Accessibility Contracts

Accessibility (a11y)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 254 209
Rank change year-on-year +58 -45 -26
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 528 635 1,235
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.21% 1.06% 1.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.45% 7.96% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 464 876
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £419 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +15.38%
75th Percentile £570 £588 £593
90th Percentile £638 £650 £666
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -5.27% -2.35% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 5 5
10th Percentile £14.00 - £19.55
25th Percentile £14.50 £16.77 £20.00
Median hourly rate £18.35 £23.36 £20.89
Median % change year-on-year -21.47% +11.82% -18.08%
75th Percentile £31.71 £27.75 £29.12
90th Percentile £53.50 £33.90 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.50 £16.77 -
% change year-on-year -13.54% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,250 7,982 11,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.34% 13.37% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,951 5,482 8,057
10th Percentile £295 £275 £290
25th Percentile £402 £409 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £619
90th Percentile £750 £738 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 225 301
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.21 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.70 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £37.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +33.93% +33.02%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.38 £77.50 £67.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £36.25 £21.05
% change year-on-year -50.34% +72.21% -

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Accessibility over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England +51 382 £475 -7.32% 302
UK excluding London +15 224 £463 -5.27% 191
Work from Home +51 222 £463 -7.50% 142
London +71 220 £494 -10.23% 121
Scotland +8 80 £463 -5.13% 14
North of England +19 72 £463 -13.35% 55
North West +28 43 £478 -12.18% 30
South East +16 36 £436 +12.58% 37
South West +16 22 £580 -3.33% 29
Yorkshire +14 22 £425 -19.05% 17
Midlands +2 10 £410 -7.61% 42
West Midlands +15 9 £410 -15.90% 32
North East +10 7 £453 -21.26% 9
East of England +12 2 £700 +69.70% 15
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 - 5
East Midlands +9 1 £400 +3.90% 11

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 49 (9.28%) CMS
2 14 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.46%) nginx
3 13 (2.46%) WordPress
4 11 (2.08%) Confluence
5 10 (1.89%) Drupal
6 8 (1.52%) govService
7 6 (1.14%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.38%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.38%) Moodle
11 1 (0.19%) Jadu
11 1 (0.19%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.19%) SAS
11 1 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 30 (5.68%) Sketch
2 26 (4.92%) Adobe XD
3 23 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (3.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (2.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 12 (2.27%) InVision
7 5 (0.95%) Zeplin
8 3 (0.57%) Adobe Captivate
8 3 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.57%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.38%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.38%) Camtasia
9 2 (0.38%) Lectora
9 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
10 1 (0.19%) InDesign
10 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.57%) Aareon QL
2 3 (0.57%) Shopify
3 2 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.19%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.19%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.19%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.19%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 85 (16.10%) AWS
2 57 (10.80%) Azure
3 46 (8.71%) Figma
4 40 (7.58%) Serverless
5 36 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (5.87%) AWS Lambda
7 30 (5.68%) Amazon S3
8 29 (5.49%) GitHub
9 25 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (3.41%) OpenShift
12 17 (3.22%) Azure Pipelines
13 15 (2.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 15 (2.84%) Azure Service Bus
13 15 (2.84%) Power Platform
14 13 (2.46%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
15 7 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (1.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.70%) Intranet
2 4 (0.76%) HTTP
3 3 (0.57%) Internet
3 3 (0.57%) VoIP
4 2 (0.38%) Firewall
4 2 (0.38%) FTP
5 1 (0.19%) 4G
5 1 (0.19%) LAN
5 1 (0.19%) SMS
5 1 (0.19%) SSH
5 1 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.39%) SQL Server
2 35 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (4.92%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.27%) Power BI
6 9 (1.70%) MySQL
7 8 (1.52%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.33%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.14%) Oracle Database
9 6 (1.14%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.95%) Big Data
11 4 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.76%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.76%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.76%) Metadata
11 4 (0.76%) Tableau
12 3 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.57%) GIS
13 2 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 50 (9.47%) Git
2 36 (6.82%) Selenium
3 35 (6.63%) JIRA
4 30 (5.68%) Cypress.io
5 21 (3.98%) Postman
6 19 (3.60%) Jenkins
7 13 (2.46%) JMeter
8 9 (1.70%) Visual Studio
9 8 (1.52%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.52%) WebDriver
9 8 (1.52%) webpack
10 6 (1.14%) Appium
10 6 (1.14%) Axure RP
10 6 (1.14%) GitLab
10 6 (1.14%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.14%) SpecFlow
11 5 (0.95%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.95%) NUnit
12 3 (0.57%) Serenity BDD
12 3 (0.57%) TestNG
General
1 156 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 130 (24.62%) Public Sector
3 64 (12.12%) Finance
4 47 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (7.01%) Marketing
6 29 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (3.98%) Legal
7 21 (3.98%) Publishing
8 15 (2.84%) Local Government
9 14 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.27%) Back Office
11 11 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.52%) Banking
13 7 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.14%) Multimedia
14 6 (1.14%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.95%) Advertising
15 5 (0.95%) Games
15 5 (0.95%) Law
15 5 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 139 (26.33%) Developer
2 114 (21.59%) Designer
3 83 (15.72%) Senior
4 34 (6.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 32 (6.06%) UX Designer
6 31 (5.87%) Lead
7 30 (5.68%) Architect
7 30 (5.68%) Content Designer
8 29 (5.49%) Full Stack Developer
9 28 (5.30%) Senior Developer
10 26 (4.92%) Test Engineer
11 20 (3.79%) Tester
12 19 (3.60%) Analyst
13 18 (3.41%) Project Manager
14 17 (3.22%) Service Designer
15 16 (3.03%) Senior Test Engineer
15 16 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
16 15 (2.84%) Interaction Designer
16 15 (2.84%) Senior Front-End Developer
17 13 (2.46%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (19.89%) CSS
2 104 (19.70%) HTML
3 86 (16.29%) React
4 48 (9.09%) .NET
5 33 (6.25%) Node.js
6 30 (5.68%) AWS CDK
6 30 (5.68%) REST
7 27 (5.11%) .NET Core
8 22 (4.17%) Playwright
9 20 (3.79%) AngularJS
9 20 (3.79%) RESTful
9 20 (3.79%) Sass
10 17 (3.22%) jQuery
11 16 (3.03%) ASP.NET
11 16 (3.03%) Vue
12 14 (2.65%) Laravel
12 14 (2.65%) Spring
12 14 (2.65%) Spring Boot
12 14 (2.65%) WebSockets
13 13 (2.46%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.87%) Product Ownership
2 27 (5.11%) Management Information System
3 25 (4.73%) Mobile App
4 13 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.70%) NHS
5 9 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.33%) Photography
7 6 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.14%) e-Learning
7 6 (1.14%) Graphic Design
7 6 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 5 (0.95%) Data Structures
8 5 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (0.95%) Podcast
9 4 (0.76%) Animation
9 4 (0.76%) Smartphone
9 4 (0.76%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.76%) VLE
10 3 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.57%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.73%) Linux
2 16 (3.03%) Unix
3 15 (2.84%) Windows
4 7 (1.33%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.14%) Android
6 4 (0.76%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (39.39%) Agile
2 149 (28.22%) User Experience
3 96 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 81 (15.34%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 80 (15.15%) UX Design
6 74 (14.02%) User Research
7 70 (13.26%) TDD
8 69 (13.07%) CI/CD
8 69 (13.07%) DevOps
9 64 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 52 (9.85%) Front End Development
11 52 (9.85%) Full Stack Development
12 48 (9.09%) Service Design
13 45 (8.52%) Analytics
13 45 (8.52%) Microservices
14 43 (8.14%) Scrum
15 41 (7.77%) Mentoring
15 41 (7.77%) Project Management
16 39 (7.39%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 139 (26.33%) JavaScript
2 75 (14.20%) TypeScript
3 62 (11.74%) Java
4 46 (8.71%) SQL
5 39 (7.39%) C#
5 39 (7.39%) Python
6 16 (3.03%) Bicep
6 16 (3.03%) PHP
7 10 (1.89%) Bash
8 6 (1.14%) Ruby
8 6 (1.14%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.76%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.76%) Swift
10 1 (0.19%) Ada
10 1 (0.19%) Groovy
10 1 (0.19%) R
10 1 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 78 (14.77%) Security Cleared
2 65 (12.31%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.66%) Degree
4 11 (2.08%) DBS Check
5 10 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.52%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (0.57%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.38%) ISEB
10 2 (0.38%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.19%) CITP
11 1 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.19%) PMP
11 1 (0.19%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (14.96%) WCAG
2 42 (7.95%) QA
3 13 (2.46%) Disclosure Scotland
4 12 (2.27%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.95%) SLA
6 4 (0.76%) GDPR
7 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.19%) GMP
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.19%) NCSC
8 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 29 (5.49%) Docker
2 15 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (4.36%) Grafana
2 14 (2.65%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.33%) Terraform
4 5 (0.95%) Kibana
5 2 (0.38%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.19%) Ansible
6 1 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.19%) Packer
6 1 (0.19%) Puppet
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 64 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 52 (9.85%) Adobe
3 14 (2.65%) Oracle
4 10 (1.89%) SAP
5 6 (1.14%) Google
5 6 (1.14%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.14%) ServiceNow
6 5 (0.95%) Databricks
6 5 (0.95%) Reuters
7 4 (0.76%) Brio
7 4 (0.76%) Hotjar
7 4 (0.76%) Remedy
7 4 (0.76%) Screaming Frog
7 4 (0.76%) Sitecore
7 4 (0.76%) VMware
8 3 (0.57%) Aareon
8 3 (0.57%) Apple
8 3 (0.57%) ESRI
8 3 (0.57%) HP
8 3 (0.57%) IBM