Accessibility Contracts in the South East

Accessibility (a11y)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 157 165 205
Rank change year-on-year +8 +40 -35
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 36 41 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.66% 0.73% 0.62%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.74% 4.87% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 36 33
10th Percentile £368 - £377
25th Percentile £375 £313 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £394 £560
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -29.69% +28.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £615
90th Percentile £556 £600 £648
England median daily rate £478 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -5.18% -4.08% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.32 - -
Median hourly rate £18.97 - -
75th Percentile £19.62 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.13 £20.07 £75.00
% change year-on-year -9.64% -73.25% +194.12%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 760 842 1,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.97% 15.07% 15.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 539 768
10th Percentile £251 £200 £237
25th Percentile £363 £363 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 42 53
10th Percentile £10.82 £16.31 £12.31
25th Percentile £15.38 £18.31 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £24.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% +16.67% -23.95%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £66.07 £48.72
England median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +27.12% +40.48%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the South East

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the South East

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the South East

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the South East

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the South East 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
Thames Valley -3 20 £450 -9.09% 20
Berkshire +1 18 £500 +29.03% 7
Hampshire -5 5 £563 +19.68% 6
Surrey +6 3 £463 +42.31% 4
West Sussex +10 2 £400 -20.00% 2
East Sussex +5 2 £650 +20.93% 2
Kent - 2 £446 - 2
Buckinghamshire +15 1 £175 -66.67% 7
Oxfordshire +6 1 £450 +25.00% 6
Sussex - 1 £410 -
Accessibility
England

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.33%) CMS
3 2 (5.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.78%) ArcGIS
4 1 (2.78%) Confluence
4 1 (2.78%) Drupal
Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.78%) Adobe XD
3 1 (2.78%) InVision
3 1 (2.78%) Photoshop
3 1 (2.78%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (8.33%) Azure
3 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.56%) Figma
3 2 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.78%) Google Analytics
4 1 (2.78%) npm
4 1 (2.78%) PaaS
4 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.78%) Serverless
4 1 (2.78%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Intranet
2 1 (2.78%) Firewall
2 1 (2.78%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.78%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (2.78%) Metadata
1 1 (2.78%) Power BI
1 1 (2.78%) Qlik Sense
1 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Git
1 3 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.78%) rollup.js
3 1 (2.78%) Selenium
3 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.78%) webpack
General
1 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (33.33%) Marketing
3 10 (27.78%) Finance
4 6 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (13.89%) Law
5 5 (13.89%) Legal
6 2 (5.56%) Local Government
7 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Designer
2 8 (22.22%) Creative Designer
3 6 (16.67%) Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Development Manager
4 5 (13.89%) Operations Manager
4 5 (13.89%) Systems Development Manager
5 4 (11.11%) Creative Director
5 4 (11.11%) Lead
5 4 (11.11%) Project Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (5.56%) Full Stack Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Lead Designer
7 2 (5.56%) QA Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) UI Developer
7 2 (5.56%) UX Designer
7 2 (5.56%) Web Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Senior
8 1 (2.78%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) HTML
2 3 (8.33%) CSS
2 3 (8.33%) Jest
2 3 (8.33%) React
2 3 (8.33%) Redux
3 2 (5.56%) Spring
3 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.78%) .NET
4 1 (2.78%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.78%) Enzyme
4 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.78%) Next.js
4 1 (2.78%) Playwright
4 1 (2.78%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.78%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.78%) NHS
3 1 (2.78%) Taxonomies
3 1 (2.78%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
1 1 (2.78%) Windows 7
1 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (33.33%) Project Management
3 8 (22.22%) Storytelling
3 8 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
3 8 (22.22%) User Experience
4 7 (19.44%) Agile
5 6 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 5 (13.89%) Business Continuity
6 5 (13.89%) Information Security
6 5 (13.89%) UX Design
7 4 (11.11%) Document Management
7 4 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 4 (11.11%) Wireframes
8 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
8 3 (8.33%) DevOps
8 3 (8.33%) Scrum
8 3 (8.33%) SEO
8 3 (8.33%) Software Testing
8 3 (8.33%) User Research
8 3 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
2 4 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (5.56%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.78%) C#
4 1 (2.78%) Python
4 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) DBS Check
1 5 (13.89%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) SLA
1 3 (8.33%) WCAG
2 2 (5.56%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) Adobe
2 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.89%) Reuters
4 3 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.78%) Google
5 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft