Accessibility Contracts in England

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Accessibility skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Accessibility over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 268 251
Rank change year-on-year +25 -17 -30
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 360 457 803
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.96% 0.97% 1.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.10% 7.19% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 336 564
10th Percentile £325 £313 £371
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -4.76% +11.70%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £684 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 4 18
10th Percentile £14.00 - £24.12
25th Percentile £14.50 £16.77 £30.09
Median hourly rate £18.13 £20.07 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% -72.32% +184.31%
75th Percentile £31.71 £24.46 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.00 £26.43 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £18.55 £23.36 £70.00
% change year-on-year -20.59% -66.63% +174.51%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

Accessibility falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,067 6,357 9,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.51% 13.52% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,193 4,313 6,338
10th Percentile £300 £300 £290
25th Percentile £406 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 382 229 265
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.17 £12.56
25th Percentile £12.88 £20.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%
75th Percentile £51.31 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £69.40
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
% change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in England

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in England

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in England

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in England

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Accessibility in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Accessibility in England

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
London +47 213 £475 -13.64% 100
North of England +18 73 £480 -4.95% 42
North West +19 44 £550 +7.32% 22
South East +6 32 £425 +7.94% 47
South West -1 21 £585 +26.49% 25
Yorkshire +6 20 £438 -15.46% 7
North East +13 9 £453 -1.84% 13
Midlands -1 9 £400 -14.67% 30
West Midlands +8 6 £400 -15.79% 18
East Midlands -1 3 £356 -5.00% 12
East of England +3 1 - - 27
Accessibility
UK

Accessibility
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 43 (11.94%) CMS
2 12 (3.33%) Drupal
3 10 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.22%) govService
4 8 (2.22%) WordPress
5 6 (1.67%) nginx
6 5 (1.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (1.39%) Confluence
7 4 (1.11%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.83%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.83%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.56%) SAS
10 1 (0.28%) CoreMedia CMS
10 1 (0.28%) Jadu
10 1 (0.28%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 25 (6.94%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (5.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (3.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 13 (3.61%) Sketch
5 12 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (3.06%) Adobe XD
7 8 (2.22%) InVision
8 2 (0.56%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.56%) OmniGraffle
8 2 (0.56%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.56%) SPSS
8 2 (0.56%) UXPin
9 1 (0.28%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.28%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.28%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.28%) InDesign
9 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.83%) Aareon QL
2 3 (0.83%) Shopify
3 2 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.28%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 59 (16.39%) Azure
2 41 (11.39%) AWS
3 35 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (6.39%) Figma
4 23 (6.39%) GitHub
5 18 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
5 18 (5.00%) Azure Pipelines
6 16 (4.44%) Power Platform
7 15 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 14 (3.89%) Azure Service Bus
8 14 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (3.06%) Serverless
10 10 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (1.94%) BrowserStack
12 7 (1.94%) GCP
13 6 (1.67%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
13 6 (1.67%) PaaS
14 5 (1.39%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.94%) Intranet
2 4 (1.11%) HTTP
3 2 (0.56%) FTP
4 1 (0.28%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (3.33%) Power BI
4 10 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.22%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.94%) Big Data
6 7 (1.94%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.67%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.67%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.39%) MySQL
9 3 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.83%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.83%) Tableau
10 2 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.56%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.56%) GIS
10 2 (0.56%) OLAP
10 2 (0.56%) OLTP
10 2 (0.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (13.06%) Git
2 22 (6.11%) Selenium
3 20 (5.56%) JIRA
4 19 (5.28%) Postman
5 16 (4.44%) Cypress.io
6 14 (3.89%) JMeter
7 9 (2.50%) Visual Studio
8 7 (1.94%) NUnit
9 6 (1.67%) Jenkins
9 6 (1.67%) WebDriver
10 5 (1.39%) Appium
10 5 (1.39%) Axure RP
10 5 (1.39%) Balsamiq
10 5 (1.39%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.39%) webpack
11 4 (1.11%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.83%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.83%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.83%) Karma Test Runner
12 3 (0.83%) LoadRunner
General
1 105 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 60 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 57 (15.83%) Finance
4 29 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.06%) Marketing
5 18 (5.00%) Legal
6 17 (4.72%) Local Government
7 16 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (4.44%) Publishing
8 13 (3.61%) Back Office
9 8 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.94%) Retail
10 7 (1.94%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.67%) Advertising
11 6 (1.67%) Games
11 6 (1.67%) Multimedia
12 5 (1.39%) Law
12 5 (1.39%) Wearables
13 4 (1.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 80 (22.22%) Developer
2 60 (16.67%) Senior
3 56 (15.56%) Designer
4 24 (6.67%) Architect
5 22 (6.11%) Senior Developer
6 21 (5.83%) Test Engineer
7 19 (5.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 18 (5.00%) Project Manager
9 17 (4.72%) Lead
10 16 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (4.44%) UX Designer
11 14 (3.89%) Senior Test Engineer
12 13 (3.61%) Analyst
12 13 (3.61%) Full Stack Developer
12 13 (3.61%) Tester
13 11 (3.06%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 11 (3.06%) Test Automation Engineer
14 10 (2.78%) Content Designer
15 9 (2.50%) Head of Customer Experience
15 9 (2.50%) Head of Digital
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (16.94%) HTML
2 60 (16.67%) CSS
3 48 (13.33%) React
4 37 (10.28%) .NET
5 23 (6.39%) .NET Core
6 20 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 20 (5.56%) Playwright
7 19 (5.28%) REST
8 18 (5.00%) jQuery
9 15 (4.17%) ASP.NET
10 14 (3.89%) Node.js
10 14 (3.89%) RESTful
11 12 (3.33%) ASP.NET MVC
12 11 (3.06%) Next.js
13 10 (2.78%) GraphQL
14 8 (2.22%) Jest
14 8 (2.22%) RxJS
14 8 (2.22%) Sass
15 7 (1.94%) Laravel
15 7 (1.94%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.22%) Product Ownership
2 20 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 19 (5.28%) Mobile App
4 10 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.50%) NHS
6 8 (2.22%) Graphic Design
7 6 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.67%) Photography
8 5 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.39%) Podcast
9 4 (1.11%) Animation
9 4 (1.11%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.11%) Smartphone
10 3 (0.83%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.83%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.83%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.06%) Windows
2 9 (2.50%) Linux
3 7 (1.94%) Unix
4 5 (1.39%) Android
4 5 (1.39%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.11%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (38.33%) Agile
2 88 (24.44%) User Experience
3 56 (15.56%) Test Automation
4 50 (13.89%) DevOps
5 49 (13.61%) UX Design
6 47 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (12.50%) TDD
9 40 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 40 (11.11%) Project Management
10 39 (10.83%) Front End Development
10 39 (10.83%) Migration
11 37 (10.28%) User Research
12 36 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 35 (9.72%) Scrum
14 30 (8.33%) Analytics
15 28 (7.78%) API Management
15 28 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (7.22%) OO
17 25 (6.94%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 77 (21.39%) JavaScript
2 46 (12.78%) TypeScript
3 38 (10.56%) SQL
4 37 (10.28%) Java
5 31 (8.61%) C#
6 17 (4.72%) Python
7 16 (4.44%) Bicep
8 10 (2.78%) PHP
9 5 (1.39%) Ruby
10 4 (1.11%) C++
10 4 (1.11%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.11%) Swift
11 3 (0.83%) C
12 2 (0.56%) R
12 2 (0.56%) Scala
13 1 (0.28%) Ada
13 1 (0.28%) Bash
13 1 (0.28%) Groovy
13 1 (0.28%) VB
13 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 45 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 41 (11.39%) Degree
3 33 (9.17%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.78%) DBS Check
5 9 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.39%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.39%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.56%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.28%) CISA
9 1 (0.28%) CRISC
9 1 (0.28%) ISEB
9 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.28%) PMP
9 1 (0.28%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.28%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (14.72%) WCAG
2 29 (8.06%) QA
3 12 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.11%) GDPR
5 3 (0.83%) SLA
6 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.28%) GMP
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 14 (3.89%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (2.22%) Grafana
2 6 (1.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.39%) Terraform
4 3 (0.83%) Kibana
5 1 (0.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 66 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.17%) Adobe
3 10 (2.78%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.50%) SAP
5 6 (1.67%) Databricks
6 5 (1.39%) Oracle
6 5 (1.39%) Reuters
6 5 (1.39%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.11%) Brio
7 4 (1.11%) Dell
7 4 (1.11%) Google
7 4 (1.11%) Hotjar
7 4 (1.11%) HP
7 4 (1.11%) Remedy
7 4 (1.11%) Screaming Frog
7 4 (1.11%) Sitecore
8 3 (0.83%) Aareon
8 3 (0.83%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.56%) Splunk
9 2 (0.56%) Verint