WCAG Job Trends in Scotland

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring WCAG skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.18% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.15% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,091 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 - -
75th Percentile £74,066 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £52,500 £58,465 £59,684
% change year-on-year -10.20% -2.04% -14.74%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 435 426 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 15.77% 13.09% 10.46%
Number of salaries quoted 91 134 188
10th Percentile £26,500 £24,850 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,875 £38,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £51,400 £55,148
Median % change year-on-year +21.60% -6.80% +10.30%
75th Percentile £80,369 £67,347 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,625 £78,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +6.06%

WCAG
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

WCAG job vacancy trend in Scotland

WCAG
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing WCAG.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing WCAG

WCAG
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 November 2025. 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 - 5 £70,079 - 2
WCAG
UK

WCAG
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
1 2 (40.00%) Siteimprove
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Datadog
2 1 (20.00%) dbt
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Storybook
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) Locust
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) JSON-LD
1 2 (40.00%) Next.js
1 2 (40.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Coaching
2 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (40.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) SEO
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Web Accessibility
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) FinOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) OWASP
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCA
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform