Accessibility Job Trends in the East Midlands

Accessibility (a11y)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Accessibility skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 109 133
Rank change year-on-year -24 +24 -69
Permanent jobs citing Accessibility 11 11 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.35% 0.64% 0.73%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.74% 3.90% 5.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 23
10th Percentile - £31,000 £22,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,375 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% - -42.31%
75th Percentile £95,938 £48,125 £47,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £59,500 £51,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -11.78%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 401 282 397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.64% 16.34% 12.54%
Number of salaries quoted 273 112 299
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,500 £24,167
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £29,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +5.88% -6.59%
75th Percentile £53,951 £59,375 £52,750
90th Percentile £73,000 £67,500 £64,148
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Accessibility job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Accessibility
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Accessibility.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Accessibility in the East Midlands

Accessibility
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 March 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire -2 4 £40,000 +29.03% 1
Leicestershire -8 4 - - 3
Nottinghamshire +5 2 £110,000 +57.14% 6
Derbyshire - 1 - - 2
Accessibility
England

Accessibility
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (9.09%) CMS
1 1 (9.09%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) XCUITest
2 2 (18.18%) Storybook
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) QA Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
1 4 (36.36%) Senior QA Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Account Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Account Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Governance Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Information Governance Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Information Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
1 2 (18.18%) CSS
1 2 (18.18%) HTML
1 2 (18.18%) HTML5
1 2 (18.18%) RESTful
1 2 (18.18%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Mobile App
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Android
1 4 (36.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Coaching
3 4 (36.36%) Functional Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Observability
3 4 (36.36%) Personalization
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Scenario Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
4 3 (27.27%) CRM
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 3 (27.27%) User Experience
5 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
5 2 (18.18%) Responsive Web Design
5 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
1 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft