Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for WAI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WAI over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 737 1071 1080
Rank change year-on-year +334 +9 -
Permanent jobs citing WAI 4 5 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.004% 0.014%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.051% 0.023% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 17
10th Percentile - £54,000 £39,300
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile - £64,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% +34.15% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

WAI 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 7,856 22,053 20,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.76% 17.79% 15.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5,764 11,814 12,559
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,968 £42,500 £40,317
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +2.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,500 £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%

WAI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WAI in the UK

WAI
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for WAI in the UK

WAI
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAI within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
UK excluding London +246 4 £62,500 +13.64% 1
England +330 2 £62,500 +4.17% 2
North of England +153 2 £62,500 +13.64% 1
Scotland - 2 - -
North East - 2 £62,500 - 1

WAI
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Redis
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jasmine
1 2 (50.00%) Karma Test Runner
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) Law
1 2 (50.00%) Private Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Developer
2 2 (50.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (50.00%) Express.js
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) LESS
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (50.00%) Nunjucks
2 2 (50.00%) OAuth
2 2 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 2 (50.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) Sass
2 2 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
1 2 (50.00%) Investment Management
1 2 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile First
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
1 2 (50.00%) Software Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 2 (50.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker