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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 168 232
Rank change year-on-year +21 +64 -9
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 995 547 449
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.89% 1.67% 1.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.03% 9.97% 7.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 700 340 274
10th Percentile £350 £312 £313
25th Percentile £402 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -0.52% -4.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £630 £600 £659
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £464
% change year-on-year - -2.96% -2.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 21
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.67 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.18 £22.75 £18.13
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.75 £24.84
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +23.79% +6.34%
75th Percentile £55.13 £35.75 £33.07
90th Percentile £74.25 £42.05 £50.00
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 9,023 5,486 5,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.10% 16.78% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,779 3,541 3,491
10th Percentile £338 £281 £282
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £623
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £475
% change year-on-year +5.70% -0.42% -4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 243 364
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.60 £11.18
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.67 £14.34
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.18 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.94% +12.72% -35.42%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.24 £53.81
90th Percentile £82.25 £84.88 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% +0.60% -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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +28 790 £473 +1.12% 533
UK excluding London +34 417 £450 - 347
London -5 379 £478 -4.50% 256
Work from Home +4 316 £450 -2.17% 290
North of England +8 159 £450 - 92
Midlands +10 87 £445 +11.25% 39
West Midlands -7 74 £446 +4.94% 24
South West +10 73 £425 +6.25% 50
Yorkshire -7 62 £500 +17.65% 41
North West -25 55 £432 -7.05% 45
Scotland +8 48 £496 +0.46% 25
North East -2 46 £450 +1.12% 9
South East -47 36 £495 +16.47% 102
East Midlands -6 11 £435 +35.09% 15
East of England -15 10 £575 +27.78% 31
Wales -18 8 £425 - 3
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 11

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 (4.82%) SharePoint
2 42 (4.22%) Confluence
3 41 (4.12%) CMS
4 18 (1.81%) WordPress
5 10 (1.01%) 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%) govService
12 1 (0.10%) Kentico
12 1 (0.10%) nginx
12 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.10%) Strapi
12 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 35 (3.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 23 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (2.01%) Sketch
4 14 (1.41%) Adobe XD
5 11 (1.11%) Chatbot
6 10 (1.01%) 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 11 (1.11%) 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
1 197 (19.80%) Azure
2 161 (16.18%) AWS
3 143 (14.37%) Figma
4 86 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
5 83 (8.34%) GitHub
6 57 (5.73%) Power Platform
7 45 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
8 42 (4.22%) GCP
9 35 (3.52%) Serverless
10 24 (2.41%) Power Automate
11 21 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
12 20 (2.01%) PowerApps
13 19 (1.91%) SaaS
14 17 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
15 16 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
15 16 (1.61%) Entra ID
16 15 (1.51%) BrowserStack
17 14 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
18 13 (1.31%) Amazon S3
18 13 (1.31%) 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 (4.02%) Power BI
2 38 (3.82%) Metadata
3 37 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (3.12%) MongoDB
4 31 (3.12%) NoSQL
5 28 (2.81%) Relational Database
6 22 (2.21%) SQL Server
7 11 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (1.01%) 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%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 92 (9.25%) Git
2 83 (8.34%) JIRA
3 58 (5.83%) Jenkins
3 58 (5.83%) Selenium
4 52 (5.23%) Cypress.io
5 50 (5.03%) GitLab
6 28 (2.81%) Cucumber
7 26 (2.61%) REST Assured
8 24 (2.41%) Gatling
8 24 (2.41%) Postman
9 22 (2.21%) JUnit
10 16 (1.61%) JMeter
11 14 (1.41%) WebDriver
12 13 (1.31%) Maven
13 12 (1.21%) Gradle
13 12 (1.21%) Xcode
14 11 (1.11%) Serenity BDD
15 10 (1.01%) fastlane
16 9 (0.90%) Storybook
16 9 (0.90%) Vite
General
1 387 (38.89%) Public Sector
2 281 (28.24%) Social Skills
3 105 (10.55%) Finance
4 80 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (7.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (2.91%) Marketing
7 28 (2.81%) Banking
8 27 (2.71%) Military
9 25 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (2.31%) Legal
11 22 (2.21%) Retail
12 21 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.81%) Local Government
13 18 (1.81%) Publishing
14 17 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.60%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.50%) Games
16 5 (0.50%) Legal Technology
17 4 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.40%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 252 (25.33%) Developer
2 228 (22.91%) Designer
3 168 (16.88%) Senior
4 102 (10.25%) Lead
5 64 (6.43%) Content Designer
6 63 (6.33%) User Researcher
7 57 (5.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 55 (5.53%) Analyst
9 50 (5.03%) Service Designer
10 47 (4.72%) Senior Developer
11 41 (4.12%) Architect
11 41 (4.12%) Senior Designer
12 37 (3.72%) React Developer
12 37 (3.72%) Test Engineer
12 37 (3.72%) UX Designer
13 36 (3.62%) Java Developer
14 33 (3.32%) UI Designer
15 31 (3.12%) Interaction Designer
16 29 (2.91%) Full-Stack Developer
17 23 (2.31%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (15.68%) React
2 117 (11.76%) CSS
2 117 (11.76%) HTML
3 100 (10.05%) REST
4 99 (9.95%) RESTful
5 85 (8.54%) Node.js
6 70 (7.04%) Spring
7 69 (6.93%) Spring Boot
8 67 (6.73%) Playwright
9 59 (5.93%) HTML5
10 53 (5.33%) CSS3
11 47 (4.72%) Kafka
12 45 (4.52%) Jest
13 38 (3.82%) Redux
14 36 (3.62%) .NET
15 34 (3.42%) JSON
16 33 (3.32%) AngularJS
17 27 (2.71%) Next.js
18 21 (2.11%) GraphQL
19 19 (1.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 77 (7.74%) Product Ownership
2 51 (5.13%) Cloud Native
2 51 (5.13%) Mobile App
3 32 (3.22%) Onboarding
4 29 (2.91%) NHS
5 26 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (2.51%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (2.01%) Taxonomies
9 19 (1.91%) Data Structures
9 19 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.41%) Graphic Design
11 14 (1.41%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.31%) Social Media
13 12 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.11%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.90%) Animation
15 9 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.91%) Apple iOS
2 25 (2.51%) Android
3 12 (1.21%) 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
1 508 (51.06%) Agile
2 300 (30.15%) CI/CD
3 279 (28.04%) User Experience
4 210 (21.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 206 (20.70%) User Research
6 192 (19.30%) DevOps
7 186 (18.69%) Test Automation
8 181 (18.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 176 (17.69%) UX Design
10 158 (15.88%) Service Design
11 142 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
12 138 (13.87%) AI
13 135 (13.57%) Analytics
14 124 (12.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 111 (11.16%) Microservices
16 109 (10.95%) Decision-Making
17 108 (10.85%) Scrum
18 105 (10.55%) Prototyping
18 105 (10.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 95 (9.55%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 188 (18.89%) JavaScript
2 146 (14.67%) TypeScript
3 124 (12.46%) Java
4 93 (9.35%) Python
5 67 (6.73%) SQL
6 43 (4.32%) C#
7 19 (1.91%) Ruby
8 17 (1.71%) Kotlin
9 16 (1.61%) Swift
10 11 (1.11%) Bicep
10 11 (1.11%) 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 (25.63%) Security Cleared
2 216 (21.71%) SC Cleared
3 83 (8.34%) BPSS Clearance
4 51 (5.13%) Degree
5 15 (1.51%) ISTQB
6 14 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 6 (0.60%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.40%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.30%) 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 (28.94%) WCAG
2 99 (9.95%) QA
3 36 (3.62%) Data Quality
4 33 (3.32%) GDPR
5 15 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
6 13 (1.31%) 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%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.10%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.10%) WAI
System Software
1 103 (10.35%) Docker
2 5 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) Firmware
3 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 85 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 57 (5.73%) Terraform
3 31 (3.12%) Grafana
4 19 (1.91%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.80%) Argo
7 6 (0.60%) 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
1 101 (10.15%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.73%) Adobe
3 25 (2.51%) Google
3 25 (2.51%) Oracle
4 18 (1.81%) Salesforce
5 17 (1.71%) Splunk
6 16 (1.61%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.11%) 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