WCAG Job Trends in Edinburgh

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring WCAG skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.60% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.31% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,091 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 - -
75th Percentile £74,066 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £70,079 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 116 212 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.94% 17.03% 12.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43 43 98
10th Percentile £27,647 £20,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £54,648 £29,087 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £40,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year +73.46% -32.84% +4.48%
75th Percentile £90,000 £57,794 £72,433
90th Percentile £94,000 £69,500 £79,036
Scotland median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £55,148
% change year-on-year +19.05% -4.80% +10.30%

WCAG
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

WCAG job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

WCAG
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing WCAG.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing WCAG

WCAG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
1 2 (40.00%) Siteimprove
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Datadog
2 1 (20.00%) dbt
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Storybook
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) Locust
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) JSON-LD
1 2 (40.00%) Next.js
1 2 (40.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Coaching
2 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (40.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) SEO
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Web Accessibility
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) OWASP
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCA
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform