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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 112 204
Rank change year-on-year +20 +92 +50
Permanent jobs citing Accessibility 672 504 403
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.88% 3.08% 1.67%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.25% 16.95% 12.34%
Number of salaries quoted 263 184 216
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,625 £36,925
25th Percentile £38,636 £48,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,470 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% +3.51% +5.39%
75th Percentile £65,000 £78,125 £62,953
90th Percentile £74,997 £86,825 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 3,895 2,973 3,265
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.67% 18.19% 13.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,486 1,697 2,105
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,972 £46,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,591 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% - -
75th Percentile £76,151 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £92,500 £98,250
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 3 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 (6.85%) CMS
2 33 (4.91%) Confluence
3 22 (3.27%) SharePoint
4 17 (2.53%) WordPress
5 6 (0.89%) Moodle
6 4 (0.60%) Apache Spark
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%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 34 (5.06%) UserZoom
2 17 (2.53%) Simulink
3 15 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.79%) Adobe XD
6 11 (1.64%) 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 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.60%) Mathcad
9 4 (0.60%) 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 (0.60%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.60%) Shopify
5 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.15%) Magento
6 1 (0.15%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 113 (16.82%) Adobe Analytics
2 89 (13.24%) Figma
3 88 (13.10%) AWS
4 86 (12.80%) Azure
5 54 (8.04%) Contentsquare
6 53 (7.89%) Power Platform
7 33 (4.91%) GCP
8 28 (4.17%) SaaS
9 23 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (3.13%) PowerApps
11 19 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (2.38%) Google Analytics
12 16 (2.38%) Power Automate
13 11 (1.64%) Entra ID
13 11 (1.64%) GitHub
13 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (1.04%) Azure Key Vault
15 7 (1.04%) Cloudflare
15 7 (1.04%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 112 (16.67%) Broadband
2 11 (1.64%) CTI
2 11 (1.64%) 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 (0.60%) HTTP
6 4 (0.60%) 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%) Intranet
8 2 (0.30%) OSPF
8 2 (0.30%) VLAN
8 2 (0.30%) VPN
8 2 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.80%) Power BI
2 14 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (1.93%) Metadata
4 10 (1.49%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.19%) MySQL
6 7 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.04%) Metadata Repository
6 7 (1.04%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.89%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.74%) GIS
8 5 (0.74%) Power Query
8 5 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.60%) Big Data
9 4 (0.60%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.60%) MariaDB
9 4 (0.60%) Tableau
10 3 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.45%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 36 (5.36%) Git
2 31 (4.61%) JIRA
3 18 (2.68%) Rational DOORS
4 15 (2.23%) Selenium
5 14 (2.08%) Cypress.io
5 14 (2.08%) GitLab
6 12 (1.79%) Jenkins
7 11 (1.64%) JUnit
8 10 (1.49%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.34%) Gatling
10 7 (1.04%) Axure RP
10 7 (1.04%) Balsamiq
10 7 (1.04%) JMeter
10 7 (1.04%) Postman
11 6 (0.89%) LabVIEW
11 6 (0.89%) Storybook
12 5 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.60%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.45%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.45%) CMake
General
1 198 (29.46%) Social Skills
2 180 (26.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 175 (26.04%) Finance
4 146 (21.73%) Public Sector
5 123 (18.30%) Games
6 113 (16.82%) Aerospace
7 80 (11.90%) Law
8 77 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
9 42 (6.25%) Legal
10 37 (5.51%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (5.06%) Marketing
12 28 (4.17%) Electronics
12 28 (4.17%) Military
13 26 (3.87%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (2.83%) Retail
15 18 (2.68%) Multimedia
16 16 (2.38%) Banking
16 16 (2.38%) Publishing
17 12 (1.79%) Manufacturing
18 9 (1.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 137 (20.39%) Lead
2 120 (17.86%) Senior
3 73 (10.86%) Developer
4 68 (10.12%) Designer
5 48 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 29 (4.32%) Architect
6 29 (4.32%) Senior Developer
7 26 (3.87%) UX Designer
8 24 (3.57%) Lead Designer
9 23 (3.42%) Systems Engineer
10 22 (3.27%) Digital Designer
11 21 (3.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 20 (2.98%) Principal Engineer
12 20 (2.98%) Product Manager
13 19 (2.83%) Analyst
14 18 (2.68%) 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 69 (10.27%) HTML
2 68 (10.12%) CSS
3 51 (7.59%) React
4 29 (4.32%) Playwright
5 22 (3.27%) Node.js
6 20 (2.98%) Next.js
7 19 (2.83%) REST
8 14 (2.08%) HTML5
9 12 (1.79%) AngularJS
9 12 (1.79%) CSS3
9 12 (1.79%) RESTful
9 12 (1.79%) 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%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 99 (14.73%) Social Media
2 45 (6.70%) Self-Motivation
3 44 (6.55%) e-Learning
4 37 (5.51%) Management Information System
5 32 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 31 (4.61%) Product Ownership
7 26 (3.87%) Cloud Native
8 20 (2.98%) Mobile App
9 18 (2.68%) Blog
9 18 (2.68%) FPGA
10 14 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (1.93%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.64%) IVR
12 11 (1.64%) Podcast
13 8 (1.19%) Learning Management System
13 8 (1.19%) Low-Code
14 7 (1.04%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.04%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.93%) Linux
2 12 (1.79%) 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
1 346 (51.49%) Agile
2 225 (33.48%) AI
3 207 (30.80%) Analytics
4 171 (25.45%) Roadmaps
5 165 (24.55%) Storytelling
6 162 (24.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 160 (23.81%) Mentoring
8 159 (23.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 155 (23.07%) User Experience
10 140 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
11 133 (19.79%) Customer Experience
11 133 (19.79%) User Research
12 129 (19.20%) Product Roadmap
13 116 (17.26%) Decision-Making
14 112 (16.67%) Digital Customer Experience
15 108 (16.07%) Coaching
16 102 (15.18%) CI/CD
17 83 (12.35%) Software Engineering
18 72 (10.71%) Test Automation
19 71 (10.57%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 98 (14.58%) JavaScript
2 47 (6.99%) TypeScript
3 42 (6.25%) Python
4 38 (5.65%) Java
5 36 (5.36%) 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 (0.60%) C
12 4 (0.60%) Scala
12 4 (0.60%) 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
1 152 (22.62%) Security Cleared
2 146 (21.73%) SC Cleared
3 121 (18.01%) Degree
4 113 (16.82%) DV Cleared
5 108 (16.07%) 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 (0.60%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.60%) CISSP
11 2 (0.30%) CCNA
11 2 (0.30%) CCSP
11 2 (0.30%) HNC
11 2 (0.30%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (14.29%) WCAG
2 51 (7.59%) QA
3 37 (5.51%) Data Quality
4 29 (4.32%) 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 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 4 (0.60%) PERC
9 4 (0.60%) 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%) Actionable Recommendations
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 (5.21%) Docker
2 28 (4.17%) 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
1 138 (20.54%) Adobe
2 76 (11.31%) Microsoft
3 24 (3.57%) SAP
4 22 (3.27%) Google
5 13 (1.93%) Cisco
6 12 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.64%) Avaya
7 11 (1.64%) Genesys
7 11 (1.64%) Siemens
8 8 (1.19%) Splunk
9 7 (1.04%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.04%) SolarWinds
9 7 (1.04%) YouTube
10 6 (0.89%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.89%) dotdigital
10 6 (0.89%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.74%) Avid
11 5 (0.74%) Oracle
12 4 (0.60%) OneTrust
12 4 (0.60%) Workday