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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 110 205
Rank change year-on-year +19 +95 +67
Permanent jobs citing Accessibility 698 504 377
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.90% 3.10% 1.62%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.53% 16.81% 11.91%
Number of salaries quoted 273 182 161
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £38,984 £50,000 £45,977
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £63,200 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,997 £87,275 £73,750
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 3,981 2,998 3,166
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.51% 18.45% 13.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,520 1,668 1,909
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £36,150
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 £105,000
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 16 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 37 (5.30%) CMS
2 33 (4.73%) SharePoint
3 28 (4.01%) Confluence
4 19 (2.72%) WordPress
5 8 (1.15%) Moodle
6 4 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.29%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 26 (3.72%) UserZoom
2 17 (2.44%) Simulink
3 16 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.72%) Chatbot
6 11 (1.58%) Adobe XD
6 11 (1.58%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.72%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 5 (0.72%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.72%) Revit
9 4 (0.57%) Autodesk Smoke
9 4 (0.57%) Mathcad
10 3 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.43%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.43%) Blender
10 3 (0.43%) Maya
10 3 (0.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (1.43%) Primavera
2 7 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.72%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.57%) Shopify
5 2 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.14%) Magento
6 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.14%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 88 (12.61%) Azure
2 85 (12.18%) AWS
3 75 (10.74%) Adobe Analytics
4 74 (10.60%) Figma
5 56 (8.02%) Power Platform
6 42 (6.02%) Contentsquare
7 33 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (3.87%) GCP
9 25 (3.58%) SaaS
10 23 (3.30%) PowerApps
11 18 (2.58%) Power Automate
12 15 (2.15%) Google Analytics
13 14 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (1.58%) GitHub
16 10 (1.43%) Serverless
17 9 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
18 8 (1.15%) Copilot Studio
18 8 (1.15%) OneDrive
19 7 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 77 (11.03%) Broadband
2 25 (3.58%) 5G
3 11 (1.58%) CTI
3 11 (1.58%) Intrusion Detection
3 11 (1.58%) VoIP
4 10 (1.43%) Firewall
4 10 (1.43%) Internet
5 9 (1.29%) Ethernet
5 9 (1.29%) Intranet
6 5 (0.72%) DHCP
6 5 (0.72%) DNS
6 5 (0.72%) HTTP
6 5 (0.72%) SMS
6 5 (0.72%) SNMP
7 4 (0.57%) 3GPP
8 3 (0.43%) LTE
8 3 (0.43%) Network Security
8 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.43%) TETRA
8 3 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.87%) Power BI
2 15 (2.15%) Metadata
3 14 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (1.43%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (1.15%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.15%) GIS
6 8 (1.15%) MySQL
7 7 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.00%) Metadata Repository
7 7 (1.00%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.86%) Big Data
8 6 (0.86%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.86%) Parquet
9 5 (0.72%) Power Query
9 5 (0.72%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.72%) Tableau
10 4 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.57%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 40 (5.73%) Git
2 30 (4.30%) JIRA
3 18 (2.58%) Rational DOORS
4 12 (1.72%) JUnit
4 12 (1.72%) Selenium
5 11 (1.58%) Cypress.io
5 11 (1.58%) GitLab
6 10 (1.43%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.15%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.86%) Axure RP
8 6 (0.86%) Balsamiq
8 6 (0.86%) Gatling
8 6 (0.86%) LabVIEW
8 6 (0.86%) Postman
8 6 (0.86%) Storybook
9 5 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.43%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.43%) CMake
11 2 (0.29%) JMeter
11 2 (0.29%) MSTest
General
1 209 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 205 (29.37%) Finance
3 188 (26.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 147 (21.06%) Public Sector
5 113 (16.19%) Aerospace
6 99 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (12.18%) Games
8 77 (11.03%) Law
9 44 (6.30%) Organisational Skills
10 41 (5.87%) Marketing
11 40 (5.73%) Legal
12 31 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
13 28 (4.01%) Electronics
13 28 (4.01%) Military
14 24 (3.44%) Telecoms
15 21 (3.01%) Multimedia
15 21 (3.01%) Publishing
16 20 (2.87%) Retail
17 18 (2.58%) Banking
18 15 (2.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 124 (17.77%) Senior
2 116 (16.62%) Lead
3 75 (10.74%) Developer
4 57 (8.17%) Designer
5 48 (6.88%) Software Engineer
6 33 (4.73%) Architect
7 32 (4.58%) Systems Engineer
8 27 (3.87%) Senior Developer
9 23 (3.30%) UX Designer
10 22 (3.15%) Principal Engineer
11 20 (2.87%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 19 (2.72%) Analyst
13 17 (2.44%) Lead Designer
14 16 (2.29%) Data Engineer
14 16 (2.29%) Junior
14 16 (2.29%) Product Manager
14 16 (2.29%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 16 (2.29%) Senior Software Engineer
15 15 (2.15%) Digital Designer
15 15 (2.15%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (11.60%) HTML
2 76 (10.89%) CSS
3 46 (6.59%) React
4 26 (3.72%) Playwright
5 21 (3.01%) Node.js
6 20 (2.87%) Next.js
7 19 (2.72%) REST
8 14 (2.01%) HTML5
9 13 (1.86%) Vue
10 12 (1.72%) AngularJS
10 12 (1.72%) CSS3
10 12 (1.72%) RESTful
11 9 (1.29%) JSON
12 8 (1.15%) .NET
12 8 (1.15%) Jest
12 8 (1.15%) Tailwind CSS
13 7 (1.00%) Terraform
14 6 (0.86%) Apache Avro
14 6 (0.86%) PySpark
14 6 (0.86%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 66 (9.46%) Social Media
2 46 (6.59%) e-Learning
3 43 (6.16%) Management Information System
3 43 (6.16%) Self-Motivation
4 29 (4.15%) Cloud Native
4 29 (4.15%) Product Ownership
5 24 (3.44%) Onboarding
6 20 (2.87%) Mobile App
7 18 (2.58%) Blog
7 18 (2.58%) FPGA
8 16 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (1.86%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.72%) IVR
11 11 (1.58%) Operational Technology
12 10 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.43%) Learning Management System
13 8 (1.15%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.15%) Data Centre
13 8 (1.15%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.86%) Linux
2 12 (1.72%) Windows
3 7 (1.00%) Android
3 7 (1.00%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.43%) Unix
4 3 (0.43%) VxWorks
5 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (44.84%) Agile
2 203 (29.08%) AI
3 191 (27.36%) Mentoring
4 188 (26.93%) Analytics
5 166 (23.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 154 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
7 148 (21.20%) User Experience
8 135 (19.34%) Roadmaps
9 130 (18.62%) Decision-Making
10 129 (18.48%) Storytelling
11 124 (17.77%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 121 (17.34%) Coaching
13 107 (15.33%) Customer Experience
14 101 (14.47%) User Research
15 97 (13.90%) CI/CD
16 91 (13.04%) Product Roadmap
17 90 (12.89%) Line Management
18 85 (12.18%) Software Engineering
19 77 (11.03%) Test Automation
20 75 (10.74%) Digital Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 107 (15.33%) JavaScript
2 47 (6.73%) Python
3 46 (6.59%) TypeScript
4 45 (6.45%) SQL
5 42 (6.02%) Java
6 22 (3.15%) MATLAB
7 18 (2.58%) C#
8 16 (2.29%) PHP
9 13 (1.86%) C++
10 8 (1.15%) Ada
11 5 (0.72%) R
11 5 (0.72%) SystemVerilog
12 4 (0.57%) C
12 4 (0.57%) Scala
12 4 (0.57%) VBA
13 3 (0.43%) Ada 95
13 3 (0.43%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.43%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.43%) Ruby
13 3 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 159 (22.78%) Security Cleared
2 152 (21.78%) SC Cleared
3 132 (18.91%) Degree
4 113 (16.19%) DV Cleared
5 108 (15.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 40 (5.73%) DBS Check
7 15 (2.15%) Chartered Engineer
7 15 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.86%) PhD
9 10 (1.43%) ACCA
9 10 (1.43%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.43%) CIMA
9 10 (1.43%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.00%) CISSP
11 6 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.57%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.57%) CCSP
13 3 (0.43%) CISM
14 2 (0.29%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (13.04%) WCAG
2 56 (8.02%) QA
3 44 (6.30%) Data Quality
4 34 (4.87%) GDPR
5 11 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.29%) NIST
7 7 (1.00%) ISO 9001
7 7 (1.00%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.72%) GRC
8 5 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 4 (0.57%) PERC
9 4 (0.57%) SLA
10 3 (0.43%) MIL-STD-1553
11 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.14%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.14%) DO-160
12 1 (0.14%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 33 (4.73%) Docker
2 28 (4.01%) Firmware
3 9 (1.29%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (3.15%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.57%) Ansible
3 3 (0.43%) Grafana
3 3 (0.43%) Plesk
4 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 105 (15.04%) Adobe
2 83 (11.89%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.01%) SAP
4 20 (2.87%) Google
5 13 (1.86%) Cisco
6 11 (1.58%) Avaya
6 11 (1.58%) Genesys
6 11 (1.58%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.58%) Siemens
7 8 (1.15%) HubSpot
7 8 (1.15%) Splunk
8 7 (1.00%) SolarWinds
8 7 (1.00%) YouTube
9 6 (0.86%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.72%) Avid
10 5 (0.72%) dotdigital
10 5 (0.72%) NEC
10 5 (0.72%) Oracle
11 4 (0.57%) OneTrust
11 4 (0.57%) Xero