Accessibility Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 139 146 210
Rank change year-on-year +7 +64 -52
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 185 224 307
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.87% 1.46% 1.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.43% 10.00% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 168 241
10th Percentile £328 £321 £325
25th Percentile £363 £412 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £573
90th Percentile £588 £609 £638
UK median daily rate £484 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +4.54% -7.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 1
10th Percentile - £14.00 -
25th Percentile £28.18 £14.36 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.57 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.84% -45.87% +87.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £40.00 -
90th Percentile - £57.88 -
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £17.72 £23.36
% change year-on-year +59.03% -24.14% +11.82%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,488 2,240 3,140
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.02% 14.60% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,532 2,292
10th Percentile £281 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £420 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £603 £623 £625
90th Percentile £713 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 79 63
10th Percentile £17.98 £12.75 £18.54
25th Percentile £23.13 £14.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £22.87 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.53% -46.81% -2.16%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.38 £61.88
90th Percentile £87.15 £65.00 £72.35
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

Accessibility
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Accessibility trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Accessibility
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Accessibility over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 remote working options citing Accessibility over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 (9.73%) Confluence
2 9 (4.86%) CMS
3 4 (2.16%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.62%) Drupal
5 2 (1.08%) EPiServer
5 2 (1.08%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.08%) WordPress
6 1 (0.54%) Apache
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.54%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.54%) Camunda
6 1 (0.54%) GeoServer
Applications
1 7 (3.78%) Trello
2 6 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.24%) Sketch
3 4 (2.16%) Adobe XD
3 4 (2.16%) Photoshop
4 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (1.08%) Camtasia
5 2 (1.08%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.08%) InVision
6 1 (0.54%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.54%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.54%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.54%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.54%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (0.54%) Revit
6 1 (0.54%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.54%) iTrent
1 1 (0.54%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 47 (25.41%) Azure
2 28 (15.14%) AWS
3 19 (10.27%) Figma
4 11 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (5.95%) Serverless
5 10 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 8 (4.32%) GCP
7 7 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (3.24%) GitHub
9 5 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.70%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.16%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.16%) Miro
11 3 (1.62%) Alation
11 3 (1.62%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.62%) Intranet
2 1 (0.54%) DNS
2 1 (0.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.41%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (3.78%) Power BI
4 6 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (3.24%) Tableau
5 5 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.16%) Metadata
6 4 (2.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (2.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.62%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.08%) Big Data
8 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.54%) Dremio
9 1 (0.54%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (14.59%) JIRA
2 15 (8.11%) Git
3 11 (5.95%) Cypress.io
4 9 (4.86%) Postman
5 8 (4.32%) Axure RP
5 8 (4.32%) Jenkins
6 7 (3.78%) REST Assured
7 6 (3.24%) GitLab
7 6 (3.24%) NUnit
8 4 (2.16%) JMeter
8 4 (2.16%) Visual Studio
8 4 (2.16%) webpack
9 3 (1.62%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.62%) gulp
10 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.08%) Gatling
10 2 (1.08%) Grunt
10 2 (1.08%) Jasmine
10 2 (1.08%) Mocha
10 2 (1.08%) SoapUI
General
1 67 (36.22%) Social Skills
2 65 (35.14%) Public Sector
3 25 (13.51%) Finance
4 22 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.65%) Marketing
6 7 (3.78%) Banking
6 7 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.16%) Local Government
9 4 (2.16%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.16%) Multimedia
9 4 (2.16%) Publishing
10 3 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.62%) Legal
11 2 (1.08%) Automotive
11 2 (1.08%) Electronics
11 2 (1.08%) Retail
11 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (25.41%) Developer
2 25 (13.51%) Designer
3 19 (10.27%) Senior
4 15 (8.11%) Analyst
5 11 (5.95%) .NET Developer
5 11 (5.95%) Lead
6 10 (5.41%) Business Analyst
7 9 (4.86%) Senior Developer
7 9 (4.86%) UX Designer
8 8 (4.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 8 (4.32%) Product Manager
9 7 (3.78%) Android Developer
9 7 (3.78%) Tester
10 6 (3.24%) Data Engineer
10 6 (3.24%) Service Designer
11 5 (2.70%) Automation Tester
11 5 (2.70%) Content Designer
11 5 (2.70%) Senior Android Developer
11 5 (2.70%) Support Officer
11 5 (2.70%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.92%) CSS
2 31 (16.76%) HTML
3 23 (12.43%) React
4 16 (8.65%) .NET
5 13 (7.03%) AngularJS
6 12 (6.49%) .NET Core
6 12 (6.49%) Playwright
6 12 (6.49%) RESTful
7 11 (5.95%) REST
8 10 (5.41%) ASP.NET
8 10 (5.41%) Node.js
9 8 (4.32%) HTML5
10 7 (3.78%) Dagger
11 6 (3.24%) .NET Framework
11 6 (3.24%) Jest
11 6 (3.24%) OAuth
11 6 (3.24%) Vue
12 5 (2.70%) Android SDK
12 5 (2.70%) Sass
12 5 (2.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.35%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.41%) Mobile App
3 7 (3.78%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.24%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.70%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.16%) Social Media
7 3 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.62%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.62%) Equities
7 3 (1.62%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.08%) Animation
8 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.08%) Derivative
8 2 (1.08%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.08%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.08%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (1.08%) Infotainment
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.86%) Android
2 3 (1.62%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.54%) Linux
3 1 (0.54%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.54%) Unix
3 1 (0.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (49.19%) Agile
2 63 (34.05%) User Experience
3 50 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (21.62%) User Research
4 40 (21.62%) UX Design
5 34 (18.38%) CI/CD
6 30 (16.22%) Scrum
7 29 (15.68%) DevOps
8 28 (15.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (13.51%) Test Automation
10 22 (11.89%) Service Design
11 21 (11.35%) Decision-Making
11 21 (11.35%) Kanban
11 21 (11.35%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 20 (10.81%) Microservices
13 19 (10.27%) Roadmaps
14 18 (9.73%) Analytics
14 18 (9.73%) Collaborative Working
14 18 (9.73%) Sprint Planning
14 18 (9.73%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 45 (24.32%) JavaScript
2 29 (15.68%) SQL
3 20 (10.81%) TypeScript
4 14 (7.57%) C#
5 11 (5.95%) Java
6 10 (5.41%) Python
7 8 (4.32%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.70%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.08%) PHP
10 1 (0.54%) Bash
10 1 (0.54%) Go
10 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (12.43%) Degree
2 15 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.03%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.54%) CISSP
6 1 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.54%) PMP
6 1 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (14.05%) WCAG
2 17 (9.19%) Data Quality
3 15 (8.11%) QA
4 12 (6.49%) GDPR
5 3 (1.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.62%) PMO
6 2 (1.08%) COSHH
6 2 (1.08%) Dodd-Frank
6 2 (1.08%) EMIR
6 2 (1.08%) ISO 14001
6 2 (1.08%) MiFID
7 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 19 (10.27%) Docker
2 5 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.78%) Terraform
3 2 (1.08%) Grafana
4 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (11.35%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.32%) Adobe
3 4 (2.16%) Google
3 4 (2.16%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.62%) Informatica
4 3 (1.62%) Twitter
5 2 (1.08%) Cisco
5 2 (1.08%) Databricks
5 2 (1.08%) Facebook
5 2 (1.08%) Instagram
5 2 (1.08%) Oracle
5 2 (1.08%) Pega
5 2 (1.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (1.08%) SAP
6 1 (0.54%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.54%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.54%) Genesys
6 1 (0.54%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.54%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.54%) YouTube