WCAG Contracts in West Yorkshire

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 74 94
Rank change year-on-year +10 +20 +16
Contract jobs citing WCAG 2 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.36% 0.10% 0.57%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.47% 0.80% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £474
25th Percentile £413 £375 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £438 £525 £560
90th Percentile - - £572
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £425 £525
% change year-on-year - -19.05% +23.53%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 81 125 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 14.52% 12.77% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 70 103
10th Percentile £238 £265 £264
25th Percentile £263 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £528 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.25% +5.50% +13.96%
75th Percentile £534 £588 £575
90th Percentile £588 £654 £620
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £22.14 £18.27 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year +21.18% +38.83% -29.63%
75th Percentile £25.14 - £15.44
90th Percentile £34.24 - £16.81
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £10.93 £30.25
% change year-on-year +102.56% -63.87% +47.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for WCAG in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Leeds +8 2 £425 -5.56% 14
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Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) TestNG
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker