Accessibility Contracts in the West Midlands

Accessibility (a11y)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 80 102 117
Rank change year-on-year +22 +15 +20
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 17 9 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.26% 0.46% 0.92%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.20% 2.99% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 14
10th Percentile - £380 £296
25th Percentile £381 £401 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £410 £488
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -15.90% -9.97%
75th Percentile £507 £488 £613
90th Percentile £595 £531 £655
England median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £28.18 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.76% - -
England median hourly rate £28.18 £18.97 £20.07
% change year-on-year +48.55% -5.46% -19.76%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 236 301 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.55% 15.46% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 209 259
10th Percentile £209 £260 £263
25th Percentile £350 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +8.93%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £595
90th Percentile £638 £793 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 30 10
10th Percentile - £11.91 £10.99
25th Percentile £14.70 £13.18 £12.50
Median hourly rate £28.18 £14.00 £16.10
Median % change year-on-year +101.29% -13.04% -5.29%
75th Percentile £30.38 £45.78 £23.02
90th Percentile £52.50 £58.75 £27.92
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the West Midlands

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the West Midlands

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the West Midlands

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the West Midlands

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +19 5 £475 +31.94% 23
Shropshire - 4 £466 - 4
Coventry +9 3 £388 -13.89%
Warwickshire +3 2 - - 2
Accessibility
England

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (17.65%) Apache
1 3 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (17.65%) R Markdown
2 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.88%) Flink
2 1 (5.88%) IDMS
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (5.88%) Axure RP
2 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.88%) CA Gen
2 1 (5.88%) JBehave
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Pa11y
2 1 (5.88%) Selenium
2 1 (5.88%) SoapUI
2 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (41.18%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Automotive
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Data Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Digital User Researcher
2 2 (11.76%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Python Data Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Python Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Rig Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) User Researcher
3 1 (5.88%) Applications Tester
3 1 (5.88%) Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Designer
3 1 (5.88%) Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Lead
3 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) QA Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) QA Leader
3 1 (5.88%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Scala Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Tester
3 1 (5.88%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (17.65%) PySpark
1 3 (17.65%) Shiny
2 1 (5.88%) CSS
2 1 (5.88%) Gherkin
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Keycloak
2 1 (5.88%) Play Framework
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
2 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Infotainment
2 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Agile
2 4 (23.53%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
2 4 (23.53%) Prototyping
2 4 (23.53%) Visualisation
3 3 (17.65%) Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
3 3 (17.65%) Data Collection
3 3 (17.65%) Data Integration
3 3 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (17.65%) Data Sharing
3 3 (17.65%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (17.65%) Storage Management
3 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
3 3 (17.65%) User Research
3 3 (17.65%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 3 (17.65%) Workflow
4 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.76%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (11.76%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) R
3 2 (11.76%) Scala
4 1 (5.88%) COBOL
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) ISEB
4 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
4 1 (5.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) WCAG
2 4 (23.53%) GDPR
3 2 (11.76%) COSHH
3 2 (11.76%) ISO 14001
3 2 (11.76%) QA
4 1 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (5.88%) PERC
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes