Accessibility (a11y)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Accessibility skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Accessibility over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 379 264 307
Rank change year-on-year -115 +43 +83
Permanent jobs citing Accessibility 397 1,727 1,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 1.41% 1.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.14% 7.94% 7.68%
Number of salaries quoted 302 670 833
10th Percentile £39,748 £37,434 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,341 £48,750 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,050 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £73,654 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,797 £92,500 £81,509
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.90% +21.96% -8.16%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

Accessibility is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,723 21,738 19,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.77% 17.78% 15.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5,686 11,782 12,692
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -3.06%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Accessibility.

Salary trend for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Accessibility over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the UK over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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
England -113 324 £56,662 -5.56% 274
Work from Home -41 215 £56,662 -5.56% 200
UK excluding London -83 200 £50,000 -8.90% 175
London -71 145 £66,250 +1.92% 131
North of England +56 47 £52,500 -4.34% 52
South West -48 44 £52,500 -4.55% 14
South East +27 43 £50,000 -9.09% 42
North West +83 34 £53,750 +1.22% 30
Scotland -9 29 £47,103 -14.17% 21
Midlands +53 18 £54,395 -16.32% 25
West Midlands +82 13 £60,750 -6.54% 18
East of England +53 11 £44,250 -4.32% 13
Yorkshire +43 10 £52,500 -4.34% 14
Wales +5 7 £46,210 +24.82% 6
East Midlands +17 5 £47,500 -26.92% 7
North East +30 3 £47,500 -13.64% 9
Northern Ireland +18 1 £46,000 +32.37% 4

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (3.53%) Confluence
2 11 (2.77%) CMS
3 9 (2.27%) WordPress
4 8 (2.02%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.26%) ColdFusion
6 4 (1.01%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.01%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.76%) Apache
7 3 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.76%) IIS
8 2 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.50%) Moodle
8 2 (0.50%) SAS
8 2 (0.50%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.25%) Drupal
9 1 (0.25%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.25%) Kentico
9 1 (0.25%) Luigi
9 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (3.78%) Sketch
2 12 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.76%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.76%) Adobe Captivate
4 3 (0.76%) InVision
4 3 (0.76%) Marvel
4 3 (0.76%) Stata
4 3 (0.76%) Zeplin
5 2 (0.50%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.25%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.76%) Shopify
2 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 108 (27.20%) Azure
2 56 (14.11%) AWS
3 33 (8.31%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (7.81%) GCP
5 30 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (6.30%) Power Platform
7 24 (6.05%) SaaS
8 19 (4.79%) Figma
8 19 (4.79%) GitHub
9 16 (4.03%) PowerApps
10 14 (3.53%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (1.51%) npm
11 6 (1.51%) Serverless
12 5 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.26%) Snowflake
13 4 (1.01%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.01%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.77%) SAN
2 9 (2.27%) DHCP
2 9 (2.27%) DNS
2 9 (2.27%) Firewall
2 9 (2.27%) Internet
3 8 (2.02%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.76%) Network Security
5 6 (1.51%) PuTTY
5 6 (1.51%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (1.51%) WinSCP
6 5 (1.26%) NAS
7 4 (1.01%) SNMP
8 3 (0.76%) BGP
8 3 (0.76%) Broadband
8 3 (0.76%) DSL
8 3 (0.76%) OSPF
8 3 (0.76%) VLAN
8 3 (0.76%) VPN
9 2 (0.50%) HTTP
9 2 (0.50%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.57%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.53%) Power BI
3 13 (3.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (2.52%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.02%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.02%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.76%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.01%) EDMS
11 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.50%) Big Data
11 2 (0.50%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.50%) Tableau
12 1 (0.25%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.25%) Flink
12 1 (0.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 61 (15.37%) Git
2 39 (9.82%) Selenium
3 29 (7.30%) webpack
4 27 (6.80%) JIRA
5 25 (6.30%) Jenkins
6 18 (4.53%) Cucumber
7 17 (4.28%) Postman
8 13 (3.27%) SpecFlow
9 12 (3.02%) JMeter
10 10 (2.52%) Cypress.io
10 10 (2.52%) Gatling
10 10 (2.52%) TestNG
11 9 (2.27%) REST Assured
11 9 (2.27%) TeamCity
12 8 (2.02%) GitLab
12 8 (2.02%) Jasmine
12 8 (2.02%) Karma Test Runner
12 8 (2.02%) Maven
12 8 (2.02%) SoapUI
12 8 (2.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 125 (31.49%) Social Skills
2 98 (24.69%) Finance
3 71 (17.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (9.07%) Banking
5 33 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (8.31%) Public Sector
6 31 (7.81%) Retail
7 28 (7.05%) Law
7 28 (7.05%) Marketing
8 21 (5.29%) Legal
9 18 (4.53%) Manufacturing
10 16 (4.03%) Investment Banking
11 15 (3.78%) Financial Institution
12 10 (2.52%) French Language
13 9 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.76%) Private Banking
16 6 (1.51%) Aerospace
16 6 (1.51%) Police
16 6 (1.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (20.91%) Developer
2 75 (18.89%) Senior
3 40 (10.08%) Lead
4 37 (9.32%) Designer
5 26 (6.55%) Software Engineer
6 24 (6.05%) Test Engineer
7 23 (5.79%) Analyst
7 23 (5.79%) Senior Developer
8 22 (5.54%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 20 (5.04%) UX Designer
10 16 (4.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 15 (3.78%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 13 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (3.02%) Architect
13 12 (3.02%) UI Developer
14 11 (2.77%) Product Manager
14 11 (2.77%) Product Owner
14 11 (2.77%) Senior Designer
14 11 (2.77%) Tester
15 9 (2.27%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (27.46%) HTML
2 105 (26.45%) CSS
3 60 (15.11%) React
4 50 (12.59%) .NET
5 43 (10.83%) REST
6 41 (10.33%) Node.js
7 34 (8.56%) RESTful
8 28 (7.05%) Web Services
9 25 (6.30%) GraphQL
9 25 (6.30%) HTML5
10 24 (6.05%) jQuery
11 23 (5.79%) Sass
12 21 (5.29%) ASP.NET
13 20 (5.04%) AngularJS
14 18 (4.53%) .NET Framework
15 17 (4.28%) CSS3
16 16 (4.03%) ASP.NET MVC
16 16 (4.03%) Spring
16 16 (4.03%) Spring Boot
17 15 (3.78%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.56%) Product Ownership
2 31 (7.81%) Greenfield Project
3 20 (5.04%) Mobile App
4 15 (3.78%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.53%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.27%) Cyberattack
6 9 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.02%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.76%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.76%) Replication
9 6 (1.51%) Clustering
9 6 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.51%) Hackathon
9 6 (1.51%) Legacy Code
9 6 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.01%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.01%) NHS
11 3 (0.76%) Blog
11 3 (0.76%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.54%) Windows
2 13 (3.27%) Windows Server
3 11 (2.77%) Windows Server 2019
4 10 (2.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (1.76%) Linux
6 5 (1.26%) Android
6 5 (1.26%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.01%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.76%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.25%) Debian
9 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.25%) Unix
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (45.59%) Agile
2 115 (28.97%) User Experience
3 87 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
4 82 (20.65%) Test Automation
5 76 (19.14%) DevOps
6 61 (15.37%) CI/CD
7 60 (15.11%) Software Engineering
8 57 (14.36%) UX Design
9 56 (14.11%) Front End Development
10 51 (12.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 49 (12.34%) User Research
12 45 (11.34%) Decision-Making
13 44 (11.08%) Analytics
14 40 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (10.08%) Mentoring
15 39 (9.82%) Roadmaps
16 35 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence
16 35 (8.82%) Coaching
16 35 (8.82%) Scrum
17 33 (8.31%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (29.22%) JavaScript
2 60 (15.11%) C#
3 53 (13.35%) TypeScript
4 52 (13.10%) Java
5 44 (11.08%) Python
6 41 (10.33%) SQL
7 23 (5.79%) T-SQL
8 21 (5.29%) PowerShell
9 18 (4.53%) PHP
10 8 (2.02%) Go
11 7 (1.76%) Bash
12 6 (1.51%) Dart
13 5 (1.26%) C
13 5 (1.26%) R
14 4 (1.01%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.76%) Scala
15 3 (0.76%) X++
16 2 (0.50%) Groovy
16 2 (0.50%) Ruby
16 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 66 (16.62%) Security Cleared
2 58 (14.61%) Degree
3 33 (8.31%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (5.04%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.52%) ISTQB
8 8 (2.02%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.51%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.76%) CCIE
11 3 (0.76%) CCNA
11 3 (0.76%) CCNP
11 3 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.76%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (15.11%) QA
2 48 (12.09%) WCAG
3 8 (2.02%) PMO
4 7 (1.76%) WAI
5 6 (1.51%) GDPR
6 2 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 19 (4.79%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.02%) Docker
3 5 (1.26%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.50%) Firmware
5 2 (0.50%) NFS
5 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (2.77%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.76%) FortiGate
2 7 (1.76%) Terraform
3 6 (1.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.25%) Ansible
4 1 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.25%) Oozie
4 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 59 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.29%) Google
3 15 (3.78%) Adobe
4 10 (2.52%) Oracle
5 6 (1.51%) 3PAR
5 6 (1.51%) Nimble Storage
6 4 (1.01%) Cisco
6 4 (1.01%) Databricks
6 4 (1.01%) NetApp
7 3 (0.76%) Apple
7 3 (0.76%) Mercator
7 3 (0.76%) VMware
8 2 (0.50%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.50%) Meraki
8 2 (0.50%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.50%) SAP
8 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.25%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.25%) Ubiquiti