WCAG Jobs in England

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for WCAG skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WCAG over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 652 829 936
Rank change year-on-year +177 +107 -160
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 171 91 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.44% 0.53% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 131 34 99
10th Percentile £40,988 £42,454 £22,500
25th Percentile £47,925 £42,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.81% +12.50% -50.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £77,625 £83,775
UK median annual salary £57,965 £49,500 £41,517
% change year-on-year +17.10% +19.23% -36.13%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

WCAG is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,908 17,049 22,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.78% 19.31% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 8,312 7,855 11,801
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,915 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing WCAG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in England

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Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WCAG in England.

Salary trend for WCAG in England

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WCAG in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WCAG in England

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Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +118 74 £57,965 +10.41% 4
South East +29 39 £66,250 +6.00% 4
London +113 36 £50,000 +11.11% 11
North West - 34 £57,965 - 2
Yorkshire +96 26 £57,965 +10.41%
North East - 14 £57,965 - 2
Midlands +3 11 £57,965 +54.57% 1
South West -36 10 £57,046 +20.10% 2
West Midlands +19 6 £57,965 +54.57%
East Midlands - 5 - - 1
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (2.92%) Moodle
2 3 (1.75%) CMS
2 3 (1.75%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.17%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) Totara
Applications
1 31 (18.13%) Sketch
2 14 (8.19%) Adobe XD
3 3 (1.75%) InVision
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.58%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (18.13%) Figma
2 28 (16.37%) Heroku
2 28 (16.37%) Miro
3 17 (9.94%) AWS
4 6 (3.51%) GCP
4 6 (3.51%) SaaS
5 5 (2.92%) Azure
6 2 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.58%) Azure API Management
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Storage
7 1 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.58%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.58%) npm
7 1 (0.58%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.75%) Intranet
2 2 (1.17%) HTTP
3 1 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (19.30%) Selenium
2 32 (18.71%) Cypress.io
2 32 (18.71%) Git
3 14 (8.19%) Axure RP
4 13 (7.60%) Balsamiq
5 8 (4.68%) webpack
6 2 (1.17%) JIRA
7 1 (0.58%) Babel
7 1 (0.58%) ESLint
7 1 (0.58%) gulp
7 1 (0.58%) Moq
7 1 (0.58%) Postman
7 1 (0.58%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.58%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.58%) Vite
General
1 75 (43.86%) Public Sector
2 15 (8.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (7.60%) Marketing
3 13 (7.60%) Presentation Skills
3 13 (7.60%) Social Skills
4 5 (2.92%) Retail
5 3 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.17%) Banking
7 1 (0.58%) Finance
7 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (54.97%) Senior
2 74 (43.27%) Designer
3 49 (28.65%) Developer
4 45 (26.32%) Senior Designer
5 37 (21.64%) UX Designer
6 36 (21.05%) Interaction Designer
6 36 (21.05%) UI Designer
6 36 (21.05%) UI/UX Designer
7 34 (19.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 28 (16.37%) Senior UI Designer
8 28 (16.37%) Senior UI/UX Designer
8 28 (16.37%) Senior UX Designer
9 27 (15.79%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 17 (9.94%) Senior Interaction Designer
11 16 (9.36%) Senior Developer
11 16 (9.36%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 13 (7.60%) Consultant
12 13 (7.60%) User Experience Consultant
13 6 (3.51%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 6 (3.51%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (56.73%) HTML
2 62 (36.26%) CSS
3 42 (24.56%) React
4 34 (19.88%) HTML5
4 34 (19.88%) Jest
5 31 (18.13%) CSS3
6 8 (4.68%) Node.js
7 6 (3.51%) GraphQL
7 6 (3.51%) REST
8 3 (1.75%) jQuery
8 3 (1.75%) Vue
9 2 (1.17%) Enzyme
10 1 (0.58%) .NET Core
10 1 (0.58%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.58%) Gherkin
10 1 (0.58%) Material-UI
10 1 (0.58%) Next.js
10 1 (0.58%) Parceljs
10 1 (0.58%) Playwright
10 1 (0.58%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.60%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.34%) VLE
4 3 (1.75%) NHS
5 2 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.58%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.58%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.58%) SCORM
6 1 (0.58%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (61.99%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 93 (54.39%) Coaching
3 87 (50.88%) Agile
4 73 (42.69%) Prototyping
5 63 (36.84%) Mentoring
5 63 (36.84%) User Experience
6 48 (28.07%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
6 48 (28.07%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
7 47 (27.49%) Front End Development
8 46 (26.90%) Design Patterns
9 41 (23.98%) UX Design
10 40 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (21.05%) Analytics
11 36 (21.05%) Interaction Design
11 36 (21.05%) Workshop Facilitation
12 35 (20.47%) Actionable Insight
13 31 (18.13%) Artificial Intelligence
13 31 (18.13%) Computer Science
13 31 (18.13%) Propensity Modelling
14 30 (17.54%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 55 (32.16%) JavaScript
2 40 (23.39%) TypeScript
3 35 (20.47%) C#
3 35 (20.47%) PHP
4 4 (2.34%) SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (28.65%) Degree
2 36 (21.05%) Security Cleared
3 35 (20.47%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.58%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (78.36%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.92%) GDPR
3 2 (1.17%) QA
System Software
1 32 (18.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (18.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (8.77%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.19%) Adobe
3 6 (3.51%) Google
4 3 (1.75%) HP
5 2 (1.17%) Monetate
5 2 (1.17%) Qubit