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 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 191 246 208
Rank change year-on-year +55 -38 -21
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 508 624 1,239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.19% 1.09% 1.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.42% 8.14% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 458 860
10th Percentile £313 £345 £362
25th Percentile £400 £420 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -3.39% -4.00% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 5 17
10th Percentile £14.00 - £20.53
25th Percentile £14.50 £16.77 £29.12
Median hourly rate £18.13 £23.36 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.39% -68.85% +194.12%
75th Percentile £30.42 £27.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £50.50 £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 6,035 7,662 11,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.19% 13.38% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,843 5,232 8,045
10th Percentile £280 £281 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £743 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +0.10% +6.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 381 242 315
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.33 £12.03
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.71 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +16.67% +42.86%
75th Percentile £45.00 £61.50 £50.39
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.35 £68.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 £31.89 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.70% +41.71% +7.14%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +58 386 £488 -2.50% 334
London +62 224 £500 -9.09% 141
Work from Home +45 213 £463 -7.50% 156
UK excluding London +2 209 £464 -3.39% 209
North of England +31 73 £469 -6.25% 50
Scotland +6 62 £461 -5.49% 11
North West +20 44 £513 +2.50% 28
South East +16 37 £436 +10.79% 68
South West +9 23 £585 +17.00% 19
Yorkshire +14 22 £438 -15.46% 12
Midlands +4 10 £410 -13.68% 40
West Midlands +16 9 £410 -13.68% 30
North East +14 7 £453 +0.06% 10
East of England +10 2 £700 +69.70% 23
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 - 3
East Midlands +8 1 £400 -9.60% 10

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 52 (10.24%) CMS
2 16 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.95%) nginx
4 11 (2.17%) Drupal
4 11 (2.17%) WordPress
5 10 (1.97%) Confluence
6 8 (1.57%) govService
7 6 (1.18%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.39%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.20%) CoreMedia CMS
10 1 (0.20%) Jadu
10 1 (0.20%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.20%) SAS
10 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (5.12%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (4.53%) Sketch
3 22 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 20 (3.94%) Adobe XD
5 16 (3.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (1.57%) InVision
8 3 (0.59%) Adobe Captivate
8 3 (0.59%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.39%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.39%) Camtasia
9 2 (0.39%) Lectora
9 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.20%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.20%) InDesign
10 1 (0.20%) SPSS
10 1 (0.20%) Trello
10 1 (0.20%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.59%) Aareon QL
2 3 (0.59%) Shopify
3 2 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.20%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.20%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.20%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 76 (14.96%) AWS
2 54 (10.63%) Azure
3 37 (7.28%) Figma
4 34 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (5.91%) Serverless
6 27 (5.31%) GitHub
7 25 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (4.53%) Amazon S3
9 19 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (3.35%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (3.35%) Azure Pipelines
12 16 (3.15%) Power Platform
13 15 (2.95%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
13 15 (2.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 14 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
15 13 (2.56%) OpenShift
16 8 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
17 7 (1.38%) PaaS
18 6 (1.18%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.97%) Intranet
2 5 (0.98%) HTTP
3 3 (0.59%) Internet
3 3 (0.59%) VoIP
4 2 (0.39%) Firewall
4 2 (0.39%) FTP
5 1 (0.20%) LAN
5 1 (0.20%) SMS
5 1 (0.20%) SSH
5 1 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.48%) SQL Server
2 29 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (3.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.36%) Power BI
6 9 (1.77%) MySQL
7 8 (1.57%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.38%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.38%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.18%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.98%) Big Data
10 5 (0.98%) Metadata
11 4 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.79%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.79%) Tableau
12 3 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.59%) GIS
13 2 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 53 (10.43%) Git
2 33 (6.50%) JIRA
3 32 (6.30%) Selenium
4 22 (4.33%) Cypress.io
5 20 (3.94%) Postman
6 14 (2.76%) Jenkins
7 11 (2.17%) JMeter
8 10 (1.97%) WebDriver
9 9 (1.77%) Visual Studio
10 8 (1.57%) webpack
11 7 (1.38%) NUnit
12 6 (1.18%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.98%) Appium
13 5 (0.98%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.98%) GitLab
13 5 (0.98%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.79%) SpecFlow
15 3 (0.59%) Jasmine
15 3 (0.59%) TestNG
16 2 (0.39%) Gerrit
General
1 154 (30.31%) Social Skills
2 120 (23.62%) Public Sector
3 66 (12.99%) Finance
4 48 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (7.09%) Marketing
6 27 (5.31%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (4.13%) Legal
7 21 (4.13%) Publishing
8 17 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.95%) Local Government
10 12 (2.36%) Back Office
11 9 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.38%) Banking
13 6 (1.18%) Advertising
13 6 (1.18%) Games
13 6 (1.18%) Multimedia
13 6 (1.18%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.98%) Law
14 5 (0.98%) Retail
15 4 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 132 (25.98%) Developer
2 98 (19.29%) Designer
3 76 (14.96%) Senior
4 31 (6.10%) Architect
5 29 (5.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 28 (5.51%) UX Designer
7 27 (5.31%) Content Designer
7 27 (5.31%) Test Engineer
8 26 (5.12%) Senior Developer
9 24 (4.72%) Lead
10 23 (4.53%) Full Stack Developer
11 21 (4.13%) Tester
12 18 (3.54%) Project Manager
12 18 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
13 16 (3.15%) Senior Test Engineer
14 15 (2.95%) Analyst
15 14 (2.76%) Senior Front-End Developer
16 13 (2.56%) Interaction Designer
17 12 (2.36%) Test Automation Engineer
17 12 (2.36%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (18.90%) HTML
2 94 (18.50%) CSS
3 73 (14.37%) React
4 49 (9.65%) .NET
5 32 (6.30%) Node.js
6 30 (5.91%) AngularJS
7 28 (5.51%) REST
8 26 (5.12%) .NET Core
9 25 (4.92%) Playwright
10 23 (4.53%) AWS CDK
11 21 (4.13%) Sass
12 19 (3.74%) RESTful
13 17 (3.35%) jQuery
14 16 (3.15%) Laravel
14 16 (3.15%) Vue
14 16 (3.15%) WebSockets
15 15 (2.95%) ASP.NET
16 13 (2.56%) Next.js
17 12 (2.36%) ASP.NET MVC
17 12 (2.36%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.30%) Product Ownership
2 26 (5.12%) Management Information System
3 22 (4.33%) Mobile App
4 11 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.77%) NHS
7 7 (1.38%) Graphic Design
7 7 (1.38%) Photography
8 6 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.18%) e-Learning
8 6 (1.18%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (0.98%) Podcast
10 4 (0.79%) Animation
10 4 (0.79%) Smartphone
10 4 (0.79%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.59%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.59%) Video Editing
12 2 (0.39%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.72%) Linux
2 18 (3.54%) Unix
3 17 (3.35%) Windows
4 6 (1.18%) Android
4 6 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.79%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (37.99%) Agile
2 139 (27.36%) User Experience
3 84 (16.54%) Test Automation
4 76 (14.96%) UX Design
5 72 (14.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 67 (13.19%) User Research
7 66 (12.99%) TDD
8 64 (12.60%) DevOps
9 61 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
10 60 (11.81%) CI/CD
11 56 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 51 (10.04%) Front End Development
13 47 (9.25%) Analytics
14 44 (8.66%) Full Stack Development
14 44 (8.66%) Scrum
15 43 (8.46%) Migration
15 43 (8.46%) Project Management
16 40 (7.87%) Mentoring
17 37 (7.28%) Service Design
18 36 (7.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 129 (25.39%) JavaScript
2 70 (13.78%) TypeScript
3 51 (10.04%) Java
4 44 (8.66%) SQL
5 39 (7.68%) C#
6 36 (7.09%) Python
7 18 (3.54%) PHP
8 16 (3.15%) Bicep
9 9 (1.77%) Bash
10 7 (1.38%) Ruby
11 6 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.79%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.79%) Swift
13 2 (0.39%) C
13 2 (0.39%) C++
13 2 (0.39%) Go
13 2 (0.39%) R
14 1 (0.20%) Groovy
14 1 (0.20%) Scala
14 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 73 (14.37%) Security Cleared
2 60 (11.81%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.65%) Degree
4 11 (2.17%) DBS Check
5 9 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.38%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.38%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.79%) CTC Cleared
8 3 (0.59%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.39%) ISEB
9 2 (0.39%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CISA
10 1 (0.20%) CITP
10 1 (0.20%) CRISC
10 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.20%) PMP
10 1 (0.20%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (14.76%) WCAG
2 44 (8.66%) QA
3 12 (2.36%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.97%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (0.98%) SLA
6 4 (0.79%) GDPR
7 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.20%) GMP
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (5.51%) Docker
2 14 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (3.35%) Grafana
2 12 (2.36%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.18%) Terraform
4 5 (0.98%) Kibana
5 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 70 (13.78%) Microsoft
2 47 (9.25%) Adobe
3 12 (2.36%) Oracle
4 11 (2.17%) SAP
4 11 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.18%) Google
5 6 (1.18%) Salesforce
6 5 (0.98%) Databricks
6 5 (0.98%) HP
6 5 (0.98%) Reuters
7 4 (0.79%) Brio
7 4 (0.79%) Dell
7 4 (0.79%) Hotjar
7 4 (0.79%) Remedy
7 4 (0.79%) Screaming Frog
7 4 (0.79%) Sitecore
8 3 (0.59%) Aareon
8 3 (0.59%) ESRI
9 2 (0.39%) Instagram
9 2 (0.39%) Sparx