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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 109 209
Rank change year-on-year +24 +100 +68
Permanent jobs citing Accessibility 709 509 409
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.09% 3.07% 1.65%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.30% 17.02% 12.38%
Number of salaries quoted 263 182 244
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,375 £36,540
25th Percentile £38,878 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £61,250 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -16.73% +5.67% +2.30%
75th Percentile £64,000 £80,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £79,625
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,998
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +1.77%

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 3,874 2,991 3,305
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.87% 18.05% 13.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,443 1,690 2,240
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,200
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +2.21% -2.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £91,375 £97,500
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 21 August 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 52 (7.33%) CMS
2 39 (5.50%) Confluence
3 22 (3.10%) SharePoint
4 16 (2.26%) WordPress
5 5 (0.71%) Drupal
5 5 (0.71%) Moodle
6 4 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.28%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.14%) Apache
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 43 (6.06%) UserZoom
2 17 (2.40%) Simulink
3 15 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (1.97%) Adobe XD
4 14 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.55%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.71%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.71%) DaVinci Resolve
7 5 (0.71%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.56%) Mathcad
8 4 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 3 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.42%) Blender
9 3 (0.42%) Elementor
9 3 (0.42%) Maya
10 2 (0.28%) Sketch
10 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.41%) Primavera
2 7 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.71%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.56%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.56%) Shopify
5 3 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.14%) Magento
7 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 145 (20.45%) Adobe Analytics
2 99 (13.96%) Figma
3 83 (11.71%) AWS
3 83 (11.71%) Azure
4 68 (9.59%) Contentsquare
5 52 (7.33%) Power Platform
6 31 (4.37%) SaaS
7 30 (4.23%) GCP
8 21 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (2.54%) Google Analytics
10 18 (2.54%) PowerApps
11 16 (2.26%) Power Automate
12 14 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (1.55%) Entra ID
15 10 (1.41%) Asana
15 10 (1.41%) GitHub
16 9 (1.27%) dbt
17 7 (0.99%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 152 (21.44%) Broadband
2 11 (1.55%) CTI
2 11 (1.55%) VoIP
3 9 (1.27%) Ethernet
3 9 (1.27%) Internet
4 7 (0.99%) LTE
5 5 (0.71%) DHCP
5 5 (0.71%) DNS
5 5 (0.71%) SNMP
6 4 (0.56%) HTTP
6 4 (0.56%) SMS
7 3 (0.42%) 3GPP
7 3 (0.42%) Firewall
7 3 (0.42%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.42%) TETRA
8 2 (0.28%) Intranet
8 2 (0.28%) OSPF
8 2 (0.28%) VLAN
8 2 (0.28%) VPN
8 2 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.08%) Power BI
2 14 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (1.41%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.13%) MySQL
5 7 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (0.99%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.71%) GIS
6 5 (0.71%) MongoDB
6 5 (0.71%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.56%) Big Data
7 4 (0.56%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.56%) MariaDB
7 4 (0.56%) Tableau
8 3 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.42%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.42%) Metadata
9 2 (0.28%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 37 (5.22%) Git
2 32 (4.51%) JIRA
3 18 (2.54%) Rational DOORS
4 15 (2.12%) Cypress.io
4 15 (2.12%) Selenium
5 14 (1.97%) GitLab
5 14 (1.97%) Jenkins
6 13 (1.83%) Cucumber
7 11 (1.55%) JUnit
8 10 (1.41%) JMeter
9 9 (1.27%) Axure RP
9 9 (1.27%) Balsamiq
9 9 (1.27%) Gatling
10 7 (0.99%) Postman
11 6 (0.85%) LabVIEW
11 6 (0.85%) Storybook
12 5 (0.71%) Locust
12 5 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.56%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.42%) Bitbucket
General
1 204 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 184 (25.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 175 (24.68%) Finance
4 162 (22.85%) Games
5 135 (19.04%) Public Sector
6 112 (15.80%) Aerospace
7 81 (11.42%) Law
8 72 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
9 44 (6.21%) Legal
10 37 (5.22%) Marketing
11 35 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (3.95%) Electronics
13 27 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (3.81%) Military
14 22 (3.10%) Retail
15 17 (2.40%) Multimedia
16 16 (2.26%) Banking
17 15 (2.12%) Manufacturing
18 14 (1.97%) Publishing
19 9 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 159 (22.43%) Lead
2 111 (15.66%) Senior
3 73 (10.30%) Designer
4 69 (9.73%) Developer
5 48 (6.77%) Software Engineer
6 27 (3.81%) UX Designer
7 25 (3.53%) Lead Designer
7 25 (3.53%) Senior Developer
8 23 (3.24%) Architect
8 23 (3.24%) Digital Designer
8 23 (3.24%) Product Manager
8 23 (3.24%) Systems Engineer
8 23 (3.24%) User Researcher
9 20 (2.82%) Analyst
9 20 (2.82%) Principal Engineer
10 19 (2.68%) Systems Manager
11 18 (2.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 17 (2.40%) Test Engineer
13 16 (2.26%) Lead Architect
13 16 (2.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (9.45%) HTML
2 66 (9.31%) CSS
3 52 (7.33%) React
4 29 (4.09%) Playwright
5 19 (2.68%) Next.js
6 18 (2.54%) REST
7 17 (2.40%) Node.js
8 16 (2.26%) HTML5
9 14 (1.97%) CSS3
10 13 (1.83%) AngularJS
11 12 (1.69%) RESTful
11 12 (1.69%) Vue
12 11 (1.55%) Terraform
13 9 (1.27%) Gherkin
13 9 (1.27%) Jest
14 8 (1.13%) .NET
14 8 (1.13%) Tailwind CSS
15 7 (0.99%) HEVC
16 6 (0.85%) jQuery
16 6 (0.85%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 128 (18.05%) Social Media
2 44 (6.21%) Self-Motivation
3 43 (6.06%) e-Learning
3 43 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 38 (5.36%) Management Information System
5 34 (4.80%) Product Ownership
6 29 (4.09%) Mobile App
7 28 (3.95%) Cloud Native
8 18 (2.54%) Blog
8 18 (2.54%) FPGA
9 14 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.83%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.69%) Podcast
12 11 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (1.55%) IVR
13 7 (0.99%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.99%) Culture of Ownership
13 7 (0.99%) Learning Management System
14 6 (0.85%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.40%) Android
1 17 (2.40%) Apple iOS
2 13 (1.83%) Linux
2 13 (1.83%) Windows
3 3 (0.42%) Unix
3 3 (0.42%) VxWorks
4 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (53.60%) Agile
2 265 (37.38%) AI
3 242 (34.13%) Analytics
4 214 (30.18%) Roadmaps
5 198 (27.93%) Storytelling
6 190 (26.80%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 164 (23.13%) User Experience
8 163 (22.99%) Customer Experience
9 162 (22.85%) Product Roadmap
10 161 (22.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 161 (22.71%) Mentoring
11 160 (22.57%) User Research
12 143 (20.17%) Digital Customer Experience
13 138 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
14 126 (17.77%) Decision-Making
15 105 (14.81%) CI/CD
16 91 (12.83%) Coaching
17 88 (12.41%) Prototyping
18 80 (11.28%) Software Engineering
19 77 (10.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 95 (13.40%) JavaScript
2 45 (6.35%) Python
3 43 (6.06%) TypeScript
4 41 (5.78%) Java
5 36 (5.08%) SQL
6 22 (3.10%) MATLAB
7 17 (2.40%) C#
8 14 (1.97%) PHP
9 13 (1.83%) C++
10 8 (1.13%) Ada
11 5 (0.71%) R
11 5 (0.71%) SystemVerilog
12 4 (0.56%) C
12 4 (0.56%) VBA
13 3 (0.42%) Ada 95
13 3 (0.42%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.42%) Ruby
13 3 (0.42%) Rust
13 3 (0.42%) Scala
14 2 (0.28%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 156 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 150 (21.16%) SC Cleared
3 124 (17.49%) Degree
4 112 (15.80%) DV Cleared
5 107 (15.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.83%) DBS Check
7 13 (1.83%) PhD
8 12 (1.69%) Chartered Engineer
9 10 (1.41%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.41%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.27%) ACCA
10 9 (1.27%) CIMA
11 4 (0.56%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.56%) CISSP
12 2 (0.28%) CCNA
12 2 (0.28%) CCSP
12 2 (0.28%) HNC
12 2 (0.28%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (16.93%) WCAG
2 52 (7.33%) QA
3 30 (4.23%) GDPR
4 28 (3.95%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.27%) GRC
7 7 (0.99%) ISO 9001
8 6 (0.85%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 4 (0.56%) PERC
9 4 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.42%) MIL-STD-1553
11 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.28%) SLA
12 1 (0.14%) DO-160
12 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.14%) NIST
12 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 38 (5.36%) Docker
2 28 (3.95%) Firmware
3 9 (1.27%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (3.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.99%) Ansible
2 7 (0.99%) Grafana
3 3 (0.42%) Plesk
4 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 171 (24.12%) Adobe
2 79 (11.14%) Microsoft
3 24 (3.39%) Google
4 22 (3.10%) SAP
5 13 (1.83%) Cisco
6 11 (1.55%) Avaya
6 11 (1.55%) Genesys
6 11 (1.55%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.55%) Siemens
7 7 (0.99%) HubSpot
7 7 (0.99%) SolarWinds
7 7 (0.99%) Splunk
8 6 (0.85%) Atlassian
8 6 (0.85%) dotdigital
8 6 (0.85%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.71%) Avid
9 5 (0.71%) Oracle
10 4 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 4 (0.56%) Workday
10 4 (0.56%) Xilinx