WCAG Contracts in the South West

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 150 158 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing WCAG 3 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.095% 0.14% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.53% 1.30% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £605 -
25th Percentile £713 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £651 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.37% - -
75th Percentile £738 £738 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £560 £500
% change year-on-year -19.64% +12.00% +17.65%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 564 386 426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 17.89% 11.12% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 272 296
10th Percentile £263 £250 £190
25th Percentile £410 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £588
90th Percentile £700 £736 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 44 21
10th Percentile £12.43 £18.09 £47.41
25th Percentile £35.00 £51.34 £52.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +3.17% +26.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £79.81 £69.83
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.40 £79.04
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 the South West

Job postings citing WCAG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WCAG in the South West.

Daily rate trend for WCAG in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the South West 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
Bristol +16 2 - -
Gloucestershire -4 1 £725 +5.38% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) npm
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Babel
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (33.33%) ESLint
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) Vite
1 1 (33.33%) webpack
General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Content Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
2 1 (33.33%) UI Developer
2 1 (33.33%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) Jest
1 1 (33.33%) Material-UI
1 1 (33.33%) Parceljs
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
1 1 (33.33%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) Storyboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Research
2 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow