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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 245 211
Rank change year-on-year +55 -34 -27
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 508 625 1,210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.19% 1.09% 1.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.38% 8.19% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 458 840
10th Percentile £313 £350 £362
25th Percentile £400 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -3.38% +13.74%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -5.27% -2.35% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 5 16
10th Percentile £14.00 - £20.45
25th Percentile £14.50 £16.77 £29.12
Median hourly rate £18.13 £23.36 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.39% -67.78% +184.31%
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 6,062 7,631 11,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.25% 13.36% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,850 5,224 7,927
10th Percentile £282 £280 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £742 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +0.83% +6.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 380 234 311
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.71 £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.84% +12.90% +47.62%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -47.80% +55.56% +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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +46 380 £475 -7.09% 284
London +66 221 £494 -10.23% 110
Work from Home +53 215 £463 -7.50% 145
UK excluding London +1 208 £463 -5.27% 175
North of England +19 71 £463 -9.76% 46
Scotland +10 64 £463 -5.13% 10
North West +20 41 £480 -8.57% 27
South East +17 36 £450 +3.45% 44
South West +23 23 £585 -4.49% 22
Yorkshire +15 23 £425 -19.05% 14
Midlands +14 10 £410 -13.68% 33
West Midlands +11 9 £410 -15.90% 26
North East +11 7 £453 -13.76% 5
East of England +11 2 £700 +69.70% 21
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 - 3
East Midlands +5 1 £400 +5.96% 7

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 51 (10.04%) CMS
2 15 (2.95%) nginx
3 14 (2.76%) SharePoint
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%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.20%) SAS
10 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 24 (4.72%) Sketch
2 23 (4.53%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (4.13%) Adobe XD
3 21 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (2.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 15 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.77%) InVision
6 3 (0.59%) Adobe Captivate
6 3 (0.59%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.39%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.39%) Lectora
7 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.39%) Zeplin
8 1 (0.20%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.20%) InDesign
8 1 (0.20%) SPSS
8 1 (0.20%) Trello
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%) Oracle ERP
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 55 (10.83%) Azure
3 38 (7.48%) Figma
4 34 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (6.10%) Serverless
6 26 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (5.12%) GitHub
7 24 (4.72%) Amazon S3
8 20 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (3.35%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (3.35%) Azure Pipelines
9 17 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (2.95%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 15 (2.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 15 (2.95%) Power Platform
11 14 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
11 14 (2.76%) OpenShift
12 7 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.38%) PaaS
12 7 (1.38%) 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 30 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (4.13%) 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
9 6 (1.18%) Oracle Database
9 6 (1.18%) Relational 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%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 52 (10.24%) Git
2 34 (6.69%) Selenium
3 33 (6.50%) JIRA
4 22 (4.33%) Cypress.io
5 21 (4.13%) Postman
6 14 (2.76%) Jenkins
7 12 (2.36%) 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%) Axure RP
15 3 (0.59%) Jasmine
15 3 (0.59%) TestNG
General
1 154 (30.31%) Social Skills
2 121 (23.82%) Public Sector
3 64 (12.60%) Finance
4 47 (9.25%) 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%) Multimedia
13 6 (1.18%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.98%) Advertising
14 5 (0.98%) Games
14 5 (0.98%) Law
14 5 (0.98%) Retail
15 4 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 131 (25.79%) Developer
2 102 (20.08%) Designer
3 78 (15.35%) Senior
4 29 (5.71%) Content Designer
4 29 (5.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 29 (5.71%) UX Designer
5 28 (5.51%) Architect
5 28 (5.51%) Test Engineer
6 26 (5.12%) Senior Developer
7 24 (4.72%) Lead
8 23 (4.53%) Full Stack Developer
9 20 (3.94%) Tester
10 18 (3.54%) Project Manager
11 17 (3.35%) Senior Test Engineer
12 15 (2.95%) Analyst
12 15 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (2.76%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 13 (2.56%) Interaction Designer
15 12 (2.36%) Test Automation Engineer
15 12 (2.36%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (18.70%) HTML
2 93 (18.31%) CSS
3 72 (14.17%) React
4 49 (9.65%) .NET
5 32 (6.30%) Node.js
6 29 (5.71%) AngularJS
7 26 (5.12%) .NET Core
7 26 (5.12%) Playwright
8 25 (4.92%) REST
9 24 (4.72%) AWS CDK
10 21 (4.13%) Sass
11 19 (3.74%) RESTful
12 17 (3.35%) jQuery
13 16 (3.15%) Laravel
13 16 (3.15%) Vue
13 16 (3.15%) WebSockets
14 15 (2.95%) ASP.NET
15 13 (2.56%) Next.js
16 12 (2.36%) ASP.NET MVC
16 12 (2.36%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.30%) Product Ownership
2 26 (5.12%) Management Information System
3 23 (4.53%) Mobile App
4 10 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (1.77%) NHS
6 7 (1.38%) Photography
7 6 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.18%) e-Learning
7 6 (1.18%) Graphic Design
7 6 (1.18%) Onboarding
8 5 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (0.98%) Podcast
9 4 (0.79%) Animation
9 4 (0.79%) Smartphone
9 4 (0.79%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.59%) Blog
10 3 (0.59%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.59%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.72%) Linux
2 18 (3.54%) Unix
3 16 (3.15%) 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
2 141 (27.76%) User Experience
3 86 (16.93%) Test Automation
4 76 (14.96%) UX Design
5 75 (14.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 69 (13.58%) User Research
7 66 (12.99%) TDD
8 63 (12.40%) DevOps
9 62 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (11.61%) CI/CD
11 57 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (9.84%) Front End Development
13 46 (9.06%) Analytics
14 45 (8.86%) Scrum
15 44 (8.66%) Full Stack Development
16 42 (8.27%) Mentoring
16 42 (8.27%) Project Management
17 41 (8.07%) Service Design
18 38 (7.48%) Migration
19 36 (7.09%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 129 (25.39%) JavaScript
2 70 (13.78%) TypeScript
3 53 (10.43%) Java
4 43 (8.46%) 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
14 1 (0.20%) Ada
14 1 (0.20%) Groovy
14 1 (0.20%) R
14 1 (0.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 73 (14.37%) Security Cleared
2 60 (11.81%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.45%) 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%) CITP
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 76 (14.96%) WCAG
2 43 (8.46%) 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 29 (5.71%) Docker
2 14 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (3.54%) Grafana
2 13 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.18%) Terraform
4 5 (0.98%) Kibana
5 2 (0.39%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 65 (12.80%) Microsoft
2 47 (9.25%) Adobe
3 13 (2.56%) Oracle
4 11 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 10 (1.97%) SAP
6 6 (1.18%) Google
6 6 (1.18%) HP
6 6 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 5 (0.98%) Databricks
7 5 (0.98%) Reuters
8 4 (0.79%) Brio
8 4 (0.79%) Dell
8 4 (0.79%) Hotjar
8 4 (0.79%) Remedy
8 4 (0.79%) Screaming Frog
8 4 (0.79%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.59%) Aareon
9 3 (0.59%) ESRI
10 2 (0.39%) Instagram
10 2 (0.39%) Sparx