WAI-ARIA Contract Job Trends

WAI-ARIA
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring WAI-ARIA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 527 -
Rank change year-on-year -92 - -
Contract jobs citing WAI-ARIA 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.007% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.013% 0.044% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

WAI-ARIA 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 7,960 4,543 6,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.91% 15.57% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,155 2,909 3,925
10th Percentile £336 £265 £297
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 460 179 383
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.04 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.21 £13.18
Median hourly rate £32.18 £34.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% +64.29% -44.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.01 £67.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.50 £40.78 £18.00
% change year-on-year -15.39% +126.53% -52.00%

WAI-ARIA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

WAI-ARIA job vacancy trend in the UK

WAI-ARIA
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WAI-ARIA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WAI-ARIA

WAI-ARIA
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAI-ARIA within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
London -74 1 - -
England -89 1 - -

WAI-ARIA
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 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal Designer
1 1 (100.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Compass CSS Framework
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Microformats
1 1 (100.00%) OOCSS
1 1 (100.00%) Sass
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WAI
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) CODA
1 1 (100.00%) Pardot
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow