Accessibility Contracts

Accessibility (a11y)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Accessibility skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Accessibility over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 237 205
Rank change year-on-year +19 -32 -24
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 484 619 1,215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.13% 1.10% 1.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.12% 8.12% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 461 842
10th Percentile £305 £325 £380
25th Percentile £400 £415 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -3.85% +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 5 19
10th Percentile £14.00 - £20.71
25th Percentile £14.50 £16.77 £27.31
Median hourly rate £18.13 £23.36 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.39% -66.63% +174.51%
75th Percentile £31.71 £27.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £33.90 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.50 £16.77 £75.00
% change year-on-year -13.54% -77.64% +194.12%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

Accessibility 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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,959 7,626 11,668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.90% 13.53% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,757 5,187 8,032
10th Percentile £280 £290 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +0.96% +9.47%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £486 £456
% change year-on-year -2.26% +6.58% +7.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 407 244 312
10th Percentile £10.98 £13.29 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.65 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £27.62
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +35.80% +31.50%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.23 £49.44
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.97 £36.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -47.67% +64.77% +4.76%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Accessibility over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +28 363 £478 -4.50% 324
London +54 215 £488 -11.36% 132
Work from Home +48 204 £463 -7.50% 161
UK excluding London -4 204 £463 -3.65% 201
North of England +26 71 £469 -7.18% 40
Scotland +11 66 £463 -5.13% 17
North West +11 41 £575 +12.20% 25
South East +4 32 £425 +7.94% 63
Yorkshire +9 22 £438 -15.46% 5
South West +5 21 £565 +22.16% 24
Midlands +8 10 £400 -15.79% 36
North East +15 8 £453 +0.06% 10
West Midlands +9 8 £410 -15.90% 22
East of England +5 2 £700 +69.70% 24
East Midlands +1 2 £356 -5.00% 14
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 - 4

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 53 (10.95%) CMS
2 14 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.48%) Drupal
4 11 (2.27%) WordPress
5 9 (1.86%) nginx
6 8 (1.65%) Confluence
6 8 (1.65%) govService
7 5 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (1.03%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.62%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.41%) SAS
10 1 (0.21%) CoreMedia CMS
10 1 (0.21%) Jadu
10 1 (0.21%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 26 (5.37%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (3.93%) Sketch
4 17 (3.51%) Adobe XD
5 16 (3.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (1.65%) InVision
8 3 (0.62%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.41%) Camtasia
9 2 (0.41%) Lectora
9 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.41%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.41%) SPSS
10 1 (0.21%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.21%) InDesign
10 1 (0.21%) Trello
10 1 (0.21%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 4 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.62%) Aareon QL
2 3 (0.62%) Shopify
3 2 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.21%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.21%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.21%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 70 (14.46%) AWS
2 58 (11.98%) Azure
3 35 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (6.40%) Figma
4 31 (6.40%) Serverless
5 27 (5.58%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (5.58%) GitHub
6 24 (4.96%) Amazon S3
7 20 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (3.51%) Azure Pipelines
10 16 (3.31%) Power Platform
11 15 (3.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 14 (2.89%) Azure Service Bus
12 14 (2.89%) OpenShift
13 9 (1.86%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
13 9 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (1.24%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.65%) Intranet
2 5 (1.03%) HTTP
3 3 (0.62%) Internet
3 3 (0.62%) VoIP
4 2 (0.41%) FTP
5 1 (0.21%) Firewall
5 1 (0.21%) LAN
5 1 (0.21%) SSH
5 1 (0.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.85%) SQL Server
2 31 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (4.34%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.48%) Power BI
6 10 (2.07%) MySQL
7 9 (1.86%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.65%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.45%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.24%) Big Data
10 6 (1.24%) Metadata
10 6 (1.24%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.03%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (0.62%) GIS
13 3 (0.62%) Tableau
14 2 (0.41%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 52 (10.74%) Git
2 29 (5.99%) JIRA
3 28 (5.79%) Selenium
4 22 (4.55%) Postman
5 21 (4.34%) Cypress.io
6 15 (3.10%) Jenkins
7 14 (2.89%) JMeter
8 10 (2.07%) WebDriver
9 8 (1.65%) Visual Studio
10 7 (1.45%) NUnit
10 7 (1.45%) webpack
11 5 (1.03%) Appium
11 5 (1.03%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.03%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.03%) GitLab
11 5 (1.03%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.83%) Jasmine
12 4 (0.83%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.62%) Axure RP
13 3 (0.62%) Balsamiq
General
1 146 (30.17%) Social Skills
2 116 (23.97%) Public Sector
3 69 (14.26%) Finance
4 46 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (7.02%) Marketing
6 27 (5.58%) Presentation Skills
7 24 (4.96%) Publishing
8 20 (4.13%) Legal
9 18 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (3.31%) Local Government
11 12 (2.48%) Back Office
12 10 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.45%) Banking
13 7 (1.45%) Retail
14 6 (1.24%) Advertising
14 6 (1.24%) Games
14 6 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.24%) Multimedia
14 6 (1.24%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.03%) Law
Job Titles
1 124 (25.62%) Developer
2 91 (18.80%) Designer
3 76 (15.70%) Senior
4 29 (5.99%) Architect
5 27 (5.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 26 (5.37%) Content Designer
6 26 (5.37%) Lead
7 25 (5.17%) Senior Developer
7 25 (5.17%) UX Designer
8 23 (4.75%) Test Engineer
9 20 (4.13%) Full Stack Developer
10 19 (3.93%) Project Manager
11 17 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (3.51%) Tester
12 14 (2.89%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 14 (2.89%) Senior Test Engineer
13 13 (2.69%) Analyst
14 12 (2.48%) Senior Designer
14 12 (2.48%) Test Automation Engineer
14 12 (2.48%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (19.42%) HTML
2 91 (18.80%) CSS
3 76 (15.70%) React
4 47 (9.71%) .NET
5 32 (6.61%) AngularJS
5 32 (6.61%) Node.js
6 29 (5.99%) REST
7 25 (5.17%) .NET Core
7 25 (5.17%) Playwright
8 24 (4.96%) AWS CDK
9 20 (4.13%) RESTful
10 18 (3.72%) jQuery
11 16 (3.31%) Vue
12 15 (3.10%) ASP.NET
13 14 (2.89%) Sass
14 13 (2.69%) Next.js
15 12 (2.48%) ASP.NET MVC
15 12 (2.48%) GraphQL
16 11 (2.27%) Spring
16 11 (2.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.20%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.96%) Management Information System
3 22 (4.55%) Mobile App
4 11 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.86%) NHS
7 8 (1.65%) Graphic Design
8 7 (1.45%) Photography
9 6 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.24%) e-Learning
9 6 (1.24%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.03%) Podcast
11 4 (0.83%) Animation
11 4 (0.83%) Smartphone
11 4 (0.83%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.62%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.62%) Video Editing
13 2 (0.41%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.89%) Linux
2 13 (2.69%) Windows
3 12 (2.48%) Unix
4 6 (1.24%) Android
4 6 (1.24%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.83%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (38.64%) Agile
2 135 (27.89%) User Experience
3 76 (15.70%) Test Automation
4 71 (14.67%) UX Design
5 70 (14.46%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 67 (13.84%) DevOps
7 65 (13.43%) User Research
8 62 (12.81%) CI/CD
8 62 (12.81%) TDD
9 61 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (10.12%) Front End Development
12 47 (9.71%) Analytics
13 43 (8.88%) Migration
13 43 (8.88%) Project Management
14 42 (8.68%) Full Stack Development
15 41 (8.47%) Mentoring
15 41 (8.47%) Scrum
16 35 (7.23%) Service Design
16 35 (7.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (25.21%) JavaScript
2 73 (15.08%) TypeScript
3 50 (10.33%) Java
4 46 (9.50%) SQL
5 36 (7.44%) C#
6 32 (6.61%) Python
7 16 (3.31%) Bicep
8 13 (2.69%) PHP
9 9 (1.86%) Bash
10 7 (1.45%) Ruby
11 6 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.83%) C++
12 4 (0.83%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.83%) Swift
13 3 (0.62%) C
14 2 (0.41%) Go
14 2 (0.41%) R
15 1 (0.21%) Groovy
15 1 (0.21%) Scala
15 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 57 (11.78%) Security Cleared
2 50 (10.33%) Degree
3 45 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.07%) DBS Check
5 9 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.24%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.41%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.21%) CISA
9 1 (0.21%) CITP
9 1 (0.21%) CRISC
9 1 (0.21%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.21%) ISEB
9 1 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.21%) PMP
9 1 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (15.50%) WCAG
2 41 (8.47%) QA
3 12 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (1.03%) SLA
6 4 (0.83%) GDPR
7 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.21%) GMP
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 28 (5.79%) Docker
2 14 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (3.93%) Grafana
2 11 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.03%) Kibana
3 5 (1.03%) Terraform
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 72 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 42 (8.68%) Adobe
3 12 (2.48%) Oracle
4 11 (2.27%) SAP
4 11 (2.27%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.24%) Databricks
5 6 (1.24%) Google
6 5 (1.03%) Reuters
6 5 (1.03%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.83%) Brio
7 4 (0.83%) Dell
7 4 (0.83%) Hotjar
7 4 (0.83%) HP
7 4 (0.83%) Remedy
7 4 (0.83%) Screaming Frog
7 4 (0.83%) Sitecore
8 3 (0.62%) Aareon
8 3 (0.62%) ESRI
9 2 (0.41%) Apple
9 2 (0.41%) Atlassian