WCAG Jobs in the UK excluding London

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring WCAG skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WCAG over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 565 783
Rank change year-on-year +14 +218 -53
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 78 40 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.12% 0.062%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.11% 0.84% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 55 33 29
10th Percentile - £39,600 £39,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,465 £58,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.06% -16.43% +84.63%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £79,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £58,465 £59,684 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.04% -14.74% +40.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

WCAG falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,005 4,749 12,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.91% 13.95% 18.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,807 3,247 6,407
10th Percentile £28,119 £29,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,160 £80,900 £77,700
UK median annual salary £58,465 £60,000 £56,571
% change year-on-year -2.56% +6.06% +2.86%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WCAG in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for WCAG in the UK excluding London

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Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WCAG in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for WCAG in the UK excluding London

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Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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 +1 38 £32,500 -38.10% 7
North West -19 29 £32,500 -30.85% 1
South East -21 27 £77,500 +29.17% 3
West Midlands -20 7 £49,232 -18.96% 4
Midlands -26 7 £49,232 -18.96% 4
North East - 5 £58,465 - 2
Yorkshire +21 4 £58,465 +11.36% 4
Wales - 4 £44,344 -
South West -6 2 - - 3
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UK

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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 21 (26.92%) CMS
2 20 (25.64%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.28%) Apache
3 1 (1.28%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.41%) AWS
2 4 (5.13%) SaaS
3 3 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (3.85%) Serverless
4 2 (2.56%) Boomi
4 2 (2.56%) Figma
4 2 (2.56%) iPaaS
4 2 (2.56%) npm
5 1 (1.28%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (1.28%) Azure
5 1 (1.28%) GitHub
5 1 (1.28%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 20 (25.64%) Intranet
2 1 (1.28%) DNS
2 1 (1.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (26.92%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.56%) Data Hub
4 2 (2.56%) MySQL
5 1 (1.28%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (34.62%) Cypress.io
1 27 (34.62%) Git
1 27 (34.62%) Selenium
2 2 (2.56%) Babel
2 2 (2.56%) ESLint
2 2 (2.56%) GitLab
2 2 (2.56%) Vite
2 2 (2.56%) webpack
3 1 (1.28%) GitKraken
3 1 (1.28%) JetBrains Rider
3 1 (1.28%) ReSharper
3 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.41%) Finance
4 4 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.56%) Local Government
6 1 (1.28%) Advertising
6 1 (1.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 55 (70.51%) Developer
2 42 (53.85%) Senior
3 27 (34.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 23 (29.49%) Senior Developer
5 20 (25.64%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 20 (25.64%) Umbraco Developer
6 10 (12.82%) Designer
6 10 (12.82%) Interaction Designer
6 10 (12.82%) Senior Designer
6 10 (12.82%) Senior Interaction Designer
7 9 (11.54%) Senior Tester
7 9 (11.54%) Tester
8 4 (5.13%) Software Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Development Manager
9 3 (3.85%) Senior Software Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Software Development Manager
9 3 (3.85%) Software Manager
10 2 (2.56%) Integration Developer
10 2 (2.56%) Lead
11 1 (1.28%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (75.64%) CSS
1 59 (75.64%) HTML
2 45 (57.69%) HTML5
3 27 (34.62%) Jest
4 25 (32.05%) CSS3
4 25 (32.05%) React
5 21 (26.92%) jQuery
6 4 (5.13%) Node.js
6 4 (5.13%) RESTful
7 3 (3.85%) .NET
7 3 (3.85%) .NET Framework
7 3 (3.85%) Entity Framework
7 3 (3.85%) Kafka
7 3 (3.85%) Vue
8 2 (2.56%) JSON
8 2 (2.56%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.56%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (2.56%) SOAP
8 2 (2.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 2 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.64%) NHS
2 5 (6.41%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.28%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.28%) Industry 4.0
4 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.28%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.28%) Linux
1 1 (1.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (62.82%) Agile
2 27 (34.62%) Front End Development
3 26 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 26 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 25 (32.05%) Propensity Modelling
5 23 (29.49%) Clean Code
5 23 (29.49%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (26.92%) Content Management
6 21 (26.92%) Web Development
7 20 (25.64%) Customer Requirements
8 19 (24.36%) Coaching
9 15 (19.23%) Mentoring
9 15 (19.23%) Test Automation
10 11 (14.10%) Analytics
11 10 (12.82%) Decision-Making
11 10 (12.82%) Interaction Design
11 10 (12.82%) Prototyping
12 9 (11.54%) Customer Service
12 9 (11.54%) Manual Testing
12 9 (11.54%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 48 (61.54%) C#
2 41 (52.56%) JavaScript
3 28 (35.90%) TypeScript
4 27 (34.62%) PHP
5 23 (29.49%) SQL
6 3 (3.85%) Go
6 3 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 49 (62.82%) Degree
2 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 24 (30.77%) GDPR
3 11 (14.10%) WAI
4 9 (11.54%) QA
5 3 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 26 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (32.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.28%) cPanel
Vendors
1 20 (25.64%) HP
2 1 (1.28%) Adobe
2 1 (1.28%) Google
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.28%) WooCommerce