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 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 190 177
Rank change year-on-year +30 -13 -
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 11 6 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.21% 0.14% 0.057%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.69% 0.85% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 2
10th Percentile £41,163 £34,500 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £35,625 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £41,774
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.25% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £51,745 £42,561
90th Percentile £56,952 £57,293 -
England median annual salary £52,500 £49,412 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -17.65% -15.79%

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 651 708 550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.36% 16.68% 15.78%
Number of salaries quoted 302 371 473
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,822 £27,060
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,608 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,188 £69,960 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,625 £83,750 £74,750
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.35%

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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 5 January 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 5 January 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 +28 10 £50,000 -14.48% 1
Warwickshire - 1 - -
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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 2 (18.18%) CMS
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
1 2 (18.18%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) SaaS
2 6 (54.55%) Figma
2 6 (54.55%) GitHub
2 6 (54.55%) GitHub Copilot
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (18.18%) Power Automate
3 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 2 (18.18%) PowerApps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) Datadog
4 1 (9.09%) dbt
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Visual Studio
2 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.09%) Babel
3 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
3 1 (9.09%) Gatling
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) JMeter
3 1 (9.09%) Locust
3 1 (9.09%) Postman
3 1 (9.09%) Selenium
3 1 (9.09%) Vite
3 1 (9.09%) webpack
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Designer
2 4 (36.36%) UX Designer
3 3 (27.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (18.18%) Blazor Developer
4 2 (18.18%) UX Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Web Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Website Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (9.09%) React Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) .NET
2 6 (54.55%) Blazor
2 6 (54.55%) Material Design
2 6 (54.55%) WebAssembly
3 3 (27.27%) CSS
3 3 (27.27%) HTML
4 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
4 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
4 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (18.18%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (9.09%) CSS3
5 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
5 1 (9.09%) HTML5
5 1 (9.09%) Jest
5 1 (9.09%) Material-UI
5 1 (9.09%) Playwright
5 1 (9.09%) React
5 1 (9.09%) RESTful
5 1 (9.09%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) AI
1 9 (81.82%) User Experience
2 7 (63.64%) Front End Development
3 6 (54.55%) CRM
3 6 (54.55%) Data Integration
3 6 (54.55%) Interaction Design
3 6 (54.55%) Responsive Web Design
3 6 (54.55%) User Stories
3 6 (54.55%) UX Design
3 6 (54.55%) Wireframes
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Case Management
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Coaching
5 2 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Intelligent Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Line Management
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) DBS Check
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft