Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 691 888 989
Rank change year-on-year +197 +101 -169
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 215 105 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.59% 0.53% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 143 47 99
10th Percentile £40,988 £42,454 £22,500
25th Percentile £47,925 £42,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £47,500 £42,074
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% +12.90% -37.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £76,500 £83,775
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £43,750 £32,500
% change year-on-year +32.49% +34.62% -18.75%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,528 19,692 26,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.72% 18.97% 16.76%
Number of salaries quoted 9,247 9,122 13,236
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% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,438 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -

WCAG
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in the UK

WCAG
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for WCAG in the UK

WCAG
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WCAG over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WCAG in the UK

WCAG
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +178 181 £57,965 +28.81% 21
UK excluding London +141 165 £57,965 +32.49% 13
Work from Home +147 96 £57,965 -3.39% 8
North of England +124 74 £57,965 +44.91% 2
South East +46 43 £66,250 - 3
London +114 42 £52,500 +16.67% 9
North West - 34 £57,965 - 2
Yorkshire +104 26 £57,965 +44.91%
North East - 14 £57,965 -
Scotland - 13 - - 1
Midlands +23 11 £57,965 +54.57% 3
South West -38 10 £57,046 +20.10% 3
Northern Ireland - 8 - -
West Midlands +21 6 £57,965 +54.57% 1
Wales - 6 £67,500 -
East Midlands - 5 - - 2

WCAG
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 8 (3.72%) Moodle
2 3 (1.40%) CMS
2 3 (1.40%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.93%) Confluence
3 2 (0.93%) WordPress
4 1 (0.47%) Totara
Applications
1 56 (26.05%) Sketch
2 17 (7.91%) Adobe XD
3 9 (4.19%) InVision
4 3 (1.40%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.47%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (26.05%) Figma
2 46 (21.40%) Heroku
2 46 (21.40%) Miro
3 18 (8.37%) AWS
4 10 (4.65%) SaaS
5 9 (4.19%) Azure
5 9 (4.19%) GCP
6 4 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.40%) Azure API Management
7 3 (1.40%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (1.40%) Azure Storage
7 3 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.40%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.40%) Serverless
8 1 (0.47%) GitHub
8 1 (0.47%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.40%) Intranet
2 2 (0.93%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.72%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (18.14%) Selenium
2 36 (16.74%) Cypress.io
2 36 (16.74%) Git
3 15 (6.98%) Axure RP
4 13 (6.05%) Balsamiq
5 10 (4.65%) webpack
6 4 (1.86%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.40%) Moq
7 3 (1.40%) Postman
7 3 (1.40%) SoapUI
7 3 (1.40%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.93%) JIRA
9 1 (0.47%) Babel
9 1 (0.47%) ESLint
9 1 (0.47%) GitKraken
9 1 (0.47%) gulp
9 1 (0.47%) JetBrains Rider
9 1 (0.47%) ReSharper
9 1 (0.47%) Vite
General
1 75 (34.88%) Public Sector
2 27 (12.56%) Social Skills
3 21 (9.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (7.44%) Marketing
5 13 (6.05%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.72%) Finance
8 6 (2.79%) Law
9 5 (2.33%) Banking
9 5 (2.33%) Retail
10 3 (1.40%) Polish Language
11 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 120 (55.81%) Senior
2 101 (46.98%) Designer
3 66 (30.70%) Senior Designer
4 64 (29.77%) UX Designer
5 60 (27.91%) Developer
6 59 (27.44%) UI Designer
6 59 (27.44%) UI/UX Designer
7 49 (22.79%) Senior UX Designer
8 46 (21.40%) Senior UI Designer
8 46 (21.40%) Senior UI/UX Designer
9 41 (19.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 36 (16.74%) Interaction Designer
11 27 (12.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 19 (8.84%) Senior Developer
13 18 (8.37%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 17 (7.91%) Senior Interaction Designer
15 13 (6.05%) Consultant
15 13 (6.05%) User Experience Consultant
16 9 (4.19%) Lead
17 8 (3.72%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (63.72%) HTML
2 79 (36.74%) CSS
3 52 (24.19%) React
4 39 (18.14%) HTML5
5 38 (17.67%) Jest
6 36 (16.74%) CSS3
7 11 (5.12%) Node.js
8 9 (4.19%) REST
9 8 (3.72%) GraphQL
10 5 (2.33%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.33%) Vue
11 4 (1.86%) .NET
11 4 (1.86%) .NET Framework
11 4 (1.86%) ASP.NET
11 4 (1.86%) Entity Framework
12 3 (1.40%) .NET Core
12 3 (1.40%) ASP.NET MVC
12 3 (1.40%) jQuery
12 3 (1.40%) Swagger
12 3 (1.40%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.51%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.72%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (3.26%) VLE
4 4 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.40%) Graphic Design
5 3 (1.40%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.40%) NHS
5 3 (1.40%) W3C
6 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.47%) Animation
7 1 (0.47%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.47%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.47%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.47%) SCORM
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (59.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 112 (52.09%) Coaching
3 108 (50.23%) Agile
4 100 (46.51%) Prototyping
5 98 (45.58%) User Experience
6 74 (34.42%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
6 74 (34.42%) UX Design
7 71 (33.02%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
7 71 (33.02%) Mentoring
8 69 (32.09%) Design Patterns
9 68 (31.63%) Problem-Solving
10 61 (28.37%) Front End Development
11 60 (27.91%) Workshop Facilitation
12 59 (27.44%) Actionable Insight
13 48 (22.33%) Customer Experience
14 46 (21.40%) Digital Customer Experience
14 46 (21.40%) Sprint Review
14 46 (21.40%) Stakeholder Management
15 36 (16.74%) Analytics
15 36 (16.74%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 71 (33.02%) JavaScript
2 48 (22.33%) TypeScript
3 42 (19.53%) C#
3 42 (19.53%) PHP
4 5 (2.33%) SQL
5 1 (0.47%) Go
5 1 (0.47%) Java
Qualifications
1 63 (29.30%) Degree
2 59 (27.44%) Security Cleared
3 58 (26.98%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.79%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (79.53%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.33%) GDPR
3 3 (1.40%) QA
System Software
1 37 (17.21%) Docker
2 3 (1.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (16.28%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (8.37%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.51%) Adobe
3 9 (4.19%) Google
4 3 (1.40%) HP
4 3 (1.40%) Qualtrics
5 2 (0.93%) Monetate
5 2 (0.93%) Qubit