Accessibility Contracts with Work from Home Options

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 153 208 158
Rank change year-on-year +55 -50 +7
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 214 304 766
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.45% 1.23% 1.74%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.05% 10.15% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 240 532
10th Percentile £321 £325 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -1.96% +13.33%
75th Percentile £555 £575 £586
90th Percentile £600 £639 £650
UK median daily rate £468 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -6.50% -3.85% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 11
10th Percentile - - £20.00
25th Percentile £14.00 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £38.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.21% -49.33% +206.12%
75th Percentile £45.00 - £77.50
90th Percentile £61.25 - -
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,129 2,996 5,825
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.39% 12.16% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,475 2,179 4,143
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £420 £423 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £520 £504
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% +3.28% +6.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £730 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 66 125
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.60 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £23.67 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.50 £39.80 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.95% -10.56% +134.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.81 £56.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -39.84% +7.69% +54.76%

Accessibility
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Accessibility trend for jobs with a WFH option

Accessibility
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Accessibility.

Accessibility daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Accessibility over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Accessibility daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Accessibility.

Accessibility hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Accessibility over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Accessibility hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 20 (9.35%) CMS
2 9 (4.21%) nginx
3 6 (2.80%) Confluence
4 5 (2.34%) WordPress
5 3 (1.40%) ArcGIS
5 3 (1.40%) Drupal
6 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.47%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.47%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 8 (3.74%) Adobe XD
1 8 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.80%) Sketch
4 5 (2.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.93%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.93%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.93%) Lectora
5 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.47%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 46 (21.50%) AWS
2 23 (10.75%) Azure
3 19 (8.88%) Serverless
4 18 (8.41%) Amazon S3
5 17 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (7.01%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (5.61%) OpenShift
9 10 (4.67%) Figma
9 10 (4.67%) GitHub
10 9 (4.21%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 8 (3.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (3.74%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (3.74%) Azure Pipelines
11 8 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.80%) Textract
13 4 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.87%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.87%) Rekognition
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.40%) Intranet
2 2 (0.93%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) SMS
3 1 (0.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (8.41%) SQL Server
3 17 (7.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (2.80%) MySQL
5 5 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.87%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.87%) Power BI
7 3 (1.40%) Big Data
7 3 (1.40%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.40%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.93%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.93%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.93%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.93%) Tableau
9 1 (0.47%) Looker
Development Applications
1 23 (10.75%) Git
2 18 (8.41%) Selenium
3 11 (5.14%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.14%) JIRA
4 10 (4.67%) Cypress.io
5 9 (4.21%) JMeter
6 7 (3.27%) Postman
7 5 (2.34%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.34%) WebDriver
8 4 (1.87%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.87%) webpack
9 3 (1.40%) Appium
9 3 (1.40%) GitLab
9 3 (1.40%) NUnit
10 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.93%) git-flow
10 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.93%) WebPageTest
10 2 (0.93%) XCTest
10 2 (0.93%) XCUITest
General
1 61 (28.50%) Social Skills
2 56 (26.17%) Public Sector
3 21 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.48%) Finance
5 12 (5.61%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (5.14%) Marketing
6 11 (5.14%) Publishing
7 5 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.87%) Back Office
8 4 (1.87%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.40%) Electronics
9 3 (1.40%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.93%) Games
10 2 (0.93%) Legal
10 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Retail
11 1 (0.47%) Banking
11 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.47%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 77 (35.98%) Developer
2 37 (17.29%) Designer
3 27 (12.62%) Senior
4 17 (7.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 16 (7.48%) Test Engineer
6 15 (7.01%) Content Designer
7 14 (6.54%) Full Stack Developer
8 12 (5.61%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.14%) Lead
10 10 (4.67%) Architect
11 9 (4.21%) Senior Test Engineer
11 9 (4.21%) Tester
12 8 (3.74%) Software Developer
12 8 (3.74%) User Researcher
13 7 (3.27%) .NET Developer
13 7 (3.27%) Interaction Designer
13 7 (3.27%) Java Developer
13 7 (3.27%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 6 (2.80%) Test Automation Engineer
14 6 (2.80%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (24.77%) CSS
2 52 (24.30%) HTML
3 35 (16.36%) React
4 24 (11.21%) .NET
5 22 (10.28%) Node.js
6 17 (7.94%) AWS CDK
7 15 (7.01%) AngularJS
8 13 (6.07%) REST
9 12 (5.61%) RESTful
10 11 (5.14%) Sass
10 11 (5.14%) Vue
11 10 (4.67%) .NET Core
11 10 (4.67%) ASP.NET
11 10 (4.67%) jQuery
11 10 (4.67%) Laravel
11 10 (4.67%) Playwright
11 10 (4.67%) WebSockets
12 8 (3.74%) Web Services
13 7 (3.27%) ASP.NET MVC
14 6 (2.80%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.54%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.67%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.27%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.34%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.40%) NHS
5 3 (1.40%) Video Editing
6 2 (0.93%) CCTV
6 2 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.93%) e-Learning
6 2 (0.93%) Learning Management System
6 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.93%) W3C
7 1 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.47%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.47%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.47%) Social Media
7 1 (0.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.14%) Linux
1 11 (5.14%) Unix
2 4 (1.87%) Mac OS
2 4 (1.87%) Windows
3 3 (1.40%) Android
3 3 (1.40%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (32.71%) Agile
2 63 (29.44%) User Experience
3 38 (17.76%) Test Automation
4 34 (15.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 31 (14.49%) TDD
6 29 (13.55%) User Research
7 28 (13.08%) DevOps
7 28 (13.08%) UX Design
8 27 (12.62%) CI/CD
8 27 (12.62%) Front End Development
9 24 (11.21%) Code Quality
9 24 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (11.21%) Mentoring
10 22 (10.28%) Microservices
11 21 (9.81%) Full Stack Development
12 19 (8.88%) Coaching
12 19 (8.88%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (8.88%) Scrum
12 19 (8.88%) Web Development
13 18 (8.41%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 72 (33.64%) JavaScript
2 36 (16.82%) TypeScript
3 33 (15.42%) Java
4 19 (8.88%) Python
5 17 (7.94%) C#
6 13 (6.07%) SQL
7 11 (5.14%) PHP
8 8 (3.74%) Bicep
9 7 (3.27%) Ruby
10 5 (2.34%) Bash
11 3 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.93%) Go
12 2 (0.93%) Swift
13 1 (0.47%) Ada
13 1 (0.47%) Groovy
13 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (14.02%) SC Cleared
1 30 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.07%) Degree
3 8 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.87%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.93%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) ISEB
6 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.47%) PMP
6 1 (0.47%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (15.42%) WCAG
2 21 (9.81%) QA
3 5 (2.34%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (1.87%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (9.35%) Docker
2 8 (3.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (5.14%) Grafana
2 8 (3.74%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.87%) Kibana
4 3 (1.40%) Terraform
5 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (8.41%) Adobe
2 15 (7.01%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.80%) SAP
4 5 (2.34%) Oracle
5 3 (1.40%) Brio
5 3 (1.40%) Google
5 3 (1.40%) Remedy
6 2 (0.93%) Apple
6 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.47%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.47%) Databricks
7 1 (0.47%) ESRI
7 1 (0.47%) Facebook
7 1 (0.47%) HP
7 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.47%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.47%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.47%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.47%) Twitter
7 1 (0.47%) Xamarin