WCAG Jobs in England

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for WCAG skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WCAG over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 659 861 937
Rank change year-on-year +202 +76 -143
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 181 92 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.099% 0.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.53% 0.50% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 141 39 94
10th Percentile £40,988 £42,454 £22,500
25th Percentile £48,350 £42,500 £24,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £45,000 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year +28.81% +6.51% -46.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £59,272 £59,688
90th Percentile £92,500 £81,500 £83,875
UK median annual salary £57,965 £48,250 £43,500
% change year-on-year +20.13% +10.92% -35.56%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

WCAG is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,826 18,317 21,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.94% 19.65% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 8,354 8,390 11,772
10th Percentile £27,015 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,915 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

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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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +124 74 £57,965 +44.91% 1
London +123 43 £53,750 +19.44% 10
South East +66 42 £72,500 - 3
North West - 34 £57,965 - 1
Yorkshire +118 26 £57,965 +44.91%
North East - 14 £57,965 -
Midlands +17 11 £57,965 +54.57% 2
South West -16 10 £57,046 +20.10% 4
West Midlands +30 6 £57,965 +54.57% 1
East Midlands - 5 - - 1
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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 9 (4.97%) Moodle
2 3 (1.66%) CMS
2 3 (1.66%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.10%) Confluence
3 2 (1.10%) WordPress
4 1 (0.55%) Totara
Applications
1 32 (17.68%) Sketch
2 14 (7.73%) Adobe XD
3 3 (1.66%) InVision
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.55%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (17.68%) Figma
2 28 (15.47%) Heroku
2 28 (15.47%) Miro
3 19 (10.50%) AWS
4 9 (4.97%) SaaS
5 8 (4.42%) GCP
6 7 (3.87%) Azure
7 2 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.55%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.55%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.55%) npm
8 1 (0.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.66%) Intranet
2 2 (1.10%) HTTP
3 1 (0.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (19.89%) Selenium
2 35 (19.34%) Cypress.io
2 35 (19.34%) Git
3 15 (8.29%) Axure RP
4 13 (7.18%) Balsamiq
5 10 (5.52%) webpack
6 2 (1.10%) JIRA
7 1 (0.55%) Babel
7 1 (0.55%) ESLint
7 1 (0.55%) gulp
7 1 (0.55%) Moq
7 1 (0.55%) Postman
7 1 (0.55%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.55%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.55%) Vite
General
1 75 (41.44%) Public Sector
2 15 (8.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (7.18%) Marketing
3 13 (7.18%) Presentation Skills
3 13 (7.18%) Social Skills
4 5 (2.76%) Retail
5 4 (2.21%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.10%) Banking
6 2 (1.10%) Finance
7 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (54.14%) Senior
2 75 (41.44%) Designer
3 54 (29.83%) Developer
4 45 (24.86%) Senior Designer
5 39 (21.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 38 (20.99%) UX Designer
7 36 (19.89%) Interaction Designer
7 36 (19.89%) UI Designer
7 36 (19.89%) UI/UX Designer
8 28 (15.47%) Senior UI Designer
8 28 (15.47%) Senior UI/UX Designer
8 28 (15.47%) Senior UX Designer
9 27 (14.92%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 18 (9.94%) Senior Developer
10 18 (9.94%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 17 (9.39%) Senior Interaction Designer
12 13 (7.18%) Consultant
12 13 (7.18%) User Experience Consultant
13 8 (4.42%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 8 (4.42%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (59.12%) HTML
2 72 (39.78%) CSS
3 48 (26.52%) React
4 38 (20.99%) HTML5
5 37 (20.44%) Jest
6 35 (19.34%) CSS3
7 10 (5.52%) Node.js
8 8 (4.42%) GraphQL
8 8 (4.42%) REST
9 3 (1.66%) jQuery
9 3 (1.66%) Vue
10 2 (1.10%) Enzyme
11 1 (0.55%) .NET Core
11 1 (0.55%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1 (0.55%) Entity Framework
11 1 (0.55%) Material-UI
11 1 (0.55%) Next.js
11 1 (0.55%) Parceljs
11 1 (0.55%) Playwright
11 1 (0.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.18%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (4.42%) VLE
3 3 (1.66%) NHS
4 2 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.55%) Animation
5 1 (0.55%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.55%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.55%) SCORM
5 1 (0.55%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (59.12%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 97 (53.59%) Agile
3 93 (51.38%) Coaching
4 74 (40.88%) Prototyping
5 68 (37.57%) User Experience
6 64 (35.36%) Mentoring
7 54 (29.83%) Front End Development
8 48 (26.52%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
8 48 (26.52%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
9 47 (25.97%) Design Patterns
10 44 (24.31%) UX Design
11 42 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (20.44%) Workshop Facilitation
13 36 (19.89%) Actionable Insight
13 36 (19.89%) Analytics
13 36 (19.89%) Interaction Design
14 34 (18.78%) Artificial Intelligence
14 34 (18.78%) Computer Science
14 34 (18.78%) Propensity Modelling
15 30 (16.57%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 63 (34.81%) JavaScript
2 45 (24.86%) TypeScript
3 42 (23.20%) PHP
4 38 (20.99%) C#
5 4 (2.21%) SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (29.28%) Degree
2 36 (19.89%) Security Cleared
3 35 (19.34%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (76.80%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.76%) GDPR
3 4 (2.21%) QA
System Software
1 35 (19.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (18.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (8.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.73%) Adobe
3 8 (4.42%) Google
4 3 (1.66%) HP
5 2 (1.10%) Monetate
5 2 (1.10%) Qubit