WCAG Job Trends in Cardiff

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring WCAG skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 46 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 1 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.28% 0.85% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.76% 7.14% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,091 £41,594 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £44,344 -
Median % change year-on-year +58.03% - -
75th Percentile £74,066 £47,094 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £70,079 £44,344 -
% change year-on-year +58.03% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cardiff

WCAG 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 21 42 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 5.98% 11.83% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 9 21 31
10th Percentile £24,950 £36,250 £32,816
25th Percentile £30,750 £41,594 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +6.74% +3.06%
75th Percentile £52,000 £66,000 £63,223
90th Percentile £58,813 £74,144 £82,500
South Wales median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

WCAG
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

WCAG job vacancy trend in Cardiff

WCAG
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing WCAG.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing WCAG

WCAG
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform