WCAG Job Trends in the North of England

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring WCAG skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 241 268
Rank change year-on-year -16 +27 +148
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 6 36 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.054% 0.40% 0.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.63% 2.33% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 5 26 19
10th Percentile - - £39,040
25th Percentile £41,163 £31,250 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £32,500 £41,774
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -22.20% -44.30%
75th Percentile £74,066 £33,750 £42,561
90th Percentile - - £43,949
England median annual salary £52,500 £38,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +35.48% -35.42% -15.79%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 947 1,546 1,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.59% 17.02% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 518 612 963
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,775 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,153 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% -1.69% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,135 £82,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +4.35% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

WCAG job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WCAG in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for WCAG in the North of England

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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 WCAG within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
Yorkshire - 3 £42,039 - 7
North West -12 2 £60,039 +84.74% 6
North East +3 1 £70,079 - 4
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England

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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 3 (50.00%) CMS
2 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (33.33%) Umbraco
3 1 (16.67%) Confluence
3 1 (16.67%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (16.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe XD
1 1 (16.67%) InVision
1 1 (16.67%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Datadog
2 2 (33.33%) dbt
2 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (33.33%) PaaS
2 2 (33.33%) Power Automate
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Figma
3 1 (16.67%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Intranet
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (33.33%) JMeter
1 2 (33.33%) Locust
2 1 (16.67%) Axure RP
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Law
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Test Leader
2 2 (33.33%) Web Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Website Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) UX Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (33.33%) Gherkin
2 2 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (16.67%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (66.67%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Case Management
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (33.33%) FinOps
3 2 (33.33%) Intelligent Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Line Management
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (16.67%) GDPR
3 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Sitecore