WCAG Contracts in Wales

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring WCAG skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WCAG over the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - 55
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing WCAG 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.11% - 0.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.84% - 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £509 - -
25th Percentile £509 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
75th Percentile £529 - -
90th Percentile £530 - -
UK median daily rate £472 £475 £533
% change year-on-year -0.63% -10.80% +6.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Wales

WCAG 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 51 88 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 14.17% 20.18% 14.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 46 43
10th Percentile £184 £134 £253
25th Percentile £308 £222 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £509 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.34% +7.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £504 £548 £572
90th Percentile £528 £641 £610
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 10
10th Percentile - £16.28 -
25th Percentile - £24.32 -
Median hourly rate £13.08 £27.50 £10.92
Median % change year-on-year -52.44% +151.83% -12.61%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £28.38
90th Percentile £14.23 £46.75 £48.88
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £25.00 £38.71
% change year-on-year +12.72% -35.42% +48.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for WCAG in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for WCAG in Wales

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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 WCAG within the Wales region over the 6 months to 24 July 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 - 4 £519 - 3
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UK

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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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Software Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (75.00%) Entity Framework
1 3 (75.00%) Jest
1 3 (75.00%) Next.js
1 3 (75.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Case Management
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) CRM
4 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
4 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft