WCAG Contracts in Scotland

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 103 147 163
Rank change year-on-year +44 +16 -10
Contract jobs citing WCAG 12 17 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.56% 0.64% 0.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.09% 3.18% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 12
10th Percentile £219 £394 £405
25th Percentile £266 - £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £420 £488
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -13.85% +32.65%
75th Percentile £575 £479 £571
90th Percentile - £510 £658
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +18.34%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 388 535 677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.11% 20.02% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 430 510
10th Percentile £182 £181 £225
25th Percentile £313 £395 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% +5.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £523 £538 £545
90th Percentile £600 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 20
10th Percentile - £13.56 £12.28
25th Percentile £13.52 £14.17 £16.09
Median hourly rate £14.98 £18.13 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -17.35% -39.00% +32.07%
75th Percentile £19.79 £28.90 £44.63
90th Percentile £60.75 £40.20 £56.00
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for WCAG in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +26 10 £438 +4.17% 2
Glasgow +15 2 £480 +1.05%
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (25.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (8.33%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) MariaDB
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) webpack
General
1 11 (91.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Designer
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) UX Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior UX Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) HTML
1 3 (25.00%) Web Services
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) CSS3
3 1 (8.33%) HTML5
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) Redux
3 1 (8.33%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 6 (50.00%) Contextual Inquiry
2 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 6 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 6 (50.00%) User Research
3 5 (41.67%) Coaching
3 5 (41.67%) Inclusive Design
4 4 (33.33%) Service Design
5 3 (25.00%) User Experience
5 3 (25.00%) UX Design
6 2 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 2 (16.67%) Web Accessibility
7 1 (8.33%) Analytics
7 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (8.33%) Information Architecture
7 1 (8.33%) SOLID
7 1 (8.33%) Technical Analysis
7 1 (8.33%) User Journey Map
7 1 (8.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bash
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (91.67%) Accessibility
2 5 (41.67%) QA
3 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Google