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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 166 217
Rank change year-on-year +22 +51 +12
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 922 514 471
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.83% 1.73% 1.08%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.92% 10.69% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 328 291
10th Percentile £350 £312 £306
25th Percentile £405 £375 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £630 £600 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +11.76% -8.11% -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 33
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.24 £22.75 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.38 £28.18 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% +55.43% -22.39%
75th Percentile £41.68 £35.75 £31.71
90th Percentile £74.85 - £48.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £28.18 £14.50
% change year-on-year -43.22% +94.34% -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 8,442 4,807 5,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.78% 16.20% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,412 3,069 3,722
10th Percentile £340 £275 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.48% -3.33%
75th Percentile £600 £614 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 505 201 433
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £11.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.20 £13.18
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.76 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +13.35% +33.45% -36.53%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £19.17
% change year-on-year +23.08% +69.54% -48.88%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +9 708 £475 - 415
UK excluding London +36 381 £475 +11.76% 316
London -3 341 £475 -5.00% 182
Work from Home +13 293 £450 -2.96% 273
North of England +5 159 £450 -1.64% 77
North West -2 75 £442 -7.05% 43
Midlands -8 71 £450 +16.13% 41
South West +18 63 £475 +18.75% 38
West Midlands -11 60 £450 +5.88% 19
Yorkshire -24 54 £500 +18.34% 28
Scotland +7 45 £550 +18.15% 18
South East -40 35 £500 +16.28% 86
North East -7 34 £450 -2.17% 10
East Midlands -15 10 £445 +38.20% 22
East of England -26 8 £575 +27.78% 29
Wales -14 4 £713 +80.38% 19
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 14

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 44 (4.77%) SharePoint
2 36 (3.90%) Confluence
3 31 (3.36%) CMS
4 10 (1.08%) WordPress
5 7 (0.76%) Apache
5 7 (0.76%) ArcGIS
5 7 (0.76%) Drupal
6 4 (0.43%) Moodle
7 3 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.22%) IIS
8 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Kentico
9 1 (0.11%) Mendix
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
9 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 32 (3.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 24 (2.60%) Sketch
3 22 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (2.06%) Adobe XD
5 10 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.98%) Adobe After Effects
6 9 (0.98%) InVision
7 8 (0.87%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
9 6 (0.65%) UserZoom
10 5 (0.54%) Final Cut Pro
11 4 (0.43%) Navisworks
11 4 (0.43%) Revit
11 4 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.33%) CapCut
12 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
12 3 (0.33%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.33%) Zeplin
13 2 (0.22%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 5 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.11%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.11%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.11%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 163 (17.68%) Azure
2 139 (15.08%) AWS
3 138 (14.97%) Figma
4 77 (8.35%) GitHub
5 67 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (5.31%) Power Platform
7 43 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
8 38 (4.12%) GCP
9 27 (2.93%) Serverless
10 18 (1.95%) Miro
10 18 (1.95%) SaaS
11 17 (1.84%) BrowserStack
12 16 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
13 14 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (1.52%) PowerApps
14 13 (1.41%) Power Automate
15 12 (1.30%) Entra ID
16 11 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (1.08%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.08%) Intranet
2 4 (0.43%) 5G
2 4 (0.43%) LTE
2 4 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.22%) 5G NR
3 2 (0.22%) HTTP
3 2 (0.22%) Internet
3 2 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.22%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.11%) DMZ
4 1 (0.11%) DSL
4 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.90%) Power BI
2 32 (3.47%) NoSQL
2 32 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (2.93%) MongoDB
4 25 (2.71%) Metadata
5 24 (2.60%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.63%) SQL Server
7 9 (0.98%) GIS
8 6 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (0.65%) MySQL
8 6 (0.65%) Redis
8 6 (0.65%) Spatial Data
9 4 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.43%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.43%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.33%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.33%) Tableau
11 2 (0.22%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 77 (8.35%) Git
2 72 (7.81%) JIRA
3 52 (5.64%) Cypress.io
4 48 (5.21%) Selenium
5 47 (5.10%) GitLab
5 47 (5.10%) Jenkins
6 24 (2.60%) Cucumber
7 23 (2.49%) REST Assured
8 21 (2.28%) JUnit
9 19 (2.06%) Gatling
9 19 (2.06%) Postman
10 17 (1.84%) JMeter
11 11 (1.19%) CircleCI
11 11 (1.19%) Serenity BDD
12 10 (1.08%) fastlane
12 10 (1.08%) Xcode
13 9 (0.98%) Gradle
14 8 (0.87%) Axure RP
14 8 (0.87%) Maven
14 8 (0.87%) WebDriver
General
1 360 (39.05%) Public Sector
2 250 (27.11%) Social Skills
3 90 (9.76%) Finance
4 61 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (4.12%) Banking
7 23 (2.49%) Military
7 23 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (2.28%) Legal
8 21 (2.28%) Marketing
9 20 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (1.95%) Publishing
11 17 (1.84%) Retail
12 14 (1.52%) Local Government
13 7 (0.76%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.43%) Automotive
15 4 (0.43%) Legal Technology
15 4 (0.43%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 224 (24.30%) Designer
2 222 (24.08%) Developer
3 138 (14.97%) Senior
4 81 (8.79%) Lead
5 63 (6.83%) Content Designer
6 55 (5.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 55 (5.97%) Service Designer
7 54 (5.86%) User Researcher
8 47 (5.10%) UX Designer
9 43 (4.66%) Test Engineer
10 42 (4.56%) Analyst
11 36 (3.90%) Senior Developer
12 34 (3.69%) Full-Stack Developer
13 33 (3.58%) Architect
13 33 (3.58%) Senior Designer
14 32 (3.47%) React Developer
15 30 (3.25%) Tester
16 27 (2.93%) Java Developer
17 25 (2.71%) UI Designer
18 23 (2.49%) Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (15.51%) React
2 100 (10.85%) HTML
3 95 (10.30%) CSS
4 85 (9.22%) REST
5 83 (9.00%) RESTful
6 78 (8.46%) Node.js
7 69 (7.48%) Spring
8 68 (7.38%) Spring Boot
9 64 (6.94%) Playwright
10 45 (4.88%) HTML5
11 42 (4.56%) Jest
12 41 (4.45%) CSS3
13 35 (3.80%) Kafka
13 35 (3.80%) Redux
14 32 (3.47%) AngularJS
15 30 (3.25%) .NET
16 26 (2.82%) Next.js
17 17 (1.84%) GraphQL
17 17 (1.84%) JSON
17 17 (1.84%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 67 (7.27%) Product Ownership
2 50 (5.42%) Mobile App
3 35 (3.80%) Cloud Native
4 24 (2.60%) NHS
4 24 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 23 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 15 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.52%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.52%) Social Media
9 13 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.41%) Taxonomies
10 12 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.19%) Graphic Design
11 11 (1.19%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.08%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (0.87%) Animation
14 8 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.82%) Apple iOS
2 20 (2.17%) Android
3 8 (0.87%) Windows
4 4 (0.43%) Linux
4 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (50.65%) Agile
2 257 (27.87%) User Experience
3 250 (27.11%) CI/CD
4 208 (22.56%) User Research
5 179 (19.41%) UX Design
6 174 (18.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 169 (18.33%) Test Automation
8 161 (17.46%) DevOps
9 157 (17.03%) Service Design
10 153 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 123 (13.34%) Problem-Solving
12 116 (12.58%) Analytics
13 106 (11.50%) AI
14 103 (11.17%) Prototyping
15 97 (10.52%) Microservices
16 93 (10.09%) Decision-Making
17 87 (9.44%) Stakeholder Management
18 85 (9.22%) Scrum
18 85 (9.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 81 (8.79%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 164 (17.79%) JavaScript
2 140 (15.18%) TypeScript
3 120 (13.02%) Java
4 84 (9.11%) Python
5 59 (6.40%) SQL
6 35 (3.80%) C#
7 19 (2.06%) Ruby
8 14 (1.52%) Swift
9 13 (1.41%) Kotlin
10 11 (1.19%) Scala
11 7 (0.76%) Bicep
12 6 (0.65%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.33%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.33%) PHP
13 3 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.33%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.22%) Bash
14 2 (0.22%) Go
14 2 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 218 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 180 (19.52%) SC Cleared
3 73 (7.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 48 (5.21%) Degree
5 11 (1.19%) ISTQB
6 9 (0.98%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.54%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.33%) CCA
10 3 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.22%) ACCA
11 2 (0.22%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.22%) CIMA
11 2 (0.22%) CIPD
11 2 (0.22%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.22%) PMP
12 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (27.87%) WCAG
2 83 (9.00%) QA
3 33 (3.58%) Data Quality
4 23 (2.49%) GDPR
5 9 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
5 9 (0.98%) NCSC
6 5 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (0.43%) ISO 19650
7 4 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 3 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.33%) PMO
9 2 (0.22%) GRC
9 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.11%) GLP
10 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.11%) HL7
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.11%) WAI
10 1 (0.11%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 90 (9.76%) Docker
2 4 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Firmware
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 69 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 47 (5.10%) Terraform
3 28 (3.04%) Grafana
4 17 (1.84%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.98%) Argo
5 9 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.65%) Ansible
7 5 (0.54%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.11%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.11%) logstash
8 1 (0.11%) QRadar
8 1 (0.11%) SELinux
8 1 (0.11%) systemd
Vendors
1 80 (8.68%) Microsoft
2 57 (6.18%) Adobe
3 22 (2.39%) Google
4 18 (1.95%) Oracle
5 17 (1.84%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.74%) Splunk
7 14 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.41%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.19%) Pega
10 8 (0.87%) Databricks
10 8 (0.87%) Red Hat
10 8 (0.87%) Sitecore
11 6 (0.65%) Apple
11 6 (0.65%) SAP
12 5 (0.54%) Solace
13 4 (0.43%) Autodesk
14 3 (0.33%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.33%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.33%) Synthesia
15 2 (0.22%) New Relic