Accessibility Contracts in the UK excluding London

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 200 211 218
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -66
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 207 271 372
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.02% 1.18% 1.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.97% 7.98% 8.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 226 277
10th Percentile £362 £355 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% -2.35% +13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £575
90th Percentile £609 £625 £633
UK median daily rate £468 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -6.50% -3.85% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 12
10th Percentile £13.66 - £65.00
25th Percentile £14.00 - £70.63
Median hourly rate £14.50 £16.77 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.54% -77.64% +194.12%
75th Percentile £19.62 - £78.38
90th Percentile £55.63 - £81.00
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,970 3,395 4,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.64% 14.76% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,751 2,261 3,030
10th Percentile £250 £223 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +6.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £680 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 188 207
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.44
25th Percentile £12.75 £18.09 £15.78
Median hourly rate £18.27 £32.94 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.54% +46.41% +7.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £69.05
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Accessibility in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the UK excluding 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
North of England +24 71 £463 -9.76% 47
Scotland 0 63 £463 -5.13% 10
North West +21 41 £480 -8.57% 28
South East +8 36 £450 +14.29% 45
South West +14 23 £585 -2.50% 20
Yorkshire +9 23 £425 -19.05% 14
Midlands +13 10 £410 -13.68% 34
West Midlands +21 9 £410 -13.68% 26
North East +10 7 £453 -13.76% 5
East of England +9 2 £700 +69.70% 20
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 - 3
East Midlands +4 1 £400 -9.60% 8
Accessibility
UK

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 12 (5.80%) CMS
2 9 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.42%) Confluence
4 4 (1.93%) Drupal
5 3 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.97%) WordPress
7 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.48%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.48%) Jadu
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.48%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 17 (8.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (6.28%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (6.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (5.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 5 (2.42%) InVision
4 5 (2.42%) Sketch
5 3 (1.45%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.97%) Adobe Captivate
6 2 (0.97%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.97%) Lectora
6 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.48%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.45%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.48%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.48%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.48%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.48%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 43 (20.77%) AWS
2 27 (13.04%) Serverless
3 26 (12.56%) AWS Lambda
4 22 (10.63%) Amazon S3
5 20 (9.66%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (7.73%) Azure
7 14 (6.76%) OpenShift
8 11 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.86%) GitHub
10 7 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.38%) Figma
10 7 (3.38%) Power Platform
10 7 (3.38%) Textract
11 5 (2.42%) Amazon SageMaker
11 5 (2.42%) BrowserStack
11 5 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.93%) Rekognition
13 3 (1.45%) npm
13 3 (1.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.45%) Internet
1 3 (1.45%) Intranet
1 3 (1.45%) VoIP
2 2 (0.97%) Firewall
3 1 (0.48%) LAN
3 1 (0.48%) SMS
3 1 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (12.08%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (10.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (3.86%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.38%) Power BI
5 6 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.90%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.90%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.93%) MySQL
6 4 (1.93%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.45%) Big Data
7 3 (1.45%) Metadata
8 2 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.97%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.97%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (5.80%) Cypress.io
2 11 (5.31%) Selenium
3 10 (4.83%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.83%) JIRA
4 9 (4.35%) Git
5 7 (3.38%) JMeter
6 6 (2.90%) Postman
6 6 (2.90%) Visual Studio
6 6 (2.90%) webpack
7 5 (2.42%) NUnit
8 3 (1.45%) GitLab
9 2 (0.97%) TestCafe
10 1 (0.48%) Babel
10 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.48%) Gatling
10 1 (0.48%) GoCD
10 1 (0.48%) Pa11y
10 1 (0.48%) rollup.js
10 1 (0.48%) Vite
10 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 65 (31.40%) Public Sector
2 64 (30.92%) Social Skills
3 34 (16.43%) Finance
4 23 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.73%) Marketing
6 13 (6.28%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.35%) Legal
8 5 (2.42%) Law
9 4 (1.93%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.93%) Publishing
10 3 (1.45%) Banking
11 2 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.97%) Local Government
11 2 (0.97%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.97%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.48%) Electronics
12 1 (0.48%) French Language
12 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (22.22%) Developer
2 41 (19.81%) Designer
3 33 (15.94%) Senior
4 22 (10.63%) Test Engineer
5 16 (7.73%) Senior Test Engineer
6 15 (7.25%) UX Designer
7 13 (6.28%) Architect
8 11 (5.31%) Lead
9 9 (4.35%) Java Developer
9 9 (4.35%) Software Developer
10 8 (3.86%) Creative Designer
10 8 (3.86%) Senior Designer
10 8 (3.86%) User Researcher
11 7 (3.38%) Content Designer
11 7 (3.38%) Interaction Designer
11 7 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.38%) Test Automation Engineer
12 6 (2.90%) Full Stack Engineer
13 5 (2.42%) Development Manager
13 5 (2.42%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (13.04%) React
2 26 (12.56%) HTML
3 24 (11.59%) AWS CDK
4 22 (10.63%) CSS
5 19 (9.18%) Node.js
6 8 (3.86%) GraphQL
6 8 (3.86%) Playwright
6 8 (3.86%) Spring
6 8 (3.86%) Spring Boot
7 7 (3.38%) .NET
7 7 (3.38%) AngularJS
7 7 (3.38%) Next.js
7 7 (3.38%) REST
7 7 (3.38%) RESTful
8 5 (2.42%) Jest
9 4 (1.93%) Redux
9 4 (1.93%) Spring MVC
9 4 (1.93%) Spring Web Flow
9 4 (1.93%) Thymeleaf
10 3 (1.45%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.73%) Management Information System
2 10 (4.83%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (4.83%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.86%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.42%) NHS
5 4 (1.93%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.45%) Smartphone
6 3 (1.45%) Video Editing
7 2 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.97%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.97%) Learning Management System
7 2 (0.97%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.97%) Social Media
8 1 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.48%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.48%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.90%) Windows
2 4 (1.93%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.97%) Android
3 2 (0.97%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.48%) Linux
4 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.48%) Unix
4 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (37.68%) Agile
2 51 (24.64%) User Experience
3 32 (15.46%) Test Automation
4 30 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (14.01%) User Research
6 28 (13.53%) Mentoring
6 28 (13.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 27 (13.04%) CI/CD
8 24 (11.59%) Service Design
8 24 (11.59%) UX Design
9 23 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (10.63%) Coaching
11 21 (10.14%) Scrum
12 20 (9.66%) DevOps
12 20 (9.66%) Project Management
12 20 (9.66%) TDD
13 18 (8.70%) Analytics
13 18 (8.70%) Roadmaps
14 17 (8.21%) Community of Practice
14 17 (8.21%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 40 (19.32%) Java
2 39 (18.84%) JavaScript
3 33 (15.94%) TypeScript
4 24 (11.59%) Python
5 19 (9.18%) SQL
6 8 (3.86%) Bash
7 6 (2.90%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.93%) C#
9 2 (0.97%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.48%) PHP
10 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (10.63%) Security Cleared
2 18 (8.70%) Degree
3 13 (6.28%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.38%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.93%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.48%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.04%) WCAG
2 12 (5.80%) QA
3 10 (4.83%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (2.42%) SLA
5 4 (1.93%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.48%) GDPR
6 1 (0.48%) GMP
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (10.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (8.70%) Grafana
2 7 (3.38%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.42%) Kibana
4 3 (1.45%) Terraform
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.18%) Adobe
3 7 (3.38%) Oracle
4 5 (2.42%) Reuters
4 5 (2.42%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.93%) Brio
5 4 (1.93%) Remedy
6 3 (1.45%) Aareon
7 2 (0.97%) Facebook
7 2 (0.97%) Google
7 2 (0.97%) Instagram
7 2 (0.97%) SAP
8 1 (0.48%) Avaya
8 1 (0.48%) Citrix
8 1 (0.48%) Databricks
8 1 (0.48%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.48%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.48%) Mitel
8 1 (0.48%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.48%) Twitter