Accessibility Contracts in the West Midlands

Accessibility (a11y)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 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 108 116 138
Rank change year-on-year +8 +22 -33
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 8 15 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.41% 0.67% 1.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.72% 4.03% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 31
10th Percentile £376 £262 £380
25th Percentile £400 £395 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £488 £543
Median % change year-on-year -15.90% -10.22% +14.32%
75th Percentile £415 £519 £575
90th Percentile £496 £548 £586
England median daily rate £480 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £18.13 £20.07 £75.00
% change year-on-year -9.64% -73.25% +194.12%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 294 372 524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.12% 16.54% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 233 361
10th Percentile £258 £263 £270
25th Percentile £347 £355 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £614 £588 £575
90th Percentile £790 £679 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 6
10th Percentile £12.81 £11.75 £11.50
25th Percentile £13.25 £13.40 £12.54
Median hourly rate £14.60 £27.32 £14.83
Median % change year-on-year -46.55% +84.19% -5.84%
75th Percentile £49.73 £28.75 £19.38
90th Percentile £58.75 £30.00 £20.00
England median hourly rate £23.65 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -44.35% +54.55% +30.95%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the West Midlands

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the West Midlands

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the West Midlands

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the West Midlands

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +12 3 £360 +6.67% 9
Warwickshire - 2 £410 - 2
Coventry +8 1 £400 -20.00% 1
Worcestershire - 1 £550 - 3
Accessibility
England

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (25.00%) CMS
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) Headless CMS
2 1 (12.50%) Jadu
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (12.50%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Figma
2 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) webpack
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (25.00%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Designer
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Service Designer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Next.js
1 2 (25.00%) React
1 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Sling
2 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) Web Accessibility
3 2 (25.00%) Contingency Planning
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) BPR
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Content Management
4 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Data Mapping
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) Data-Flow Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Usability Testing
4 1 (12.50%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe