Accessibility Job Trends in the North of England

Accessibility (a11y)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Accessibility skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 168 218
Rank change year-on-year +26 +50 +70
Permanent jobs citing Accessibility 231 157 181
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.11% 1.67% 0.99%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.02% 12.50% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 136 49 123
10th Percentile £35,000 - £31,250
25th Percentile £39,934 £31,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -12.02% +10.41%
75th Percentile £64,500 £61,000 £60,741
90th Percentile £74,525 £79,500 £64,440
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% -1.76%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,774 1,256 2,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.55% 13.38% 12.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,291 578 1,515
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,281 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,375 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +6.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,640 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £58,500 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +1.74% +6.48% -6.09%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Accessibility job vacancy trend in the North of England

Accessibility
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Accessibility.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Accessibility in the North of England

Accessibility
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
North West -13 107 £50,000 - 38
Yorkshire +24 67 £60,000 +2.13% 34
North East -3 57 £47,500 - 16
Accessibility
England

Accessibility
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 17 (7.36%) CMS
2 8 (3.46%) WordPress
3 6 (2.60%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (1.30%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.87%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.43%) Apache
8 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 13 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (3.46%) Chatbot
3 8 (3.46%) Sketch
4 3 (1.30%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.87%) InVision
5 2 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.87%) Trello
6 1 (0.43%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.43%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 14 (6.06%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 26 (11.26%) Azure
2 22 (9.52%) Power Platform
3 20 (8.66%) Figma
4 15 (6.49%) AWS
5 12 (5.19%) Firebase
6 11 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (3.90%) Microsoft Copilot
8 8 (3.46%) GitHub
9 7 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.60%) Copilot Studio
10 6 (2.60%) OneDrive
10 6 (2.60%) Power Automate
10 6 (2.60%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.16%) Adobe Analytics
11 5 (2.16%) GCP
11 5 (2.16%) Google Play
12 4 (1.73%) Heroku
12 4 (1.73%) npm
13 3 (1.30%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.96%) Broadband
2 8 (3.46%) CTI
2 8 (3.46%) VoIP
3 3 (1.30%) DHCP
3 3 (1.30%) DNS
3 3 (1.30%) LAN
3 3 (1.30%) VLAN
3 3 (1.30%) VPN
3 3 (1.30%) WAN
3 3 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.87%) Skype
5 1 (0.43%) Internet
5 1 (0.43%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.93%) Power BI
2 6 (2.60%) Tableau
3 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.87%) KNIME
3 2 (0.87%) Looker
3 2 (0.87%) MS Access
3 2 (0.87%) MySQL
3 2 (0.87%) Power Query
4 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.43%) DocumentDB
4 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.43%) GIS
4 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.43%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.19%) fastlane
3 7 (3.03%) Xcode
4 6 (2.60%) Git
4 6 (2.60%) Gradle
4 6 (2.60%) JIRA
5 5 (2.16%) Android Studio
5 5 (2.16%) Crashlytics
6 4 (1.73%) GitLab
6 4 (1.73%) JMeter
6 4 (1.73%) Maven
6 4 (1.73%) Storybook
7 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.30%) Gatling
7 3 (1.30%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.87%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.87%) Selenium
9 1 (0.43%) JUnit
9 1 (0.43%) TestComplete
General
1 72 (31.17%) Public Sector
2 56 (24.24%) Social Skills
3 40 (17.32%) Finance
4 34 (14.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (11.26%) Legal
6 23 (9.96%) Games
7 16 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (6.06%) German Language
8 14 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (5.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (5.19%) Manufacturing
11 7 (3.03%) Marketing
12 6 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (2.16%) Publishing
14 4 (1.73%) Health Technology
14 4 (1.73%) Multimedia
14 4 (1.73%) Telecoms
15 3 (1.30%) Law
15 3 (1.30%) Retail
16 2 (0.87%) Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (17.75%) Developer
2 29 (12.55%) Lead
3 23 (9.96%) Analyst
4 22 (9.52%) Designer
5 18 (7.79%) Senior
6 16 (6.93%) Architect
7 14 (6.06%) HR Advisor
8 12 (5.19%) Data Analyst
9 11 (4.76%) Technical Leader
10 10 (4.33%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.90%) Engineering Manager
11 9 (3.90%) Interaction Designer
12 8 (3.46%) Lead Architect
12 8 (3.46%) Technical Architect
12 8 (3.46%) Test Engineer
13 6 (2.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 6 (2.60%) iOS Developer
13 6 (2.60%) Senior Developer
13 6 (2.60%) Software Developer
13 6 (2.60%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.96%) HTML
2 16 (6.93%) CSS
3 14 (6.06%) RESTful
4 7 (3.03%) Core Data
5 6 (2.60%) AngularJS
5 6 (2.60%) iOS SDK
5 6 (2.60%) SwiftUI
5 6 (2.60%) UIKit
6 5 (2.16%) Android Jetpack
6 5 (2.16%) Android SDK
6 5 (2.16%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.16%) Jetpack Compose
6 5 (2.16%) REST
6 5 (2.16%) Retrofit
7 4 (1.73%) Bootstrap
7 4 (1.73%) MDX
7 4 (1.73%) Playwright
7 4 (1.73%) React
8 3 (1.30%) CSS3
8 3 (1.30%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 41 (17.75%) Onboarding
2 40 (17.32%) Mobile App
3 19 (8.23%) e-Learning
4 15 (6.49%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.46%) IVR
6 6 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.60%) NHS
7 5 (2.16%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.16%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.30%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.30%) Graphic Design
9 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.87%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (0.87%) CMDB
10 2 (0.87%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.87%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.85%) Apple iOS
2 31 (13.42%) Android
3 8 (3.46%) Windows
4 5 (2.16%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.87%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (49.78%) Agile
2 72 (31.17%) Mentoring
3 66 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 61 (26.41%) User Experience
5 58 (25.11%) Analytics
6 57 (24.68%) CI/CD
7 55 (23.81%) Decision-Making
8 51 (22.08%) Roadmaps
9 49 (21.21%) AI
10 44 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (15.15%) Technical Leadership
12 33 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 31 (13.42%) Test Automation
14 30 (12.99%) Coaching
15 29 (12.55%) UX Design
16 28 (12.12%) Project Management
16 28 (12.12%) User Research
17 25 (10.82%) Observability
18 23 (9.96%) Backends for Frontends
18 23 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 36 (15.58%) JavaScript
2 26 (11.26%) Java
3 15 (6.49%) SQL
4 11 (4.76%) TypeScript
5 7 (3.03%) Kotlin
5 7 (3.03%) PHP
5 7 (3.03%) Swift
6 5 (2.16%) Python
7 4 (1.73%) C#
8 2 (0.87%) R
9 1 (0.43%) C
9 1 (0.43%) Dart
9 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 38 (16.45%) Degree
2 13 (5.63%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.19%) Postgraduate
4 9 (3.90%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.73%) ACCA
5 4 (1.73%) CIMA
6 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.87%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) CCA
7 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (18.18%) WCAG
2 20 (8.66%) QA
3 13 (5.63%) GMP
4 11 (4.76%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.60%) GDPR
6 5 (2.16%) SLA
7 4 (1.73%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (2.60%) Docker
2 3 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.87%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.16%) SCCM
2 4 (1.73%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.87%) Grafana
3 2 (0.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (10.39%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 17 (7.36%) Adobe
4 16 (6.93%) SAP
4 16 (6.93%) Workday
5 12 (5.19%) Dynatrace
6 10 (4.33%) Google
7 8 (3.46%) Avaya
7 8 (3.46%) Cisco
7 8 (3.46%) Genesys
8 6 (2.60%) Apple
9 5 (2.16%) Hotjar
9 5 (2.16%) Oracle
10 3 (1.30%) Synthesia
11 2 (0.87%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.43%) Confluent
12 1 (0.43%) Databricks
12 1 (0.43%) Optimizely
12 1 (0.43%) Qualtrics
12 1 (0.43%) Sitecore