Accessibility Job Trends in the South West

Accessibility (a11y)
England > South West

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 113 242
Rank change year-on-year -9 +129 -36
Permanent jobs citing Accessibility 89 42 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.14% 1.49% 0.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.48% 10.02% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 64 29 27
10th Percentile £32,000 £52,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £55,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £69,018 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.31% +38.04% -12.40%
75th Percentile £73,438 £82,500 £58,548
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £53,345 £55,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.88% +5.71% -8.70%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 713 419 1,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.13% 14.82% 12.20%
Number of salaries quoted 461 255 820
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,450 £34,905
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £57,500 £52,396
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +9.74% -4.74%
75th Percentile £75,754 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £59,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.48% +9.52% -8.70%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Accessibility job vacancy trend in the South West

Accessibility
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Accessibility.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in the South West over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Accessibility in the South West

Accessibility
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the South West region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Bristol -31 22 £65,000 -6.49% 15
Devon -7 21 £55,000 -12.00% 2
Somerset -21 16 £42,500 -22.73% 5
Gloucestershire -28 8 £26,500 -37.65% 4
Cornwall - 8 - -
Wiltshire -14 5 £56,250 -6.25% 3
Dorset - 4 £32,000 - 3
Accessibility
England

Accessibility
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 16 (17.98%) CMS
2 11 (12.36%) Confluence
3 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.12%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (1.12%) Elementor
4 1 (1.12%) InDesign
4 1 (1.12%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.12%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 22 (24.72%) Azure
2 18 (20.22%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (17.98%) GitHub
4 11 (12.36%) Figma
5 10 (11.24%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (10.11%) Adobe Analytics
7 8 (8.99%) AWS
8 7 (7.87%) Contentsquare
9 5 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.37%) GCP
11 2 (2.25%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (2.25%) BrowserStack
11 2 (2.25%) Sauce Labs
11 2 (2.25%) Serverless
12 1 (1.12%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 1 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (1.12%) Canva
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.11%) Broadband
2 3 (3.37%) LTE
3 1 (1.12%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.37%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (3.37%) MariaDB
2 3 (3.37%) MySQL
3 2 (2.25%) GIS
3 2 (2.25%) Metadata
4 1 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (20.22%) Cypress.io
2 17 (19.10%) Selenium
3 6 (6.74%) Git
3 6 (6.74%) REST Assured
4 5 (5.62%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.62%) JIRA
4 5 (5.62%) JMeter
5 3 (3.37%) GitLab
5 3 (3.37%) MSI
5 3 (3.37%) Postman
6 2 (2.25%) Appium
7 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.12%) Maven
7 1 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.12%) SoapUI
General
1 27 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.73%) Organisational Skills
3 13 (14.61%) Finance
4 11 (12.36%) Manufacturing
5 9 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.11%) Games
6 7 (7.87%) Legal
7 6 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (6.74%) Marketing
8 4 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.49%) Retail
9 3 (3.37%) Local Government
9 3 (3.37%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.12%) Automotive
10 1 (1.12%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 37 (41.57%) Lead
2 13 (14.61%) Developer
3 11 (12.36%) QA Leader
4 10 (11.24%) Test Leader
5 9 (10.11%) Applications Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) Content Manager
5 9 (10.11%) Security Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Content Editor
6 8 (8.99%) Web Content Editor
6 8 (8.99%) Web Content Manager
6 8 (8.99%) Web Editor
6 8 (8.99%) Web Manager
7 7 (7.87%) Project Leader
7 7 (7.87%) Senior
8 5 (5.62%) Lead Developer
8 5 (5.62%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Designer
9 4 (4.49%) Digital Designer
9 4 (4.49%) Test Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.22%) Playwright
2 13 (14.61%) CSS
2 13 (14.61%) HTML
3 10 (11.24%) RESTful
4 9 (10.11%) React
5 7 (7.87%) AngularJS
5 7 (7.87%) CSS3
5 7 (7.87%) HTML5
6 6 (6.74%) .NET
6 6 (6.74%) Vue
7 5 (5.62%) REST
8 4 (4.49%) jQuery
9 3 (3.37%) .NET Framework
9 3 (3.37%) MFC
9 3 (3.37%) Node.js
9 3 (3.37%) OAuth
9 3 (3.37%) OAuth2
9 3 (3.37%) OpenID
9 3 (3.37%) SAML
9 3 (3.37%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.87%) Analytical Mindset
1 7 (7.87%) Cloud Native
1 7 (7.87%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.74%) Social Media
3 5 (5.62%) Graphic Design
4 3 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.37%) Photography
5 2 (2.25%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.25%) e-Learning
5 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.12%) iPad
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.74%) Windows
2 3 (3.37%) Linux
2 3 (3.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (37.08%) Continuous Improvement
2 32 (35.96%) CI/CD
3 29 (32.58%) DevOps
4 26 (29.21%) User Experience
5 24 (26.97%) Test Automation
6 22 (24.72%) Agile
6 22 (24.72%) Roadmaps
7 20 (22.47%) SDLC
8 17 (19.10%) AI
9 16 (17.98%) Mentoring
10 15 (16.85%) Manual Testing
10 15 (16.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 14 (15.73%) Regression Testing
12 13 (14.61%) Analytics
13 12 (13.48%) Acceptance Criteria
13 12 (13.48%) API Testing
13 12 (13.48%) Customer Service
13 12 (13.48%) Root Cause Analysis
13 12 (13.48%) User Acceptance Testing
14 11 (12.36%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.61%) JavaScript
2 10 (11.24%) TypeScript
3 9 (10.11%) Java
3 9 (10.11%) Python
4 7 (7.87%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.49%) Bash
6 3 (3.37%) Bicep
6 3 (3.37%) C#
6 3 (3.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (12.36%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.74%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.62%) Degree
4 4 (4.49%) CISSP
4 4 (4.49%) CREST Certified
4 4 (4.49%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.49%) SANS
5 3 (3.37%) CIPD
5 3 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (2.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (21.35%) QA
2 17 (19.10%) WCAG
3 7 (7.87%) ISO 19650
4 3 (3.37%) GDPR
4 3 (3.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (7.87%) Docker
2 3 (3.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (8.99%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.62%) Terraform
3 3 (3.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (3.37%) Plesk
3 3 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.12%) Grafana
4 1 (1.12%) Kibana
4 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (20.22%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.85%) Adobe
3 2 (2.25%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.12%) OneLogin