%) Architect
11 18 (3.74%) User Researcher
12 17 (3.53%) Consultant
12 17 (3.53%) Tester
13 15 (3.12%) .NET Developer
13 15 (3.12%) Content Designer
13 15 (3.12%) Project Manager
14 14 (2.91%) Interaction Designer
14 14 (2.91%) Senior Designer
14 14 (2.91%) Software Engineer
15 13 (2.70%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (18.09%) CSS
2 78 (16.22%) HTML
3 56 (11.64%) React
4 40 (8.32%) Node.js
5 34 (7.07%) RESTful
6 29 (6.03%) AngularJS
7 27 (5.61%) .NET
8 22 (4.57%) HTML5
9 19 (3.95%) Sass
10 18 (3.74%) REST
11 17 (3.53%) .NET Core
11 17 (3.53%) Vue
12 15 (3.12%) Playwright
13 14 (2.91%) CSS3
13 14 (2.91%) Jest
14 13 (2.70%) ASP.NET
15 11 (2.29%) jQuery
15 11 (2.29%) PySpark
16 9 (1.87%) .NET Framework
16 9 (1.87%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 27 (5.61%) Mobile App
3 21 (4.37%) Management Information System
4 17 (3.53%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.29%) Social Media
6 10 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.66%) Driving Licence
8 8 (1.66%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.25%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.25%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.04%) Animation
11 5 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.83%) Equities
12 4 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.16%) Linux
2 14 (2.91%) Android
3 12 (2.49%) Apple iOS
4 10 (2.08%) Mac OS X
4 10 (2.08%) Unix
4 10 (2.08%) Windows
5 7 (1.46%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.21%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (44.49%) Agile
2 148 (30.77%) User Experience
3 102 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
4 100 (20.79%) UX Design
5 85 (17.67%) User Research
6 84 (17.46%) CI/CD
7 72 (14.97%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 69 (14.35%) Decision-Making
9 68 (14.14%) Test Automation
10 65 (13.51%) Analytics
11 62 (12.89%) Stakeholder Management
12 57 (11.85%) DevOps
13 55 (11.43%) Front End Development
14 47 (9.77%) Scrum
14 47 (9.77%) Usability Testing
15 46 (9.56%) Service Design
16 45 (9.36%) Prototyping
17 44 (9.15%) TDD
18 42 (8.73%) Wireframes
19 41 (8.52%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 112 (23.28%) JavaScript
2 70 (14.55%) SQL
3 48 (9.98%) Python
4 44 (9.15%) TypeScript
5 32 (6.65%) Java
6 28 (5.82%) C#
7 14 (2.91%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.08%) PHP
9 9 (1.87%) Bash
10 8 (1.66%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.25%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.25%) R
12 4 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.62%) Scala
14 2 (0.42%) ABAP
14 2 (0.42%) Swift
15 1 (0.21%) COBOL
15 1 (0.21%) Go
15 1 (0.21%) PROC SQL
15 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 48 (9.98%) Degree
3 42 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.62%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.62%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.42%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.42%) CISSP
7 2 (0.42%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.21%) CCA
8 1 (0.21%) CIMA
8 1 (0.21%) CISM
8 1 (0.21%) ISEB
8 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.21%) PMP
8 1 (0.21%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.21%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (12.68%) WCAG
2 37 (7.69%) QA
3 27 (5.61%) Data Quality
4 22 (4.57%) GDPR
5 7 (1.46%) Disclosure Scotland
6 6 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.04%) PMO
8 4 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.62%) GxP
10 2 (0.42%) COSHH
10 2 (0.42%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.42%) EMIR
10 2 (0.42%) ISO 14001
10 2 (0.42%) MiFID
10 2 (0.42%) WAI
11 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.21%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.21%) NCSC
11 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (9.56%) Docker
2 5 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 32 (6.65%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.49%) Terraform
3 3 (0.62%) Grafana
4 1 (0.21%) Ansible
4 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.21%) Puppet
4 1 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 55 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.48%) SAP
3 32 (6.65%) Adobe
4 14 (2.91%) Databricks
5 13 (2.70%) Google
6 9 (1.87%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.46%) Oracle
8 6 (1.25%) Informatica
9 4 (0.83%) Facebook
9 4 (0.83%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.83%) Siemens
9 4 (0.83%) Sitecore
9 4 (0.83%) Twitter
9 4 (0.83%) VMware
10 3 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (0.62%) Pega
10 3 (0.62%) YouTube
11 2 (0.42%) Avaya
11 2 (0.42%) Cisco
11 2 (0.42%) Fortinet