Accessibility Contracts with Work from Home Options

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Accessibility skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Accessibility over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 214 163
Rank change year-on-year +64 -51 -2
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 220 301 781
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.41% 1.14% 1.73%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.50% 9.53% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 237 567
10th Percentile £316 £320 £377
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £490 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% -5.77% +15.56%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £593
90th Percentile £600 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 3
10th Percentile - - £19.40
25th Percentile £14.00 - £19.63
Median hourly rate £16.14 £38.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.53% +85.37% -25.76%
75th Percentile £40.00 - £24.33
90th Percentile £57.00 - £25.87
UK median hourly rate £18.35 £24.93 £23.58
% change year-on-year -26.41% +5.73% -7.53%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

Accessibility is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,315 3,158 5,941
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.89% 11.99% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,563 2,313 4,219
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £420 £420 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 65 118
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.05 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £26.00 £19.28
Median hourly rate £21.94 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.99% -3.37% +104.69%
75th Percentile £40.00 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £20.47 £37.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year -45.79% +37.27% +30.64%

Accessibility
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Accessibility trend for jobs with a WFH option

Accessibility
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Accessibility.

Accessibility daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Accessibility over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Accessibility daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Accessibility.

Accessibility hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Accessibility over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Accessibility hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 18 (8.18%) CMS
2 7 (3.18%) nginx
2 7 (3.18%) WordPress
3 6 (2.73%) Confluence
4 3 (1.36%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.36%) Drupal
4 3 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.91%) Moodle
6 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 6 (2.73%) Adobe XD
4 5 (2.27%) Sketch
5 2 (0.91%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.91%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.91%) Lectora
5 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.45%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.45%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 50 (22.73%) AWS
2 27 (12.27%) Serverless
3 25 (11.36%) Azure
4 23 (10.45%) Amazon S3
5 20 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (8.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (7.27%) OpenShift
8 13 (5.91%) GitHub
9 10 (4.55%) Figma
10 9 (4.09%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (4.09%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (3.64%) Azure Pipelines
12 7 (3.18%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
13 5 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.82%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.82%) Rekognition
14 4 (1.82%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.36%) Intranet
2 1 (0.45%) Firewall
2 1 (0.45%) HTTP
2 1 (0.45%) SMS
2 1 (0.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.55%) Amazon Aurora
3 19 (8.64%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.73%) MySQL
5 4 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.82%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.82%) Power BI
6 3 (1.36%) Big Data
6 3 (1.36%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.36%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.91%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.91%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.91%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.91%) Tableau
8 1 (0.45%) GIS
Development Applications
1 23 (10.45%) Git
2 20 (9.09%) Selenium
3 16 (7.27%) Jenkins
4 14 (6.36%) Cypress.io
5 11 (5.00%) JIRA
6 10 (4.55%) JMeter
7 9 (4.09%) Postman
8 5 (2.27%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.27%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.82%) Appium
9 4 (1.82%) GitLab
9 4 (1.82%) webpack
10 3 (1.36%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.36%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.91%) git-flow
11 2 (0.91%) NUnit
11 2 (0.91%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.91%) TestNG
11 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (28.18%) Social Skills
2 61 (27.73%) Public Sector
3 22 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.36%) Presentation Skills
5 13 (5.91%) Finance
6 11 (5.00%) Marketing
7 9 (4.09%) Publishing
8 4 (1.82%) Back Office
8 4 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.36%) Electronics
9 3 (1.36%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.36%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.91%) Games
10 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.91%) Legal
10 2 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.91%) Welsh Language
11 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (37.27%) Developer
2 41 (18.64%) Designer
3 30 (13.64%) Senior
4 19 (8.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 18 (8.18%) Full Stack Developer
6 14 (6.36%) Content Designer
6 14 (6.36%) Test Engineer
7 13 (5.91%) Lead
8 12 (5.45%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.00%) Analyst
10 10 (4.55%) Architect
11 9 (4.09%) Senior Test Engineer
12 8 (3.64%) .NET Developer
12 8 (3.64%) Interaction Designer
12 8 (3.64%) Software Developer
12 8 (3.64%) Tester
13 7 (3.18%) Java Developer
13 7 (3.18%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 6 (2.73%) UI Developer
14 6 (2.73%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (26.82%) CSS
2 58 (26.36%) HTML
3 44 (20.00%) React
4 24 (10.91%) .NET
4 24 (10.91%) Node.js
5 22 (10.00%) AWS CDK
6 18 (8.18%) REST
7 13 (5.91%) RESTful
8 12 (5.45%) AngularJS
9 11 (5.00%) .NET Core
9 11 (5.00%) ASP.NET
10 10 (4.55%) jQuery
10 10 (4.55%) Playwright
10 10 (4.55%) Sass
10 10 (4.55%) Spring
10 10 (4.55%) Spring Boot
10 10 (4.55%) Vue
11 8 (3.64%) ASP.NET MVC
11 8 (3.64%) Laravel
11 8 (3.64%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.91%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.09%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.36%) NHS
6 3 (1.36%) Video Editing
6 3 (1.36%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.36%) W3C
7 2 (0.91%) CCTV
7 2 (0.91%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.91%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.91%) Learning Management System
7 2 (0.91%) VLE
8 1 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.45%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.45%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.45%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.00%) Linux
2 10 (4.55%) Unix
3 5 (2.27%) Windows
4 4 (1.82%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.36%) Android
5 3 (1.36%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.45%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (33.64%) Agile
2 63 (28.64%) User Experience
3 42 (19.09%) Test Automation
4 35 (15.91%) CI/CD
4 35 (15.91%) DevOps
5 34 (15.45%) TDD
6 31 (14.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 29 (13.18%) Front End Development
7 29 (13.18%) UX Design
8 28 (12.73%) Microservices
9 27 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (12.27%) User Research
10 26 (11.82%) Full Stack Development
11 25 (11.36%) Code Quality
12 23 (10.45%) Mentoring
13 21 (9.55%) Human-Centred Design
13 21 (9.55%) Service Design
14 20 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
14 20 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (8.64%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 77 (35.00%) JavaScript
2 42 (19.09%) TypeScript
3 39 (17.73%) Java
4 23 (10.45%) Python
5 17 (7.73%) C#
5 17 (7.73%) SQL
6 9 (4.09%) PHP
7 8 (3.64%) Bicep
8 6 (2.73%) Bash
8 6 (2.73%) Ruby
9 3 (1.36%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.91%) Swift
11 1 (0.45%) Ada
11 1 (0.45%) Groovy
11 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (14.55%) SC Cleared
1 32 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.27%) Degree
3 9 (4.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.82%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.91%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.45%) ISEB
6 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.45%) PMP
6 1 (0.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (14.55%) WCAG
2 20 (9.09%) QA
3 8 (3.64%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (1.82%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (9.55%) Docker
2 9 (4.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (5.91%) Grafana
2 7 (3.18%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.82%) Kibana
3 4 (1.82%) Terraform
4 2 (0.91%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.45%) Ansible
5 1 (0.45%) Packer
5 1 (0.45%) Puppet
5 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (7.73%) Adobe
1 17 (7.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.73%) Oracle
3 4 (1.82%) SAP
4 3 (1.36%) Brio
4 3 (1.36%) Google
4 3 (1.36%) HP
4 3 (1.36%) IBM
4 3 (1.36%) Remedy
5 2 (0.91%) Apple
5 2 (0.91%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.45%) Databricks
6 1 (0.45%) ESRI
6 1 (0.45%) Facebook
6 1 (0.45%) Mitel
6 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.45%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.45%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.45%) Sun