WCAG Job Trends in South Wales

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring WCAG skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 64 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 1 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.14% 0.46% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.06% 4.12% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,091 £41,594 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £44,344 -
Median % change year-on-year +58.03% - -
75th Percentile £74,066 £52,508 -
90th Percentile - £62,253 -
Wales median annual salary £70,079 £44,344 -
% change year-on-year +58.03% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 94 97 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 12.79% 11.15% 13.68%
Number of salaries quoted 58 56 57
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,689
25th Percentile £38,563 £37,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £50,625 £64,500
90th Percentile £74,124 £60,000 £82,600
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £45,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +20.88% +1.11% -6.74%

WCAG
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

WCAG job vacancy trend in South Wales

WCAG
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing WCAG.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing WCAG

WCAG
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cardiff +19 1 £70,079 +58.03%
WCAG
Wales

WCAG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform