WCAG Contracts in London

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for WCAG skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WCAG over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 434 526
Rank change year-on-year +94 +92 -126
Contract jobs citing WCAG 50 59 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.23% 0.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.02% 1.74% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 38 45
10th Percentile £328 £398 £400
25th Percentile £408 £504 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +9.52% +2.44%
75th Percentile £536 £638 £625
90th Percentile £623 £650 £730
England median daily rate £450 £560 £500
% change year-on-year -19.64% +12.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £29.12
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £29.12
% change year-on-year - - +18.86%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

WCAG is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,477 3,400 4,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.19% 13.14% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,750 2,458 3,465
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £650
90th Percentile £800 £798 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 36 82
10th Percentile £12.70 £20.37 £20.90
25th Percentile £17.85 £21.24 £26.25
Median hourly rate £24.18 £30.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.37% -30.90% +122.50%
75th Percentile £47.50 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £57.13 £81.25 £68.63
England median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +27.12% +40.48%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing WCAG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WCAG in London.

Daily rate trend for WCAG in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCAG in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WCAG in London.

Hourly rate trend for WCAG in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +40 10 £450 -17.05% 1
West London - 5 £350 - 1
East London - 1 £450 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (42.00%) CMS
2 1 (2.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.00%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Adobe XD
2 2 (4.00%) InVision
2 2 (4.00%) Sketch
2 2 (4.00%) Zeplin
3 1 (2.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.00%) Azure
2 20 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (36.00%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (34.00%) Azure Pipelines
5 15 (30.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 15 (30.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (16.00%) GCP
7 6 (12.00%) Figma
8 4 (8.00%) AWS
9 3 (6.00%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (6.00%) GitHub
10 2 (4.00%) Miro
11 1 (2.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
11 1 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
11 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
11 1 (2.00%) PaaS
11 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (44.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (44.00%) Git
2 4 (8.00%) SpecFlow
3 3 (6.00%) Axure RP
3 3 (6.00%) Postman
3 3 (6.00%) Selenium
4 2 (4.00%) JMeter
5 1 (2.00%) Balsamiq
5 1 (2.00%) JIRA
5 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (28.00%) Public Sector
2 10 (20.00%) Back Office
3 3 (6.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.00%) Wearables
4 2 (4.00%) Finance
4 2 (4.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Law
5 1 (2.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (62.00%) Developer
2 20 (40.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 17 (34.00%) Senior
4 14 (28.00%) Senior Developer
5 11 (22.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 6 (12.00%) Designer
6 6 (12.00%) Service Designer
7 3 (6.00%) Angular Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Developer
7 3 (6.00%) C# Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Lead
7 3 (6.00%) Test Leader
8 2 (4.00%) .NET Developer
8 2 (4.00%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Python Developer
8 2 (4.00%) QA Specialist
8 2 (4.00%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior C# Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (52.00%) CSS
2 23 (46.00%) HTML
3 22 (44.00%) .NET
3 22 (44.00%) .NET Core
4 19 (38.00%) React
5 14 (28.00%) ASP.NET
5 14 (28.00%) jQuery
6 11 (22.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 10 (20.00%) AngularJS
8 9 (18.00%) REST
9 5 (10.00%) SAML
9 5 (10.00%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (8.00%) Playwright
11 3 (6.00%) NgRx
11 3 (6.00%) RxJS
12 2 (4.00%) Vue
12 2 (4.00%) Vuex
13 1 (2.00%) Flask
13 1 (2.00%) Pandas
13 1 (2.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.00%) CCTV
3 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.00%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (56.00%) Agile
2 24 (48.00%) DevOps
3 23 (46.00%) Front End Development
4 21 (42.00%) TDD
5 20 (40.00%) OO
6 19 (38.00%) API Management
6 19 (38.00%) OOD
7 14 (28.00%) MVC
8 13 (26.00%) Clean Code
9 11 (22.00%) User Experience
10 10 (20.00%) CI/CD
11 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (14.00%) Migration
12 7 (14.00%) Service Design
12 7 (14.00%) User Stories
13 6 (12.00%) Test Automation
13 6 (12.00%) User Research
13 6 (12.00%) UX Design
14 5 (10.00%) Data Science
14 5 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 27 (54.00%) JavaScript
2 25 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 22 (44.00%) C#
4 15 (30.00%) Bicep
5 6 (12.00%) SQL
6 2 (4.00%) Python
7 1 (2.00%) Ada
7 1 (2.00%) Java
7 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (78.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (8.00%) QA
3 2 (4.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (30.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (34.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) Adobe
2 5 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle