Accessibility Job Trends in England

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Accessibility skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 139 339
Rank change year-on-year -37 +200 -91
Permanent jobs citing Accessibility 767 1,004 496
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.30% 2.24% 0.75%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.92% 13.64% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 491 277 387
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £31,233
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,619 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,040 £57,001 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.44% +8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.60% +5.71% -12.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,023 7,362 9,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.87% 16.46% 14.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4,223 3,404 7,090
10th Percentile £30,370 £31,250 £27,965
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,111 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £59,186 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.36% +9.09% -4.35%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Accessibility job vacancy trend in England

Accessibility
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Accessibility.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in England over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Accessibility in England

Accessibility
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the England region over the 6 months to 14 February 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
London +20 327 £70,000 +3.70% 131
South East -9 135 £50,000 -7.41% 97
North of England -78 111 £50,000 +53.85% 57
South West -7 59 £55,000 -8.33% 36
North West -72 57 £50,000 +53.85% 26
East of England 0 49 £55,000 -24.14% 9
Midlands -50 47 £50,000 +11.11% 28
Yorkshire -32 46 £48,750 +14.71% 24
West Midlands -38 34 £50,000 -6.98% 18
East Midlands -21 12 £41,250 +10.00% 10
North East -12 8 £47,372 -9.77% 7
Accessibility
UK

Accessibility
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 27 (3.52%) CMS
2 26 (3.39%) Confluence
3 16 (2.09%) WordPress
4 13 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (1.30%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (0.65%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.39%) Apache
7 3 (0.39%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.39%) govService
8 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.13%) concrete5
9 1 (0.13%) Drupal
Applications
1 41 (5.35%) Adobe XD
2 18 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 10 (1.30%) Sketch
6 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.91%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.78%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.65%) InVision
8 5 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.52%) InDesign
9 4 (0.52%) UserZoom
10 3 (0.39%) Elementor
10 3 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 2 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.26%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.13%) Blender
12 1 (0.13%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 11 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.17%) SAP HR
3 8 (1.04%) Shopify
4 3 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.26%) OpenCart
6 1 (0.13%) Magento
6 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 128 (16.69%) Figma
2 124 (16.17%) Azure
3 57 (7.43%) Adobe Analytics
4 56 (7.30%) Power Platform
5 49 (6.39%) AWS
6 43 (5.61%) GitHub
7 40 (5.22%) Snowflake
8 35 (4.56%) SaaS
9 34 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
11 28 (3.65%) Miro
12 25 (3.26%) GCP
13 21 (2.74%) Google Analytics
14 15 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (1.96%) Power Automate
15 13 (1.69%) PowerApps
16 12 (1.56%) Slack
17 11 (1.43%) Serverless
18 10 (1.30%) BrowserStack
18 10 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 47 (6.13%) Broadband
2 8 (1.04%) Internet
3 5 (0.65%) DNS
3 5 (0.65%) LAN
3 5 (0.65%) WAN
3 5 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (0.52%) DHCP
4 4 (0.52%) Intranet
4 4 (0.52%) VLAN
4 4 (0.52%) VPN
5 3 (0.39%) Firewall
5 3 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (0.39%) LTE
5 3 (0.39%) Network Security
6 2 (0.26%) HTTP
7 1 (0.13%) CTI
7 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (6.39%) Data Warehouse
2 41 (5.35%) Power BI
3 30 (3.91%) Metadata
4 17 (2.22%) SQL Server
5 16 (2.09%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.69%) Data Lake
7 12 (1.56%) BigQuery
8 10 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (1.30%) Tableau
9 8 (1.04%) MySQL
10 6 (0.78%) Looker
11 5 (0.65%) Big Data
11 5 (0.65%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.39%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.39%) SAP BW
12 3 (0.39%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 54 (7.04%) JIRA
2 52 (6.78%) Git
3 39 (5.08%) Cypress.io
4 35 (4.56%) Selenium
5 33 (4.30%) Axure RP
6 23 (3.00%) Balsamiq
7 18 (2.35%) Jenkins
7 18 (2.35%) Storybook
8 17 (2.22%) Visual Studio
9 11 (1.43%) JMeter
9 11 (1.43%) Vite
10 9 (1.17%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.17%) WebDriver
10 9 (1.17%) webpack
11 8 (1.04%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.04%) Postman
11 8 (1.04%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.78%) GitLab
12 6 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.52%) Locust
General
1 246 (32.07%) Social Skills
2 111 (14.47%) Public Sector
3 109 (14.21%) Finance
4 86 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (10.95%) Law
6 67 (8.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (7.43%) Marketing
8 48 (6.26%) Legal
9 45 (5.87%) Games
9 45 (5.87%) Influencing Skills
10 29 (3.78%) Banking
11 24 (3.13%) Retail
12 21 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.17%) German Language
14 9 (1.17%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.91%) Advertising
16 7 (0.91%) Publishing
16 7 (0.91%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 107 (13.95%) Developer
2 106 (13.82%) Designer
2 106 (13.82%) Lead
3 95 (12.39%) Senior
4 62 (8.08%) Analyst
5 44 (5.74%) Architect
6 40 (5.22%) Business Analyst
6 40 (5.22%) UX Designer
7 38 (4.95%) Data Architect
7 38 (4.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 34 (4.43%) Technology Director
9 27 (3.52%) Service Designer
10 26 (3.39%) Digital Analyst
10 26 (3.39%) Digital Business Analyst
10 26 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
11 23 (3.00%) Senior Manager
11 23 (3.00%) User Researcher
12 21 (2.74%) Security Engineer
13 20 (2.61%) Lead Designer
13 20 (2.61%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (17.47%) HTML
2 109 (14.21%) CSS
3 69 (9.00%) React
4 47 (6.13%) .NET
5 35 (4.56%) RESTful
6 30 (3.91%) Node.js
7 28 (3.65%) Playwright
7 28 (3.65%) REST
8 25 (3.26%) Jest
9 24 (3.13%) HTML5
9 24 (3.13%) Vue
10 22 (2.87%) Next.js
11 21 (2.74%) AngularJS
12 19 (2.48%) CSS3
13 17 (2.22%) Sass
14 16 (2.09%) GraphQL
15 12 (1.56%) XML
16 11 (1.43%) .NET Framework
16 11 (1.43%) jQuery
16 11 (1.43%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.47%) Product Ownership
2 46 (6.00%) Social Media
3 43 (5.61%) Onboarding
4 39 (5.08%) Management Information System
5 38 (4.95%) Mobile App
6 22 (2.87%) Life Science
7 16 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.56%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.56%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.43%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.30%) Blog
10 10 (1.30%) e-Learning
11 9 (1.17%) Cloud Native
11 9 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.17%) Omics
12 8 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.04%) Learning Management System
12 8 (1.04%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.04%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.13%) Android
1 24 (3.13%) Apple iOS
2 12 (1.56%) Windows
3 6 (0.78%) Linux
3 6 (0.78%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (44.85%) Agile
2 268 (34.94%) User Experience
3 215 (28.03%) Analytics
4 161 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
5 153 (19.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 143 (18.64%) AI
7 139 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
8 125 (16.30%) CI/CD
8 125 (16.30%) UX Design
9 119 (15.51%) Mentoring
9 119 (15.51%) User Research
10 96 (12.52%) Roadmaps
11 95 (12.39%) Workshop Facilitation
12 93 (12.13%) Prototyping
13 92 (11.99%) DevOps
14 90 (11.73%) E-Commerce
15 82 (10.69%) Service Design
16 78 (10.17%) Test Automation
17 75 (9.78%) Decision-Making
17 75 (9.78%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 116 (15.12%) JavaScript
2 72 (9.39%) TypeScript
3 66 (8.60%) Python
4 63 (8.21%) SQL
5 46 (6.00%) Java
6 35 (4.56%) C#
7 27 (3.52%) PowerShell
8 23 (3.00%) Bash
9 12 (1.56%) Go
10 11 (1.43%) PHP
11 5 (0.65%) VBA
12 2 (0.26%) Bicep
12 2 (0.26%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.26%) Scala
12 2 (0.26%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.26%) Swift
13 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.13%) R
13 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.13%) X++
Qualifications
1 139 (18.12%) Degree
2 108 (14.08%) Security Cleared
3 87 (11.34%) SC Cleared
4 29 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.09%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.96%) PhD
7 14 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.69%) ISTQB
9 10 (1.30%) CISSP
9 10 (1.30%) CREST Certified
9 10 (1.30%) SANS
10 8 (1.04%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.78%) CIPD
12 5 (0.65%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.65%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.65%) PMP
13 4 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (11.73%) WCAG
2 86 (11.21%) QA
3 39 (5.08%) GDPR
4 28 (3.65%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.83%) GxP
7 12 (1.56%) NIST
8 9 (1.17%) CDISC
8 9 (1.17%) HL7
9 7 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.78%) SLA
11 5 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.65%) PERC
12 3 (0.39%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.39%) Section 508
13 2 (0.26%) ISO 19650
13 2 (0.26%) SEPA
14 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.13%) GRC
14 1 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 33 (4.30%) Docker
2 12 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (2.35%) Terraform
2 13 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.65%) Grafana
4 4 (0.52%) SCCM
5 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.13%) Kibana
6 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 120 (15.65%) Microsoft
2 113 (14.73%) Adobe
3 40 (5.22%) ServiceNow
4 39 (5.08%) Google
5 19 (2.48%) Qualtrics
6 13 (1.69%) Oracle
6 13 (1.69%) SAP
6 13 (1.69%) Tenable
7 10 (1.30%) Foundry
7 10 (1.30%) Palantir
8 9 (1.17%) Sitecore
8 9 (1.17%) Workday
9 8 (1.04%) Atlassian
10 7 (0.91%) Guidewire
11 6 (0.78%) NEC
11 6 (0.78%) Pega
12 5 (0.65%) Hotjar
13 4 (0.52%) Databricks
13 4 (0.52%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.52%) Telerik