WCAG Job Trends in Somerset

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring WCAG skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - 66
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 8 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 0.82% - 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.08% - 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £41,250 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 - £35,000
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile £77,500 - -
South West median annual salary £60,000 - £57,046
% change year-on-year - - +20.10%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 99 30 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 10.12% 11.15% 13.09%
Number of salaries quoted 46 21 81
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,068 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £52,500 £30,385
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £57,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.86% +26.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £75,050 £73,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 - £70,750
South West median annual salary £52,500 £55,500 £52,396
% change year-on-year -5.41% +5.93% -4.74%

WCAG
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

WCAG job vacancy trend in Somerset

WCAG
Salary Trend in Somerset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing WCAG.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing WCAG

WCAG
Salary Histogram in Somerset

Salary distribution for jobs citing WCAG in Somerset over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Salary histogram for WCAG in Somerset

WCAG
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 3 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
Taunton - 8 £63,750 - 1
WCAG
South West

WCAG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 4 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) GitHub
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
1 4 (50.00%) MSI
2 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JMeter
2 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 8 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leader
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
1 6 (75.00%) RESTful
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (50.00%) ATL
2 4 (50.00%) COM
2 4 (50.00%) CSS
2 4 (50.00%) CSS3
2 4 (50.00%) GeoJSON
2 4 (50.00%) HTML
2 4 (50.00%) HTML5
2 4 (50.00%) MFC
2 4 (50.00%) REST
2 4 (50.00%) WPF
3 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (25.00%) Playwright
3 2 (25.00%) React
3 2 (25.00%) Spring
3 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (50.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (75.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (75.00%) Microservices
2 6 (75.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 4 (50.00%) API Design
3 4 (50.00%) Dependency Management
3 4 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 4 (50.00%) SOLID
3 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Bicep
2 4 (50.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (50.00%) NCSC
3 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) OneLogin