Accessibility (a11y)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Accessibility skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Accessibility over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 280 232
Rank change year-on-year +10 -48 +135
Permanent jobs citing Accessibility 1,040 1,301 2,890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 1.31% 1.78%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.66% 6.94% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 631 524 905
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,078 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -8.02% +7.47% -3.43%
75th Percentile £66,650 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,150
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £47,444
% change year-on-year -8.90% +15.68% -5.11%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,583 18,751 27,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.59% 18.85% 17.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,180 8,732 13,339
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,603
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.04% +0.22%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Accessibility.

Salary trend for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Accessibility over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Accessibility in the UK

Accessibility
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -30 792 £55,000 -4.35% 334
UK excluding London -3 712 £50,000 -8.90% 216
Work from Home +22 406 £57,500 -2.13% 158
London -31 228 £64,500 -0.77% 138
North of England +115 226 £57,965 +5.62% 48
Midlands -70 137 £53,750 -5.70% 41
Scotland +16 126 £55,000 +19.16% 12
North West +54 125 £57,500 -4.17% 27
South East -67 102 £40,000 -20.00% 73
West Midlands -26 99 £60,000 -1.21% 30
Yorkshire +100 66 £52,500 -4.34% 11
South West -39 53 £50,000 -9.09% 21
East of England +7 38 £34,500 -31.00% 23
North East +20 35 £57,965 +2.59% 10
East Midlands -79 34 £37,500 -25.00% 11
Wales +18 16 £55,900 +5.49% 5
Northern Ireland +36 14 £58,800 - 3

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 37 (3.56%) SharePoint
2 36 (3.46%) CMS
3 31 (2.98%) IIS
4 30 (2.88%) Apache
5 27 (2.60%) Tomcat
6 20 (1.92%) Confluence
7 18 (1.73%) Umbraco
8 16 (1.54%) WordPress
9 8 (0.77%) Sitecore CMS
10 7 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.58%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.58%) SAS
12 4 (0.38%) OpenZeppelin
13 3 (0.29%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.29%) Moodle
13 3 (0.29%) Orchard CMS
14 1 (0.096%) Drupal
14 1 (0.096%) Totara
Applications
1 66 (6.35%) Sketch
2 60 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 26 (2.50%) Adobe XD
5 23 (2.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 16 (1.54%) InVision
7 11 (1.06%) Adobe Captivate
8 8 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (0.77%) Photoshop
9 7 (0.67%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.48%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.48%) Revit
11 4 (0.38%) InDesign
12 3 (0.29%) Trello
12 3 (0.29%) UserZoom
13 2 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
14 1 (0.096%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 70 (6.73%) NEC Housing
2 20 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.06%) Shopify
4 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.096%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.096%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 156 (15.00%) Azure
2 144 (13.85%) AWS
3 83 (7.98%) Figma
4 64 (6.15%) Power Platform
5 47 (4.52%) Miro
6 46 (4.42%) Heroku
7 39 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (3.56%) GCP
9 35 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
10 24 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (2.31%) SaaS
11 21 (2.02%) Serverless
12 18 (1.73%) GitHub
13 14 (1.35%) Google Analytics
13 14 (1.35%) IaaS
14 12 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (1.06%) Google Tag Manager
15 11 (1.06%) SurveyMonkey
16 8 (0.77%) Amazon S3
17 7 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.44%) HTTP
2 14 (1.35%) Intranet
3 13 (1.25%) Internet
4 10 (0.96%) LAN
4 10 (0.96%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.96%) WAN
5 8 (0.77%) DNS
6 5 (0.48%) Firewall
7 4 (0.38%) Broadband
7 4 (0.38%) DHCP
7 4 (0.38%) IPFS
7 4 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.38%) WPA
8 2 (0.19%) Network Security
8 2 (0.19%) SNA
8 2 (0.19%) Wireless
9 1 (0.096%) FTP
9 1 (0.096%) SAN
9 1 (0.096%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (0.096%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (7.02%) SQL Server
2 52 (5.00%) Oracle Database
3 46 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (4.23%) Power BI
5 28 (2.69%) Relational Database
6 27 (2.60%) Tableau
7 23 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (2.12%) Oracle Database 12c
9 17 (1.63%) MongoDB
10 16 (1.54%) Big Data
11 14 (1.35%) NoSQL
12 10 (0.96%) GIS
13 7 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
13 7 (0.67%) Spatial Data
14 6 (0.58%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.58%) EDMS
14 6 (0.58%) MySQL
15 5 (0.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 5 (0.48%) Looker
Development Applications
1 110 (10.58%) Git
2 52 (5.00%) JIRA
3 26 (2.50%) Visual Studio
4 23 (2.21%) Jenkins
5 22 (2.12%) Postman
6 20 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
7 18 (1.73%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.54%) Jasmine
8 16 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
9 15 (1.44%) JMeter
9 15 (1.44%) Karma Test Runner
9 15 (1.44%) Selenium
10 14 (1.35%) Axure RP
10 14 (1.35%) Balsamiq
11 13 (1.25%) Cypress.io
11 13 (1.25%) SpecFlow
12 12 (1.15%) webpack
13 11 (1.06%) SoapUI
14 9 (0.87%) JUnit
14 9 (0.87%) TeamCity
General
1 320 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 270 (25.96%) Finance
3 200 (19.23%) Public Sector
4 195 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 176 (16.92%) Marketing
6 124 (11.92%) Analytical Skills
7 104 (10.00%) Law
8 75 (7.21%) Police
9 74 (7.12%) Local Government
10 73 (7.02%) Banking
11 47 (4.52%) Investment Banking
12 39 (3.75%) Financial Institution
13 38 (3.65%) Legal
14 37 (3.56%) Retail
15 32 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
16 26 (2.50%) Back Office
17 25 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
18 21 (2.02%) Telecoms
19 19 (1.83%) French Language
20 15 (1.44%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 253 (24.33%) Senior
2 185 (17.79%) Designer
3 154 (14.81%) Developer
4 111 (10.67%) Lead
5 80 (7.69%) Senior Designer
6 78 (7.50%) UX Designer
7 68 (6.54%) Software Engineer
8 66 (6.35%) UI Designer
9 61 (5.87%) UI/UX Designer
10 60 (5.77%) Senior UX Designer
11 51 (4.90%) Interaction Designer
12 48 (4.62%) Senior UI Designer
13 46 (4.42%) Senior UI/UX Designer
13 46 (4.42%) User Researcher
14 40 (3.85%) Lead Software Engineer
15 36 (3.46%) Administrator
15 36 (3.46%) Architect
16 35 (3.37%) Full Stack Developer
16 35 (3.37%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
16 35 (3.37%) Senior User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 289 (27.79%) HTML
2 223 (21.44%) CSS
3 103 (9.90%) React
4 88 (8.46%) .NET
5 83 (7.98%) Node.js
6 82 (7.88%) AngularJS
7 81 (7.79%) RESTful
8 66 (6.35%) Web Services
9 54 (5.19%) REST
10 49 (4.71%) Vue
11 44 (4.23%) ASP.NET
11 44 (4.23%) jQuery
12 40 (3.85%) Sass
13 34 (3.27%) Spring
14 33 (3.17%) Spring Boot
15 30 (2.88%) HTML5
15 30 (2.88%) OAuth
16 29 (2.79%) ASP.NET Web API
17 25 (2.40%) Swagger
18 22 (2.12%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 80 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 59 (5.67%) Cloud Native
3 47 (4.52%) Public Cloud
4 44 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
5 42 (4.04%) Management Information System
6 41 (3.94%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.60%) Mobile App
8 25 (2.40%) Social Media
9 24 (2.31%) Driving Licence
10 21 (2.02%) NHS
11 19 (1.83%) Algorithms
11 19 (1.83%) e-Learning
11 19 (1.83%) FMCG
12 13 (1.25%) Animation
12 13 (1.25%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.15%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.15%) Graphic Design
13 12 (1.15%) Taxonomies
14 11 (1.06%) Blockchain
14 11 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 66 (6.35%) Windows
2 56 (5.38%) Unix
3 43 (4.13%) Linux
4 27 (2.60%) Solaris
5 19 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.54%) Apple iOS
7 14 (1.35%) Android
8 6 (0.58%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.19%) VMS
9 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (36.35%) Agile
2 255 (24.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 244 (23.46%) User Experience
4 222 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
5 205 (19.71%) Coaching
6 163 (15.67%) UX Design
7 158 (15.19%) CI/CD
8 151 (14.52%) Actionable Insight
8 151 (14.52%) Mentoring
9 149 (14.33%) Software Engineering
10 146 (14.04%) Prototyping
11 127 (12.21%) Customer Experience
12 124 (11.92%) Workshop Facilitation
13 123 (11.83%) User Research
14 113 (10.87%) Front End Development
15 109 (10.48%) Decision-Making
16 107 (10.29%) Analytics
17 105 (10.10%) Digital Customer Experience
18 102 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
19 101 (9.71%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 256 (24.62%) JavaScript
2 137 (13.17%) SQL
3 111 (10.67%) C#
4 98 (9.42%) Python
5 94 (9.04%) TypeScript
6 56 (5.38%) Java
7 39 (3.75%) PHP
8 27 (2.60%) Shell Script
9 25 (2.40%) T-SQL
10 21 (2.02%) Go
11 16 (1.54%) R
12 14 (1.35%) Rust
13 5 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.48%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.38%) Scala
14 4 (0.38%) Solidity
15 3 (0.29%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.29%) Bash
15 3 (0.29%) Dart
15 3 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 232 (22.31%) Degree
2 212 (20.38%) Security Cleared
3 145 (13.94%) SC Cleared
4 32 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (2.79%) Master's Degree
6 28 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (2.12%) Oracle Certification
8 17 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.35%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.06%) PhD
11 9 (0.87%) CIPD
11 9 (0.87%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.87%) MBA
12 6 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
13 5 (0.48%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.38%) GIAC
14 4 (0.38%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.29%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (16.06%) WCAG
2 68 (6.54%) QA
3 39 (3.75%) Data Quality
4 30 (2.88%) GDPR
5 17 (1.63%) WAI
6 15 (1.44%) SLA
7 12 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.77%) PMO
10 6 (0.58%) CDISC
10 6 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.096%) COBIT
12 1 (0.096%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.096%) NIST
12 1 (0.096%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 26 (2.50%) Docker
3 11 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 20 (1.92%) Terraform
2 15 (1.44%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.58%) Grafana
4 2 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.096%) Ansible
5 1 (0.096%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.096%) Plesk
5 1 (0.096%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.096%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 176 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 70 (6.73%) NEC
3 63 (6.06%) Oracle
4 59 (5.67%) Adobe
5 32 (3.08%) Google
6 17 (1.63%) VMware
7 12 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.06%) Cisco
8 11 (1.06%) Sitecore
9 8 (0.77%) Atlassian
10 7 (0.67%) Databricks
10 7 (0.67%) Mapbox
10 7 (0.67%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.58%) Hotjar
11 6 (0.58%) iManage
11 6 (0.58%) Marketo
11 6 (0.58%) WooCommerce
12 5 (0.48%) ATG
12 5 (0.48%) DevExpress
12 5 (0.48%) Xamarin