Accessibility Contracts in the North West

Accessibility (a11y)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 110 105
Rank change year-on-year +19 -5 +15
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 44 40 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.58% 1.33% 1.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.91% 8.89% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 33 51
10th Percentile £435 £391 £250
25th Percentile £450 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £688 £625 £575
90th Percentile £738 £638 £650
England median daily rate £478 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.50% -4.76% +11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 12
10th Percentile £10.57 - £65.00
25th Percentile - - £70.63
Median hourly rate £14.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £78.38
90th Percentile £61.50 - £81.00
England median hourly rate £18.13 £20.07 £72.50
% change year-on-year -9.64% -72.32% +184.31%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 444 450 576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.90% 14.94% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 288 426
10th Percentile £325 £302 £208
25th Percentile £425 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% +3.93%
75th Percentile £598 £575 £588
90th Percentile £694 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 35 35
10th Percentile - £19.00 £10.50
25th Percentile £10.95 £29.65 £12.02
Median hourly rate £12.00 £37.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.00% -25.74% +220.63%
75th Percentile £30.44 £47.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £74.80 £77.50
England median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the North West

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the North West

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in the North West over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the North West

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the North West

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Accessibility in the North West over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Accessibility in the North West

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Manchester +8 32 £575 +13.58% 12
Merseyside - 9 £450 - 2
Cheshire -5 1 £403 -10.56% 3
Accessibility
England

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (11.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Aareon QL
2 1 (2.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.91%) AWS
2 5 (11.36%) Boomi
3 3 (6.82%) Azure
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.55%) BrowserStack
4 2 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (4.55%) IaaS
4 2 (4.55%) PaaS
4 2 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.55%) SaaS
4 2 (4.55%) Serverless
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.27%) GitHub
5 1 (2.27%) SpeedCurve
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (4.55%) Power BI
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.27%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 2 (4.55%) GitLab
2 2 (4.55%) TestCafe
3 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.27%) Gatling
3 1 (2.27%) GoCD
3 1 (2.27%) Pa11y
3 1 (2.27%) Postman
3 1 (2.27%) Selenium
3 1 (2.27%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Finance
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Legal
6 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (25.00%) Architect
2 10 (22.73%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (20.45%) Test Engineer
4 8 (18.18%) Senior
5 6 (13.64%) Senior Test Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Integration Architect
7 4 (9.09%) Telephony Architect
8 3 (6.82%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (4.55%) Developer
9 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) IT Support
9 2 (4.55%) Test Automation Engineer
10 1 (2.27%) AWS Engineer
10 1 (2.27%) Azure Architect
10 1 (2.27%) Cloud Architect
10 1 (2.27%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 1 (2.27%) iOS Android Developer
10 1 (2.27%) iOS Developer
10 1 (2.27%) Report Manager
10 1 (2.27%) Service Management Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) RAML
1 5 (11.36%) REST
1 5 (11.36%) SOAP
2 3 (6.82%) React
3 2 (4.55%) AWS CDK
3 2 (4.55%) CSS
3 2 (4.55%) HTML
3 2 (4.55%) jQuery
3 2 (4.55%) Playwright
3 2 (4.55%) XML
4 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.27%) D3.js
4 1 (2.27%) Jest
4 1 (2.27%) Next.js
4 1 (2.27%) Node.js
4 1 (2.27%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.82%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.82%) Smartphone
3 2 (4.55%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Android
1 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (38.64%) Agile
2 10 (22.73%) Business Strategy
2 10 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (22.73%) Data Privacy
2 10 (22.73%) Enterprise Architecture
2 10 (22.73%) Migration
3 9 (20.45%) Test Automation
4 6 (13.64%) DevOps
4 6 (13.64%) Integration Patterns
4 6 (13.64%) Technical Debt
5 5 (11.36%) API Management
5 5 (11.36%) Budgeting
5 5 (11.36%) Load Testing
5 5 (11.36%) Roadmaps
5 5 (11.36%) Security Testing
5 5 (11.36%) Strategic Roadmap
5 5 (11.36%) Waterfall
6 4 (9.09%) Exploratory Testing
6 4 (9.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 3 (6.82%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 4 (9.09%) SQL
2 3 (6.82%) Java
3 2 (4.55%) C#
3 2 (4.55%) Python
3 2 (4.55%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.27%) PHP
4 1 (2.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) DBS Check
2 2 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) WCAG
2 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.55%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Grafana
1 3 (6.82%) Kibana
2 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.82%) Aareon
3 2 (4.55%) MuleSoft
3 2 (4.55%) Verint
4 1 (2.27%) Databricks
4 1 (2.27%) Mitel
4 1 (2.27%) Remedy