Accessibility Job Trends in Scotland

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland 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 100 50 194
Rank change year-on-year -50 +144 -38
Permanent jobs citing Accessibility 39 123 65
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.17% 4.91% 1.07%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.89% 31.30% 9.91%
Number of salaries quoted 26 15 16
10th Percentile £35,000 £50,276 £30,625
25th Percentile £35,281 £55,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,533 £72,500 £56,900
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% +27.42% +33.88%
75th Percentile £74,674 £95,000 £70,313
90th Percentile £85,000 - £76,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% +6.48% -1.82%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 328 393 656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.85% 15.70% 10.79%
Number of salaries quoted 162 85 310
10th Percentile £25,000 £37,500 £22,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £47,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £62,500 £46,034
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +35.77% -16.30%
75th Percentile £72,166 £80,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.87% +9.52% -8.70%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Accessibility job vacancy trend in Scotland

Accessibility
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Accessibility.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Accessibility in Scotland

Accessibility
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +9 14 £73,656 -18.16%
Glasgow +21 8 £36,375 - 8
West Dunbartonshire - 6 - -
Midlothian +7 3 - - 1
Dundee - 3 £35,000 -
Stirling -3 2 £35,000 -
Renfrewshire -1 1 £37,750 -
Accessibility
UK

Accessibility
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (5.13%) CMS
1 2 (5.13%) WordPress
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (15.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.56%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (2.56%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (2.56%) Elementor
2 1 (2.56%) InDesign
2 1 (2.56%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) Azure
2 9 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (17.95%) GitHub
4 6 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (15.38%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.26%) AWS
6 2 (5.13%) Firebase
7 1 (2.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.56%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (2.56%) BrowserStack
7 1 (2.56%) GCP
7 1 (2.56%) Google Play
7 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) Power BI
2 3 (7.69%) Metadata
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.69%) fastlane
2 3 (7.69%) Git
3 2 (5.13%) JIRA
3 2 (5.13%) Xcode
4 1 (2.56%) Crashlytics
4 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.56%) Gradle
4 1 (2.56%) IntelliJ
4 1 (2.56%) JMeter
4 1 (2.56%) Maven
4 1 (2.56%) MLflow
4 1 (2.56%) Postman
4 1 (2.56%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.56%) Selenium
4 1 (2.56%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.56%) Subversion
4 1 (2.56%) TestRail
4 1 (2.56%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (48.72%) Public Sector
2 14 (35.90%) Finance
3 6 (15.38%) Billing
4 5 (12.82%) Advertising
4 5 (12.82%) Marketing
5 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.69%) Retail
6 2 (5.13%) Multimedia
6 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Social Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 6 (15.38%) Analyst
1 6 (15.38%) Applications Support
1 6 (15.38%) Applications Support Analyst
1 6 (15.38%) Support Analyst
2 5 (12.82%) Lead
2 5 (12.82%) Senior
3 4 (10.26%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Developer
3 4 (10.26%) Security Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Learning Technologist
5 2 (5.13%) Technologist
6 1 (2.56%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 1 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Mobile Tester
6 1 (2.56%) PHP WordPress Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Senior Android Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Senior Tester
6 1 (2.56%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) RESTful
2 3 (7.69%) CSS
2 3 (7.69%) HTML
3 2 (5.13%) CSS3
3 2 (5.13%) HTML5
3 2 (5.13%) React
3 2 (5.13%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) Android SDK
4 1 (2.56%) Bootstrap
4 1 (2.56%) Core Data
4 1 (2.56%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.56%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.56%) OpenCV
4 1 (2.56%) Pandas
4 1 (2.56%) pytest
4 1 (2.56%) Retrofit
4 1 (2.56%) Sass
4 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.56%) UIKit
4 1 (2.56%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 8 (20.51%) e-Learning
3 6 (15.38%) Management Information System
4 3 (7.69%) Mobile App
5 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (5.13%) VLE
6 1 (2.56%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Android
1 2 (5.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) Agile
2 11 (28.21%) DevOps
3 10 (25.64%) Process Improvement
4 9 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (20.51%) Roadmaps
6 6 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 6 (15.38%) Collaborative Culture
6 6 (15.38%) Customer Service
6 6 (15.38%) Regression Testing
6 6 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
6 6 (15.38%) Storyboarding
6 6 (15.38%) Waterfall
7 5 (12.82%) Application Security
7 5 (12.82%) Behavioural Change
7 5 (12.82%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
7 5 (12.82%) Strategic Roadmap
7 5 (12.82%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) Python
2 4 (10.26%) Bash
2 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.13%) Java
5 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.56%) PHP
5 1 (2.56%) SQL
5 1 (2.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Degree
2 6 (15.38%) HND
3 4 (10.26%) CISSP
3 4 (10.26%) CREST Certified
3 4 (10.26%) SANS
4 3 (7.69%) CCA
5 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) SLA
2 3 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.69%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Grafana
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.95%) Adobe
3 6 (15.38%) Freshdesk
3 6 (15.38%) Nintex
4 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.56%) Apple
5 1 (2.56%) Google