Pa11y Contract Job Trends

Pa11y
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Pa11y skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 541 593
Rank change year-on-year -42 +52 +193
Contract jobs citing Pa11y 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.013% 0.003% 0.005%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.091% 0.023% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £316 - £468
25th Percentile £320 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.17%
75th Percentile £419 - £525
90th Percentile £430 - £533
UK excluding London median daily rate £320 - £475

All Development Application Skills
UK

Pa11y falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,501 4,402 5,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.83% 13.27% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,789 2,764 3,791
10th Percentile £334 £327 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.20% -2.23%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £513
% change year-on-year -2.06% -5.46% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 77 205
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.10 £42.59
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.25 £48.47
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £75.65 £89.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

Pa11y
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Pa11y relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Pa11y job vacancy trend in the UK

Pa11y
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Pa11y.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Pa11y

Pa11y
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pa11y within the UK over the 6 months to 1 January 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 -38 4 £363 - 1
London -13 3 £400 -
Work from Home - 2 £413 -
UK excluding London - 1 £320 - 1
South West - 1 £320 -

Pa11y
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) BlazeMeter
1 2 (40.00%) BrowserStack
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) JMeter
2 2 (40.00%) Newman
2 2 (40.00%) Postman
3 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) API Testing
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) OWASP
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (60.00%) WCAG
3 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Apple