WCAG Contracts in the West Midlands

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 - 122
Rank change year-on-year - - +40
Contract jobs citing WCAG 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.36% - 0.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.99% - 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £381 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.27%
75th Percentile £471 - £425
90th Percentile £481 - -
England median daily rate £475 £450 £560
% change year-on-year +5.56% -19.64% +12.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 251 301 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.95% 15.47% 16.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 206 230
10th Percentile £220 £259 £263
25th Percentile £309 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £611 £588
90th Percentile £650 £781 £676
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 31 17
10th Percentile £15.61 £13.00 £11.90
25th Percentile £25.14 £13.22 £13.70
Median hourly rate £29.97 £14.50 £27.13
Median % change year-on-year +106.69% -46.55% +82.94%
75th Percentile £34.16 £44.47 £28.75
90th Percentile £42.49 £58.75 £30.00
England median hourly rate £34.50 £23.30 £39.80
% change year-on-year +48.10% -41.47% +41.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for WCAG in the West Midlands

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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 WCAG within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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 - 2 £468 - 4
Coventry - 2 £388 - 3
Warwickshire - 1 - - 1
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England

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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 2 (40.00%) R Markdown
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Axure RP
1 1 (20.00%) Pa11y
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Shiny
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (40.00%) Data Collection
3 2 (40.00%) Data Sharing
3 2 (40.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (20.00%) Design Sprint
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) OO
4 1 (20.00%) OOP
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) R
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (40.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes