WCAG Job Trends in the West Midlands

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring WCAG skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 - 205
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 18 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.20% - 0.099%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.23% - 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 3
10th Percentile £44,867 - £38,188
25th Percentile £61,250 - £44,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £58,465
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.93%
75th Percentile £70,000 - £60,991
90th Percentile £70,997 - -
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,157 £58,465
% change year-on-year +14.64% -14.21% +11.36%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 806 507 863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.14% 15.36% 14.26%
Number of salaries quoted 551 317 490
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,580 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,000 £73,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WCAG relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

WCAG job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing WCAG.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing WCAG

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing WCAG in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for WCAG in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Birmingham - 10 £45,497 - 2
Coventry - 6 £66,250 -
Shropshire - 2 - - 7
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (33.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 6 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (33.33%) Power Automate
2 6 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 6 (33.33%) Serverless
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) Git
2 8 (44.44%) GitLab
3 6 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 6 (33.33%) Gatling
3 6 (33.33%) JUnit
3 6 (33.33%) Postman
3 6 (33.33%) Selenium
4 2 (11.11%) Cypress.io
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 10 (55.56%) Finance
3 8 (44.44%) Public Sector
4 6 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Senior
2 9 (50.00%) Developer
3 6 (33.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 6 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
3 6 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 5 (27.78%) Senior Quality Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Lead
5 3 (16.67%) Lead Developer
5 3 (16.67%) Lead Dynamics 365 Developer
5 3 (16.67%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
6 2 (11.11%) React Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Senior React Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Designer
7 1 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (5.56%) Interaction Designer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) Playwright
2 6 (33.33%) JSON
2 6 (33.33%) XML
2 6 (33.33%) XSLT
3 5 (27.78%) CSS
3 5 (27.78%) HTML
4 2 (11.11%) CSS3
4 2 (11.11%) HTML5
4 2 (11.11%) Jest
4 2 (11.11%) React
4 2 (11.11%) Redux
4 2 (11.11%) REST
4 2 (11.11%) RESTful
4 2 (11.11%) Semantic HTML
4 2 (11.11%) Vitest
5 1 (5.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 6 (33.33%) Taxonomies
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Team
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Agile
1 15 (83.33%) Mentoring
2 12 (66.67%) Coaching
3 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
4 10 (55.56%) Test Automation
5 9 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (50.00%) DevOps
6 7 (38.89%) AI
6 7 (38.89%) TDD
6 7 (38.89%) Test Strategy
7 6 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (33.33%) CRM
7 6 (33.33%) Data Modelling
7 6 (33.33%) Information Security
7 6 (33.33%) OWASP
7 6 (33.33%) Pair Programming
7 6 (33.33%) Service Management
7 6 (33.33%) Software Testing
7 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) JavaScript
2 6 (33.33%) C#
3 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 3 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Pega