Accessibility Job Trends in Cardiff

Accessibility (a11y)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Accessibility skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 43
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 +22
Permanent jobs citing Accessibility 4 9 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 1.10% 2.36% 1.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.05% 20.93% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £34,284 £37,672 £52,451
25th Percentile £39,585 £41,594 £59,877
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,789 £44,344 £72,253
Median % change year-on-year +14.53% -38.63% +60.56%
75th Percentile £63,612 £73,649 -
90th Percentile £69,885 £82,500 -
South Wales median annual salary £45,500 £44,344 £72,253
% change year-on-year +2.61% -38.63% +98.70%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cardiff

Accessibility falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 19 43 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 5.21% 11.29% 11.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7 24 33
10th Percentile £28,430 £37,750 £33,252
25th Percentile £32,875 £41,594 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,500 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +5.77% +3.06%
75th Percentile £53,500 £65,250 £64,500
90th Percentile £62,627 £73,276 £81,550
South Wales median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% - -

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Accessibility relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Accessibility job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Accessibility
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Accessibility.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Accessibility in Cardiff

Accessibility
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Drupal
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) dbt
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) FTP
2 1 (25.00%) VoIP
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) Locust
General
1 2 (50.00%) Police
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Head of Technology
1 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Application Security
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) FinOps
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) MCSE
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft