Hybrid/Remote Accessibility Job Trends

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Accessibility skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 110 200
Rank change year-on-year +23 +90 +64
Permanent jobs citing Accessibility 673 512 402
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.88% 3.11% 1.65%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.35% 17.15% 12.24%
Number of salaries quoted 262 185 216
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,750 £36,925
25th Percentile £38,825 £48,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,545 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% +3.51% +5.39%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £62,953
90th Percentile £74,998 £87,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -0.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,880 2,986 3,284
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.63% 18.16% 13.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,472 1,700 2,119
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £76,201 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £91,375 £99,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Accessibility and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Accessibility job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Accessibility
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Accessibility.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Accessibility over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Accessibility salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Accessibility
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 46 (6.84%) CMS
2 33 (4.90%) Confluence
3 22 (3.27%) SharePoint
4 17 (2.53%) WordPress
5 6 (0.89%) Moodle
6 4 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.30%) Drupal
7 2 (0.30%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Apache
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 34 (5.05%) UserZoom
2 17 (2.53%) Simulink
3 15 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (1.93%) Adobe XD
6 11 (1.63%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.74%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.74%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.74%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.59%) Mathcad
9 4 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 3 (0.45%) Blender
10 3 (0.45%) Elementor
10 3 (0.45%) Maya
11 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.15%) Sketch
12 1 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.49%) Primavera
2 7 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.74%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.59%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.59%) Shopify
5 3 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.15%) Magento
6 1 (0.15%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 113 (16.79%) Adobe Analytics
2 92 (13.67%) Figma
3 89 (13.22%) AWS
4 87 (12.93%) Azure
5 54 (8.02%) Contentsquare
6 52 (7.73%) Power Platform
7 34 (5.05%) GCP
8 28 (4.16%) SaaS
9 22 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (2.97%) PowerApps
11 19 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (2.53%) Google Analytics
13 16 (2.38%) Power Automate
14 11 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (1.63%) Entra ID
14 11 (1.63%) GitHub
14 11 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
15 8 (1.19%) Asana
16 7 (1.04%) Azure Key Vault
16 7 (1.04%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 112 (16.64%) Broadband
2 11 (1.63%) CTI
2 11 (1.63%) VoIP
3 9 (1.34%) Ethernet
4 6 (0.89%) Internet
5 5 (0.74%) DHCP
5 5 (0.74%) DNS
5 5 (0.74%) LTE
5 5 (0.74%) SNMP
6 4 (0.59%) HTTP
6 4 (0.59%) SMS
7 3 (0.45%) 3GPP
7 3 (0.45%) Firewall
7 3 (0.45%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.45%) TETRA
8 2 (0.30%) Network Security
8 2 (0.30%) OSPF
8 2 (0.30%) VLAN
8 2 (0.30%) Wireless
8 2 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (5.65%) Power BI
2 14 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.63%) Metadata
4 10 (1.49%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.19%) MySQL
6 7 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.04%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.89%) Metadata Repository
7 6 (0.89%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.74%) GIS
8 5 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.59%) Big Data
9 4 (0.59%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.59%) MariaDB
9 4 (0.59%) Power Query
9 4 (0.59%) Tableau
10 3 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.45%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.30%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 36 (5.35%) Git
2 31 (4.61%) JIRA
3 18 (2.67%) Rational DOORS
4 15 (2.23%) Selenium
5 14 (2.08%) Cypress.io
5 14 (2.08%) GitLab
6 12 (1.78%) Jenkins
7 11 (1.63%) JUnit
8 10 (1.49%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.34%) Gatling
10 8 (1.19%) Axure RP
10 8 (1.19%) Balsamiq
11 7 (1.04%) JMeter
11 7 (1.04%) Postman
12 6 (0.89%) LabVIEW
12 6 (0.89%) Storybook
13 5 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.59%) REST Assured
15 3 (0.45%) CMake
15 3 (0.45%) XCUITest
General
1 199 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 181 (26.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 175 (26.00%) Finance
4 145 (21.55%) Public Sector
5 123 (18.28%) Games
6 113 (16.79%) Aerospace
7 81 (12.04%) Law
8 77 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
9 41 (6.09%) Legal
10 37 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (4.90%) Marketing
12 28 (4.16%) Electronics
12 28 (4.16%) Military
13 26 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (2.82%) Retail
15 18 (2.67%) Multimedia
16 16 (2.38%) Banking
17 15 (2.23%) Publishing
18 13 (1.93%) Manufacturing
19 9 (1.34%) French Language
Job Titles
1 138 (20.51%) Lead
2 121 (17.98%) Senior
3 73 (10.85%) Developer
4 69 (10.25%) Designer
5 48 (7.13%) Software Engineer
6 29 (4.31%) Senior Developer
7 27 (4.01%) Architect
7 27 (4.01%) UX Designer
8 24 (3.57%) Lead Designer
9 23 (3.42%) Systems Engineer
10 22 (3.27%) Digital Designer
10 22 (3.27%) Product Manager
11 21 (3.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 20 (2.97%) Principal Engineer
13 19 (2.82%) Analyst
14 18 (2.67%) User Researcher
15 17 (2.53%) Senior Front-End Developer
15 17 (2.53%) Test Engineer
16 16 (2.38%) Senior Software Engineer
17 15 (2.23%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (10.40%) HTML
2 69 (10.25%) CSS
3 51 (7.58%) React
4 29 (4.31%) Playwright
5 22 (3.27%) Node.js
6 20 (2.97%) Next.js
7 19 (2.82%) REST
8 14 (2.08%) HTML5
9 12 (1.78%) AngularJS
9 12 (1.78%) CSS3
9 12 (1.78%) RESTful
9 12 (1.78%) Vue
10 9 (1.34%) Terraform
11 8 (1.19%) .NET
11 8 (1.19%) Jest
11 8 (1.19%) Tailwind CSS
12 6 (0.89%) Gherkin
12 6 (0.89%) jQuery
12 6 (0.89%) Vitest
13 5 (0.74%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 99 (14.71%) Social Media
2 45 (6.69%) Self-Motivation
3 44 (6.54%) e-Learning
4 36 (5.35%) Management Information System
5 34 (5.05%) Product Ownership
6 32 (4.75%) Onboarding
7 28 (4.16%) Cloud Native
8 21 (3.12%) Mobile App
9 18 (2.67%) Blog
9 18 (2.67%) FPGA
10 13 (1.93%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.63%) IVR
11 11 (1.63%) Podcast
12 8 (1.19%) Learning Management System
13 7 (1.04%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.04%) Culture of Ownership
13 7 (1.04%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.93%) Linux
2 12 (1.78%) Windows
3 8 (1.19%) Android
3 8 (1.19%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.45%) Unix
4 3 (0.45%) VxWorks
5 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (51.71%) Agile
2 226 (33.58%) AI
3 210 (31.20%) Analytics
4 173 (25.71%) Roadmaps
5 166 (24.67%) Storytelling
6 163 (24.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 161 (23.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 160 (23.77%) Mentoring
9 157 (23.33%) User Experience
10 139 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
11 134 (19.91%) User Research
12 132 (19.61%) Customer Experience
13 131 (19.47%) Product Roadmap
14 116 (17.24%) Decision-Making
15 112 (16.64%) Digital Customer Experience
16 106 (15.75%) Coaching
17 101 (15.01%) CI/CD
18 82 (12.18%) Software Engineering
19 72 (10.70%) Prototyping
19 72 (10.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 99 (14.71%) JavaScript
2 47 (6.98%) TypeScript
3 42 (6.24%) Python
4 38 (5.65%) Java
5 36 (5.35%) SQL
6 22 (3.27%) MATLAB
7 17 (2.53%) C#
8 15 (2.23%) PHP
9 13 (1.93%) C++
10 8 (1.19%) Ada
11 5 (0.74%) R
11 5 (0.74%) SystemVerilog
12 4 (0.59%) C
12 4 (0.59%) Scala
12 4 (0.59%) VBA
13 3 (0.45%) Ada 95
13 3 (0.45%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.45%) Ruby
13 3 (0.45%) Rust
14 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 153 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 147 (21.84%) SC Cleared
3 123 (18.28%) Degree
4 113 (16.79%) DV Cleared
5 108 (16.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.93%) Chartered Engineer
7 13 (1.93%) PhD
8 10 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.49%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.34%) ACCA
9 9 (1.34%) CIMA
9 9 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.59%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.59%) CISSP
11 2 (0.30%) CCNA
11 2 (0.30%) CCSP
11 2 (0.30%) CISM
11 2 (0.30%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (14.56%) WCAG
2 51 (7.58%) QA
3 36 (5.35%) Data Quality
4 29 (4.31%) GDPR
5 10 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.34%) GRC
7 7 (1.04%) ISO 9001
8 6 (0.89%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 4 (0.59%) PERC
9 4 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.45%) MIL-STD-1553
11 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.30%) SLA
12 1 (0.15%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.15%) DO-160
12 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.15%) NIST
12 1 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (5.20%) Docker
2 28 (4.16%) Firmware
3 9 (1.34%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.74%) Ansible
2 5 (0.74%) Grafana
3 3 (0.45%) Plesk
4 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 139 (20.65%) Adobe
2 77 (11.44%) Microsoft
3 25 (3.71%) SAP
4 23 (3.42%) Google
5 13 (1.93%) Cisco
6 12 (1.78%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.63%) Avaya
7 11 (1.63%) Genesys
7 11 (1.63%) Siemens
8 8 (1.19%) Splunk
9 7 (1.04%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.04%) SolarWinds
10 6 (0.89%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.89%) dotdigital
10 6 (0.89%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.89%) YouTube
11 5 (0.74%) Avid
11 5 (0.74%) Oracle
12 4 (0.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.59%) Workday