WCAG Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring WCAG skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 - 71
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 0.12% - 0.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.74% - 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £46,365 - -
25th Percentile £49,242 - £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,876 - £58,465
75th Percentile £67,350 - £60,991
90th Percentile £71,931 - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 - £58,465
% change year-on-year - - +11.36%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 115 55 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 6.88% 9.24% 14.38%
Number of salaries quoted 100 41 56
10th Percentile £36,125 £28,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £39,491
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £73,841 £70,000 £56,375
90th Percentile £83,875 £86,250 £59,870
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,988 £45,000 £46,965
% change year-on-year +6.64% -4.18% -6.07%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

WCAG job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

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Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing WCAG.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing WCAG

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Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing WCAG in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Salary histogram for WCAG in South Yorkshire

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Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Sheffield - 2 £56,876 - 3
WCAG
Yorkshire

WCAG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Speech Recognition
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility