Accessibility Job Trends in the Midlands

Accessibility (a11y)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Accessibility skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 122 202
Rank change year-on-year -56 +80 -104
Permanent jobs citing Accessibility 38 120 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.49% 1.88% 0.56%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.72% 10.31% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 30 16 28
10th Percentile £32,375 £31,500 £31,208
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,020 £43,750 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% -10.26% -25.00%
75th Percentile £57,188 £55,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £67,101 £63,125 £70,375
England median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,022 1,164 803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.18% 18.25% 14.03%
Number of salaries quoted 559 489 675
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,822 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,485
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,251 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.69% +2.61%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Accessibility job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Accessibility
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Accessibility.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Accessibility in the Midlands

Accessibility
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
West Midlands -38 31 £50,000 +11.11% 31
East Midlands -17 8 £40,000 +6.67% 29
Accessibility
England

Accessibility
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (15.79%) CMS
2 5 (13.16%) Umbraco
3 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (2.63%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (2.63%) InDesign
2 1 (2.63%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) OpenCart
2 1 (2.63%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (2.63%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 10 (26.32%) Figma
2 7 (18.42%) SaaS
3 6 (15.79%) GitHub
3 6 (15.79%) GitHub Copilot
4 3 (7.89%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (7.89%) Google Analytics
4 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.89%) PowerApps
5 2 (5.26%) AWS
5 2 (5.26%) Azure
5 2 (5.26%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.63%) Datadog
6 1 (2.63%) dbt
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) Intranet
2 1 (2.63%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Metadata
1 2 (5.26%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.26%) Babel
2 2 (5.26%) Cucumber
2 2 (5.26%) Selenium
2 2 (5.26%) webpack
3 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.63%) Gatling
3 1 (2.63%) Git
3 1 (2.63%) GitLab
3 1 (2.63%) JMeter
3 1 (2.63%) Locust
3 1 (2.63%) Postman
3 1 (2.63%) Vite
General
1 15 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 12 (31.58%) Public Sector
3 6 (15.79%) Finance
4 4 (10.53%) Legal
5 3 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.89%) Marketing
6 2 (5.26%) Advertising
6 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Developer
2 6 (15.79%) Designer
2 6 (15.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (10.53%) Lead
3 4 (10.53%) Senior
3 4 (10.53%) Tester
3 4 (10.53%) UX Designer
4 3 (7.89%) Account Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Technical Account Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Technical Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Web Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Blazor Developer
5 2 (5.26%) E-Commerce Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Test Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) UX Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Vendor Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Website Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.68%) .NET
1 9 (23.68%) CSS
1 9 (23.68%) HTML
2 6 (15.79%) Blazor
2 6 (15.79%) Material Design
2 6 (15.79%) WebAssembly
3 3 (7.89%) EDI
3 3 (7.89%) SVG
4 2 (5.26%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.26%) ASP.NET
4 2 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (5.26%) CSS3
4 2 (5.26%) HTML5
4 2 (5.26%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (5.26%) React
4 2 (5.26%) RESTful
5 1 (2.63%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.63%) Playwright
5 1 (2.63%) Redux
5 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (7.89%) Social Media
2 3 (7.89%) W3C
3 2 (5.26%) Blog
4 1 (2.63%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.63%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.63%) Graphic Design
4 1 (2.63%) IoT
4 1 (2.63%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) User Experience
2 11 (28.95%) AI
2 11 (28.95%) Front End Development
3 10 (26.32%) Mentoring
3 10 (26.32%) Responsive Web Design
4 9 (23.68%) CRM
5 7 (18.42%) Agile
5 7 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (18.42%) Data Integration
5 7 (18.42%) Interaction Design
6 6 (15.79%) Analytics
6 6 (15.79%) Coaching
6 6 (15.79%) SEO
6 6 (15.79%) User Stories
6 6 (15.79%) UX Design
6 6 (15.79%) Web Development
6 6 (15.79%) Wireframes
7 5 (13.16%) Content Management
8 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
8 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) C#
1 9 (23.68%) JavaScript
2 3 (7.89%) Java
2 3 (7.89%) SQL
3 2 (5.26%) Python
4 1 (2.63%) Bicep
4 1 (2.63%) PHP
4 1 (2.63%) Scala
4 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.63%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.95%) WCAG
2 7 (18.42%) GDPR
3 3 (7.89%) Data Quality
3 3 (7.89%) QA
4 1 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.63%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Terraform
2 1 (2.63%) Grafana
2 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Adobe
2 3 (7.89%) Google
3 2 (5.26%) Ahrefs
4 1 (2.63%) Databricks
4 1 (2.63%) HubSpot
4 1 (2.63%) Planon
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.63%) WooCommerce