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

 6 months to
11 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 169 217
Rank change year-on-year +25 +48 +9
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 992 538 488
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.88% 1.66% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.02% 10.06% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 702 339 301
10th Percentile £350 £310 £313
25th Percentile £403 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £543 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £600 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £440 £463
% change year-on-year +2.27% -4.86% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 28
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.18 £13.86
25th Percentile £16.00 £22.75 £14.20
Median hourly rate £27.00 £30.00 £18.55
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +61.73% -20.59%
75th Percentile £53.25 £35.75 £32.05
90th Percentile £74.60 - £43.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.48 £20.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year -19.63% +41.38% -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 8,999 5,348 5,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.01% 16.48% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,771 3,432 3,641
10th Percentile £338 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £622
90th Percentile £700 £719 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £471 £475
% change year-on-year +6.15% -0.83% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 231 422
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.63 £11.66
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.17 £13.60
Median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +20.23% +24.07% -38.66%
75th Percentile £68.32 £62.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.90 £83.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £27.44 £24.18
% change year-on-year +41.11% +13.48% -33.75%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +32 781 £475 +1.60% 416
UK excluding London +33 399 £450 +2.27% 273
London +2 389 £475 -5.00% 193
Work from Home +14 315 £450 -2.17% 219
North of England 0 154 £450 -1.10% 84
Midlands +1 83 £447 +15.35% 53
West Midlands -12 70 £449 +5.53% 24
South West +17 69 £425 +6.25% 18
North West -25 62 £450 -2.07% 37
Yorkshire -13 60 £500 +17.65% 34
Scotland +8 45 £500 +1.21% 10
North East -6 36 £450 -2.17% 16
South East -44 36 £495 +16.47% 82
East Midlands -15 11 £435 +35.09% 28
East of England -22 9 £575 +27.78% 18
Wales -14 7 £475 +20.25% 7
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 8

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 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 42 (4.23%) Confluence
3 38 (3.83%) CMS
4 15 (1.51%) WordPress
5 8 (0.81%) Apache
5 8 (0.81%) Drupal
6 6 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.40%) Moodle
8 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.20%) IIS
9 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.10%) Camunda
10 1 (0.10%) govService
10 1 (0.10%) Mendix
10 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.10%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.10%) Strapi
Applications
1 33 (3.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 23 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (2.02%) Sketch
4 15 (1.51%) Adobe XD
5 11 (1.11%) Chatbot
6 10 (1.01%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.60%) Final Cut Pro
9 6 (0.60%) UserZoom
10 4 (0.40%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.40%) Revit
11 3 (0.30%) InVision
11 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.30%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.20%) InDesign
12 2 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.10%) Blender
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.10%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.10%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 192 (19.35%) Azure
2 152 (15.32%) AWS
3 144 (14.52%) Figma
4 82 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
5 80 (8.06%) GitHub
6 57 (5.75%) Power Platform
7 45 (4.54%) GitHub Actions
8 42 (4.23%) GCP
9 28 (2.82%) Serverless
10 20 (2.02%) Power Automate
11 19 (1.92%) SaaS
12 18 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (1.81%) PowerApps
13 15 (1.51%) BrowserStack
13 15 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (1.41%) Entra ID
15 13 (1.31%) Miro
16 11 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (1.11%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.01%) 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%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Internet
3 2 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.20%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.10%) Broadband
4 1 (0.10%) DMZ
4 1 (0.10%) DSL
4 1 (0.10%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.10%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (4.13%) Power BI
2 34 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (3.33%) Metadata
4 30 (3.02%) NoSQL
5 28 (2.82%) MongoDB
5 28 (2.82%) Relational Database
6 17 (1.71%) SQL Server
7 10 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
9 7 (0.71%) GIS
9 7 (0.71%) Redis
10 6 (0.60%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.50%) MySQL
11 5 (0.50%) Tableau
12 4 (0.40%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.40%) Looker
12 4 (0.40%) Spatial Data
12 4 (0.40%) Stardog
13 3 (0.30%) Neo4j
13 3 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 85 (8.57%) Git
2 82 (8.27%) JIRA
3 55 (5.54%) Cypress.io
3 55 (5.54%) Selenium
4 54 (5.44%) Jenkins
5 51 (5.14%) GitLab
6 26 (2.62%) Cucumber
6 26 (2.62%) REST Assured
7 23 (2.32%) JUnit
8 22 (2.22%) Gatling
8 22 (2.22%) Postman
9 16 (1.61%) JMeter
10 12 (1.21%) Gradle
10 12 (1.21%) WebDriver
10 12 (1.21%) Xcode
11 11 (1.11%) Maven
11 11 (1.11%) Serenity BDD
12 10 (1.01%) fastlane
13 9 (0.91%) Vite
13 9 (0.91%) webpack
General
1 380 (38.31%) Public Sector
2 277 (27.92%) Social Skills
3 102 (10.28%) Finance
4 74 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (3.33%) Banking
7 32 (3.23%) Marketing
8 26 (2.62%) Military
9 24 (2.42%) Legal
10 23 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (2.12%) Retail
12 20 (2.02%) Publishing
13 18 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.31%) Local Government
15 7 (0.71%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.50%) Legal Technology
17 4 (0.40%) Games
17 4 (0.40%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 246 (24.80%) Developer
2 232 (23.39%) Designer
3 156 (15.73%) Senior
4 98 (9.88%) Lead
5 67 (6.75%) Content Designer
6 59 (5.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 59 (5.95%) User Researcher
7 55 (5.54%) Analyst
8 52 (5.24%) Service Designer
9 41 (4.13%) Senior Developer
10 40 (4.03%) Senior Designer
10 40 (4.03%) UX Designer
11 39 (3.93%) Architect
11 39 (3.93%) Test Engineer
12 37 (3.73%) React Developer
13 33 (3.33%) Java Developer
13 33 (3.33%) UI Designer
14 31 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
15 29 (2.92%) Interaction Designer
16 28 (2.82%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (16.03%) React
2 112 (11.29%) HTML
3 109 (10.99%) CSS
4 96 (9.68%) RESTful
5 91 (9.17%) REST
6 82 (8.27%) Node.js
7 71 (7.16%) Spring
8 70 (7.06%) Spring Boot
9 69 (6.96%) Playwright
10 53 (5.34%) HTML5
11 48 (4.84%) CSS3
12 45 (4.54%) Jest
13 41 (4.13%) Kafka
14 38 (3.83%) Redux
15 34 (3.43%) AngularJS
16 33 (3.33%) .NET
17 30 (3.02%) JSON
18 28 (2.82%) Next.js
19 19 (1.92%) GraphQL
20 17 (1.71%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 74 (7.46%) Product Ownership
2 51 (5.14%) Mobile App
3 43 (4.33%) Cloud Native
4 32 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.82%) NHS
6 25 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (2.42%) Management Information System
8 21 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (1.81%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.81%) Taxonomies
10 14 (1.41%) Graphic Design
10 14 (1.41%) Social Media
11 13 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.31%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.11%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (0.91%) Animation
14 9 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.92%) Apple iOS
2 24 (2.42%) Android
3 12 (1.21%) Windows
4 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.30%) Linux
6 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (50.10%) Agile
2 287 (28.93%) CI/CD
3 280 (28.23%) User Experience
4 209 (21.07%) User Research
5 200 (20.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 189 (19.05%) DevOps
7 184 (18.55%) UX Design
8 183 (18.45%) Test Automation
9 170 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 154 (15.52%) Service Design
11 135 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
12 133 (13.41%) Analytics
13 125 (12.60%) AI
14 114 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
15 107 (10.79%) Decision-Making
15 107 (10.79%) Microservices
15 107 (10.79%) Prototyping
16 103 (10.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 100 (10.08%) Scrum
18 89 (8.97%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 183 (18.45%) JavaScript
2 147 (14.82%) TypeScript
3 127 (12.80%) Java
4 93 (9.38%) Python
5 64 (6.45%) SQL
6 41 (4.13%) C#
7 19 (1.92%) Ruby
8 16 (1.61%) Kotlin
8 16 (1.61%) Swift
9 11 (1.11%) Scala
10 10 (1.01%) Bicep
11 6 (0.60%) PHP
12 5 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.50%) SPARQL
13 4 (0.40%) Objective-C
13 4 (0.40%) R
14 3 (0.30%) Bash
14 3 (0.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 245 (24.70%) Security Cleared
2 209 (21.07%) SC Cleared
3 81 (8.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 51 (5.14%) Degree
5 15 (1.51%) ISTQB
6 12 (1.21%) DV Cleared
6 12 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (0.60%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.50%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.30%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.20%) ACCA
11 2 (0.20%) CCA
11 2 (0.20%) CIMA
11 2 (0.20%) CIPD
11 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.20%) PMP
12 1 (0.10%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (27.12%) WCAG
2 100 (10.08%) QA
3 35 (3.53%) Data Quality
4 26 (2.62%) GDPR
5 13 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (1.21%) 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%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.10%) GLP
11 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.10%) HL7
11 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.10%) WAI
11 1 (0.10%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 97 (9.78%) Docker
2 4 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) Firmware
3 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (8.06%) Kubernetes
2 51 (5.14%) Terraform
3 28 (2.82%) Grafana
4 17 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.81%) 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 95 (9.58%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.75%) Adobe
3 25 (2.52%) Google
4 23 (2.32%) Oracle
5 18 (1.81%) Salesforce
6 17 (1.71%) Splunk
7 15 (1.51%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.41%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.11%) Pega
10 9 (0.91%) Sitecore
11 8 (0.81%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.71%) SAP
13 6 (0.60%) Apple
13 6 (0.60%) Solace
14 5 (0.50%) Databricks
15 4 (0.40%) Autodesk
15 4 (0.40%) MuleSoft
16 3 (0.30%) Checkmarx
16 3 (0.30%) New Relic
16 3 (0.30%) OpenAI
474 Accessibility jobs Nationwide