Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring WCAG skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WCAG 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 659 791 1046
Rank change year-on-year +132 +255 -191
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 184 96 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.55% 0.79% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 112 51 97
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,106 £22,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £52,500 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.41% +47.89% -38.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £77,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £52,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year +10.41% +61.54% -18.75%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

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%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for WCAG in the UK

WCAG
Top 16 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 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
England +100 152 £57,965 +10.41% 9
UK excluding London +64 146 £57,965 +10.41% 9
Work from Home +65 80 £57,965 +10.41% 10
North of England +64 69 £57,965 +10.41% 3
South East +36 34 £77,500 +40.91% 1
North West +18 32 £57,965 +29.53% 2
London +75 28 £50,000 +1.01% 2
Yorkshire +74 24 £57,965 +10.41%
North East - 13 £57,965 - 1
Scotland - 13 - -
Midlands -13 11 £57,965 +18.90% 2
South West -26 7 £58,750 - 1
Wales - 7 £67,500 - 2
West Midlands -1 6 £57,965 +18.90% 2
East Midlands - 5 - -
Northern Ireland - 5 - -

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 7 (3.80%) CMS
2 6 (3.26%) Umbraco
3 4 (2.17%) Moodle
4 1 (0.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 49 (26.63%) Sketch
2 13 (7.07%) Adobe XD
3 3 (1.63%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 49 (26.63%) Figma
2 46 (25.00%) Heroku
2 46 (25.00%) Miro
3 14 (7.61%) AWS
4 7 (3.80%) Azure
5 5 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.17%) Azure API Management
6 4 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (2.17%) Azure Storage
6 4 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.17%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.63%) SaaS
7 3 (1.63%) Serverless
8 2 (1.09%) Boomi
8 2 (1.09%) GitHub
8 2 (1.09%) iPaaS
9 1 (0.54%) GCP
9 1 (0.54%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.26%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.09%) Data Hub
3 2 (1.09%) Redis
4 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (17.39%) Selenium
2 28 (15.22%) Cypress.io
2 28 (15.22%) Git
3 13 (7.07%) Axure RP
3 13 (7.07%) Balsamiq
4 6 (3.26%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.17%) Moq
5 4 (2.17%) Postman
5 4 (2.17%) SoapUI
5 4 (2.17%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.09%) GitKraken
6 2 (1.09%) JetBrains Rider
6 2 (1.09%) ReSharper
6 2 (1.09%) webpack
7 1 (0.54%) Babel
7 1 (0.54%) ESLint
7 1 (0.54%) gulp
7 1 (0.54%) JIRA
7 1 (0.54%) Vite
General
1 57 (30.98%) Public Sector
2 28 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 17 (9.24%) Marketing
4 16 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (7.07%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.72%) Finance
7 3 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.63%) Banking
7 3 (1.63%) Law
7 3 (1.63%) Polish Language
7 3 (1.63%) Retail
8 2 (1.09%) Local Government
9 1 (0.54%) Advertising
9 1 (0.54%) Publishing
9 1 (0.54%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 122 (66.30%) Senior
2 92 (50.00%) Designer
3 78 (42.39%) Senior Designer
4 61 (33.15%) UX Designer
5 58 (31.52%) UI Designer
5 58 (31.52%) UI/UX Designer
6 51 (27.72%) Developer
7 49 (26.63%) Senior UX Designer
8 46 (25.00%) Senior UI Designer
8 46 (25.00%) Senior UI/UX Designer
9 31 (16.85%) Interaction Designer
10 30 (16.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 29 (15.76%) Senior Interaction Designer
12 27 (14.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 17 (9.24%) Senior Developer
14 16 (8.70%) Senior Front-End Developer
15 13 (7.07%) Consultant
15 13 (7.07%) User Experience Consultant
16 6 (3.26%) Lead
16 6 (3.26%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (64.13%) HTML
2 60 (32.61%) CSS
3 34 (18.48%) React
4 33 (17.93%) HTML5
5 30 (16.30%) Jest
6 27 (14.67%) CSS3
7 8 (4.35%) .NET
7 8 (4.35%) .NET Framework
7 8 (4.35%) Entity Framework
8 6 (3.26%) .NET Core
8 6 (3.26%) ASP.NET
8 6 (3.26%) jQuery
8 6 (3.26%) Vue
9 5 (2.72%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.17%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (2.17%) Swagger
11 3 (1.63%) LESS
11 3 (1.63%) RESTful
11 3 (1.63%) Sass
11 3 (1.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.15%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.26%) NHS
3 5 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.17%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.17%) VLE
4 4 (2.17%) W3C
5 3 (1.63%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.09%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.54%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.54%) Android
1 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (57.61%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 105 (57.07%) Coaching
3 91 (49.46%) Prototyping
4 80 (43.48%) Agile
4 80 (43.48%) User Experience
5 71 (38.59%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 71 (38.59%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
6 69 (37.50%) Design Patterns
7 65 (35.33%) UX Design
8 64 (34.78%) Mentoring
9 59 (32.07%) Problem-Solving
10 58 (31.52%) Actionable Insight
10 58 (31.52%) Workshop Facilitation
11 49 (26.63%) Customer Experience
12 47 (25.54%) Stakeholder Management
13 46 (25.00%) Digital Customer Experience
13 46 (25.00%) Sprint Review
14 42 (22.83%) Front End Development
15 32 (17.39%) Analytics
16 31 (16.85%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 59 (32.07%) JavaScript
2 41 (22.28%) C#
3 31 (16.85%) PHP
3 31 (16.85%) TypeScript
4 10 (5.43%) SQL
5 1 (0.54%) Go
5 1 (0.54%) Java
Qualifications
1 59 (32.07%) Security Cleared
2 58 (31.52%) SC Cleared
3 55 (29.89%) Degree
4 13 (7.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.63%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.63%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (82.61%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.26%) GDPR
3 1 (0.54%) QA
System Software
1 29 (15.76%) Docker
2 4 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (14.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (10.33%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.61%) Adobe
3 6 (3.26%) HP
4 1 (0.54%) Google
4 1 (0.54%) Salesforce