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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 156 215
Rank change year-on-year 0 +59 +3
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 975 596 431
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.81% 1.82% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.45% 10.68% 8.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 702 371 261
10th Percentile £350 £304 £300
25th Percentile £405 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £577
90th Percentile £602 £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 28 21 11
10th Percentile £14.00 £20.25 £18.13
25th Percentile £14.22 £25.00 £21.49
Median hourly rate £21.32 £31.50 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year -32.33% -0.38% +43.73%
75th Percentile £37.23 £35.75 £36.54
90th Percentile £69.34 £37.50 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.22 £26.59 £34.26
% change year-on-year -46.52% -22.39% +97.07%

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 9,328 5,582 5,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.35% 17.06% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,927 3,590 3,175
10th Percentile £325 £285 £286
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year - -1.67% -3.14%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +3.37% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 581 259 298
10th Percentile £13.86 £13.60 £11.07
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.14 £13.89
Median hourly rate £36.00 £30.00 £24.92
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +20.39% -29.80%
75th Percentile £68.75 £61.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.45 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.07 £27.54 £24.18
% change year-on-year +31.00% +13.88% -30.91%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -2 780 £475 +3.26% 1,707
UK excluding London +25 447 £450 +5.88% 1,105
London -32 354 £500 - 848
Work from Home -22 276 £450 -2.17% 1,213
North of England -23 157 £450 +8.43% 247
Midlands +25 110 £425 +4.62% 127
West Midlands +16 97 £425 +1.49% 79
South West +12 70 £425 +6.25% 132
Yorkshire -18 56 £492 +23.00% 83
Scotland +5 52 £420 -13.22% 103
North East -3 51 £450 - 37
North West -49 51 £429 +3.37% 131
South East -48 33 £475 +5.56% 195
East of England -13 15 £575 +15.00% 225
East Midlands -11 11 £435 +37.01% 48
Wales -18 9 £375 -18.26% 21
Northern Ireland +5 3 £638 - 78

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 50 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 49 (5.03%) CMS
3 47 (4.82%) Confluence
4 20 (2.05%) WordPress
5 10 (1.03%) Drupal
6 7 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.72%) Apache
7 6 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.51%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.51%) Moodle
9 4 (0.41%) ColdFusion
10 3 (0.31%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.21%) IIS
12 1 (0.10%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.10%) govService
12 1 (0.10%) Kentico
12 1 (0.10%) nginx
12 1 (0.10%) R Markdown
12 1 (0.10%) Strapi
Applications
1 31 (3.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 24 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.64%) Sketch
4 10 (1.03%) Adobe XD
5 9 (0.92%) Adobe After Effects
5 9 (0.92%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.62%) Final Cut Pro
7 6 (0.62%) UserZoom
8 4 (0.41%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.41%) Revit
9 2 (0.21%) InVision
9 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.10%) Blender
10 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
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%) Primavera
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.10%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.10%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 201 (20.62%) Azure
2 164 (16.82%) AWS
3 136 (13.95%) Figma
4 95 (9.74%) GitHub
5 93 (9.54%) Azure DevOps
6 66 (6.77%) Power Platform
7 54 (5.54%) GitHub Actions
8 42 (4.31%) GCP
9 41 (4.21%) Serverless
10 37 (3.79%) Power Automate
11 31 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
12 27 (2.77%) PowerApps
13 22 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
14 19 (1.95%) SaaS
15 16 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
15 16 (1.64%) Miro
16 15 (1.54%) Azure Functions
16 15 (1.54%) Entra ID
17 13 (1.33%) Amazon S3
18 12 (1.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.82%) Intranet
2 2 (0.21%) 5G
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) Internet
2 2 (0.21%) LTE
2 2 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.10%) 5G NR
3 1 (0.10%) DMZ
3 1 (0.10%) DSL
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
3 1 (0.10%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.10%) Network Security
3 1 (0.10%) SAN
3 1 (0.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (4.31%) Metadata
3 41 (4.21%) Power BI
4 39 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 30 (3.08%) NoSQL
5 30 (3.08%) Relational Database
6 26 (2.67%) SQL Server
7 13 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (1.23%) Geospatial Data
9 7 (0.72%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.72%) Redis
9 7 (0.72%) Tableau
10 6 (0.62%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.51%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.51%) MySQL
11 5 (0.51%) Stardog
12 4 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.41%) GIS
12 4 (0.41%) Looker
12 4 (0.41%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 117 (12.00%) Git
2 79 (8.10%) JIRA
3 63 (6.46%) Jenkins
4 61 (6.26%) Selenium
5 52 (5.33%) GitLab
6 49 (5.03%) Cypress.io
7 41 (4.21%) Cucumber
8 35 (3.59%) JUnit
9 28 (2.87%) Gatling
10 23 (2.36%) Postman
11 18 (1.85%) REST Assured
12 16 (1.64%) WebDriver
13 15 (1.54%) Maven
13 15 (1.54%) SonarQube
14 13 (1.33%) JMeter
15 12 (1.23%) Gradle
15 12 (1.23%) Xcode
16 11 (1.13%) MSI
16 11 (1.13%) Storybook
17 10 (1.03%) fastlane
General
1 402 (41.23%) Public Sector
2 298 (30.56%) Social Skills
3 108 (11.08%) Finance
4 98 (10.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 80 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.28%) Marketing
7 27 (2.77%) Banking
8 25 (2.56%) Military
8 25 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (2.46%) Legal
10 23 (2.36%) Publishing
10 23 (2.36%) Retail
11 21 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (2.15%) Local Government
12 13 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.51%) Automotive
13 5 (0.51%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.51%) Legal Technology
14 4 (0.41%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 259 (26.56%) Developer
2 214 (21.95%) Designer
3 164 (16.82%) Senior
4 99 (10.15%) Lead
5 66 (6.77%) Content Designer
6 57 (5.85%) User Researcher
7 56 (5.74%) Analyst
8 55 (5.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 51 (5.23%) Senior Developer
10 43 (4.41%) Java Developer
10 43 (4.41%) Service Designer
11 39 (4.00%) Architect
12 36 (3.69%) Senior Designer
13 33 (3.38%) UI Designer
13 33 (3.38%) UX Designer
14 31 (3.18%) React Developer
15 27 (2.77%) Full-Stack Developer
16 26 (2.67%) Interaction Designer
16 26 (2.67%) Test Engineer
17 23 (2.36%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (15.90%) React
2 134 (13.74%) HTML
3 128 (13.13%) CSS
4 110 (11.28%) REST
5 106 (10.87%) RESTful
6 88 (9.03%) Node.js
7 79 (8.10%) Spring
8 70 (7.18%) Spring Boot
9 64 (6.56%) HTML5
10 62 (6.36%) Playwright
11 60 (6.15%) Terraform
12 57 (5.85%) CSS3
13 47 (4.82%) Jest
14 46 (4.72%) JSON
15 43 (4.41%) Kafka
16 35 (3.59%) .NET
17 33 (3.38%) Redux
18 30 (3.08%) AngularJS
19 26 (2.67%) Gherkin
19 26 (2.67%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 81 (8.31%) Product Ownership
2 60 (6.15%) Cloud Native
3 54 (5.54%) Mobile App
4 36 (3.69%) Onboarding
5 32 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 29 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (2.77%) NHS
8 21 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (2.05%) Taxonomies
10 17 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.54%) Graphic Design
12 13 (1.33%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.33%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.13%) Animation
15 10 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
15 10 (1.03%) Social Media
16 9 (0.92%) AI Agents
16 9 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.97%) Android
2 28 (2.87%) Apple iOS
3 14 (1.44%) Windows
4 4 (0.41%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.31%) Linux
6 1 (0.10%) AIX
6 1 (0.10%) Unix
6 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (53.03%) Agile
2 311 (31.90%) CI/CD
3 267 (27.38%) User Experience
4 220 (22.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 202 (20.72%) DevOps
6 196 (20.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 194 (19.90%) Test Automation
8 189 (19.38%) User Research
9 174 (17.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 166 (17.03%) UX Design
11 150 (15.38%) Analytics
12 145 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
13 144 (14.77%) Service Design
14 143 (14.67%) AI
15 131 (13.44%) Scrum
16 124 (12.72%) Microservices
17 120 (12.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 103 (10.56%) Decision-Making
19 96 (9.85%) Prototyping
20 90 (9.23%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 205 (21.03%) JavaScript
2 132 (13.54%) Java
3 131 (13.44%) TypeScript
4 82 (8.41%) Python
5 72 (7.38%) SQL
6 48 (4.92%) C#
7 21 (2.15%) Kotlin
7 21 (2.15%) Ruby
8 16 (1.64%) Swift
9 15 (1.54%) Scala
10 12 (1.23%) Bicep
11 9 (0.92%) PHP
12 6 (0.62%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.51%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.51%) R
13 5 (0.51%) SPARQL
14 4 (0.41%) Bash
14 4 (0.41%) CFML
14 4 (0.41%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 256 (26.26%) Security Cleared
2 212 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 88 (9.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 50 (5.13%) Degree
5 25 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.44%) ISTQB
8 10 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 9 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.31%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.31%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.31%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.31%) PMP
13 2 (0.21%) ACCA
13 2 (0.21%) CCA
13 2 (0.21%) CIMA
13 2 (0.21%) CIPD
14 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 282 (28.92%) WCAG
2 110 (11.28%) QA
3 43 (4.41%) Data Quality
4 36 (3.69%) GDPR
5 17 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
6 16 (1.64%) NCSC
7 5 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.41%) ISO 19650
8 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 4 (0.41%) PMO
9 2 (0.21%) HL7
10 1 (0.10%) GLP
10 1 (0.10%) IEC 62304
10 1 (0.10%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.10%) WAI
10 1 (0.10%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 106 (10.87%) Docker
2 5 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) Firmware
3 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 94 (9.64%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.69%) Grafana
3 14 (1.44%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.82%) Argo
6 7 (0.72%) Kibana
7 5 (0.51%) Ansible
8 1 (0.10%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.10%) SELinux
8 1 (0.10%) systemd
Vendors
1 114 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.33%) Adobe
3 27 (2.77%) Google
4 26 (2.67%) Oracle
5 16 (1.64%) Dynatrace
5 16 (1.64%) ServiceNow
6 15 (1.54%) Splunk
7 13 (1.33%) Salesforce
8 9 (0.92%) Sitecore
9 8 (0.82%) MuleSoft
9 8 (0.82%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.72%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.62%) SAP
12 5 (0.51%) Apple
13 4 (0.41%) Autodesk
13 4 (0.41%) Databricks
13 4 (0.41%) Solace
14 3 (0.31%) Checkmarx
14 3 (0.31%) New Relic
14 3 (0.31%) Sparx