Accessibility Contracts in the UK excluding London

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 196 203
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -46
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 203 271 395
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.96% 1.19% 1.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.84% 8.06% 8.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 228 292
10th Percentile £298 £313 £360
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £479 £502
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -4.48% +14.36%
75th Percentile £572 £539 £575
90th Percentile £641 £612 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 13
10th Percentile £13.66 - -
25th Percentile £14.00 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £14.50 £16.77 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.54% -77.64% +194.12%
75th Percentile £19.62 - £77.50
90th Percentile £55.63 - £81.00
UK median hourly rate £18.55 £23.36 £70.00
% change year-on-year -20.59% -66.63% +174.51%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,970 3,361 4,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.08% 14.80% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,702 2,196 3,114
10th Percentile £250 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £455
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +6.81% +7.06%
75th Percentile £583 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 197 199
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.50
25th Percentile £12.69 £18.00 £14.89
Median hourly rate £19.00 £37.50 £22.29
Median % change year-on-year -49.33% +68.24% +6.14%
75th Percentile £46.88 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.40 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £23.05 £38.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -39.36% +37.04% +32.05%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Accessibility in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +27 72 £480 -4.95% 33
Scotland +7 66 £463 -3.65% 12
North West +16 43 £550 +7.32% 21
South East +6 32 £425 +7.94% 42
South West +9 21 £585 +26.49% 27
Yorkshire +4 20 £438 -15.46% 5
North East +17 9 £453 -1.84% 7
Midlands +4 9 £400 -14.67% 32
West Midlands +3 6 £400 -15.79% 19
East Midlands +4 3 £356 -5.00% 13
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 - 3
East of England 0 1 - - 25
Accessibility
UK

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (5.42%) CMS
2 7 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.97%) Confluence
4 3 (1.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.48%) Drupal
5 2 (0.99%) WordPress
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.49%) Jadu
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (8.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (6.40%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (5.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (5.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (3.94%) InVision
5 8 (3.94%) Sketch
6 5 (2.46%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.99%) Adobe Captivate
7 2 (0.99%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.99%) Lectora
7 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.99%) OmniGraffle
7 2 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.99%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 4 (1.97%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.48%) Aareon QL
Cloud Services
1 42 (20.69%) AWS
2 28 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
2 28 (13.79%) Serverless
3 22 (10.84%) Amazon S3
4 20 (9.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (8.87%) Azure
6 14 (6.90%) OpenShift
7 10 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (3.94%) GitHub
9 7 (3.45%) BrowserStack
9 7 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (3.45%) Figma
9 7 (3.45%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.46%) Textract
11 4 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.97%) Boomi
12 3 (1.48%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (0.99%) npm
13 2 (0.99%) Rekognition
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.48%) Internet
1 3 (1.48%) VoIP
2 2 (0.99%) Intranet
3 1 (0.49%) Firewall
3 1 (0.49%) LAN
3 1 (0.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.30%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (10.34%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (4.93%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.94%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.45%) Power BI
6 6 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.96%) MySQL
6 6 (2.96%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.46%) Metadata
8 4 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.97%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.48%) Big Data
10 2 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.99%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.99%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.49%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.49%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (6.40%) Cypress.io
2 11 (5.42%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.94%) Git
3 8 (3.94%) Selenium
4 7 (3.45%) JIRA
5 6 (2.96%) Postman
6 5 (2.46%) JMeter
6 5 (2.46%) NUnit
6 5 (2.46%) Visual Studio
6 5 (2.46%) webpack
7 3 (1.48%) GitLab
8 2 (0.99%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.99%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.99%) TestCafe
9 1 (0.49%) Babel
9 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.49%) ESLint
9 1 (0.49%) Gatling
9 1 (0.49%) GoCD
9 1 (0.49%) WebDriver
General
1 68 (33.50%) Public Sector
2 65 (32.02%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.78%) Finance
4 22 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.40%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (5.42%) Marketing
7 9 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.43%) Legal
8 6 (2.96%) Publishing
9 5 (2.46%) Law
10 4 (1.97%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.48%) Banking
12 2 (0.99%) Local Government
12 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.49%) Electronics
13 1 (0.49%) Games
13 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (21.67%) Designer
2 41 (20.20%) Developer
3 31 (15.27%) Senior
4 17 (8.37%) UX Designer
5 16 (7.88%) Test Engineer
6 15 (7.39%) Architect
7 13 (6.40%) Lead
7 13 (6.40%) Senior Test Engineer
8 10 (4.93%) Senior Designer
8 10 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.43%) Content Designer
9 9 (4.43%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.94%) Full Stack Engineer
10 8 (3.94%) Software Developer
11 7 (3.45%) Creative Designer
11 7 (3.45%) Test Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.45%) User Researcher
12 6 (2.96%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 6 (2.96%) Interaction Designer
12 6 (2.96%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.78%) HTML
1 30 (14.78%) React
2 25 (12.32%) CSS
3 24 (11.82%) AWS CDK
4 19 (9.36%) Node.js
5 13 (6.40%) REST
6 9 (4.43%) RESTful
6 9 (4.43%) Spring
6 9 (4.43%) Spring Boot
7 8 (3.94%) GraphQL
7 8 (3.94%) Next.js
7 8 (3.94%) Playwright
8 7 (3.45%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.46%) .NET
9 5 (2.46%) Spring MVC
9 5 (2.46%) Spring Web Flow
9 5 (2.46%) Thymeleaf
10 4 (1.97%) OAuth
10 4 (1.97%) RAML
10 4 (1.97%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.39%) Management Information System
2 10 (4.93%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (4.93%) Mobile App
2 10 (4.93%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.46%) NHS
4 4 (1.97%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.48%) Graphic Design
5 3 (1.48%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.48%) Smartphone
5 3 (1.48%) Video Editing
6 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.99%) e-Learning
6 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.99%) Learning Management System
6 2 (0.99%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.99%) Social Media
7 1 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.49%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.45%) Windows
2 4 (1.97%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.99%) Android
3 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.49%) Linux
4 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.49%) Unix
4 1 (0.49%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (40.89%) Agile
2 50 (24.63%) User Experience
3 33 (16.26%) User Research
4 32 (15.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 30 (14.78%) CI/CD
6 29 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 27 (13.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (13.30%) Mentoring
8 25 (12.32%) UX Design
9 24 (11.82%) Coaching
9 24 (11.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (11.82%) TDD
10 22 (10.84%) Roadmaps
10 22 (10.84%) Service Design
11 21 (10.34%) DevOps
12 20 (9.85%) Microservices
12 20 (9.85%) Wireframes
13 19 (9.36%) Analytics
13 19 (9.36%) Project Management
14 18 (8.87%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 39 (19.21%) JavaScript
2 38 (18.72%) Java
3 35 (17.24%) TypeScript
4 21 (10.34%) SQL
5 17 (8.37%) Python
6 8 (3.94%) Bash
7 6 (2.96%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.99%) C#
8 2 (0.99%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.49%) PHP
9 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (9.36%) Degree
2 18 (8.87%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.43%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.96%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.48%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.30%) WCAG
2 15 (7.39%) QA
3 11 (5.42%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (2.46%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.46%) SLA
5 1 (0.49%) GDPR
5 1 (0.49%) GMP
5 1 (0.49%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 21 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (9.85%) Grafana
2 5 (2.46%) Kibana
2 5 (2.46%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.99%) Terraform
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (9.36%) Adobe
1 19 (9.36%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.45%) Oracle
3 5 (2.46%) Reuters
3 5 (2.46%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.97%) Brio
4 4 (1.97%) Remedy
5 3 (1.48%) Aareon
5 3 (1.48%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.99%) Facebook
6 2 (0.99%) Instagram
6 2 (0.99%) Verint
7 1 (0.49%) Databricks
7 1 (0.49%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (0.49%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.49%) Google
7 1 (0.49%) Mitel
7 1 (0.49%) SAP
7 1 (0.49%) Sony
7 1 (0.49%) Twitter