Accessibility Contracts in Wales

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Accessibility skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Accessibility over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - 55
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 9 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 3.07% - 0.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 32.14% - 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £314 - £530
25th Percentile £340 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.78%
75th Percentile £419 - £613
90th Percentile £431 - £620
UK median daily rate £484 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +4.54% -7.50% -4.76%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 28 72 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 9.56% 18.23% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 45 53
10th Percentile £167 £144 £250
25th Percentile £185 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -31.71% +2.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £438 £588 £550
90th Percentile £511 £667 £598
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 12
10th Percentile - £12.26 -
25th Percentile - £14.15 -
Median hourly rate £15.00 £15.61 £10.92
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +42.93% -14.34%
75th Percentile - £16.98 £33.75
90th Percentile - £19.07 £47.25
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in Wales

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in Wales

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in Wales

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
South Wales - 8 £395 - 18
North Wales - 1 - -
Accessibility
UK

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) dbt
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Postman
1 1 (11.11%) Storybook
General
1 3 (33.33%) Multimedia
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Data Centre Manager
5 1 (11.11%) Data Manager
5 1 (11.11%) Designer
5 1 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (11.11%) Interaction Designer
5 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Lead
5 1 (11.11%) Lead Designer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Node.js
2 5 (55.56%) CSS
2 5 (55.56%) React
3 3 (33.33%) Jest
3 3 (33.33%) Puppeteer
4 1 (11.11%) Kafka
4 1 (11.11%) Laravel
4 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 6 (66.67%) TDD
3 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) User Experience
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) Coaching
5 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
6 1 (11.11%) Change Management
6 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
6 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (11.11%) Interaction Design
6 1 (11.11%) Strategic Planning
6 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (11.11%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG