WCAG Jobs in England

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring WCAG skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WCAG over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 648 748 1002
Rank change year-on-year +100 +254 -171
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 152 86 188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.45% 0.79% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 109 41 93
10th Percentile £47,500 £38,750 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,000 £22,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £52,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.41% +50.00% -39.13%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £52,779
90th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £81,500
UK median annual salary £57,965 £52,500 £35,500
% change year-on-year +10.41% +47.89% -38.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 10,499 10,896 25,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.40% 15.33% 17.36%
Number of salaries quoted 6,647 7,032 12,574
10th Percentile £27,400 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +2.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing WCAG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in England

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Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WCAG in England.

Salary trend for WCAG in England

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WCAG in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for WCAG in England

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Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
North of England +64 69 £57,965 +10.41% 3
South East +36 34 £77,500 +40.91% 1
North West +18 32 £57,965 +29.53% 2
London +75 28 £50,000 +1.01% 2
Yorkshire +74 24 £57,965 +10.41%
North East - 13 £57,965 - 1
Midlands -13 11 £57,965 +18.90% 2
South West -26 7 £58,750 - 1
West Midlands -1 6 £57,965 +18.90% 2
East Midlands - 5 - -
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.61%) CMS
2 6 (3.95%) Umbraco
3 4 (2.63%) Moodle
4 1 (0.66%) Confluence
Applications
1 28 (18.42%) Sketch
2 13 (8.55%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 28 (18.42%) Figma
1 28 (18.42%) Heroku
1 28 (18.42%) Miro
2 14 (9.21%) AWS
3 3 (1.97%) Azure
3 3 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.32%) Azure API Management
4 2 (1.32%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (1.32%) Azure Storage
4 2 (1.32%) Boomi
4 2 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (1.32%) Entra ID
4 2 (1.32%) iPaaS
5 1 (0.66%) npm
5 1 (0.66%) SaaS
5 1 (0.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.95%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.32%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 30 (19.74%) Selenium
2 28 (18.42%) Cypress.io
2 28 (18.42%) Git
3 13 (8.55%) Axure RP
3 13 (8.55%) Balsamiq
4 2 (1.32%) Moq
4 2 (1.32%) Postman
4 2 (1.32%) SoapUI
4 2 (1.32%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.32%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.32%) webpack
5 1 (0.66%) Babel
5 1 (0.66%) ESLint
5 1 (0.66%) gulp
5 1 (0.66%) JIRA
5 1 (0.66%) Vite
General
1 57 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 17 (11.18%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.21%) Marketing
4 13 (8.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (8.55%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (1.97%) Banking
5 3 (1.97%) Retail
6 2 (1.32%) Finance
6 2 (1.32%) Local Government
7 1 (0.66%) Advertising
7 1 (0.66%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 100 (65.79%) Senior
2 66 (43.42%) Designer
3 57 (37.50%) Senior Designer
4 45 (29.61%) Developer
5 35 (23.03%) UI Designer
5 35 (23.03%) UI/UX Designer
5 35 (23.03%) UX Designer
6 31 (20.39%) Interaction Designer
7 29 (19.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 29 (19.08%) Senior Interaction Designer
8 28 (18.42%) Senior UI Designer
8 28 (18.42%) Senior UI/UX Designer
8 28 (18.42%) Senior UX Designer
9 27 (17.76%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 16 (10.53%) Senior Developer
10 16 (10.53%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 13 (8.55%) Consultant
11 13 (8.55%) User Experience Consultant
12 6 (3.95%) Umbraco Developer
13 4 (2.63%) Moodle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (59.21%) HTML
2 55 (36.18%) CSS
3 33 (21.71%) HTML5
4 31 (20.39%) React
5 30 (19.74%) Jest
6 27 (17.76%) CSS3
7 6 (3.95%) jQuery
8 4 (2.63%) .NET
8 4 (2.63%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.63%) .NET Framework
8 4 (2.63%) Entity Framework
8 4 (2.63%) Vue
9 2 (1.32%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.32%) Code First Entity Framework
9 2 (1.32%) JSON
9 2 (1.32%) Node.js
9 2 (1.32%) OAuth
9 2 (1.32%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.32%) Razor View Engine
9 2 (1.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.21%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.95%) NHS
3 4 (2.63%) VLE
4 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.32%) W3C
5 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.66%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.66%) Android
1 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (56.58%) Coaching
2 85 (55.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 69 (45.39%) Agile
4 68 (44.74%) Prototyping
5 60 (39.47%) Mentoring
6 53 (34.87%) User Experience
7 48 (31.58%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
7 48 (31.58%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
8 46 (30.26%) Design Patterns
9 38 (25.00%) UX Design
10 36 (23.68%) Front End Development
10 36 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (23.03%) Actionable Insight
11 35 (23.03%) Workshop Facilitation
12 32 (21.05%) Analytics
13 31 (20.39%) Customer Experience
13 31 (20.39%) Interaction Design
14 29 (19.08%) Stakeholder Management
15 28 (18.42%) Digital Customer Experience
15 28 (18.42%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 50 (32.89%) JavaScript
2 37 (24.34%) C#
3 31 (20.39%) PHP
4 29 (19.08%) TypeScript
5 8 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (32.24%) Degree
2 36 (23.68%) Security Cleared
3 35 (23.03%) SC Cleared
4 13 (8.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (79.61%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.95%) GDPR
3 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 27 (17.76%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (17.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (9.87%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.21%) Adobe
3 6 (3.95%) HP
4 1 (0.66%) Salesforce