WCAG Contracts in the UK excluding London

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for WCAG skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WCAG over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 400 446
Rank change year-on-year +32 +46 -58
Contract jobs citing WCAG 30 47 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.01% 1.38% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 38 44
10th Percentile £313 £391 £258
25th Percentile £403 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £494
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -2.78% +36.68%
75th Percentile £569 £558 £531
90th Percentile £575 £641 £575
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +20.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £27.73
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £38.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year +5.26% +37.04% +13.18%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

WCAG is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,980 3,406 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.29% 14.86% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,736 2,222 3,087
10th Percentile £250 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £363 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £455
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +6.81% +7.06%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -2.86% +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 194 202
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.50
25th Percentile £12.72 £18.02 £14.83
Median hourly rate £18.97 £36.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.67% +64.77% +4.76%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.62 £48.56
90th Percentile £68.87 £77.50 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £22.34 £37.50 £27.73
% change year-on-year -40.43% +35.23% +32.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WCAG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WCAG in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for WCAG in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCAG in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WCAG in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WCAG in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for WCAG in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Scotland +37 12 £480 +14.29% 2
North of England +22 11 £438 -13.37% 2
Yorkshire +18 7 £425 -19.05%
South West +8 3 £725 +11.37%
North West +12 2 £550 +36.65% 1
North East +11 2 £453 -9.45% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 - 1
Midlands +22 1 £400 - 2
South East +8 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 £400 - 1
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (10.00%) WordPress
2 1 (3.33%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Adobe XD
1 2 (6.67%) InVision
1 2 (6.67%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (6.67%) Azure
2 2 (6.67%) Figma
3 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.33%) GCP
3 1 (3.33%) Google Analytics
3 1 (3.33%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Internet
2 1 (3.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.33%) MariaDB
1 1 (3.33%) Metadata
1 1 (3.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Selenium
2 6 (20.00%) JMeter
3 2 (6.67%) webpack
4 1 (3.33%) Babel
4 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.33%) ESLint
4 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.33%) Vite
General
1 15 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Finance
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Local Government
5 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Designer
2 7 (23.33%) Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Lead
4 5 (16.67%) Senior
4 5 (16.67%) UX Designer
5 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Test Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Content Designer
6 2 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (6.67%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Designer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Java Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Software Tester
6 2 (6.67%) Tester
7 1 (3.33%) Developer in Test
7 1 (3.33%) Drupal Architect
7 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (3.33%) User Researcher
7 1 (3.33%) Web Information Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) HTML
2 4 (13.33%) CSS
3 3 (10.00%) Web Services
4 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.67%) Node.js
4 2 (6.67%) React
4 2 (6.67%) RESTful
4 2 (6.67%) Vue
5 1 (3.33%) CSS3
5 1 (3.33%) HTML5
5 1 (3.33%) Jest
5 1 (3.33%) jQuery
5 1 (3.33%) Material-UI
5 1 (3.33%) Parceljs
5 1 (3.33%) Redux
5 1 (3.33%) REST
5 1 (3.33%) SAML
5 1 (3.33%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
1 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (3.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) User Experience
2 8 (26.67%) Agile
2 8 (26.67%) User Research
2 8 (26.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 7 (23.33%) Inclusive Design
3 7 (23.33%) Usability Testing
4 6 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 6 (20.00%) Contextual Inquiry
4 6 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 6 (20.00%) User Stories
4 6 (20.00%) UX Design
5 5 (16.67%) Coaching
5 5 (16.67%) Service Design
5 5 (16.67%) Wireframes
6 4 (13.33%) Front End Development
7 3 (10.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
7 3 (10.00%) Prototyping
7 3 (10.00%) SDET
7 3 (10.00%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) Java
2 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.33%) Bash
4 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (90.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
2 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.33%) Verint