Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for WCAG skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WCAG over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 653 968 905
Rank change year-on-year +315 -63 -167
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 77 104 175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.085% 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.98% 0.48% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 73 84 115
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £76,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.31% +52.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,800 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £80,000 £41,250
% change year-on-year -25.00% +93.94% -23.61%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

WCAG 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 7,820 21,854 20,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.76% 17.79% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,740 11,810 12,651
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,793 £42,500 £40,428
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +2.37%
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%

WCAG
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in the UK

WCAG
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for WCAG in the UK

WCAG
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WCAG over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for WCAG in the UK

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Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +309 73 £60,000 -22.58% 29
Work from Home +240 40 £60,000 -25.00% 25
London +243 37 £67,500 -6.90% 12
UK excluding London +247 35 £60,000 -25.00% 20
South East +143 25 £60,000 -29.41% 6
North of England +151 8 £52,500 -32.26% 6
North West +122 5 £49,502 -36.13% 2
Yorkshire - 3 £52,500 - 2
Midlands +134 2 £60,750 -26.36% 3
West Midlands +129 2 £60,750 -26.36% 2

WCAG
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 4 (5.19%) Confluence
1 4 (5.19%) Moodle
2 3 (3.90%) CMS
2 3 (3.90%) Drupal
3 2 (2.60%) WordPress
4 1 (1.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Sketch
2 2 (2.60%) InVision
3 1 (1.30%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.38%) SaaS
2 16 (20.78%) GCP
3 12 (15.58%) Azure
4 7 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (6.49%) AWS
5 5 (6.49%) Figma
5 5 (6.49%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.19%) npm
6 4 (5.19%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.60%) GitHub
7 2 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.60%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.60%) Serverless
8 1 (1.30%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.30%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.30%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.30%) Cloudflare Workers
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.49%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.19%) Power BI
3 2 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.30%) MySQL
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.30%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.30%) Redis
4 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (35.06%) Git
2 24 (31.17%) Selenium
3 22 (28.57%) Cypress.io
4 20 (25.97%) webpack
5 5 (6.49%) gulp
5 5 (6.49%) JIRA
6 3 (3.90%) Axure RP
7 2 (2.60%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.30%) Balsamiq
8 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
8 1 (1.30%) Moq
8 1 (1.30%) Postman
8 1 (1.30%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.30%) Vite
8 1 (1.30%) WebPageTest
General
1 11 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (11.69%) Finance
4 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.79%) Aerospace
6 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.90%) Retail
8 2 (2.60%) Publishing
9 1 (1.30%) Legal
9 1 (1.30%) Marketing
9 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 39 (50.65%) Developer
2 33 (42.86%) Senior
3 24 (31.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 17 (22.08%) Senior Developer
5 16 (20.78%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 13 (16.88%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 10 (12.99%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 8 (10.39%) Lead
9 6 (7.79%) UX Specialist
10 5 (6.49%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (6.49%) Software Developer
11 4 (5.19%) Designer
11 4 (5.19%) UI Developer
11 4 (5.19%) UX Designer
12 3 (3.90%) Content Manager
12 3 (3.90%) Digital Product Manager
12 3 (3.90%) Digital Product Owner
12 3 (3.90%) Product Manager
12 3 (3.90%) Web Content Manager
12 3 (3.90%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (74.03%) CSS
1 57 (74.03%) HTML
2 41 (53.25%) React
3 31 (40.26%) HTML5
4 27 (35.06%) CSS3
5 21 (27.27%) Jest
6 19 (24.68%) Node.js
7 17 (22.08%) REST
8 16 (20.78%) GraphQL
9 9 (11.69%) .NET
9 9 (11.69%) ASP.NET
10 6 (7.79%) .NET Framework
11 5 (6.49%) ASP.NET MVC
12 4 (5.19%) Blazor
12 4 (5.19%) jQuery
12 4 (5.19%) Sass
12 4 (5.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 3 (3.90%) RESTful
14 2 (2.60%) Entity Framework
14 2 (2.60%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.88%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.19%) VLE
4 2 (2.60%) Animation
4 2 (2.60%) Blog
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.30%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.60%) Windows
1 2 (2.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (81.82%) Agile
2 40 (51.95%) Front End Development
3 34 (44.16%) User Experience
4 21 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
4 21 (27.27%) Computer Science
4 21 (27.27%) Propensity Modelling
5 20 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (23.38%) Software Engineering
7 16 (20.78%) Architectural Patterns
7 16 (20.78%) UX Design
7 16 (20.78%) Web Application Development
8 13 (16.88%) Performance Metrics
8 13 (16.88%) Process Improvement
9 12 (15.58%) Test Automation
10 10 (12.99%) Design Patterns
10 10 (12.99%) Line Management
11 8 (10.39%) Mentoring
11 8 (10.39%) TDD
11 8 (10.39%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 7 (9.09%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 42 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 39 (50.65%) TypeScript
3 32 (41.56%) C#
4 25 (32.47%) PHP
5 4 (5.19%) SQL
6 3 (3.90%) Java
6 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.90%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.60%) Dart
7 2 (2.60%) Go
Qualifications
1 27 (35.06%) Degree
2 7 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.60%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.60%) OCP
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.30%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (62.34%) Accessibility
2 9 (11.69%) QA
3 2 (2.60%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 22 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (22.08%) Google
2 6 (7.79%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.30%) Adobe
3 1 (1.30%) Cadence
3 1 (1.30%) Optimizely
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle