Accessibility Contracts in England

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 231 271 255
Rank change year-on-year +40 -16 -40
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 366 465 797
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.99% 0.97% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.19% 7.21% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 337 559
10th Percentile £328 £313 £368
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £600
90th Percentile £683 £693 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% +13.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 4 17
10th Percentile £14.00 - £23.66
25th Percentile £14.44 £16.77 £29.12
Median hourly rate £18.13 £20.07 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% -73.25% +194.12%
75th Percentile £27.85 £24.46 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.50 £26.43 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £23.36 £70.00
% change year-on-year -22.39% -66.63% +174.51%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,087 6,452 9,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.78% 13.51% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,361 6,380
10th Percentile £300 £300 £294
25th Percentile £406 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -2.86% +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 223 268
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.04 £12.31
25th Percentile £13.18 £20.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.65 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.35% +54.55% +30.95%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.95 £69.07
UK median hourly rate £22.34 £37.50 £27.73
% change year-on-year -40.43% +35.23% +32.05%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in England

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in England

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in England

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in England

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Accessibility in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Accessibility in England

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the England 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
London +57 216 £494 -10.23% 139
North of England +29 71 £469 -7.18% 40
North West +17 41 £575 +12.20% 25
South East 0 32 £425 +7.94% 62
Yorkshire +15 22 £438 -15.46% 5
South West +6 21 £565 +22.16% 24
Midlands +9 10 £400 -15.79% 37
North East +15 8 £453 +0.06% 10
West Midlands +8 8 £410 -15.90% 23
East of England +7 2 £700 +69.70% 25
East Midlands +1 2 £356 -5.00% 14
Accessibility
UK

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 43 (11.75%) CMS
2 12 (3.28%) Drupal
2 12 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.46%) WordPress
4 8 (2.19%) govService
5 6 (1.64%) nginx
6 5 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (1.37%) ArcGIS
6 5 (1.37%) Confluence
7 3 (0.82%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.55%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.55%) SAS
9 1 (0.27%) CoreMedia CMS
9 1 (0.27%) Jadu
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.27%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (7.10%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (4.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 13 (3.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (3.01%) Sketch
6 9 (2.46%) Adobe XD
7 6 (1.64%) InVision
8 2 (0.55%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.55%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.55%) SPSS
9 1 (0.27%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.27%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.27%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.27%) InDesign
9 1 (0.27%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.27%) Trello
9 1 (0.27%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 4 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.82%) Aareon QL
2 3 (0.82%) Shopify
3 2 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.27%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.27%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 54 (14.75%) Azure
2 39 (10.66%) AWS
3 34 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (6.01%) Figma
4 22 (6.01%) GitHub
5 17 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (4.64%) Azure Pipelines
6 16 (4.37%) Power Platform
7 15 (4.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 15 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (3.83%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (2.73%) Serverless
10 9 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.64%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12 6 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.64%) BrowserStack
12 6 (1.64%) PaaS
13 5 (1.37%) GCP
14 4 (1.09%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.46%) Intranet
2 4 (1.09%) HTTP
3 2 (0.55%) FTP
4 1 (0.27%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.20%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (3.28%) Power BI
4 9 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.91%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.64%) Big Data
6 6 (1.64%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.37%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.37%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.09%) MySQL
9 3 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.82%) GIS
9 3 (0.82%) Metadata
9 3 (0.82%) Tableau
10 2 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.55%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.55%) OLAP
10 2 (0.55%) OLTP
10 2 (0.55%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 46 (12.57%) Git
2 23 (6.28%) Selenium
3 19 (5.19%) JIRA
3 19 (5.19%) Postman
4 15 (4.10%) Cypress.io
5 14 (3.83%) JMeter
6 8 (2.19%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.91%) NUnit
8 6 (1.64%) Jenkins
8 6 (1.64%) WebDriver
9 5 (1.37%) Appium
9 5 (1.37%) webpack
10 4 (1.09%) Jasmine
10 4 (1.09%) SpecFlow
11 3 (0.82%) Axure RP
11 3 (0.82%) Balsamiq
11 3 (0.82%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.82%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.82%) Karma Test Runner
11 3 (0.82%) LoadRunner
General
1 105 (28.69%) Social Skills
2 64 (17.49%) Public Sector
3 62 (16.94%) Finance
4 33 (9.02%) Marketing
5 29 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.19%) Legal
7 17 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.37%) Local Government
8 16 (4.37%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (4.10%) Publishing
10 12 (3.28%) Back Office
11 9 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.91%) Retail
13 6 (1.64%) Advertising
13 6 (1.64%) Games
13 6 (1.64%) Multimedia
13 6 (1.64%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.37%) Law
15 4 (1.09%) Financial Institution
15 4 (1.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 83 (22.68%) Developer
2 60 (16.39%) Senior
3 56 (15.30%) Designer
4 25 (6.83%) Architect
5 22 (6.01%) Senior Developer
5 22 (6.01%) Test Engineer
6 20 (5.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 19 (5.19%) Project Manager
8 17 (4.64%) Lead
8 17 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (3.83%) Full Stack Developer
9 14 (3.83%) Senior Test Engineer
9 14 (3.83%) UX Designer
10 13 (3.55%) Analyst
10 13 (3.55%) Tester
11 11 (3.01%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 11 (3.01%) Test Automation Engineer
12 10 (2.73%) Content Designer
13 9 (2.46%) Head of Customer Experience
13 9 (2.46%) Head of Digital
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (16.67%) HTML
2 60 (16.39%) CSS
3 47 (12.84%) React
4 38 (10.38%) .NET
5 23 (6.28%) .NET Core
6 20 (5.46%) AngularJS
7 19 (5.19%) Playwright
8 17 (4.64%) jQuery
9 16 (4.37%) REST
10 15 (4.10%) ASP.NET
11 14 (3.83%) Node.js
12 13 (3.55%) RESTful
13 12 (3.28%) ASP.NET MVC
14 10 (2.73%) GraphQL
14 10 (2.73%) Next.js
15 9 (2.46%) Sass
16 8 (2.19%) Jest
17 7 (1.91%) Laravel
17 7 (1.91%) RxJS
17 7 (1.91%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.83%) Product Ownership
2 22 (6.01%) Management Information System
3 19 (5.19%) Mobile App
4 10 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.46%) NHS
6 7 (1.91%) Graphic Design
6 7 (1.91%) Photography
7 6 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.37%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.37%) Podcast
9 4 (1.09%) Animation
9 4 (1.09%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.09%) Smartphone
10 3 (0.82%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.82%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.55%) Solar Panel
11 2 (0.55%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.28%) Windows
2 10 (2.73%) Linux
3 7 (1.91%) Unix
4 5 (1.37%) Android
4 5 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.09%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.27%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (36.89%) Agile
2 84 (22.95%) User Experience
3 55 (15.03%) Test Automation
4 48 (13.11%) DevOps
5 46 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 46 (12.57%) UX Design
6 45 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (12.02%) TDD
8 42 (11.48%) Front End Development
9 41 (11.20%) Migration
10 39 (10.66%) CI/CD
10 39 (10.66%) Project Management
11 36 (9.84%) User Research
12 34 (9.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 33 (9.02%) Scrum
14 30 (8.20%) Analytics
14 30 (8.20%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (7.10%) Full Stack Development
15 26 (7.10%) OO
16 25 (6.83%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (21.58%) JavaScript
2 45 (12.30%) TypeScript
3 37 (10.11%) SQL
4 36 (9.84%) Java
5 31 (8.47%) C#
6 18 (4.92%) Python
7 16 (4.37%) Bicep
8 10 (2.73%) PHP
9 6 (1.64%) Ruby
10 4 (1.09%) C++
10 4 (1.09%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.09%) Swift
11 3 (0.82%) C
12 2 (0.55%) R
13 1 (0.27%) Ada
13 1 (0.27%) Bash
13 1 (0.27%) Groovy
13 1 (0.27%) Scala
13 1 (0.27%) VB
13 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (12.84%) Security Cleared
2 41 (11.20%) Degree
3 35 (9.56%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.73%) DBS Check
5 7 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.64%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.64%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.55%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.55%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.27%) CISA
8 1 (0.27%) CITP
8 1 (0.27%) CRISC
8 1 (0.27%) ISEB
8 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.27%) PMP
8 1 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (14.48%) WCAG
2 29 (7.92%) QA
3 12 (3.28%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.09%) GDPR
5 3 (0.82%) SLA
6 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.27%) GMP
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 14 (3.83%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.55%) Docker
3 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.91%) Grafana
2 6 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.37%) Terraform
4 3 (0.82%) Kibana
5 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 67 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.74%) Adobe
3 11 (3.01%) SAP
4 10 (2.73%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.64%) Databricks
6 5 (1.37%) Oracle
6 5 (1.37%) Reuters
6 5 (1.37%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.09%) Brio
7 4 (1.09%) Dell
7 4 (1.09%) Google
7 4 (1.09%) Hotjar
7 4 (1.09%) HP
7 4 (1.09%) Remedy
7 4 (1.09%) Screaming Frog
7 4 (1.09%) Sitecore
8 3 (0.82%) Aareon
8 3 (0.82%) ESRI
9 2 (0.55%) Apple
9 2 (0.55%) Splunk
407 Accessibility jobs Nationwide