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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 153 212
Rank change year-on-year +2 +59 +4
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 1,029 629 437
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.88% 1.90% 1.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.69% 11.07% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 727 408 259
10th Percentile £350 £309 £279
25th Percentile £406 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £579
90th Percentile £625 £600 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 13
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.75 £18.13
25th Percentile £14.22 £22.75 £24.84
Median hourly rate £21.32 £32.48 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.37% +22.57% +47.22%
75th Percentile £45.00 £35.75 £33.07
90th Percentile £69.39 £39.43 £46.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.06 £25.00 £25.93
% change year-on-year -39.76% -3.59% +48.17%

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 9,624 5,684 5,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.61% 17.20% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,064 3,641 3,004
10th Percentile £325 £300 £277
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -0.10% -4.67%
75th Percentile £601 £604 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.11% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 643 269 251
10th Percentile £13.86 £13.60 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.60 £16.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.40 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% +9.09% -22.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £62.24
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.40 £27.54 £27.50
% change year-on-year +17.63% +0.15% -23.61%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +2 819 £470 - 1,978
UK excluding London +33 472 £450 +5.88% 1,242
London -29 361 £515 +5.10% 965
Work from Home +1 297 £450 -3.90% 1,203
North of England -33 152 £450 +7.14% 281
Midlands +51 141 £443 - 132
West Midlands +43 128 £445 -3.26% 86
South West +7 67 £425 +6.25% 155
Yorkshire -24 56 £492 +20.00% 95
North West -60 50 £450 +9.09% 140
Scotland -15 49 £406 -14.53% 148
North East -6 47 £425 -5.56% 49
South East -50 37 £470 +3.30% 267
East of England -13 15 £575 +4.55% 168
East Midlands -7 11 £435 +35.09% 46
Wales -9 9 £375 -27.71% 26
Northern Ireland +4 3 £638 - 84

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 61 (5.93%) CMS
2 54 (5.25%) SharePoint
3 48 (4.66%) Confluence
4 25 (2.43%) WordPress
5 10 (0.97%) Drupal
6 9 (0.87%) Apache
7 8 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.68%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.58%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.39%) ColdFusion
10 4 (0.39%) Moodle
11 3 (0.29%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.097%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.097%) Documentum
12 1 (0.097%) govService
12 1 (0.097%) Kentico
12 1 (0.097%) Mendix
12 1 (0.097%) nginx
12 1 (0.097%) WebLogic
Applications
1 28 (2.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 24 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.65%) Sketch
4 12 (1.17%) Adobe XD
5 11 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.87%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (0.68%) Final Cut Pro
9 6 (0.58%) UserZoom
10 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.39%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.39%) Navisworks
11 4 (0.39%) Revit
12 3 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
13 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.19%) Trello
14 1 (0.097%) Blender
14 1 (0.097%) InVision
Business Applications
1 23 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.097%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.097%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.097%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.097%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.097%) Primavera
4 1 (0.097%) Shopify
4 1 (0.097%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 204 (19.83%) Azure
2 186 (18.08%) AWS
3 141 (13.70%) Figma
4 110 (10.69%) GitHub
5 97 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
6 70 (6.80%) Power Platform
7 62 (6.03%) GitHub Actions
8 49 (4.76%) Serverless
9 45 (4.37%) GCP
10 44 (4.28%) Power Automate
11 40 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
12 25 (2.43%) PowerApps
13 24 (2.33%) Miro
14 22 (2.14%) Azure Functions
15 21 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
16 18 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
17 16 (1.55%) Amazon S3
17 16 (1.55%) SaaS
18 15 (1.46%) Entra ID
19 13 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.58%) Intranet
2 4 (0.39%) NAS
3 2 (0.19%) Broadband
3 2 (0.19%) Internet
3 2 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.097%) DMZ
4 1 (0.097%) HTTP
4 1 (0.097%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.097%) Network Security
4 1 (0.097%) SAN
4 1 (0.097%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (4.47%) MongoDB
1 46 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (4.37%) Metadata
3 38 (3.69%) Power BI
4 35 (3.40%) SQL Server
5 31 (3.01%) Relational Database
6 22 (2.14%) NoSQL
7 16 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (1.17%) Geospatial Data
9 10 (0.97%) Data Lake
10 9 (0.87%) Redis
11 7 (0.68%) Tableau
12 6 (0.58%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.49%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.49%) Stardog
14 4 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.39%) Delta Lake
14 4 (0.39%) GIS
14 4 (0.39%) Looker
14 4 (0.39%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 144 (13.99%) Git
2 81 (7.87%) Selenium
3 79 (7.68%) JIRA
4 72 (7.00%) Jenkins
5 65 (6.32%) GitLab
6 61 (5.93%) Cucumber
7 53 (5.15%) Cypress.io
8 50 (4.86%) JUnit
9 40 (3.89%) Gatling
10 29 (2.82%) Postman
11 22 (2.14%) REST Assured
12 20 (1.94%) SonarQube
13 18 (1.75%) JMeter
13 18 (1.75%) WebDriver
14 16 (1.55%) Maven
14 16 (1.55%) Storybook
15 13 (1.26%) Mockito
16 12 (1.17%) Gradle
16 12 (1.17%) Xcode
17 11 (1.07%) MSI
General
1 431 (41.89%) Public Sector
2 343 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 108 (10.50%) Finance
3 108 (10.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 92 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (3.89%) Marketing
6 31 (3.01%) Military
7 29 (2.82%) Legal
7 29 (2.82%) Local Government
8 26 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
8 26 (2.53%) Publishing
9 25 (2.43%) Banking
10 24 (2.33%) Retail
11 23 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.58%) Games
14 5 (0.49%) Automotive
14 5 (0.49%) Legal Technology
15 4 (0.39%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.39%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 258 (25.07%) Developer
2 217 (21.09%) Designer
3 178 (17.30%) Senior
4 118 (11.47%) Lead
5 67 (6.51%) Content Designer
6 66 (6.41%) User Researcher
7 54 (5.25%) Analyst
8 52 (5.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 52 (5.05%) Senior Developer
9 48 (4.66%) Java Developer
10 47 (4.57%) Service Designer
11 40 (3.89%) Architect
12 35 (3.40%) Senior Designer
13 33 (3.21%) Test Engineer
14 32 (3.11%) UX Designer
15 31 (3.01%) UI Designer
16 29 (2.82%) Lead Developer
16 29 (2.82%) React Developer
17 28 (2.72%) Interaction Designer
18 24 (2.33%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (15.06%) React
2 136 (13.22%) HTML
3 130 (12.63%) CSS
4 124 (12.05%) REST
5 105 (10.20%) RESTful
6 93 (9.04%) Node.js
7 88 (8.55%) Playwright
8 86 (8.36%) Spring
9 71 (6.90%) Spring Boot
10 66 (6.41%) Terraform
11 64 (6.22%) HTML5
12 55 (5.34%) JSON
13 54 (5.25%) CSS3
14 49 (4.76%) Jest
15 44 (4.28%) Kafka
16 41 (3.98%) .NET
17 35 (3.40%) Gherkin
18 29 (2.82%) Redux
19 28 (2.72%) AngularJS
20 25 (2.43%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 84 (8.16%) Product Ownership
2 68 (6.61%) Cloud Native
3 54 (5.25%) Mobile App
4 44 (4.28%) Management Information System
5 37 (3.60%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.92%) Taxonomies
7 28 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (2.72%) NHS
8 21 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.55%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.26%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.26%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.26%) Graphic Design
12 11 (1.07%) Animation
12 11 (1.07%) Blog
13 10 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 31 (3.01%) Android
2 28 (2.72%) Apple iOS
3 16 (1.55%) Windows
4 5 (0.49%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.29%) Linux
6 2 (0.19%) AIX
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.097%) Rocky
7 1 (0.097%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (54.23%) Agile
2 344 (33.43%) CI/CD
3 270 (26.24%) User Experience
4 245 (23.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 228 (22.16%) Stakeholder Management
6 223 (21.67%) Test Automation
7 215 (20.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 213 (20.70%) User Research
9 212 (20.60%) DevOps
10 161 (15.65%) UX Design
11 160 (15.55%) AI
12 158 (15.35%) Service Design
13 155 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
14 151 (14.67%) Analytics
15 146 (14.19%) Scrum
16 140 (13.61%) Microservices
17 129 (12.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 111 (10.79%) Decision-Making
19 109 (10.59%) Mentoring
20 105 (10.20%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 228 (22.16%) JavaScript
2 146 (14.19%) Java
3 140 (13.61%) TypeScript
4 82 (7.97%) Python
5 70 (6.80%) SQL
6 59 (5.73%) C#
7 20 (1.94%) Kotlin
7 20 (1.94%) Ruby
8 16 (1.55%) Scala
9 14 (1.36%) Swift
10 12 (1.17%) Bicep
11 9 (0.87%) PHP
12 7 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.58%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.49%) Bash
14 5 (0.49%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.39%) CFML
15 4 (0.39%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.39%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 291 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 246 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 110 (10.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 49 (4.76%) Degree
5 33 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.36%) ISTQB
8 10 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 5 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.29%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.19%) ACCA
12 2 (0.19%) CCA
12 2 (0.19%) CIMA
12 2 (0.19%) CIPD
12 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.19%) PMP
13 1 (0.097%) CAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 298 (28.96%) WCAG
2 130 (12.63%) QA
3 51 (4.96%) Data Quality
4 40 (3.89%) GDPR
5 22 (2.14%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (1.17%) NCSC
7 4 (0.39%) ISO 19650
7 4 (0.39%) PMO
8 3 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.19%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.097%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.097%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.097%) GRC
10 1 (0.097%) HL7
10 1 (0.097%) IEC 62304
10 1 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.097%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.097%) WAI
10 1 (0.097%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 115 (11.18%) Docker
2 5 (0.49%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.097%) Firmware
5 1 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 110 (10.69%) Kubernetes
2 40 (3.89%) Grafana
3 14 (1.36%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.78%) Argo
5 8 (0.78%) Kibana
6 5 (0.49%) Ansible
7 2 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.097%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.097%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.097%) Puppet
8 1 (0.097%) SELinux
8 1 (0.097%) systemd
Vendors
1 125 (12.15%) Microsoft
2 54 (5.25%) Adobe
3 31 (3.01%) Oracle
4 27 (2.62%) Google
5 18 (1.75%) Splunk
6 17 (1.65%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.46%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.26%) Salesforce
9 9 (0.87%) Red Hat
9 9 (0.87%) Sitecore
10 8 (0.78%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.68%) Databricks
12 6 (0.58%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.49%) dotdigital
13 5 (0.49%) SAP
13 5 (0.49%) TikTok
14 4 (0.39%) Apple
14 4 (0.39%) Autodesk
15 3 (0.29%) Foundry
15 3 (0.29%) Solace