WCAG Jobs in England

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring WCAG skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WCAG 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 697 801 970
Rank change year-on-year +104 +169 -168
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 167 93 216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.35% 0.61% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 124 36 97
10th Percentile £40,988 £38,750 £22,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,489 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £47,500 £36,250
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% +31.03% -54.69%
75th Percentile £67,500 £53,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £85,875 £76,250 £68,750
UK median annual salary £57,965 £49,150 £36,250
% change year-on-year +17.93% +35.59% -44.23%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 12,374 15,129 24,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.95% 18.43% 16.97%
Number of salaries quoted 8,353 7,545 11,941
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,200 £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% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for WCAG in England

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Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WCAG in England.

Salary trend for WCAG in England

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WCAG in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for WCAG in England

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Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCAG within the England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +75 74 £57,965 +10.41% 3
South East +5 38 £72,500 +28.89% 1
North West +7 34 £57,965 +36.39%
London +88 33 £50,000 +11.11% 3
Yorkshire +86 26 £57,965 +10.41%
North East - 14 £57,965 - 3
Midlands -28 11 £57,965 +54.57% 2
South West -61 10 £57,046 +20.10%
West Midlands -6 6 £57,965 +54.57% 2
East Midlands - 5 - -
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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 5 (2.99%) Moodle
2 4 (2.40%) CMS
3 3 (1.80%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) Totara
Applications
1 29 (17.37%) Sketch
2 14 (8.38%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.60%) InVision
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.60%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (17.37%) Figma
2 28 (16.77%) Heroku
2 28 (16.77%) Miro
3 17 (10.18%) AWS
4 6 (3.59%) Azure
5 5 (2.99%) SaaS
6 4 (2.40%) GCP
7 3 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.60%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.60%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.60%) npm
8 1 (0.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.80%) Intranet
2 2 (1.20%) HTTP
3 1 (0.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (19.16%) Selenium
2 31 (18.56%) Cypress.io
2 31 (18.56%) Git
3 14 (8.38%) Axure RP
4 13 (7.78%) Balsamiq
5 6 (3.59%) webpack
6 1 (0.60%) Babel
6 1 (0.60%) ESLint
6 1 (0.60%) gulp
6 1 (0.60%) JIRA
6 1 (0.60%) Moq
6 1 (0.60%) Postman
6 1 (0.60%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.60%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.60%) Vite
General
1 75 (44.91%) Public Sector
2 15 (8.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (8.38%) Marketing
3 14 (8.38%) Social Skills
4 13 (7.78%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (3.59%) Retail
6 3 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.80%) Banking
7 1 (0.60%) Advertising
7 1 (0.60%) Finance
7 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 93 (55.69%) Senior
2 72 (43.11%) Designer
3 48 (28.74%) Developer
4 45 (26.95%) Senior Designer
5 36 (21.56%) Interaction Designer
6 35 (20.96%) UI Designer
6 35 (20.96%) UI/UX Designer
6 35 (20.96%) UX Designer
7 33 (19.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 28 (16.77%) Senior UI Designer
8 28 (16.77%) Senior UI/UX Designer
8 28 (16.77%) Senior UX Designer
9 27 (16.17%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 17 (10.18%) Senior Developer
10 17 (10.18%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 17 (10.18%) Senior Interaction Designer
11 13 (7.78%) Consultant
11 13 (7.78%) User Experience Consultant
12 4 (2.40%) Lead Developer
12 4 (2.40%) Moodle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (56.29%) HTML
2 59 (35.33%) CSS
3 39 (23.35%) React
4 33 (19.76%) HTML5
4 33 (19.76%) Jest
5 30 (17.96%) CSS3
6 6 (3.59%) Node.js
7 4 (2.40%) GraphQL
7 4 (2.40%) REST
8 3 (1.80%) jQuery
8 3 (1.80%) Vue
9 2 (1.20%) Enzyme
10 1 (0.60%) .NET Core
10 1 (0.60%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.60%) Gherkin
10 1 (0.60%) Material-UI
10 1 (0.60%) Next.js
10 1 (0.60%) Parceljs
10 1 (0.60%) Playwright
10 1 (0.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.38%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.40%) VLE
3 3 (1.80%) NHS
4 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.60%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.60%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.60%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.60%) SCORM
5 1 (0.60%) Social Media
5 1 (0.60%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.60%) Android
1 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (63.47%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 93 (55.69%) Coaching
3 83 (49.70%) Agile
4 73 (43.71%) Prototyping
5 63 (37.72%) Mentoring
6 60 (35.93%) User Experience
7 48 (28.74%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
7 48 (28.74%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
8 46 (27.54%) Design Patterns
9 44 (26.35%) Front End Development
10 40 (23.95%) UX Design
11 38 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (22.16%) Analytics
13 36 (21.56%) Interaction Design
13 36 (21.56%) Workshop Facilitation
14 35 (20.96%) Actionable Insight
15 31 (18.56%) Customer Experience
16 30 (17.96%) Artificial Intelligence
16 30 (17.96%) Computer Science
16 30 (17.96%) Propensity Modelling
Programming Languages
1 54 (32.34%) JavaScript
2 37 (22.16%) TypeScript
3 34 (20.36%) C#
3 34 (20.36%) PHP
4 4 (2.40%) SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (29.34%) Degree
2 36 (21.56%) Security Cleared
3 35 (20.96%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (78.44%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.99%) GDPR
3 2 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 31 (18.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (17.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (8.98%) Adobe
1 15 (8.98%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.40%) Google
3 3 (1.80%) HP
4 2 (1.20%) Monetate
4 2 (1.20%) Qubit
5 1 (0.60%) Salesforce