Accessibility Contracts in Scotland

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Accessibility skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Accessibility 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 63 63 69
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -11
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 63 111 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.93% 4.11% 3.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.32% 20.29% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 103 93
10th Percentile £218 £405 £358
25th Percentile £410 £436 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -2.50% +12.36%
75th Percentile £494 £538 £550
90th Percentile £555 £588 £650
UK median daily rate £468 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -6.50% -3.85% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.10 - -
Median hourly rate £15.97 - -
75th Percentile £16.85 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £23.36 £75.00
% change year-on-year -22.39% -68.85% +194.12%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

Accessibility 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 Scotland with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 386 547 668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.95% 20.24% 19.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 452 495
10th Percentile £183 £200 £225
25th Percentile £305 £400 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £471 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +10.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £511 £550 £538
90th Percentile £604 £613 £600
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 17
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.56 £14.22
25th Percentile £15.77 £14.17 £20.00
Median hourly rate £18.27 £18.13 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -51.58% +31.33%
75th Percentile £60.75 £28.90 £43.50
90th Percentile - £40.20 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -39.84% +7.69% +54.76%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in Scotland

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in Scotland

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in Scotland

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in Scotland

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh -1 39 £450 -7.98% 5
Glasgow +9 13 £486 -6.99% 3
South Lanarkshire +2 1 £550 +11.11%
Lanarkshire - 1 £425 - 1
West Lothian - 1 £188 -
Accessibility
UK

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (7.94%) CMS
2 3 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.17%) WordPress
4 1 (1.59%) Confluence
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Adobe Captivate
1 2 (3.17%) Camtasia
1 2 (3.17%) Lectora
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 24 (38.10%) AWS
2 21 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 21 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 21 (33.33%) Serverless
3 20 (31.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (22.22%) OpenShift
5 7 (11.11%) Textract
6 5 (7.94%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (6.35%) Rekognition
8 3 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.17%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (3.17%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.59%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.59%) Azure
10 1 (1.59%) Canva
10 1 (1.59%) CloudFront
10 1 (1.59%) Figma
10 1 (1.59%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (1.59%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) VoIP
2 1 (1.59%) Firewall
2 1 (1.59%) Internet
2 1 (1.59%) LAN
2 1 (1.59%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (34.92%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (9.52%) Oracle Database
4 4 (6.35%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (6.35%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.17%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (3.17%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (3.17%) Metadata
6 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.59%) Looker
7 1 (1.59%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.59%) MySQL
7 1 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.76%) JIRA
3 2 (3.17%) webpack
4 1 (1.59%) Git
4 1 (1.59%) GitLab
General
1 41 (65.08%) Public Sector
2 14 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 11 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (6.35%) Finance
6 3 (4.76%) Publishing
7 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.59%) Legal
8 1 (1.59%) Marketing
8 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (39.68%) Developer
2 15 (23.81%) Designer
3 9 (14.29%) Senior
4 8 (12.70%) Software Developer
4 8 (12.70%) UX Designer
5 6 (9.52%) Lead
6 5 (7.94%) Content Designer
7 4 (6.35%) Automation Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Senior Designer
7 4 (6.35%) User Researcher
8 3 (4.76%) AWS Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Voice Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Voice Specialist
8 3 (4.76%) VoIP Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) VoIP Specialist
9 2 (3.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 2 (3.17%) Full Stack Developer
9 2 (3.17%) Senior User Researcher
9 2 (3.17%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (34.92%) AWS CDK
2 19 (30.16%) HTML
3 17 (26.98%) CSS
4 16 (25.40%) Node.js
5 15 (23.81%) React
6 7 (11.11%) REST
7 6 (9.52%) Spring
7 6 (9.52%) Spring Boot
8 4 (6.35%) Spring MVC
8 4 (6.35%) Spring Web Flow
8 4 (6.35%) Thymeleaf
9 3 (4.76%) OAuth
9 3 (4.76%) PyTorch
9 3 (4.76%) SpaCy
10 2 (3.17%) Flash
10 2 (3.17%) OAuth2
10 2 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (3.17%) RESTful
10 2 (3.17%) Spring Security
10 2 (3.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.76%) Video Editing
4 2 (3.17%) e-Learning
4 2 (3.17%) Learning Management System
4 2 (3.17%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Social Media
5 1 (1.59%) 3D Graphics
5 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.59%) Blog
5 1 (1.59%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.59%) Motion Graphics
5 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Android
1 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.59%) Linux
1 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.59%) Ubuntu
1 1 (1.59%) Unix
1 1 (1.59%) Windows
1 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (46.03%) Agile
2 27 (42.86%) User Experience
3 21 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 19 (30.16%) Service Design
5 17 (26.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (26.98%) User Research
6 16 (25.40%) Code Quality
7 15 (23.81%) Coaching
7 15 (23.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 14 (22.22%) CI/CD
8 14 (22.22%) Code Coverage
8 14 (22.22%) Community of Practice
8 14 (22.22%) Product Management
9 13 (20.63%) Inclusive Design
10 12 (19.05%) Human-Centred Design
10 12 (19.05%) Requirements Analysis
11 11 (17.46%) ETL
11 11 (17.46%) TDD
11 11 (17.46%) UX Design
12 10 (15.87%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 21 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 19 (30.16%) JavaScript
3 14 (22.22%) Java
4 13 (20.63%) Python
5 8 (12.70%) Bash
6 6 (9.52%) Shell Script
7 4 (6.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (7.94%) Degree
2 2 (3.17%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.87%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (14.29%) WCAG
3 3 (4.76%) QA
4 2 (3.17%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (19.05%) Grafana
2 7 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.17%) Kibana
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (11.11%) Oracle
2 4 (6.35%) Adobe
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.17%) Facebook
4 2 (3.17%) Instagram
5 1 (1.59%) Avaya
5 1 (1.59%) Citrix
5 1 (1.59%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.59%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.59%) Google
5 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.59%) Twitter