WCAG Contracts in England

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring WCAG skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WCAG 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 483 538 651
Rank change year-on-year +55 +113 -101
Contract jobs citing WCAG 67 98 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.32% 1.54% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 69 90
10th Percentile £353 £390 £311
25th Percentile £409 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £534 £638 £600
90th Percentile £613 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +18.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £26.62
25th Percentile - - £27.73
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £28.43
75th Percentile - - £29.12
90th Percentile - - £31.06
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £38.00 £28.43
% change year-on-year +5.26% +33.69% +16.02%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

WCAG 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%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for WCAG in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for WCAG in England

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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 WCAG 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 +69 49 £475 -15.18% 3
North of England +10 11 £450 -10.89% 3
Yorkshire +10 6 £438 -16.67%
North West +12 3 £550 +36.65%
South West -1 3 £725 +11.37%
North East +8 2 £453 -9.45% 3
South East +14 1 - - 1
Midlands +14 1 £400 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £400 -
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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 22 (32.84%) CMS
2 2 (2.99%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.49%) Drupal
3 1 (1.49%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.49%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 26 (38.81%) Azure
2 23 (34.33%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (29.85%) Azure Monitor
4 18 (26.87%) Azure Pipelines
5 16 (23.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 16 (23.88%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (13.43%) GCP
7 8 (11.94%) AWS
8 4 (5.97%) Figma
9 3 (4.48%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (4.48%) GitHub
10 2 (2.99%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.99%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.99%) Miro
10 2 (2.99%) PaaS
10 2 (2.99%) Serverless
11 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.49%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) Internet
1 1 (1.49%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (35.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.99%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (2.99%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.49%) Metadata
4 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (35.82%) Git
2 9 (13.43%) Selenium
3 8 (11.94%) JMeter
4 5 (7.46%) SpecFlow
5 3 (4.48%) Axure RP
5 3 (4.48%) Balsamiq
5 3 (4.48%) Postman
6 2 (2.99%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.49%) Babel
7 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.49%) ESLint
7 1 (1.49%) JIRA
7 1 (1.49%) Vite
7 1 (1.49%) webpack
General
1 19 (28.36%) Public Sector
2 11 (16.42%) Back Office
3 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.48%) Wearables
4 2 (2.99%) Finance
4 2 (2.99%) Legal
4 2 (2.99%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Law
5 1 (1.49%) Local Government
5 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (53.73%) Developer
2 22 (32.84%) Senior
3 20 (29.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 16 (23.88%) Senior Developer
5 12 (17.91%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 8 (11.94%) Designer
7 4 (5.97%) Azure Developer
7 4 (5.97%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Lead
7 4 (5.97%) Service Designer
7 4 (5.97%) Test Leader
7 4 (5.97%) Tester
8 3 (4.48%) .NET Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Angular Developer
8 3 (4.48%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (4.48%) UX Specialist
9 2 (2.99%) Content Designer
9 2 (2.99%) QA Specialist
9 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (46.27%) CSS
2 28 (41.79%) HTML
3 24 (35.82%) .NET
3 24 (35.82%) .NET Core
4 20 (29.85%) React
5 16 (23.88%) jQuery
6 15 (22.39%) ASP.NET
7 12 (17.91%) ASP.NET MVC
8 11 (16.42%) REST
9 10 (14.93%) AngularJS
10 6 (8.96%) SAML
10 6 (8.96%) Tailwind CSS
11 5 (7.46%) Playwright
12 4 (5.97%) XML
13 3 (4.48%) NgRx
13 3 (4.48%) RxJS
14 2 (2.99%) Vue
14 2 (2.99%) Vuex
14 2 (2.99%) XML Schema
14 2 (2.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.37%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.99%) CCTV
2 2 (2.99%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.49%) Taxonomies
3 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (52.24%) Agile
2 28 (41.79%) DevOps
3 24 (35.82%) Front End Development
4 22 (32.84%) TDD
5 21 (31.34%) API Management
5 21 (31.34%) OO
5 21 (31.34%) OOD
6 17 (25.37%) User Experience
7 14 (20.90%) Clean Code
7 14 (20.90%) MVC
8 12 (17.91%) CI/CD
9 10 (14.93%) Test Automation
9 10 (14.93%) User Stories
10 8 (11.94%) Migration
10 8 (11.94%) Scrum
10 8 (11.94%) User Research
11 7 (10.45%) Acceptance Criteria
11 7 (10.45%) UX Design
12 6 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (8.96%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 35 (52.24%) JavaScript
2 26 (38.81%) TypeScript
3 24 (35.82%) C#
4 16 (23.88%) Bicep
5 8 (11.94%) Java
6 7 (10.45%) SQL
7 1 (1.49%) Ada
7 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.49%) Python
7 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.49%) Degree
3 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (79.10%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.48%) QA
3 2 (2.99%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (23.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.96%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (28.36%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.96%) Google
3 4 (5.97%) Adobe
4 2 (2.99%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.99%) Verint
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle
5 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow