WCAG Job Trends in England

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring WCAG skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 579 586
Rank change year-on-year +56 +7 +312
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 89 101 74
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.29% 1.24% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 73 69 73
10th Percentile £41,180 - £41,540
25th Percentile £47,500 £31,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,465 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -2.56% -17.24%
75th Percentile £74,066 £76,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £58,465 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.20% -2.56% -14.29%

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 6,900 8,122 6,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.27% 16.32% 15.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4,040 3,687 5,167
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £31,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.35%

WCAG
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

WCAG job vacancy trend in England

WCAG
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing WCAG.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing WCAG

WCAG
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WCAG in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for WCAG in England

WCAG
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 31 December 2025. 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 +101 57 £52,500 +5.00% 16
South East +19 12 £51,250 -33.87% 10
West Midlands +33 10 £50,000 +1.56% 4
Midlands +30 10 £50,000 +1.56% 4
North of England -25 6 £50,000 +53.85% 16
Yorkshire -4 3 £42,039 -28.09% 8
North West -7 2 £60,039 +84.74% 6
East of England - 2 - - 2
South West +8 1 £38,500 -35.83% 4
North East +5 1 £70,079 +19.87% 2
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UK

WCAG
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 12 (13.48%) Confluence
2 6 (6.74%) CMS
3 3 (3.37%) Umbraco
3 3 (3.37%) WordPress
4 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 33 (37.08%) Adobe XD
2 11 (12.36%) Sketch
3 5 (5.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (4.49%) InVision
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (59.55%) Figma
2 17 (19.10%) Miro
3 12 (13.48%) GitHub
4 11 (12.36%) Google Analytics
4 11 (12.36%) SaaS
5 6 (6.74%) AWS
5 6 (6.74%) Azure
6 5 (5.62%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (5.62%) Power Automate
6 5 (5.62%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.62%) PowerApps
6 5 (5.62%) Serverless
7 4 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.49%) Datadog
7 4 (4.49%) dbt
7 4 (4.49%) PaaS
8 3 (3.37%) Adobe Analytics
8 3 (3.37%) Azure App Service
8 3 (3.37%) Azure Functions
8 3 (3.37%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.37%) Broadband
2 2 (2.25%) Intranet
3 1 (1.12%) DNS
3 1 (1.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.62%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.49%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.25%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.25%) Power BI
5 1 (1.12%) Looker
Development Applications
1 29 (32.58%) Axure RP
2 25 (28.09%) Balsamiq
3 14 (15.73%) Git
4 10 (11.24%) JIRA
5 8 (8.99%) Visual Studio
6 7 (7.87%) JMeter
7 5 (5.62%) Cucumber
8 4 (4.49%) Locust
8 4 (4.49%) Postman
8 4 (4.49%) Selenium
9 3 (3.37%) Cypress.io
9 3 (3.37%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (3.37%) Vite
9 3 (3.37%) webpack
10 2 (2.25%) Storybook
11 1 (1.12%) Babel
11 1 (1.12%) Gatling
11 1 (1.12%) GitLab
General
1 35 (39.33%) Law
2 34 (38.20%) Public Sector
3 29 (32.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (25.84%) Social Skills
5 15 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (10.11%) Legal
7 8 (8.99%) Finance
8 4 (4.49%) Marketing
9 3 (3.37%) Games
9 3 (3.37%) Retail
10 2 (2.25%) Publishing
11 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (56.18%) Designer
2 23 (25.84%) UX Designer
3 21 (23.60%) Developer
4 15 (16.85%) Senior
5 14 (15.73%) Service Designer
6 10 (11.24%) Lead
6 10 (11.24%) Senior Designer
7 7 (7.87%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 6 (6.74%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.74%) React Developer
8 6 (6.74%) UI Designer
8 6 (6.74%) UI/UX Designer
9 5 (5.62%) Digital Designer
9 5 (5.62%) Senior Digital Designer
10 4 (4.49%) Content Designer
10 4 (4.49%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Systems Designer
10 4 (4.49%) Test Leader
10 4 (4.49%) UX Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (55.06%) CSS
2 47 (52.81%) HTML
3 18 (20.22%) React
4 14 (15.73%) .NET
5 12 (13.48%) RESTful
6 9 (10.11%) CSS3
6 9 (10.11%) GraphQL
6 9 (10.11%) HTML5
7 7 (7.87%) .NET Core
7 7 (7.87%) Jest
7 7 (7.87%) Material Design
7 7 (7.87%) Vue
8 6 (6.74%) .NET Framework
8 6 (6.74%) Blazor
8 6 (6.74%) Sass
9 5 (5.62%) Node.js
9 5 (5.62%) WebAssembly
10 4 (4.49%) Entity Framework
10 4 (4.49%) Gherkin
10 4 (4.49%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (39.33%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.74%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.49%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.37%) Legacy Code
4 3 (3.37%) Social Media
5 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.25%) Graphic Design
5 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.49%) Android
1 4 (4.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (79.78%) User Experience
2 66 (74.16%) Agile
3 45 (50.56%) User Research
4 39 (43.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 39 (43.82%) UX Design
5 37 (41.57%) Usability Testing
6 36 (40.45%) Analytics
7 34 (38.20%) Prototyping
8 27 (30.34%) Community of Practice
8 27 (30.34%) Wireframes
9 25 (28.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (28.09%) Inclusive Design
10 24 (26.97%) Mentoring
11 20 (22.47%) Front End Development
12 19 (21.35%) CI/CD
13 17 (19.10%) Journey Map
13 17 (19.10%) Service Design
13 17 (19.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (17.98%) Technology Strategy
15 15 (16.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (40.45%) JavaScript
2 17 (19.10%) TypeScript
3 11 (12.36%) C#
4 5 (5.62%) SQL
5 4 (4.49%) Java
5 4 (4.49%) Python
6 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (40.45%) Degree
2 35 (39.33%) SC Cleared
2 35 (39.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.25%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.12%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (96.63%) Accessibility
2 17 (19.10%) QA
3 6 (6.74%) Section 508
4 4 (4.49%) GDPR
5 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (4.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.49%) Grafana
1 4 (4.49%) Kubernetes
1 4 (4.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (47.19%) Adobe
2 18 (20.22%) Microsoft
3 15 (16.85%) Google
4 3 (3.37%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.37%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.25%) SendGrid