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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 171 214
Rank change year-on-year +28 +43 +27
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 919 493 482
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.85% 1.68% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.02% 10.47% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 312 300
10th Percentile £350 £313 £306
25th Percentile £402 £396 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £633 £600 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £464
% change year-on-year +11.76% -8.36% -3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 13 32
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.54 £22.75 £14.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £28.18 £18.55
Median % change year-on-year -0.64% +51.91% -20.59%
75th Percentile £61.25 £35.75 £32.05
90th Percentile £71.98 - £49.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.69 £28.18 £14.50
% change year-on-year -19.48% +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 8,337 4,708 5,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.78% 16.08% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,346 2,995 3,719
10th Percentile £343 £268 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 496 191 422
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.75 £13.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £23.05
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +41.03% -39.36%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £82.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% +71.05% -50.71%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +15 702 £475 - 354
UK excluding London +39 383 £475 +11.76% 285
London +4 329 £475 -5.00% 134
Work from Home +23 301 £450 -4.87% 234
North of England +13 168 £450 -1.10% 86
North West +9 87 £430 -7.53% 39
Midlands -8 73 £450 +10.77% 41
West Midlands -12 62 £450 -2.17% 21
South West +14 59 £475 +18.75% 30
Yorkshire -27 53 £500 +19.05% 37
Scotland +7 42 £550 +18.15% 19
South East -39 34 £500 +16.28% 67
North East -2 32 £450 -2.17% 14
East Midlands -23 10 £445 +38.20% 20
East of England -31 7 £575 +27.78% 18
Wales -15 4 £713 +82.69% 19
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 9

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 43 (4.68%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.70%) Confluence
3 32 (3.48%) CMS
4 11 (1.20%) WordPress
5 7 (0.76%) ArcGIS
5 7 (0.76%) Drupal
6 6 (0.65%) Apache
7 4 (0.44%) Moodle
8 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.22%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) govService
9 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
9 1 (0.11%) Strapi
9 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 29 (3.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 28 (3.05%) Sketch
3 23 (2.50%) Adobe XD
4 22 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
5 10 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.98%) InVision
7 8 (0.87%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.87%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.65%) UserZoom
10 4 (0.44%) Final Cut Pro
10 4 (0.44%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.44%) Revit
10 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.33%) CapCut
11 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.33%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.33%) Zeplin
12 2 (0.22%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
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
1 150 (16.32%) Azure
2 143 (15.56%) Figma
3 130 (14.15%) AWS
4 76 (8.27%) GitHub
5 53 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
6 51 (5.55%) Power Platform
7 42 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
8 34 (3.70%) GCP
9 25 (2.72%) Serverless
10 19 (2.07%) Miro
11 18 (1.96%) SaaS
12 17 (1.85%) BrowserStack
13 14 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (1.41%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (1.31%) Entra ID
16 10 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (1.09%) Power Automate
17 9 (0.98%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.09%) Intranet
2 4 (0.44%) 5G
2 4 (0.44%) LTE
2 4 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.22%) 5G NR
3 2 (0.22%) HTTP
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%) Internet
4 1 (0.11%) SAN
4 1 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.24%) Power BI
2 27 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 26 (2.83%) MongoDB
3 26 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (2.61%) Relational Database
5 22 (2.39%) Metadata
6 13 (1.41%) SQL Server
7 9 (0.98%) GIS
8 8 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.76%) MySQL
10 6 (0.65%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.65%) Spatial Data
11 4 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.44%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.33%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.33%) Looker
12 3 (0.33%) Redis
12 3 (0.33%) Tableau
13 2 (0.22%) Big Data
13 2 (0.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 77 (8.38%) Git
2 68 (7.40%) JIRA
3 53 (5.77%) Cypress.io
4 50 (5.44%) GitLab
5 46 (5.01%) Selenium
6 38 (4.13%) Jenkins
7 23 (2.50%) REST Assured
8 21 (2.29%) Cucumber
9 20 (2.18%) JUnit
10 18 (1.96%) Gatling
11 17 (1.85%) JMeter
11 17 (1.85%) Postman
12 13 (1.41%) CircleCI
13 11 (1.20%) Gradle
13 11 (1.20%) Serenity BDD
14 10 (1.09%) fastlane
14 10 (1.09%) Xcode
15 9 (0.98%) Axure RP
16 7 (0.76%) IntelliJ
16 7 (0.76%) Storybook
General
1 352 (38.30%) Public Sector
2 245 (26.66%) Social Skills
3 86 (9.36%) Finance
4 61 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (3.92%) Banking
7 24 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (2.39%) Military
9 21 (2.29%) Marketing
10 20 (2.18%) Legal
11 19 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (1.96%) Publishing
13 16 (1.74%) Retail
14 12 (1.31%) Local Government
15 7 (0.76%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.44%) Law
17 4 (0.44%) Social Science
18 3 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 226 (24.59%) Designer
2 212 (23.07%) Developer
3 136 (14.80%) Senior
4 81 (8.81%) Lead
5 63 (6.86%) Content Designer
6 59 (6.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 56 (6.09%) User Researcher
8 53 (5.77%) Service Designer
9 49 (5.33%) UX Designer
10 43 (4.68%) Analyst
10 43 (4.68%) Test Engineer
11 35 (3.81%) Full-Stack Developer
11 35 (3.81%) Senior Designer
12 32 (3.48%) Architect
13 31 (3.37%) React Developer
14 30 (3.26%) Senior Developer
14 30 (3.26%) Tester
15 26 (2.83%) Interaction Designer
16 25 (2.72%) UI Designer
17 24 (2.61%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (16.00%) React
2 103 (11.21%) HTML
3 98 (10.66%) CSS
4 78 (8.49%) REST
4 78 (8.49%) RESTful
5 76 (8.27%) Node.js
6 69 (7.51%) Spring
7 68 (7.40%) Spring Boot
8 66 (7.18%) Playwright
9 44 (4.79%) HTML5
10 42 (4.57%) CSS3
10 42 (4.57%) Jest
11 39 (4.24%) AngularJS
12 34 (3.70%) Redux
13 33 (3.59%) Kafka
14 27 (2.94%) Next.js
15 26 (2.83%) .NET
16 19 (2.07%) GraphQL
17 17 (1.85%) Vue
18 15 (1.63%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 67 (7.29%) Product Ownership
2 49 (5.33%) Mobile App
3 28 (3.05%) Cloud Native
4 23 (2.50%) NHS
5 20 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.07%) Management Information System
7 17 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.52%) Social Media
9 13 (1.41%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.09%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.09%) Graphic Design
12 10 (1.09%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (0.98%) Taxonomies
14 8 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (0.76%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.05%) Apple iOS
2 21 (2.29%) Android
3 4 (0.44%) Linux
3 4 (0.44%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.33%) Windows
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (49.95%) Agile
2 267 (29.05%) User Experience
3 242 (26.33%) CI/CD
4 222 (24.16%) User Research
5 179 (19.48%) UX Design
6 170 (18.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 160 (17.41%) Test Automation
8 155 (16.87%) Service Design
9 150 (16.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 147 (16.00%) DevOps
11 120 (13.06%) Analytics
11 120 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
12 103 (11.21%) AI
13 102 (11.10%) Prototyping
14 90 (9.79%) Decision-Making
15 85 (9.25%) Front End Development
15 85 (9.25%) Microservices
16 84 (9.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 83 (9.03%) Stakeholder Management
18 80 (8.71%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 161 (17.52%) JavaScript
2 140 (15.23%) TypeScript
3 115 (12.51%) Java
4 79 (8.60%) Python
5 55 (5.98%) SQL
6 25 (2.72%) C#
7 19 (2.07%) Ruby
8 17 (1.85%) Kotlin
9 15 (1.63%) Swift
10 11 (1.20%) Scala
11 6 (0.65%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.54%) Objective-C
13 4 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.44%) PHP
14 3 (0.33%) R
15 2 (0.22%) Bicep
15 2 (0.22%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.11%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 210 (22.85%) Security Cleared
2 171 (18.61%) SC Cleared
3 74 (8.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 52 (5.66%) Degree
5 10 (1.09%) ISTQB
6 9 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (0.98%) DV Cleared
6 9 (0.98%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.54%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.33%) CCA
11 2 (0.22%) ACCA
11 2 (0.22%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.22%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.22%) CIMA
11 2 (0.22%) CIPD
11 2 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.22%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.11%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 259 (28.18%) WCAG
2 83 (9.03%) QA
3 35 (3.81%) Data Quality
4 20 (2.18%) GDPR
5 9 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (0.44%) ISO 19650
7 4 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 4 (0.44%) NCSC
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 81 (8.81%) Docker
2 4 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Firmware
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (6.96%) Kubernetes
2 39 (4.24%) Terraform
3 32 (3.48%) Grafana
4 17 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.98%) Argo
5 9 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.54%) Ansible
6 5 (0.54%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.11%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.11%) logstash
7 1 (0.11%) QRadar
7 1 (0.11%) SELinux
7 1 (0.11%) systemd
Vendors
1 75 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.42%) Adobe
3 21 (2.29%) Google
4 16 (1.74%) Oracle
4 16 (1.74%) Salesforce
4 16 (1.74%) Splunk
5 14 (1.52%) ServiceNow
6 11 (1.20%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.20%) Pega
7 10 (1.09%) Databricks
8 8 (0.87%) Red Hat
8 8 (0.87%) Sitecore
9 7 (0.76%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.65%) SAP
11 5 (0.54%) Apple
11 5 (0.54%) Solace
12 4 (0.44%) Autodesk
13 3 (0.33%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.33%) Synthesia
14 2 (0.22%) Checkmarx