WCAG Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring WCAG skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - 63
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 2 0 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.23% - 1.48%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.39% - 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 14
10th Percentile - - £40,988
25th Percentile - - £55,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £57,965
75th Percentile - - £60,741
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £60,000 - £57,965

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 59 64 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 6.70% 19.57% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 41 44 129
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,401 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £47,188 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,640 £72,813 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £73,250
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

WCAG
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

WCAG job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

WCAG
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing WCAG.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing WCAG

WCAG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Graphic Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Interaction Designer
1 1 (50.00%) SEO Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Graphic Design
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SEO
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana