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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 71 91
Rank change year-on-year +8 +20 +10
DemandTrendContract jobs citing WCAG 12 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.61% 0.23% 0.073%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.84% 1.71% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £344 £380 -
25th Percentile £385 £386 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £435 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% -12.12% -1.00%
75th Percentile £415 £499 -
90th Percentile £441 £515 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £395 £435 £495
% change year-on-year -9.20% -12.12% -1.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 122 117 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 16.35% 13.43% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 72 107
10th Percentile £235 £263 £232
25th Percentile £366 £388 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £509 £510
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% -0.29% +3.29%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £588
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £517 £500
% change year-on-year -12.96% +3.40% +1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.16
Median hourly rate £22.14 £18.27 £14.64
Median % change year-on-year +21.18% +24.84% -21.74%
75th Percentile - - £18.24
90th Percentile £25.95 - £20.65
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £11.88 £20.50
% change year-on-year +86.36% -42.05% +9.63%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing WCAG.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing WCAG

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCAG in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in West Yorkshire

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DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds +13 12 £395 -9.20% 4
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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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) DocumentDB
1 3 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 6 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 6 (50.00%) GitLab
1 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (50.00%) JMeter
1 6 (50.00%) Postman
1 6 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 6 (50.00%) Selenium
1 6 (50.00%) TestNG
2 5 (41.67%) Maven
3 4 (33.33%) Git
4 3 (25.00%) JUnit
4 3 (25.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Test Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Playwright
2 4 (33.33%) Kafka
2 4 (33.33%) Node.js
2 4 (33.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) API Testing
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) TDD
2 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) ETL
3 4 (33.33%) Microservices
3 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Story Points
3 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 4 (33.33%) User Stories
4 3 (25.00%) BDD
4 3 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 6 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker