Accessibility Contracts in the Midlands

Accessibility (a11y)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Accessibility skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Accessibility over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 131 146
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 -8
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 9 27 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.31% 0.84% 1.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.25% 5.66% 8.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 22 47
10th Percentile £328 £263 £380
25th Percentile £360 £324 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £469 £520
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% -9.86% +15.56%
75th Percentile £425 £538 £575
90th Percentile £500 £631 £586
England median daily rate £478 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.50% -4.76% +11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £18.13 £20.07 £72.50
% change year-on-year -9.64% -72.32% +184.31%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

Accessibility falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 400 477 706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.57% 14.82% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 304 510
10th Percentile £240 £265 £212
25th Percentile £313 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £578 £556
90th Percentile £755 £679 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 22 14
10th Percentile £11.32 £12.50 £12.55
25th Percentile £13.14 £18.69 £13.25
Median hourly rate £14.70 £27.50 £17.30
Median % change year-on-year -46.55% +58.94% +27.67%
75th Percentile £34.20 £31.32 £20.56
90th Percentile £58.75 £64.00 £25.63
England median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the Midlands

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the Midlands

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the Midlands

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the Midlands

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Midlands +8 6 £400 -15.79% 18
East Midlands -1 3 £356 -5.00% 13
Accessibility
England

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (22.22%) CMS
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Headless CMS
2 1 (11.11%) Jadu
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Sketch
2 2 (22.22%) Adobe XD
2 2 (22.22%) InVision
3 1 (11.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Figma
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) webpack
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Designer
2 3 (33.33%) UX Designer
3 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) UI Designer
3 2 (22.22%) UI/UX Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Service Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Next.js
1 2 (22.22%) React
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Sling
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Mobile App
2 2 (22.22%) Graphic Design
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) User Experience
2 4 (44.44%) UX Design
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Journey Map
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Usability Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Web Accessibility
3 3 (33.33%) Wireframes
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) Interaction Design
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (22.22%) Time Management
4 2 (22.22%) Typography
4 2 (22.22%) User Research
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
5 1 (11.11%) Data-Flow Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Service Design
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Adobe
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft