Accessibility Job Trends in Wales

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Accessibility skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 53 80
Rank change year-on-year -21 +27 +14
Permanent jobs citing Accessibility 56 14 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.03% 1.72% 0.62%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.51% 14.29% 5.15%
Number of salaries quoted 54 7 5
10th Percentile £31,500 £38,100 £46,600
25th Percentile £35,250 £38,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,560 £49,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.12% -6.60% +12.52%
75th Percentile £63,438 £63,875 £62,200
90th Percentile £73,971 £70,450 £66,130
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +4.45%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Wales

Accessibility 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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 287 98 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 10.40% 12.04% 11.95%
Number of salaries quoted 174 69 141
10th Percentile £30,456 £33,800 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,809 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £71,500 £68,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £76,388 £74,587 £57,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Accessibility relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Accessibility job vacancy trend in Wales

Accessibility
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Accessibility.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in Wales over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Accessibility in Wales

Accessibility
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the Wales region over the 6 months to 18 August 2026. 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
West Wales - 37 £47,500 - 1
South Wales -25 18 £53,000 +16.48% 4
North Wales -5 1 £35,000 - 5
Accessibility
UK

Accessibility
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Adobe XD
2 5 (8.93%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (46.43%) AWS
2 18 (32.14%) Serverless
3 15 (26.79%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (25.00%) Azure
4 14 (25.00%) Figma
5 11 (19.64%) GitHub
5 11 (19.64%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (16.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (10.71%) Amazon EventBridge
7 6 (10.71%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (10.71%) Miro
8 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (8.93%) GCP
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.79%) BrowserStack
9 1 (1.79%) Datadog
9 1 (1.79%) dbt
9 1 (1.79%) PaaS
9 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 13 (23.21%) Jenkins
3 8 (14.29%) JIRA
4 7 (12.50%) Selenium
5 6 (10.71%) Git
6 5 (8.93%) Postman
6 5 (8.93%) REST Assured
7 4 (7.14%) Cucumber
7 4 (7.14%) GitLab
7 4 (7.14%) Zephyr
8 3 (5.36%) JMeter
8 3 (5.36%) JUnit
8 3 (5.36%) Newman
8 3 (5.36%) TestRail
9 1 (1.79%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.79%) Gatling
9 1 (1.79%) Locust
9 1 (1.79%) Pa11y
General
1 46 (82.14%) Public Sector
2 27 (48.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (39.29%) Social Skills
4 9 (16.07%) Legal
5 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Multimedia
6 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Finance
7 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Designer
1 14 (25.00%) Senior
2 12 (21.43%) Lead
3 10 (17.86%) Developer
4 8 (14.29%) Interaction Designer
4 8 (14.29%) Senior Designer
4 8 (14.29%) Senior Interaction Designer
5 6 (10.71%) Software Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) UX Designer
7 4 (7.14%) Test Leader
8 3 (5.36%) Development Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Principal Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Principal Software Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Software Development Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Test Development Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Test Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (32.14%) Ruby on Rails
1 18 (32.14%) Spring Boot
2 17 (30.36%) Spring
3 16 (28.57%) React
4 15 (26.79%) Node.js
5 14 (25.00%) Playwright
6 10 (17.86%) CSS
6 10 (17.86%) Jest
7 8 (14.29%) HTML
8 7 (12.50%) Next.js
8 7 (12.50%) RESTful
9 6 (10.71%) AWS CDK
9 6 (10.71%) AWS SAM
9 6 (10.71%) Kafka
9 6 (10.71%) Serverless Framework
10 3 (5.36%) CSS3
10 3 (5.36%) Gherkin
10 3 (5.36%) HTML5
10 3 (5.36%) OpenAPI
11 2 (3.57%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (32.14%) Cloud Native
2 13 (23.21%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (19.64%) Mainframe
4 9 (16.07%) Product Ownership
5 6 (10.71%) e-Learning
6 3 (5.36%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (5.36%) Driving Licence
7 2 (3.57%) Blog
7 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (82.14%) Agile
2 35 (62.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 30 (53.57%) CI/CD
4 19 (33.93%) Inclusive Design
5 18 (32.14%) Scrum
5 18 (32.14%) Software Engineering
5 18 (32.14%) Test Automation
6 17 (30.36%) Community of Practice
6 17 (30.36%) User Research
7 16 (28.57%) Interaction Design
8 15 (26.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (26.79%) Mentoring
9 13 (23.21%) Usability Testing
10 12 (21.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 12 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (21.43%) Kanban
10 12 (21.43%) Microservices
11 11 (19.64%) BDD
11 11 (19.64%) Collaborative Working
11 11 (19.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 22 (39.29%) Java
2 20 (35.71%) Ruby
3 14 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 11 (19.64%) TypeScript
5 7 (12.50%) Python
6 6 (10.71%) C#
7 3 (5.36%) Bicep
7 3 (5.36%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 12 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.93%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (7.14%) ISTQB
3 4 (7.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 3 (5.36%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.79%) ACCA
5 1 (1.79%) CIMA
5 1 (1.79%) CSPO
5 1 (1.79%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (35.71%) WCAG
2 12 (21.43%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (16.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (17.86%) Terraform
2 8 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.79%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (14.29%) Adobe
2 7 (12.50%) OneLogin
3 3 (5.36%) Google
4 2 (3.57%) Oracle
5 1 (1.79%) Yardi