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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 108 197
Rank change year-on-year +14 +89 +85
Permanent jobs citing Accessibility 684 507 378
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.80% 3.13% 1.63%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.12% 16.91% 11.88%
Number of salaries quoted 271 180 156
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £38,984 £49,688 £45,920
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,764 £57,732
Median % change year-on-year -16.34% +3.52% +4.97%
75th Percentile £63,463 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £73,125
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

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 3,995 2,999 3,182
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.36% 18.50% 13.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,513 1,652 1,905
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,050 £35,231
25th Percentile £44,447 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,591 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.85% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £76,201 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year - +0.88% -5.00%

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 21 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 38 (5.56%) CMS
2 34 (4.97%) SharePoint
3 28 (4.09%) Confluence
4 19 (2.78%) WordPress
5 9 (1.32%) Moodle
6 4 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.29%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 26 (3.80%) UserZoom
2 17 (2.49%) Simulink
3 16 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.75%) Chatbot
6 11 (1.61%) Adobe XD
6 11 (1.61%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.73%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 5 (0.73%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.73%) Revit
9 4 (0.58%) Autodesk Smoke
9 4 (0.58%) Mathcad
10 3 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.44%) Blender
10 3 (0.44%) Maya
10 3 (0.44%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (1.46%) Primavera
2 7 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.73%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.58%) Shopify
5 2 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.15%) Magento
6 1 (0.15%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 87 (12.72%) Azure
2 84 (12.28%) AWS
3 68 (9.94%) Figma
4 63 (9.21%) Adobe Analytics
5 57 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 42 (6.14%) Contentsquare
7 34 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
8 26 (3.80%) GCP
9 24 (3.51%) PowerApps
9 24 (3.51%) SaaS
10 19 (2.78%) Power Automate
11 15 (2.19%) Google Analytics
12 13 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (1.61%) GitHub
14 10 (1.46%) Serverless
15 9 (1.32%) Copilot Studio
15 9 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (1.32%) OneDrive
16 7 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 65 (9.50%) Broadband
2 25 (3.65%) 5G
3 11 (1.61%) CTI
3 11 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
3 11 (1.61%) VoIP
4 10 (1.46%) Firewall
4 10 (1.46%) Internet
5 9 (1.32%) Ethernet
5 9 (1.32%) Intranet
6 5 (0.73%) DHCP
6 5 (0.73%) DNS
6 5 (0.73%) HTTP
6 5 (0.73%) SMS
6 5 (0.73%) SNMP
7 4 (0.58%) 3GPP
8 3 (0.44%) LTE
8 3 (0.44%) Network Security
8 3 (0.44%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.44%) TETRA
8 3 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.99%) Power BI
2 15 (2.19%) Metadata
3 14 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (1.46%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (1.17%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.17%) GIS
6 8 (1.17%) MySQL
7 7 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.02%) Metadata Repository
7 7 (1.02%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.88%) Big Data
8 6 (0.88%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.88%) Parquet
9 5 (0.73%) Power Query
9 5 (0.73%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.73%) Tableau
10 4 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.58%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 40 (5.85%) Git
2 30 (4.39%) JIRA
3 18 (2.63%) Rational DOORS
4 13 (1.90%) JUnit
5 12 (1.75%) Selenium
6 11 (1.61%) Cypress.io
6 11 (1.61%) GitLab
7 10 (1.46%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.17%) Jenkins
9 6 (0.88%) Axure RP
9 6 (0.88%) Balsamiq
9 6 (0.88%) Gatling
9 6 (0.88%) LabVIEW
9 6 (0.88%) Postman
9 6 (0.88%) Storybook
10 5 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.44%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.44%) CMake
12 2 (0.29%) JMeter
12 2 (0.29%) MSTest
General
1 209 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 206 (30.12%) Finance
3 187 (27.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 148 (21.64%) Public Sector
5 113 (16.52%) Aerospace
6 100 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
7 77 (11.26%) Law
8 73 (10.67%) Games
9 44 (6.43%) Organisational Skills
10 40 (5.85%) Legal
10 40 (5.85%) Marketing
11 31 (4.53%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (4.09%) Electronics
12 28 (4.09%) Military
13 24 (3.51%) Telecoms
14 22 (3.22%) Publishing
15 21 (3.07%) Multimedia
15 21 (3.07%) Retail
16 19 (2.78%) Banking
17 15 (2.19%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 125 (18.27%) Senior
2 110 (16.08%) Lead
3 76 (11.11%) Developer
4 54 (7.89%) Designer
5 45 (6.58%) Software Engineer
6 33 (4.82%) Architect
7 32 (4.68%) Systems Engineer
8 27 (3.95%) Senior Developer
9 22 (3.22%) Principal Engineer
10 21 (3.07%) UX Designer
11 20 (2.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 19 (2.78%) Analyst
13 16 (2.34%) Data Engineer
13 16 (2.34%) Junior
13 16 (2.34%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 16 (2.34%) Senior Software Engineer
14 15 (2.19%) User Researcher
15 14 (2.05%) Lead Architect
15 14 (2.05%) Product Manager
16 13 (1.90%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (11.99%) HTML
2 75 (10.96%) CSS
3 45 (6.58%) React
4 26 (3.80%) Playwright
5 21 (3.07%) Node.js
6 20 (2.92%) Next.js
7 19 (2.78%) REST
8 14 (2.05%) HTML5
9 13 (1.90%) Vue
10 12 (1.75%) AngularJS
10 12 (1.75%) CSS3
10 12 (1.75%) RESTful
11 9 (1.32%) JSON
12 8 (1.17%) .NET
12 8 (1.17%) Jest
12 8 (1.17%) Tailwind CSS
13 7 (1.02%) Terraform
13 7 (1.02%) XML
14 6 (0.88%) jQuery
14 6 (0.88%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 55 (8.04%) Social Media
2 47 (6.87%) e-Learning
3 43 (6.29%) Management Information System
3 43 (6.29%) Self-Motivation
4 29 (4.24%) Product Ownership
5 28 (4.09%) Cloud Native
6 22 (3.22%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.92%) Mobile App
8 18 (2.63%) FPGA
9 17 (2.49%) Blog
9 17 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.90%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.75%) IVR
12 11 (1.61%) Learning Management System
12 11 (1.61%) Operational Technology
13 10 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.17%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.17%) Data Centre
14 8 (1.17%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.90%) Linux
2 12 (1.75%) Windows
3 8 (1.17%) Android
3 8 (1.17%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.44%) Unix
4 3 (0.44%) VxWorks
5 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (43.57%) Agile
2 191 (27.92%) Mentoring
3 189 (27.63%) AI
4 176 (25.73%) Analytics
5 166 (24.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 155 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
7 147 (21.49%) User Experience
8 129 (18.86%) Decision-Making
9 122 (17.84%) Roadmaps
10 121 (17.69%) Coaching
11 117 (17.11%) Storytelling
12 112 (16.37%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 96 (14.04%) CI/CD
14 95 (13.89%) Customer Experience
15 90 (13.16%) Line Management
15 90 (13.16%) User Research
16 81 (11.84%) Software Engineering
17 79 (11.55%) Product Roadmap
18 76 (11.11%) Test Automation
19 63 (9.21%) Digital Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 104 (15.20%) JavaScript
2 47 (6.87%) Python
3 46 (6.73%) TypeScript
4 45 (6.58%) SQL
5 39 (5.70%) Java
6 22 (3.22%) MATLAB
7 18 (2.63%) C#
8 16 (2.34%) PHP
9 13 (1.90%) C++
10 8 (1.17%) Ada
11 5 (0.73%) R
11 5 (0.73%) SystemVerilog
12 4 (0.58%) C
12 4 (0.58%) Scala
12 4 (0.58%) VBA
13 3 (0.44%) Ada 95
13 3 (0.44%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.44%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.44%) Ruby
13 3 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 159 (23.25%) Security Cleared
2 152 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 131 (19.15%) Degree
4 113 (16.52%) DV Cleared
5 108 (15.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 40 (5.85%) DBS Check
7 15 (2.19%) Chartered Engineer
7 15 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.90%) PhD
9 10 (1.46%) ACCA
9 10 (1.46%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.46%) CIMA
9 10 (1.46%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.02%) CISSP
11 6 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.58%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.58%) CCSP
13 3 (0.44%) CISM
14 2 (0.29%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (12.87%) WCAG
2 57 (8.33%) QA
3 44 (6.43%) Data Quality
4 34 (4.97%) GDPR
5 11 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.32%) NIST
7 7 (1.02%) ISO 9001
7 7 (1.02%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.58%) GRC
9 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 4 (0.58%) PERC
9 4 (0.58%) SLA
10 3 (0.44%) MIL-STD-1553
11 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.15%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.15%) DO-160
12 1 (0.15%) NCSC
12 1 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 33 (4.82%) Docker
2 28 (4.09%) Firmware
3 9 (1.32%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (3.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.58%) Ansible
3 3 (0.44%) Grafana
3 3 (0.44%) Plesk
4 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (13.60%) Adobe
2 83 (12.13%) Microsoft
3 20 (2.92%) Google
3 20 (2.92%) SAP
4 13 (1.90%) Cisco
5 11 (1.61%) Avaya
5 11 (1.61%) Genesys
5 11 (1.61%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.61%) Siemens
6 8 (1.17%) HubSpot
6 8 (1.17%) Splunk
7 7 (1.02%) SolarWinds
7 7 (1.02%) YouTube
8 6 (0.88%) Atlassian
9 5 (0.73%) Avid
9 5 (0.73%) dotdigital
9 5 (0.73%) NEC
9 5 (0.73%) Oracle
10 4 (0.58%) OneTrust
10 4 (0.58%) Xero