Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring WAI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WAI over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 841 886 1217
Rank change year-on-year +45 +331 -217
Permanent jobs citing WAI 1 1 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.001% 0.001% 0.033%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.008% 0.008% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 13
10th Percentile - - £30,241
25th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £41,326
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £42,074
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +66.37% -13.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £53,750
90th Percentile - - £57,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 - £42,074
% change year-on-year - - +2.62%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

WAI 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,872 12,180 30,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.14% 15.09% 17.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7,420 7,777 14,031
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,897 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,139 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +0.28% +5.26%

WAI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WAI in the UK

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Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for WAI in the UK

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Top 3 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 26 July 2024. 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
East of England - 1 £72,500 -
UK excluding London - 1 £72,500 -
England - 1 £72,500 -

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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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Physics
1 1 (100.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Web Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Rust
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility